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Originally Posted by aron
Maybe there was an inward, subconscious desire to show up the West, who had oppressed the East during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The ancient cultures wanted to demonstrate their validity, if not superiority, and Nee et al were supposedly the chosen vessels...
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I spent some time in the S. Cal. meetings, when the declared focus was to get Caucasian males. Every time someone brought in a young Charlton Heston or Gregory Peck or Kirk Douglas, all the Chinese would crane their necks to see them "Submit" to the "Authority". Was there something cultural behind that? I suspect.
Now, this may seem like pretty flaky conjecture, but I still find it more satisfying than Tomes' work, which merely demonstrates stuff like Lee's plagiarizing, and his crude and amateurish etymology, but never addresses the elephant in the room: why did so many of us completely give our lives over to this man's ideas, and allow our consciousnesses to be totally subsumed by his? What is behind that?