In China these days:

[puppy fields]

why do you hate china?

[superyang]

china is your mother

[fmstlr]

who's the father?

[Asharak]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/...VpbnRlcm5ldA--

[puppy fields]

^

"Maybe they are thinking that if Internet users have some porn to look at, then they won't pay so much attention to political matters."

they are learning from the americans.

[Asharak]

Aldous Huxley was arguably a better prophet than George Orwell.

[puppy fields]

^ i agree.

[archonemis]

Originally Posted by puppy fields

Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era

And zero mention about how the ever devalueing currency (whatever it is) happens to make people want to find cheaper this and lower cost that. I wonder if people will seriously look at how manking influences things like ""Globalization", "Trade Gaps" and "My own freaking bank account". Funny story, though. I was wondering if it'd happpen in my lifetime. I should've expected as much. The same thing will undoubtedly happen in India as well at some point.

[archonemis]

Originally Posted by Asharak

Aldous Huxley was arguably a better prophet than George Orwell.

Both had their calls and misses and I'm now thinking that they're seeing features of cyclical patterns without seeing how those patterns flow into different patterns. I actually agree with puppyfields that Huxley was slightly more "on point" in regards to things like information control and social programs. Then again, I also see similar patterns with Orwell (though his seem more dramatized in my own eyes).

Still, I know a chick who came from Eastern Europe who gave a strikingly Orwellian account (she was less into Orwell and more into art, by the by - she would know about, but be uninterested in, what is being discussed here). I think there are people who have experienced the Orwell view. We, in the U.S., have had - I assume - limited exposure to such things as Orwell described. Then again our survailence culture does seem to be ramping up.

[wnoodle]

The real Kung Fu Hustle

[kamenriderv3]

if you fail the exam then you can execute the "monkey steals the peaches" move.

[archonemis]

Originally Posted by wnoodle

The real Kung Fu Hustle

Reminds me of the class presidents here in 'The States'.

[superyang]

Originally Posted by fmstlr

who's the father?

Doesn't need one..

[puppy fields]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10784666

[joetron2030]

China cracking down on the use of Cantonese?

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNew...66T16N20100730