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173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution

The Rest Is History

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Cannibalism in China

Cannibalism as an idea, as a trope is something that is very, very, you know, deeply in chinese culture. The idea that people have been forced to eat each other, recurs over and over again as an image of humanity finally finding itself at its ultimate extreme. It does also bring up the idea of, do people utterly extraordinary acts of violence against each other? And i think there's no reason to think that at least some portion of what's written there is not accurate. There are certainly cases thathave been recorded there an other times, of people engagedg in extreme behaviour. But essentially how we're running out of time with the red gards has got

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