you have this life, have various thoughts and concerns and you have some children and they grow and you kind of hang on to them through hoping they will be ok although you have no control of that; all you had control of were a certain few years and some of that time you did well and other times not and then you get to the end of that, and you look about the place, sometimes in the day or in the night and most things are alright. most of the challenges you faced already, and in some you did yourself proud, and in others, not so, but it is alright. you proceed into the day without ambition, and you wonder what happened to ambition. it was important once, but that importance has gone. i spent a lot of the time just practicing writing, so I have still some things to complete because of that drive, but I don't have that drive now. i expect that through this process I began by choice when i was 12, the remaining books i write will be quite good, i guess...they will be good for me.

Donald Trump...Making America Grate Again.

Understanding between Trump and Turnbull

Mr Trump: "So, the Deal is... that we take bunch of genuine, proven, legitimate refugees from Iraq and Iran...people that Australia currently locks up on god forsaken islands...because Australia won't live up to its ethics or international laws......and you will take a bunch of Central American drug runners who we have rejected as refugees, as genuine refugees into Australia; is that it? It is a swap then?"
Mr Turnbull: "Well, we can't actually say we are taking the Central Americans..."
Trump: "But that was the Deal with Obama..."
Mr Turnbull: "Well that's true, but its a quiet truth...it is a truth that will take some time to evolve...after our next election, I guess."
Mr Trump: "and, you are using this same intellectual brilliance in out-smarting China in terms of your trade deal with them, as well?"
Mr Turnbull: "Well, yes..."
Mr Trump: "Who the fuck are you?"

Remember when an algorithm was called a recipe? Remember when a cohort was called a bunch? Remember when a paradigm was called a serious limitation of thought? Creating new euphemisms doesn't make a person smarter, it just contributes to the knowledge that they are, fundamentally, a real wanker...and a bit of a dick...and that doesn't change.

NORTH ASIA:I tink Mr Trump has realised the Great Levelling Understanding about North Asia...and North Korea...compared with the Middle East...if a few nukes go off in the Middle East, we'd only really lose a few million arabs and jews who most folk don't particularly like anyway, but in North Asia, there'd be around 300 million due to the Human Density of that area. The human scale of North Asia is the amazing thing, and it is massively productive all the time...and the speed of development and improvement in the present!!! Never seen before on Earth...North Asia, and its rapid development, is the only reason on Earth that there is far less poverty now, world wide, than there ever was...and it is why North Asia is the Wheel of the ...well,...pretty well everything on earth that needs to turn.If the wheel of North Asia doesn't turn, then neither does the wheel of London, New York, SE Asia, Africa, India, Australia etc. North Asia is the place that's actually happening for everyone, and for every economy on Earth. You don't bomb that place. Ever. You include it.

someone had a theory once that a god created everything and every creature just so the god could see, hear, touch and feel and experience the universe through the eyes and consciousnesses of all the amazing different creatures. if i was a god, being a curious being, if i had some spare time, I'd probably do that too.

I am really quite pleased that Mr Trump spoke basically well of Korea's Mr Un. The usual process of America is to dehumanise and vilify the enemy target (Saddam,Gaddafi & Assad) and then just destroy everything...so speaking basically well of Mr Un's capacities as a smart cookie who is a great survivor is quite impressive. This augers well that America may well be changing a bit, or at least understanding Mr Un's savvy unreachability...or some understanding as to the US's poor dysfunctional economy at this time. Does the US really want North Korea to fall and China take over? No. Russia take over? No. Does China or Russia want the US to take over the North? No. Would either of the 3 great powers allow the other to pick up the most strategic piece of real estate on Earth? No..No...No one wants the other giant to take over...so Mr Un is quite secure really, and he knows it. A quirky Switzerland of North East Asia with 500,000 rockets, a few nukes...and a huge mine-field, a mine-field to die for...and a far worse outcome for everyone on the planet should Mr Un be got rid of. He is a smart guy.