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, 8 March 2017
I think I'll do one of them photo spreads for Vogue like Christie Brinkley at 63...John Fitz at 63. As you could see, absolutely no cosmetic surgery. I'd need a double page spread and then be very careful with the staples, to be sure. But in the right lighting and shade, with the right lenses coated with Vaseline, and the camera at the right distance, perhaps on the moon...
Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Blog Post: Australia, incapable of leading itself in any way, has followed the post GFC model of New York and London and Paris in developing services and jobs only for the people who live within the cities...thus you get this concentration of quasi-elite formation in and around Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, where elsewhere everyone basically suffers simply because there isn't enough money anymore to go around, and because the folk there don't matter to government...thus you get this major differential amongst folk who are supposedly equal in worth...thus you get revolt in the elections..and you get all kinds of fuckwits elected replacing the fuckwits you elected a few years ago...except more extreme. It's a money problem, but no one will say that. Things that were affordable...schools, pensions, superannuation, the environment, health services etc...aren't affordable any longer and so there is a focus only on providing the most services to the most densely populated areas to get the most votes. The result: This is why Brexit happened, and why Trump was elected. In France, the neo Right under Penn etc will roll in and here, well, we have Hanson... and that's the result of bad government, and bad thinking, and blaming everyone else... even grotty old muslims...where in the past we blamed grotty old jews...grotty old asians....world wide...Worse Government. The Western Civilisation has got to a point, through over indulgence, when there is now a Failure to Thrive. This will take decades to work out. Why? Bad planning and Corruption. The Dynamic Duo yet again.
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