in chinesisch klasse

I wonder what it'd be like to live in the days of cultural revolution - be it in Europe or China. Assuming I could read and write and think, what views would I have and what books would I write? As it is, now in our twentyfirst century, surely there exists something fresh to be written about, or at least something pertinent and able to ignite the dormant souls of civilised man...

Or are we so awakened and sensorially aware that it makes it so much easier for us to neglect or repress something deeper? So liberated and emotionally expressive that we mistake the tugs of the heartstrings?

I can't say I have answers...but I do think they might be found in history and the literature of times and upheavals past....with so many teachings and so capable of sparking intrigues. Of all the books I've read, though, only one can not only provoke thought as well as remain applicable perennially, and that's the logos word of God.