November 8, 2020
Many of us have been stunned
during the past four years at how people can hold onto a conviction in the face
of completely contradictory facts. But it’s not a new phenomenon.
In “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”, which takes place in 1950, a Chinese doctor and a Eurasian doctor doing her residency in Hong Kong both plan to return to Mainland China to practice medicine. Eventually, the resident decides to stay in Hong Kong. The Chinese doctor insists that, now that the Communists are in power, life in China is going to be wonderful for the common man, and that she should return and practice medicine there.
She points out that 3,000 people a day are arriving in Hong Kong, fleeing Communist China, so that it can’t be that great. He keeps insisting that it is, that they just don’t realize it.
Sound familiar?
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