A homecooked meal. The shrimps were caught in the Mekong that morning. The other dish is chicken in an amazing coconut milk-infused broth. Simply unmatched food.
You came back just in time to enjoy the richness of your people's, soon to be lost, traditions.
When it is unleashed Modernity spreads indeed like a cancer. Concrete and asphalt soon cover everything, cheap plastic commodities fill homes, and people become discontented not to possess all that is advertised. But oh miracle debts pay for all this shit. It was so easy to enslave people while dumbing them down into believing that every month they have to pay the banksters otherwise they lose the usage of what their debts paid for. This whole scheme worked for some time. But in the seventies the return of capital from the Western slaves was stagnating and so decision was taken to enslave the populations of the rest of the world. That's when --- things started to unravel for the Western Modern slaves, ---- the populations of the rest of the world started to dream of becoming modern slaves themselves....
I started reading your blog something like 10 years ago while living in the States. By 2002 I was unable any longer to digest the surreal US societal landscape where 99% suffer while 1% is above the law and siphons the wealth accumulated so laboriously over the last decades by the entire citizenry. I left for Beijing where I had lived between the mid-eighties and 2002. During my youth I witnessed the enslaving of Western Europeans and then I went witnessing the process of enslaving of the Chinese. My move to the States was meant to observe the fall ...of Modernity.
We are living in interesting times. The fall of Modernity pushes my left brain to think about civilization, worldviews and culture while my right brain dwells in painting... Best to do that in a quiet place, with good food, insulated from Western dualism and its proselytism.
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You came back just in time to enjoy the richness of your people's, soon to be lost, traditions.
When it is unleashed Modernity spreads indeed like a cancer. Concrete and asphalt soon cover everything, cheap plastic commodities fill homes, and people become discontented not to possess all that is advertised. But oh miracle debts pay for all this shit. It was so easy to enslave people while dumbing them down into believing that every month they have to pay the banksters otherwise they lose the usage of what their debts paid for. This whole scheme worked for some time. But in the seventies the return of capital from the Western slaves was stagnating and so decision was taken to enslave the populations of the rest of the world. That's when --- things started to unravel for the Western Modern slaves, ---- the populations of the rest of the world started to dream of becoming modern slaves themselves....
I started reading your blog something like 10 years ago while living in the States. By 2002 I was unable any longer to digest the surreal US societal landscape where 99% suffer while 1% is above the law and siphons the wealth accumulated so laboriously over the last decades by the entire citizenry. I left for Beijing where I had lived between the mid-eighties and 2002. During my youth I witnessed the enslaving of Western Europeans and then I went witnessing the process of enslaving of the Chinese. My move to the States was meant to observe the fall ...of Modernity.
We are living in interesting times. The fall of Modernity pushes my left brain to think about civilization, worldviews and culture while my right brain dwells in painting... Best to do that in a quiet place, with good food, insulated from Western dualism and its proselytism.
Wish you well.
Hi Lao Dan,
Many thanks for your thought provoking comment.
Linh
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