"Today's China Surpasses the Mao Era in Every Aspect" -- A Lie of the Age!

Girl Who Likes Mathematics (Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán)

Someone wrote a tedious post titled "Today's China Surpasses the Mao Era in Every Aspect." Such a title is hardly worth refuting because it is too absurd. First of all, "every aspect" includes both positive and negative dimensions. Such a title is inherently self-contradictory. "Today's China surpasses the Mao era in every aspect" is equivalent to saying both "Today's China surpasses the Mao era in all good aspects" and "Today's China surpasses the Mao era in all bad aspects." So what exactly is such a title trying to say?

Even in the narrow sense, interpreting "aspect" as "domain," let me give the simplest example: music. We know that currently China's finest symphonic overtures all date from the Mao era, such as "Ode to the Red Flag" and others. For concertos, there are forever only those two pitiful works -- "The Butterfly Lovers" and "The Yellow River" -- both from the Mao era. Everything else goes without saying. Even for popular songs, just take any random Mao-era song like "Walking Up the High Xing'an Mountains" -- I can say with confidence that in the entire post-Mao era, not a single song has reached that level.

The music example alone suffices. In mathematics, the Chinese achievement that brings the most pride -- Chen Jingrun's (1+2) -- is, unfortunately, also from the Mao era. Not just the post-Mao era, but no one in the entire world has surpassed it. Other examples need not be mentioned. In short, a title like "Today's China Surpasses the Mao Era in Every Aspect" serves no purpose other than to further prove this young lady's conclusion that "the left are hooligans and the right are imbeciles."