Memories...
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
hmmm...i felt strangely lethargic todae..could it be an effect of panadol withdrawal symptoms as what xiao hong said..? Or maybe coz i woke up facing down on the bed, contributing to a bad sleep..?
todae's contemporary chinese politics tutorial got me thinking..and i couldnt help but discuss with jianwu and alvin..why is it that Mao Zedong was so ruthless in purging his political opponents, even former friends and confidants in his own party..liu shaoqi..lin biao..deng xiaoping...how is that he changed into such a person...or is it becoz he had been this kind of person all along??
(Note that i cant answer these questions yet coz i havent touch any readings yet haha)
Lord Acton once said in in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887:
'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.'
The latter half of this statement is of coz more controversial, but the earlier half is interesting isnt it?
haha..thats why i m a Political Science major..the concept of power has always intrigued me...coz i really feel that its so relevant in our everyday's lives..at home, in school, at work, everywhere..and i m a person who believes in power as the basic unit of life (yesh i know even though a lot of people and other majors disargee)..