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  hardie karges 9:29 am on July 24, 2014 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Asia ( 17 ), China, Chinatown, currency ( 2 ), Facebook ( 17 ), Hardie Karges ( 239 ), Likes ( 2 ), social media ( 13 ), Thailand ( 75 )   

  #Facebook #Chinatown: Where ‘Likes’ are the New Currency 

   

  

  Like Me, Baby…

  Strolling through Facebook now is like strolling through Chinatown or along a carnival midway, complete with barkers and colored balloons, signs and advertisements now occupying every available inch of empty space, imperceptibly creeping like Capitalism into our lives and our computers and smart phones like viruses (virii?), the good kind, friendly bacteria that you can live with. In Chinatown there IS no empty space. Social media has degenerated into one big tease: “You won’t believe this!” or “You’ve got to see what happened next!” or “Don’t forget to share.” Likes are the new currency.

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  hardie karges 3:16 pm on April 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China, FUTURE ( 8 )   

  THE FUTURE 

  China wins by default, just count the numbers. The parasite devours the host, led by the unholy triad of Capitalist investment, Confucianist obedience, and Communist totalitarianism, the 3 C’s all spell “control”: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Don’t do unto others what you don’t want them to do to you. Move backward into the future. After you cross the street, don’t forget to look both ways and see what might have happened if you’d stopped to think about it. But you can’t have it both ways. The choice is ours: a kinder gentler slower world or a reckless smelly consumptive one. Growing pains are hard for a citified world age 5000. Our ancestors missed their cows when they left the farm. We might have to miss our cars when we leave the city to the archeologists of another generation.
   
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  hardie karges 2:46 pm on April 17, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China, communism ( 21 )   

  COMMUNISM DU JOUR DE RIGEUR 

  Communism did for measures what Napoleon did for measurement. Hamburgers are weighed and measured in Romania, to prevent hamburger corruption, I assume. An iron curtain hides nothing. We all know what you were doing back there, getting shit-faced drunk and acting Chinese, pretending you’d wait out the tides of history to catch a wave into the White House. You don’t become Chinese by reading a book. You gotta’ be born there. Communism is a perversion of Nature everywhere but China, where it’s the nature of perversion. Slavs are still Europeans even if they were slaves and serfs and slow to leave the farm. It’s as if the Lord said “Go forth and divide”, and the rest is history, roads leading to nowhere, and reasons to follow them to their logical conclusions. The urge to merge occurs only in sex and religion. To perceive divisions in the world is human; to perceive unity takes a mystic.

   
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  hardie karges 4:54 pm on January 16, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  China 

  China is a mother, steamed buns in the back seat of my car.  The women smile just enough to make life interesting.  The men stop smoking just long enough to spit.  China wins by force of numbers, pregnant belly extending into the South China Sea.  Civilization wins by force of cities, the cell block organization, the weight of steel and concrete and will to conquer destroys everything but itself if it’s lucky.  The weakest people make the strongest nations, bound together like sticky rice, white sugar crystals incapable of independent existence.  They cling together for strength.  They fall apart over money.

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    wtdevflnt 8:15 pm on February 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Excellent posts, really like this one- you nailed it.Glad to have found your little place in the world. Keep it up, very enjoyable.