[ExI] China bans time travel
David Lubkin
lubkin at unreasonable.com
Tue Sep 20 20:44:44 UTC 2011
Spike wrote:
>Are any of you old enough to remember a show called "It's About
>Time" from the 1960s? Two astronauts accidentally break the light
>barrier and go back in time to the caveman days. Wacky funny
>silliness for a six year old.
Not only do I remember it, but I can still sing the theme song!
As for the actual topic, I clicked over to the actual report from
the PRC State Administration of Radio Film and Television.
Google Translate renders <http://bit.ly/phL24r> the concern,
which CNN thinks includes time travel stories, as
> {W]e also found some signs of incorrect creation: individual
> returns filed through the drama of fantasy and drama, random
> compilation of fairy tales, the plot weird, bizarre, absurd
> way, and even rendering of feudal superstition, fatalism and
> reincarnation, ambiguous values, the lack of a positive
> ideological significance.
Does anyone here read Chinese well enough to tell if CNN's
version is accurate? I'm learning, but far from good enough.
-- David.
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