| William Lanouette, past President of ISP, explains that Ralph Siu--who proposed the founding formulations for panetics--was fond of citing Eastern wisdom to explain Western events.His favorite example involved the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai. Ralph said that in the 1970s a French journalist asked Zhou what he thought of the French Revolution. Zhou's reply: "It's too early to tell." In Zhou's Eastern perspective, which measures time in millennia, the French Revolution that had occurred a mere two centuries ago must have seemed a recent event. And in many ways its results certainly are inconclusive. So,it is with Panetics, Ralph Siu's focal achievement in a commanding synthesis of Eastern and Western thought. Ralph himself once told a Washington Post reporter that "with ideas like Panetics it usually takes a generation for a new idea of this magnitude to catch on."
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