Monday, November 13, 2017

522. Dr. Dave Wang's Speech Has Been Cited Again


Pierre Beaudry cited Dr. DaveWang’s speech in his article, THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ‘FILIOQUE published on August 31, 2017. Please read the paragraphs below:



How do you consider the future? That was the question that Benjamin Franklin attempted to solve when he opposed the creation of the Cincinnatus Society  whose intention was to tie down the American descendants of the Revolutionary War heroes with the glories of the past as the determining factor of the future. This fallacy was insightfully restated recently by the managing librarian of the Queen’s Library at Laurelton in Queens, New York City, Dr. Dave Wang, who spoke at a Schiller Conference in that city about Confucius and Benjamin Franklin. Wang said: 
 
 

 

“In 1784, after the Revolution, some veterans hoped they could hand down their glories, their titles, to their descendants. They organized the Cincinnatus Society for this purpose. Franklin was not happy about the idea of handing down your title, your glory, to the next generation—that’s the inheritance system, or the aristocratic system of the Europeans, which was just what our Revolution opposed. What’s the meaning of the Revolution, if we restore the European aristocratic inheritance system? That’s totally wrong. We should adopt the Chinese merit system, and people with talents will be selected to serve the public.”  (Dr. Dave Wang, Confucius and Benjamin Franklin, EIR, April 28, 2017, p. 33. See also Dr. Wang’s blog at http://foundingfathersandchina.blogspot.com/)

The point that Wang was making was precisely to emphasize the fact that the founding fathers had fought the War of Independence for the purpose of  breaking with the Zeisian oligarchical system of Europe and replace aristocratic inheritance with a government where the citizens and public servants would be fundamentally oriented to the future.

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