indeed.
That's why the only hope for humanity is more cynicism and apathy, not less.
Bingo.
You get today's prize, Adem.
Don' know what it is yet. Maybe your salvation. Will that do?
give me some time on this one. he's good.
Outta China ... hey, I can access your page again (no blogs can be accessed inside China). Thanks for the heads up on this - kinda like a, what, new year's present. I thought this was the salient point for the libertarian utopians (and I know very few libertarians who aren't utopians) :
"Howsoever thorough our indoctrination, we retain a will. It is an individual, unsocial and unrational quality. Would that the fighters for freedom could harness the power of that will, but they never will. It is not in its nature to be harnessed, only to resist being harnessed – by anyone, friend or foe."
I wrote the article back in June and found it floating around inside my mini-computer. I've been doing a lot of thinking/writing lately; zip for publication (read: for other people) ... need to get my shit together and stop trying to figure out what the rest of you are doing 
Still on the road for awhile. Will check in periodically. Ask me about China (sometime).
Whaddaya wanna know? Business opportunities up the yin-yang ... some of them even decent. HK & Taiwanese rich folks come in here investing ... and MOST of them loose their shirts ... mostly because they figure these folks here are like overseas chinese - and 'tain't so ... they're like real people, only sweet and ornery. Shit, Jo, I could write another book ... but I won't ... just what are you curious about? I got business partners IN china if I wanted ... and I'm thinking about it ... but it's always nice to have a home. And I got that, easy. In China. I might even go back someday.
How well do you know these partners?
My experience with overseas Chinese is that they're also generally 'sweet and ornery'.
Smartest bizmen on the planet.
"Smartest bizmen on the planet."
Not in China ...
... and not really anyway ... they are survivors in the context of a traditionalist chinese culture and do very well pillaging elsewhere. They call themselves the "Jews of the Orient" and the parallels are striking ... but this has to do with the overseas Chinese. Mainland is nontraditional and actually contrary to traditional chinese culture; and scorns it.
I've known my biz partners in china for 13 years. Family-like, but more reliable.
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