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
A quarter of the whole round world is China. China is held together not by the Communist Party of China, nor by massive money, but rather by Chinese Women. Now you know who you are really dealing with...just accept it for the next 300 years. Save yourself a lot of grief. Gain yourself some happiness. They keep families together. They know men to their core, and some even still like men. They have been doing that for 5 thousand years without a pause. No one else, no society on earth, does that. They do know exactly what they are doing and they do know exactly how to do it.
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.
The attainment of human economic wealth 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 analysis. This is one reason why, to me, the 'notion' of 'choices' come up so often in our present day-dream. 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? I'd be interested in hearing views on this as 'choices' seems to be one of the more prevalent of our current fallacies about life.
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
My three favourite philosophical phrases I'm trying to perfect in my reasonably brief lifetime: 1: It doesn't matter. 2: It does matter. 3: That's it! I think that if you can get a good handle on those 3, well, that's it!
My three favourite philosophical phrases I'm trying to perfect in my reasonably brief lifetime:
1: It doesn't matter.
2: It does matter.
3: That's it!
I think that if you can get a good handle on those 3, well, that's it!
1: It doesn't matter.
2: It does matter.
3: That's it!
I think that if you can get a good handle on those 3, well, that's it!
Friday, 7 July 2017
Australia Poem
AUSTRALIA 2017
Girt by Sea
this island made
in fact for me
and not for those who were
nor for those who'll be...
this nation,
girt entirely
by me
in my surplus
obese
entirety.
The worried well are worried and well now none of us are going to hell and so they teach their kids their truth and seek for sooth, for sooth, for sooth. The worry-less world it rolls along an occasional punch, an occasional song and thus defines this best address ah, welcome home, forgive the mess.
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