Perhaps you are oversimplifying something complex. Something about which
you are by admission, almost wholly ignorant. As far as Pound's ideal
construction I think it no worse (in terms of structure as opposed to
content) than yours.
 
But if I read one more comment about the Patriarchy of Confucianism v.
The Superiority of Western Social Structure with Particular Emphasis on
Bible Thumping--I think I shall become violently ill. The West is still
patriarchal, and might I add, Big Time--it's just that now it pretends
it isn't. It simply gives lie to the notion that religion or any kind of
specific code is necessary to perpetuate patriarchal thought and
behavior.
 
GAVIN
 
Jonathan Morse wrote:
>
> But my wife is from Korea, and in the twenty or so
> years I've been visiting the country the visible changes have been just
> amazing. For one thing, every tiny village now lies in the shadow of an
> enormous church, and a number of the country's thousand-year-old Buddhist
> temples have been burned to the ground. Architecturally, that change is
> considerably for the worse. But on the other hand, women -- at least the
> newly Christian women I know -- are no longer deferential the way they used
> to be. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying something complex
 
 
 
> But of course Pound's Confucianism is an ideal construction that doesn't
> have much to do with any of this.
>
> Jonathan Morse