Mostly borderline distractions, appreciated from the 'life is just a game' and 'we just need to keep ourselves entertained with a series of manufactured commodities' perspectives. Yes yass there are legitimate uses for everything, but the overall focus seems to consistently lead away from a broad-scale understanding of what is going on in our collective heads, why it is there and how it obfuscates clarity with masses of 'entertaining' and/or seemingly convenient details. When I see a young couple at a table for two eating at Salvador's, with both parties staring at their individual twinkyphones and not talking to each other face to face I tend to think that something very weird is going on with human consciousness. You can't understand much without factual knowledge, bu the 'facts (or people) at your fingertips' syndrome often substitutes immediate data for understanding and promotes shorter and shorter attention spans ("well, we got that settled, don't have to think about it anymore - next?"). And then there are 27 annoying messages to confirm or alter a simple decision to meet somebody at 7PM on some particular Thursday.
Wake up & smell the coffee, there are people & things all around you.
Some years ago I received money through Western Union from either Cambodia or Thailand, don't remember which, sent by a private individual. For reasons I also can't remember I could only get it at the main branch of the Agricultural Bank. Took awhile too, but it worked. I had an account at BOC at the time, but they couldn't receive it directly.
@dolphin: I agree, but with michael I also agree that there's too much public exhibitionism and self-promotion - not so much because I'm worried about the dangers of same (which I think probably do exist), but because it's self-centered and I find it both rather disgusting and distracting. Seems to me the kind of people we are, or are becoming, is in some kind of symbiotic relationship with all the twinky opportunities that promote the self-centeredness. I blame larger-scale social structures for this, which clearly (to me, at least) promote the self-centeredness and then feed off of it... I could now get into the nature of class society but I reckon it would be too far out on the limb from the topic, which I already feel is giving beneath my weight.
The Book Club will next meet at 6:30PM at The Park on September 5 to discuss Charles Bukowski's collection of poems entitled: sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the new way - new poems. Although there is a wechat group, all comers are welcome. Please have a suggestion of what we might read next.
Problem of phony provincial and local assessments described in Elizabeth C. Economy's 2004 book, The River Runs Black, which covered the situation in other provinces as well. Are things better overall now? Well, very obviously thanks to the production and widespread distribution of private automobiles, among other factors such as massive construction, anybody who's lived here during that period cannot possibly fail to notice the worsening air quality in Kunming. She mentioned illegal logging as well, both in Yunnan and in Myanmar, to provide for construction, as well as the situation of water. The problem, at that time anyway, seemed to be not micromanaging from the central government, but the devolution of responsibility for carrying out central government plans from the center to the provinces. Might this have something to do with expanding privatization and 'cooperation' between local government and developers? Golly, I wonder.
keebler, is this supposed to explain the graveyard finds mentioned in the article? If so, how do you know? Are people in Yuanmou County smaller than their ancestors because they do not believe in God? Anyway, where do you get this theory, and what is the evidence? And what makes you think that smaller means simpler? How long is this supposed to take before we notice it in the human remains that have been found? How long ago was the Flood?
I suppose it is my fault for picking up on Dolphin's remark about lufengosaurus, but note that the point of the article about the graveyard has nothing to do with theories of genetic evolution of different species. The article is about evidence concerning the culture of people - i.e., homo sapiens - in the area several thousand years ago, though of course the bones can be analyzed for analysis of living conditions, food resources, etc. of the people of the time.
I'm not a health foody but the few meals I've had here have been really good and, yeah, I'll be happy to go back alone to sample all the rest of them. It's also not a bad place from which to people-watch the street below.
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Several provinces under suspicion of "faking" environmental protection data
发布者Problem of phony provincial and local assessments described in Elizabeth C. Economy's 2004 book, The River Runs Black, which covered the situation in other provinces as well. Are things better overall now? Well, very obviously thanks to the production and widespread distribution of private automobiles, among other factors such as massive construction, anybody who's lived here during that period cannot possibly fail to notice the worsening air quality in Kunming. She mentioned illegal logging as well, both in Yunnan and in Myanmar, to provide for construction, as well as the situation of water. The problem, at that time anyway, seemed to be not micromanaging from the central government, but the devolution of responsibility for carrying out central government plans from the center to the provinces. Might this have something to do with expanding privatization and 'cooperation' between local government and developers? Golly, I wonder.
Swine fever scare temporarily shutters Yunnan pork industry
发布者I'm afraid the hogs will die young anyway, as that's what they're raised for.
On the other hand, they are tasty.
Stone Age graveyard discovered in Yunnan's Chuxiong Prefecture
发布者keebler, is this supposed to explain the graveyard finds mentioned in the article? If so, how do you know? Are people in Yuanmou County smaller than their ancestors because they do not believe in God? Anyway, where do you get this theory, and what is the evidence? And what makes you think that smaller means simpler? How long is this supposed to take before we notice it in the human remains that have been found? How long ago was the Flood?
Stone Age graveyard discovered in Yunnan's Chuxiong Prefecture
发布者I suppose it is my fault for picking up on Dolphin's remark about lufengosaurus, but note that the point of the article about the graveyard has nothing to do with theories of genetic evolution of different species. The article is about evidence concerning the culture of people - i.e., homo sapiens - in the area several thousand years ago, though of course the bones can be analyzed for analysis of living conditions, food resources, etc. of the people of the time.
Government bans swimming at tourist-friendly Fuxian Lake
发布者Now what kind of morality is that, Keebler?