Not exactly an addendum to the recycling post below: Communism has trashed traditional Confucianism, and then trashed itself--no, that's not the recyling part. It's sparked by the news that Chinese peasants fashioned six-foot cannons from empty gas cylinders and cantaloupe-size projectiles from scrap metal, shooting hundreds of cannonballs across a half-mile of rice paddies in two daylong battles, killing a dozen people & destroying 60 homes.