LC HuangAn excerpt of the above post:
Both hard and soft tactics have been employed intensively by a regime recently. The newest approach is to play the Siddhartha-Gautama card (recalling, "Confucius For Sale" - a.k.a. CAE - the camouflaged espionage agency, was quite successful in many countries, and benefited numerous cultural-edu, monetary politicians and relevant stakeholders...), through a disappeared well-known billionaire actress who suddenly showed up at an airport of the regime. The propaganda machines focused on her conspicuous Buddha rosery hung on her chest.
Not including the ballooning events, a chain of actions and reactions were/are occurring: the McMahon Line recognized (March, 14, 2023), the newly established Russo-CCP Axis (March 21, 2023), the equipped Belarus, the long testimony in the Capitol Hill of the TiKTok ceo, a US. contractor killed and six injured by a drone in northeast Syria, the arrest of a US company in the CCP regime, a bought Honduras embracing CCP, a lured out-of-date big politician of Taiwan visiting CCP, the worrisome big countries and small nations' interest toward the regime, and the rest of domestic/global affairs, everything, everywhere, all at once - happening (during March 2023).
Recently, in the CCP regime, as the fast shrinking economy and vast unemployment have prompted the despairing youth to show a great interest of worshipping in the tourist types of temples. This trendy event leads the bureaucrats, perhaps, whimsically, thinking of selling the Buddha that may tone down several years' ominous atmosphere.
The regime adopts A Specific type of Atheist Doctrines to consolidate its controlling power for the masses, distorting the original Marx-Angels' ideas that religion could play the role of opium to numb the suffering soul and blind to the corruptive politburos/institutional frauds through the sense of soothed powerlessness which enhances the possibility of keeping status quo.
To bring back the Buddha may work out, but how about the persecution of the believers and followers of Falun Gong? To have the cake and eat it, through playing the Religious Card, takes a great "wisdom," doesn't it?
Furthermore, the ideology of the Marxism–Leninism "holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party socialist state, called the dictatorship of the proletariat," is evolving from some advanced western cultures and practices. The regime's long term rooted cultural formation, may find the square peg in a round hole. With 10 years of the Cultural Revolution to destroy its thousands of years' old, for better and worse traditions, many cultural lags and discomforts, even tragedies occur here and there constantly, including the regime's legitimacy and survival.
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Here is a relevant post of Dec. 13 T 2022 -Religion vs. Faith/Mysticism:
