[Cronos]

By 1500, the only remnant of China's big-junk, ocean-going navy was a stone junk in the imperial palace grounds. Ostensibly a tribute to China's glorious navy, it was instead an inside joke, a self-congratulatory trophy put up by the mandarins to celebrate their political-infighting victory over the admirals

EXACTLY! Both China (Mandarins) and India (Brahmins) shot themselves in the foot by trying to keep knowledge with a specific class. The Chinese lost it in the 1400s, while India lost it in the 6th century.

[lentulusgracchus]

So now you know why I'm so eager to identify and exile all Harvard grads with nicks in their ears and death-interdicts on their heads, exile the Harvard faculty, distribute their library, and turn their campus into a green commons.

Ditto Yale, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, and Georgetown and the other privilege academies.

Dartmouth, however, earns a reprieve for having given us Dinesh D'Souza, Laura Ingraham, the Dartmouth Review, and Poisoned Ivy (with foreword by Wm. F. Buckley).

I might relent on Yale for similar reasons, but the Bonesmen would have to go, for the same reasons as Harvard's Porcellians. No "Brotherhoods of the Bell" in America, thank you.