How Kung Fu was Destroyed by the PRC
December 26th, 2009 Posted by: Al Case
How would you like to learn Jujitsu from Queen Elizabeth? Or maybe a good solid class in Shorin ryu Karate from William J. Clinton? No…well, how about, I’ve got it…Hung Gar Shaolin Kung Fu as taught by Nancy Pelosi!
You may think my humor is a little sad, but there is a dark underbelly to all this. When the government goes into private business, you see, it tends to destroy, corrupt and confound that business. And I am talking any business by any government.
Kung Fu, to name one example, been around for thousands of years, has been spreading long life, health, good physical conditioning, and some of the best darned self-defense imaginable. Then along came Chairman Mao, and Kung Fu was put to the torch. The method utilized for the destruction of the one of the greatest arts the world has ever known was called The Cultural Revolution.
During the Cultural Revolution Mao decided to purge society of elements that he deemed dangerous, or corruptive, or whatever. Thus, the population was carted off wholesale and killed, 70,000,000 of them. If you were intelligent, talented, or stood out in any manner, you were dead.
If you were a school teacher, hard of hearing, or had written a book, you were murdered. If you spoke contrary to communistic principles or played the violin, you were murdered. If you knew Kung Fu, you were murdered.
Once the Revolution was over, the country began to rebuild, in the image of Chairman Mao. Funny thing, as China tried to catch up with a world that was still possessed of talent and intelligence, it discovered that there was money to be made in this thing called Kung Fu. Unfortunately, they had murdered Kung Fu.
So, what does a government do when it has killed Kung Fu, and then found that it needs it? Simple, you hire a few coaches and have them make up some Kung Fu. So they hired a bunch of coaches, the ones who hadn’t known enough Kung Fu to be killed off during the revolution, read any manuals that survived the book burnings, and make up some Kung Fu!
And they were intent on making sure that the Kung Fu didn’t have anything harmful in it. You don’t want people able to actually the thing for self defense. Heck, you don’t want them having a real Great Revolution!
