RE: China has it's own superstitions.
October 2, 2013 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2013 at 4:13 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 2, 2013 at 2:30 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Sorry, but China's communist party IS absolute authority in attitude, not evolutionary history. No one is talking about long changes over history.
All human endeavors in our species history are always temporary because all life is finite, so there is no government or religion or business devised by humans that will not change over time.
There are only two things in life that are certain, death and taxes.
Uh, no. Get some real perspective. In real life there is always a heirchy of aiuhorities. There may be one nominally supreme authority, but the actual power of each level of hierchy never derives solely from the supreme nominal authority, even in the most religious or totalitarian of states. So there is no such thing as absolute authority, there can't be such a thing even if some authorities tries hard to pretend to be such a thing.
Making the most sincere pretense at being the absolute authority on everything, and striving to become the most important of the sources from which all level in the heirchy derive their power is a trait of really serious totalitarianis, such as those seen in North Korea. But China is far from a totalitarin state today, when measured against other highly authoritarian states, on both the left and right, over the last century. The CCP don't even claim to be the absolute authority, only the highest authority. They don't even claim to be the sole source of all authority in the heirchy, only the source of political authority. The CCP today is a far cry from being a really serious pretender to the sort of cartoonish absolutisim you imagine.
