Quick! Name the country that arose like the fabled
Phoenix from its own ashes. In denial of its grand
imperial past in a massive historical paroxysm of
ideological political culture that horrified its audiences
as it convulsed its society turning cadre children against
heritage-bound parents heralding a new era of ruthless
decimation where questioners earned themselves an
early departure from life in ample company with others
until no one was left to object, ask questions, demand
respect for its storied ancestral past and a humbled
chastened population settled into the framework of
harmony ordered by their village councils obeying the
central government's diktats. As that gargantuan nation
settled finally into the comfort of bureaucratic homogeneity
eschewing the narcotic drag of religion and liberty its
Politburo waged a friendship campaign with the world at
large. Look: we will produce your utilitarian goods and
save your domestic workforce from the tedium of factory
production, please your consumers with low-cost goods
happy to service your pedestrian needs. And they did and
did far more, savaging the economic output of those they
serviced, looting their original blueprints for scientific
military, technological formulae to their own service.
The pacific smile of friendship transformed to the snarl
of the territorially possessive bully, the declared possessor
of land, sea, air, no need to share with unentitled others.
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