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Reading this reminds me of Faulkner’s line: "The past is never dead. It's not even past" The Ming was heavily influenced by the Han Empire which was more than
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
Reading this reminds me of Faulkner’s line: "The past is never dead. It's not even past"
The Ming was heavily influenced by the Han Empire which was more than a thousand years in the past.
Even today, there seems to be a current of rejection of the 20th century (and even before) and a strong push for something before that.
Xi in China seems more like a Ming Grand Secretary, than really anything Communist.
Modi in India calls forth the Hindu Empires of the Middle Ages and before than he does Nehru or Gandhi.
Erodogan is more Ottoman in outlook than Kemalist
Putin can best be understood through a Tsarist lens and his perception of himself as another Peter the Great.
Even the right wing in the US looks back more to Medieval European state sponsored Christianity than the Enlightenment influence of the US founding.
- mistrial9 4y agoyeah - I like this one.. but for another angle, sometimes a military will go to war despite its people, not for them. Corollary - military leaders have to ride their own ranks, which can look overly aggressive, foolish, inept or scared from the outside, since all the talks are war council secret within.