Posted on 04/13/2010 7:10:57 PM PDT by bd476
I got a book on Chinese history for Christmas, and started in reading it. In ancient Chinese theology, apparently there were the elites, who were closer to the gods, and there were the lowly commoners. Long after there were lovely metal decorative items for the leaders, the commoners were still literally scraping by, using stone or wood tools that broke easily. The sense that some people just don’t matter as much as others is apparently very ingrained.
Thank God for the Judeo-Christian values underlying our democracy.
Hate to break it to you, but there was about a ~2000 year period - from ~400 BC to ~1600 AD - where that was the case for Europe as well. If you weren’t from the rich, upper classes you were dirt, to be used and thrown away.
I think my partner’s lack of deep concern was more from living in a city with 40 million people around here (Shanghai), in a nation with 1.3 billion people. Scale is different; if you ever looked at a complete daily obituary for just Shanghai you’d see a dozen pages, compared to 1-2 for LA or NY.
In most of the world life is quite cheap, and in the more populous nations of China and India, it’s even cheaper.
Me too, but don’t many moderate quakes relieve the stress in an orderly manner and actually indicate that the big un is less likely?
yes, I think they do
Keeeeeeeep on waiting numb-nutz.
Stay away from the Wasatch front then, as it is quite sesimically active. That means anything along the Salt Lake front.
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