(urth) "Principlesofgovernaaance"Gene Wolfe's Politics

[John Watkins]

Agreed.  It's far more likely that the idea of superficially Confuscian
totalitarianism came from Mao than from Wolfe.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 3, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know how familiar y'all are with the Chinese classics, but
>>> when I first read _The Citadel of the Autarch_, I found this to be a
>>> chilling parody of both the style and content of Confucian works like
>>> _The Great Learning_.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting. I was reminded of Mao's Little Red Book.
>>
>
> I'm pretty sure the intended allusion was the second, but I would be
> greatly surprised if Mao didn't have the first in mind when penning the
> second.
>
> Adam
>
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