Bush, a True Disciple of Mao Zedong!

2006/4/9 22:49:42

Of course, to be precise, this title has one possible flaw: "Bush" should have a "Junior" in front of it. But now that even Ronaldinho, already a World Player of the Year, is being strongly urged to drop the diminutive, surely a two-term president can simply go by "Bush."

Yet even this now-flawless title will surely invite attack—not because a word is missing, but because it puts Bush and Mao Zedong together. But what's there to object to? So-called differences often conceal deep underlying similarities. Names are all laughable—what matters is effectiveness.

The prescription Bush is peddling across the globe today is no different from Mao Zedong's. Both believe in a kind of engineered, top-down social transformation. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution aimed to remake the world into his world, and Bush does the same. As for the differences between the worlds they each seek to create—that's actually beside the point.

Of course, Bush has quite adeptly adapted and modernized Mao Zedong's formula for local conditions. Mao Zedong's ideological remolding? Bush has learned it rather well. Dividing people into this faction and that faction, carving the world into this world and that world—he's getting the hang of it. As for the armed-export routine, that's his homeland's old trick—they played it during the Eight-Nation Alliance! Mao Zedong's dream of planting the red flag across the entire globe remained mostly at the ideological level. Bush, however, is practicing the very same model in reality—only waving the so-called democratic Stars and Stripes instead.

This mode of engineered social transformation, this model of fabricating ideals detached from reality—no matter what it's fabricating—is essentially the same. Today's overnight beauties are just like the American Red Guards of old, brimming with laughable passion. The world always needs its jokes, and the world is never short of them!