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.
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
John what do you think of Australian society? It is scatological, intoxicated, and, lugubrious. So, John, I guess you don't hang around in crowded bars at night arguing for increasing the personal freedom and basic "human rights" of Australians in terms of extending liquor trading hours? Ah...no. Whilst not being a prohibitionist, per se, I would see myself more towards that end of the spectrum rather than the otherwise. The greatest human good sometimes is achieved through access-limitation rather than extant access-excess. Alcohol adds more poverty and damage to human society than it can ever add happiness, or reason, per se.
What can be done to make Australia a better and less violent society? 1: Fewer New Zealanders would help. 2: Clown Profiling, and Clown Registration. We need to infiltrate tightly knit Clown Communities. At least, this way, we can know who they are and, indeed, where they are. 3: I also think Random Road-side Grammar Testing for all would be beneficial in terms of the long term vision for the Nation. Everyone should know what a 'gerund' is, by heart, by now. As for our National Anthem...I've always been particularly happy with the use of the word 'girt'. Yet, why isn't 'girt' or, indeed, 'smote' taught in our schools anymore? How, indeed, can we defend our lovely girted nation if we don't even know what it means to smote our enemy?
John, do you ever wonder why you just don't seem to fit into Australian society? No. I expect that allusion may have something to do with being parsimonious, or frugal, in expression; rather than garrulous or obsequious in my interactions. Also, I do not utilise tirades of invective in my pursuit of being understood, as all the Bogan-cohort classes, both indigenous and imported, do these days. I refrain from contributing to this cacophony basically because I understand deeply, as did my mentor, Michel de Montaigne, in 1546AD, that all real problems in the world stem from the improper use of grammar.
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
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