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To: TobagoJack who wrote (26031)12/12/2002 12:56:55 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 74559
 
Too Orwellian for Elmat's taste.

"In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird."

"Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations -- that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago. Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved."

From George Orwell's "1984" published in 1949



To: TobagoJack who wrote (26031)12/12/2002 1:10:35 AM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
Jay - Could you comment on the different parts of China and how they differ in terms of business, risk taking, culture, etc. ?

If you could also include Hong Kong and Taiwan in this comparison, that would be useful for my understanding, since I met lots of people from there here in Silicon Valley.