The Chinese government is banning tv shows about time travel because they treat “serious history in a frivolous way.”
But wait, there’s more. The powers that be are also training their sights on shows featuring “fantasy,” “mythical stories,” “bizarre plots,” “absurd techniques,” “feudal superstitions,” “fatalism,” “reincarnation,” “ambiguous moral lessons,” and “lack of positive thinking.”
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So basically they’re left with reruns of The Lawrence Welk Show?
Lawrence Welk was a subversive. That only leaves Hee-Haw.
The Chinese government sounds eerily similar to the American religious-right.
No, it doesn’t.
For example, the American religious right isn’t opposed to feudal superstition.
Or reincarnation…
Does this mean they now have to rely on black-market DVDs (or VCDs) for their time-travelling, soap opera needs?
I’m not being sarcastic. I ask because there seems to be so many different ways the ban is ineffective because of the wonders of the market. However, I know little of China.
Time Travel for Individuals – not Governments
To break the restriction of a linear time sequence, the Lost need empirical data – uncorrupted, honest data. However, the Lost have filtered all their data with a scientific-religious presumption: a finite universe with a finite number of dimensions.
The Lost do not understand, nor do they perceive their conflict with the infinite Universe and the infinite number of dimensions…
“…nothing can be added to it,
nor anything taken from it…”
Best Regards,
Frank Hatch
Initial Mass Displacements
Individuals vs. Governments:
Governments have no imagination; they are locked into a limited, governable analysis. By restricting their dialectical analysis to a linear time sequence, the primary governmental concern is the acceptance of their historical data as the truth. However, imaginative individuals are able to treat such truncated “data” as variables. Such “disrespect” for governmental data (i.e., politically correct data) is any totalitarian’s nightmare: the first crack in the official justification of dominance over individuals.
Best Regards,
Frank Hatch
Initial Mass Displacements