Malcolm, your statements will not be popular. But hey, that is the neat nature of i.net and e.com. Your definition of quasi-democracy is the one I meant.
I have always maintained with my US friends and my US mom (she voted for Clinton because he has a nice face, but she now laughs out loud and believes Clinton is comically nuts, as are Mr. Bean and Hugh Grant) that the US folks have rights while we in Hong Kong with Trinidad passport and moderate sized wallet have freedom. However, we can not influence policy nor are we inclined to, as we are too busy doing more fun things that freedom allows.
This is not socially responsible and certainly not historically relevant, but then Hong Kong is such a small place with rock for resources and shoppers for talent. We do not have to be responsible, we only need to show the world how to have fun. We shelter folks who bought the ex-Soviet aircraft carrier and are busy turning it into a Casino. We also shelter people who at one time arranged to buy some islands from the governor of Sakhalin for building a wild party palace.
We, in the last 48 hours, have talked about Softbank, money, bombs, espionage, people thrown out of windows, politics, democracy, Taiwan, geography. We have only skipped sex. Otherwise this thread has all. Great thread. |
