“Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao”: How Ideology Shapes Our Thinking and Prevents Us from Thinking Well

Image Photo by Cian Ginty, https://www.flickr.com/photos/cianginty/2967031093

There is a scene in the wonderful Chinese film, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress that has stayed with me for years (click here and start at 4:32). In this scene, the hero — a young Chinese violinist who has been sent to a rural mountain village for “re-education” during the early days of the Cultural…