John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Friday, 14 July 2017
The attainment of abiding human economic wealth and power is based upon 3 factors that never change: 1: You inherit it. 2: You steal it. 3: You marry it. there are other very infrequent happenings, for sure, but they are far too insignificant to even be worthy of the statistical analysis of the 7.5 billion of us. in terms of the stats, a person creating enormous wealth for themselves is an anomaly and hardly ever happens. This is one reason why, to me, the 'notion' of 'choices' comes up so often in our present day-dream, and, always, supporting the status quo, and, this is why, to me, it is so interesting as a concept. Do we really have these choices? Really? Is a Gambian at 3 or 33 making choices or are they simply doing what they have to do? Is an Australian from Aurukun or Parramatta really ever making choices? Did people flock to the Grenfell Towers rather than Edinburgh Castle by choice? Do soldiers fight for their country by choice? Really? Or through having no other path? I'd be interested in hearing views on this as 'choices' seems to be one of the more prevalent of our current myths about life on earth. In time it will be replaced by more fitting and believable myths, for sure, but just now it is an interesting one.
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