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“Ritual” is part of Xun Zi’s interpretation of Confucianism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunzi_(philosopher) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunzi_(philosop

“Ritual” is part of Xun Zi’s interpretation of Confucianism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunzi_(philosopher) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunzi_(philosopher) Confucianism itself was attacked during the Cultural Revolution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticize_Lin,_Criticize_Confucius https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticize_Lin,_Criticize_Con... Now, it appears Confucianism is being pushed by the Chinese government. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute

alganet 1y ago
Thanks for the interesting historical additions. I am not, however, approaching this from a political perspective. What I said applies to Indian, Japanese, Native American, even Abrahamic and possibly many others. All of these have been used in the past by charlatans of various kinds. The kinds of charlatans I'm referring to are not strictly political. Honestly, I was thinking of cheap cults and schemes (like I previously illustrated by my Häagen-Dazs comparison in another comment).