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, 26 January 2018
Sunday, 14 January 2018
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
it is in our nature to be good. this is why when people treat people badly, that we don't like it. It makes us sick. how can you put refugees on an island and imprison them for many years just for wanting a decent life like we have? How can you make sense of that? it is not in our nature to always be afraid, although this is what our governments would prefer, to manage us more easily. We do need to work out how easily managed we wish to be. if we elect people, it is their job to do hard things to make sure everyone is okay. that is their job. If they don't have the capacity or the desire to do good, then we are well rid of them. if we are to survive as a society, we must do good. If we dont do good, we are not ourselves, and this is not our proud nation or our society at all.
I think that in the great debate regarding the various discriminations of sex and race and all the other things, eventually, the world will resolve all these issues into the simple ongoing battle between rich and poor...as this has always been the only real human discrimination that amounts to anything...and we are not half there yet to working out what to do about it. Eventually, the poor will show us the way. The rich have always depended upon the poor to make a profit, whereas the poor have no dependence upon the rich ever or at all. if there is to be a revolution, and I think there will be, it will not be launched by the well to do...and the well to do, folk just like you and me, won't like it at all.
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