Burning scholars

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:


“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

—Ray Bradbury, Reader’s Digest, January 1994
(often misattributed to Gandhi)






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Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

That's a very good point.

[pjthompson]

Yep.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

I followed your link and I'm very glad to have done so. It's strange, or perhaps just sad, that this is the first time I've ever come across the contemporaneous alternate philosophical approach(es) to Confucianism. Mozi intrigues me.

[pjthompson]

I know. I'd heard about the burning/burying before, but I didn't know about Mozi, either.