stoned epiphany XVI

The CIA World Factbook 2004 says the life expectancy in China nowadays is 71.96years.

I can foresee the death of Confucianism in China: if health & techique improve over there enough to prolong the population's life expectancy similar to Western standards, the elder will stop being respected as a venerable institution of society, and will start to be seen as a major welfare problem.
Too many old people is any Marxist's nightmare.