"Any society that could produce alcohol would soon have observes its deleterious effects. In fact, opium residue was found in the Wanli Emperor's body, the opium poppy had been cultivated in the Middle East for millenia and it is impossible that Chinese had no knowledge of this substance by the time the British arrived. Social stagnation during the mid-late Qing Dynasty probably accounted for mass addiction more than the British, it's not like we were the equivalent of Amerindians with no understanding of distillation."Another retarded analogy. Just because people knew alcohol was addicting doesn't mean they understood that opium was also addicting. In fact it turned out to be more addicting than alcohol. Ancient Chinese may have known about opium, but this doesn't automatically translate into understanding of its addition potential.
"Much of TCM aligns with qigong cults and general Indian-style nationalistic dick-waving more than it does with science (which BTW didn't really exist in premodern times, and I ask you who invented science?). Stop pedantically arguing over semantics and admit that China needs to deal with her own backwardness."
This is a perfection example of how your ignorance and inferiority complex mesh perfectly together to create monumental stupidity. While it is true that much of TCM is hocus pocus superstitious nonsense, it is also true that some of TCM has been scientifically validated; I have already listed several examples for you. You are either too dumb to understand not everything is black and white or too intellectually dishonest to acknowledge this aspect of TCM. TCM should be and is being mined for further useful treatments/medicines, something which someone like you would summarily and stupidly dismiss as useless even though useful things have already been discovered within the scope of what is considered TCM.
China DOES have to deal with her own backwardness. Eating tiger balls for virility is definitely stupid. But this is NOT what you said. You said that Westerners/Americans are SMARTER than Chinese. You used the hilariously nonsensical example of Qing Chinese addiction to opium. This claim is as stupid as the claim that eating tiger balls allows you to have better sex, possibly more so. While I don't claim that Chinese are smarter than Americans, I certainly don't agree that they are dumber than Americans. This claim of yours rests squarely and solely in your pathetic sense of self-loathing. I called you out on your stupidity by pointing to the modern American's addiction to drugs at a much higher rate than Chinese, but you have repeatedly and dishonestly chosen to ignore this point, a point which directly and definitively puts your idiotic claims down like a lame bitch.
