>You try to tell them that China isn't a communist country anymore. It's got a different system: meritocratic paternalism. You joke: Imagine the Ivy League taking over the shell of the Communist Party and deciding not to change the name. Imagine the Harvard Alumni Association with an army.
It's true, except recently in China it's no longer Harvard alums with the army, it's MIT (Tsinghua) alums.
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Unfortunately all I have to offer is an episode of the simpsons where the intelligentsia take over the town for a while
The funniest bit being Comic Book Guy saying there will be forced mating only once a year, "for some, this will be much much less, for me, much much more".
from http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1517.html (via google):
> I myself have spent the past 19 years working for The Simpsons;
> indeed half our writers are Harvard graduates.