shrewd history

I was as usual searching for my favourite singers on wikipedia. This unfaltering determination for knowledge is needed to quell my daily urge to be more intelligent. But somehow, that night I ended up reading on the History of China when I only intended to read on Olivia Ong. Through the links, I spanned more than a few topics, ranging from Olivia Ong, to money, to Singapore, to some other stuffs and finally reaching History of China.

Within that 1 night, I have that impression that Chinese were actually pretty shrewd before the Qing Dynasty fell. Makes me appreciate that I was born in a modern society with plenty of morals and ethics. Try picturing a criminal being sentenced to a slow death execution in the streets of China. The criminal being fed with excess opium to keep him alive while his skin is being cut into smaller pieces for the sake of humiliation. The Chinese do get orgasmic watching this.

How about the strict discipline in the army of premodern China. Yue Fei wanted to execute his son for not executing a drill properly. Failure to comply with orders awards you with decapitation. What the fuck? Its pretty shocking to me that my ancestors have lived through such a backward era.

Ok, im going to sleep and not think about how shrewd and backward Chinese were 100 years ago. And pray hard to all the different Gods that me or eric junior or eric junior the 3rd and so on and on will not suffer the same predicament.