I can imagine the floating armada death star of the US Navy approaching Korea playing Cher's " If I could turn back time" on heavy rotation. "Too proud to tell you I was wrong."
Monday 17 April 2017
This is Modern Real Asia, calling to Asia...in Heavy Rotation...I want you...i need you...i love you...whether Japan, the Koreas, The Phillipines or the one China. Not an American in sight. Asia, like the Borg, will certainly assimilate your styles, but we don't want you, America...not in our Asia. We are Young. We are New. Go home, America, kill your own children if you have to, but not us. It is not our fault that we do not need you. It is our strength.
To understand the passing parade of the American Epoch of Splendour it is useful, for me, to understand the metaphor of Sydney, Australia's New Years Eve Fireworks Display, on Sydney's beautiful Harbour. Sydney is the closest we, as Australians, can ever come to being Americans. Every New Year's Eve Sydney launches at least $US5 million dollars worth of fireworks, paid for by Sydney/NSW tax payers...and it is an amazing display, innovative, colourful, impressive, beautiful, massive...and it lasts 20 minutes...and then everyone goes home in the crowded dark and pays more taxes. I think the USA is exactly like that. The fact that Sydney simply can't afford to do that doesn't make a dent in the idea, or the pride...or the show. Still, it is just a show...and a very very expensive show...but Sydney has to keep doing it, to exist as important to itself....very much out on a limb of failing its people...but for the show...
the US leather pussy and the big massive erect guns...now owned by China
Big events have big consequences. The massive loss of American power money and prestige in the 2008 financial melt down meant that China jumped two decades ahead overnight as a functioning liquid economy...you can't get that back. We all expected China to rise in about 20 years time, for sure, but those clowns in the US...the Wall Street folk, just took the money home or blew it all. no investment in America...none... You can't get back from that.Real losses are in fact real losses.
emptiness and god
I do like churches of all kinds, nonetheless. I very much find solace in being alone in a church, a synagogue, a bahai temple, a mosque...beautiful. true. the beauty of the silence in some of the mosques, especially, and the architecture, is just astounding...divine in the true sense. Like the great christian cathedrals, there should be more of them, and all empty. to get poetic, the emptiness of these wondrous structures is so sublime. it is much like the emptiness of an open hand.
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