A classic fascist

Rating: Null/10 (15 April 2003)

To the previous contributor, I can only say I can't agree with you more! Shih Huang Ti was a classic fascist in the full sense of the word; he burnt books, suppressed free thinking and buried intellectuals alive, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of slave labourers he commandeered to build his many grandiose projects, one of which was the Great Wall which had since proved to be such a feeble defence against the steppe hordes. Although before his "Unification", China's various warring states were always fighting eachother causing huge loss in human lives, the epoch, caused by competition among the states, also produced the best philosophers and thinker that China had ever had and witnessed great technological advances. Without his "unification", China may well have evolved into something akin to Europe today instead of a monolith. All that Shih Huang Ti did was to snuff out creativity and it is all the more strange that a film director should be condoning it.