Tuesday 19 October 2010
China _ Asia's next First Family 2012 onwards Xi Jinping & Peng Liyuan
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| Mr Xi brings extensive political and military integration to the next Presidency, strengthening links with all political facets and those of the Peoples Liberation Army. He is known for strong leadership, economic planning and redistribution and is highly opposed to official corruption. There are two main schools regarding economic development. The Shanghai school promotes very free entrepreneurial capitalism focused in already wealthy centres whilst the other school promotes a more equal distribution of wealth, especially focusing on the Western areas, to bring relative wealth in rural areas concomitant with the explosion of wealth on the Eastern Coast. Mr Xi is a supporter of the latter school of thought.Ms Peng is a very famous and revered singer in China. |
Monday 18 October 2010
Yukio Mishima's Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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| I've just finished reading this novel for the first time. It's very good though not as 'direct line' as some of Mishima's shorter novels; and it's written in the first person narration which is different again. It's a fascinating insight into what, I guess, we call neuroticism, per se; but really also into the human condition in terms of why it's so easy in every generation for wars to happen. It's a good study of the deep desire to find meaning within neurosis and then to find meaning in the overthrowing of all its causal indices, in pursuit of a kind of apolitical apocalyptic liberty. He's a great writer, for sure. That he lived at all is remarkable, that he wrote so damn well is an enormous gift. He writes of things few other writers do and with an acuity and detail that is really astounding. He illustrates the powerful rage and lust to otherthrow the binding immoral ordinary and in this way does give insights as much into what is currently called factional terrorism and also the neurosis bordering upon real psychosis that keeps leading America, and the UK and various satllites like Australia, so willingly into profoundly destructive conflicts; seeking meaning in hubris and in the deaths of Iraqis, Afghanis etc and all under the pretext of that notional liberty and the sick righteousness of these current Dark Ages. |
Monday 11 October 2010
Sunday 10 October 2010
North Korea: Maoist Neo-Confucianism (Right Wing), Central Socialist Core, State Capitalism,Korean Juche, a waning America, a bankrupt and humbled Japan, a restive and politically split South Korea, and & Old Colonial Remnant Catholic Shamanism, elevating the Revered Mother. Now that's a combination the world just hasn't seen before. Real Year of the Tiger change.
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