Replies

Your declarations seem overwrought to me . . .

However, in terms of The Party, the Peter principle does seem to be a serious problem.

HOWEVER, THEY CAN get top people into top positions when they want to. The competition amongst so many citizens for top merit positions DOES TEND to produce some top flight people.

As a rare western PhD in my provincial capital, I was responsible for teaching a number of such people. They were top quality in a list of ways.

And they had opinions and feelings aplenty about bringing China into the modern world politically as well as economically and scientifically.

Re your post #74

Your point is absolutely correct, eg, look at the number of Olympic Golds China wins in diving, gymnastics, table-tennis and all the sports that they set their minds on. Look at the way they came out with their first atom bomb, from scratch.

Their system is to go round the whole country to search for the best talents and brains from the very young. Place them in special schools and groom them

<< Your declarations seem overwrought to me . . . >>

That's a nice way to put it. Droll! That was my intent.

The Peter-Principled I was referring to, though, are those in America's corporations not in China's. My wife and half of my famaily are of Chinese ethnicity and, as the experience of Once-Free-British Hong Kong demonstrates and I can vouch, outside of Peking there aren't too many idiots among the Chinese People.

But our Peter Principled are of the execrable variety that will sell Peking's psychopaths the rope with which they would hang us -- and weapons with which those mandarin-wannabe thieves and liars and mass-murderers would, if they could, destroy Our Nation and with US, Human Civilization.

And Chase and BoA and CitiBank et al, who will bump our credit card interest rates a few points to pay for it all -- and the institutionalized fraud misnamed the "ExIm Bank" will send the bill for the balance to Treasury.