>>13249507Let's talk about Chinese characters, kanji, or hanzi, or hanja, or whatever you call them, which actually gets to the point, not only do they convey meaning regardless of pronunciation, enabling the diversity of languages to persist yet facilitating communication all the same, they are literally innumerable, as in, you can even make up your own.
Where does the Mandate of Heaven come from? Confuscious said, from a just rule. In any case, if things suck, it means the rulers lost the mandate.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.