Star Trek - The Next Generation. Banned Clip from 'The High Ground'

One of the things we just don't get is that things change. It took until around 2012 for an Australian Prime Minister to note the existence of "The Asian century" in terms of importance, trade and development. The Asian century started about 40 years before. Still, it is a misnomer...it is not the 'asian century', it is the China Century, the first of probably about 5. Whilst tiny New Zealand went about 20 years ago in working out a very good trade policy with China, it took Australia more than 2 decades later to understand...and then we were forced, by China, to accept a poorer deal because we fucked around too long. We were so sure we would just be the USA's 'deputy for Asia' and so continued to treat Asia in our usual racist ways. Bad idea. The trouble with Bad Ideas is that they do take at least a few decades to fix....every bad idea...a few decades. It is not simply a matter of electing different people, it is a matter of recognising reality, and how far we are behind the present, let alone the future. If Australia can have a future, well, it will take an enormously long time for us to 'now' even get to the present of the real world. This is the problem with racism and traditionalism...it can't move, it can't adjust, it can't be real. It falls. you can't change that in 5 election cycles...you have to actually know what you are doing. the trouble with Australia is that no one expects or demands that its government knows what it is doing. Look at it....Malcolm Turnbull...my god, a fizzer of a human being...Bill Shorten, a runt bully best designed to beat the shit out of shop assistants in pie shops than lead anything...and that's the best we have. They are not the joke, we are. that's why we are going down.

One of the things we just don't get is that things change.
It took until around 2012 for an Australian Prime Minister to note the existence of "The Asian century" in terms of importance, trade and development. The Asian century started about 40 years before. Still, it is a misnomer...it is not the 'asian century', it is the China Century, the first of probably about 5.
Whilst tiny New Zealand went about 20 years ago in working out a very good trade policy with China, it took Australia more than 2 decades later to understand...and then we were forced, by China, to accept a poorer deal because we fucked around too long. We were so sure we would just be the USA's 'deputy for Asia' and so continued to treat Asia in our usual racist ways. Bad idea.
The trouble with Bad Ideas is that they do take at least a few decades to fix....every bad idea...a few decades. It is not simply a matter of electing different people, it is a matter of recognising reality, and how far we are behind the present, let alone the future. If Australia can have a future, well, it will take an enormously long time for us to 'now' even get to the present of the real world. This is the problem with racism and traditionalism...it can't move, it can't adjust, it can't be real. It falls. you can't change that in 5 election cycles...you have to actually know what you are doing. the trouble with Australia is that no one expects or demands that its government knows what it is doing. Look at it....Malcolm Turnbull...my god, a fizzer of a human being...Bill Shorten, a runt bully best designed to beat the shit out of shop assistants in pie shops than lead anything...and that's the best we have. They are not the joke, we are. that's why we are going down...because we've done everything we possibly can to go down.

In the hard earned yards of being a family, and there's been a worthy few that I have been a part of and beholding to in all ways of kinship, I like the idea of having a cat or dog because its a good thing, knowing and loving human folk as we do, to have some companion that isn't actually human. It's just part of my Culture as a Western kind of dude to have an animal or two around. They are your 'pets' for sure, but they are also your teachers of the Nature of Existence and Being. Dogs and cats have been our worthy Companions, as worthy and as meaningful as we are, for thousands of years. We have done extremely well together as a clan. A dog or cat can help a young person to know what it means, practically, to have some kind of child-thing around, so as to learn how to take care of them. This helps us all. This would certainly be useful to us old folk, to have children who somehow had experience in looking after something as the need arises. Now, my preference would be to have both a young girl dog like Prancing Holly, and a young boy cat like Cosmo...in the photos you can see how well they would get along. Now, that's family. That's actually a good Irish family.

CHINA and The Spiritual Dimension

The Spiritual Dimension.

China, 1957:

A child was asked: "Do you believe in God?"

Answer: "I believe in China."

China, 2017:

A child was asked: "Do you believe in God?"

Answer: "I believe in myself."

Mental Health De-briefing, Wang-Fitzpatrick style... John: "Well i looked after a bunch of seriously mentally upset patients overnight and they had all gone through terrible violent traumas, some traumas a long time ago, and some recent...and the big concern was that they would kill themselves or... someone else..." Response from Han step-daughter "They should try going to a good primary school in China for a few days...even a kindergarten, if they want to go on and on about rape and violence and all that. Or just send them to our neighbours in North Korea. They build strong people." John: "Well...now that's interesting..." Step-daughter: "The only reason you are so strong and sane is because you married a Han-Manchurian woman." John: "Well, yes, there is that...but, at the same time..." Step-daughter: "If you know who you are, then how can anything or anyone stop you? Why is the West so fxxxd up? Life is hard and unjust. This is why it means something. You don't start life as strong and beautiful, no one does. Life makes you strong and beautiful, because you make life strong and beautiful." Ah, China, the Collective Wisdom rather than the Individualist Consuming Need...I wish her well. I think she will do quite well here at 25 and bright as a button.

Happy Saint Patrick's day. An Irish Parable.The Parable of the Self Harmer from the Book of John in his letter from the Antipodes.

The Parable of the Self Harmer from the Book of John in his letter from the Antipodes.

It was, verily, some time back that Iain took up the holy rebel cause against the fascist monolithic Gillette Razor Blade Company.
For a while Schick seemed okay, but it was never a good razor, not good enough. Blood was spilled. And as for Baron Bic, he should have been executed as the true Nazi he was. Experimental surgery.
Iain spent a lot of time combing the 7-11 shelves all over Palestine, and the Olde and New Worlds, as a Testament, and for awhile found comfort in Wilkinson Sword...then it became knownst to him that Wilkinson had soldeth his own sword to Gillette and was thereafter subsumed into that unholy Evil succubus monopoly.
As a symbol of Eternal Resistance, Iain located his grand-father's Cut Throat Razor (whilst the meaning of the name was still somewhat unclear to him) and began a daily ritual of slashing his face to pieces with it and fixing pieces of toilet paper to his whole face, as in a cohesive wrap.
Iain is still out there, somewhere between Melbourne and Jerusalem, bleeding, and yet very clean shaven. You will knowest him when you see-eth him.
There be a lesson within this parable. The first cut is not necessarily the deepest.

I like the word 'disgruntled'. The way the word sounds is exactly the way it feels.