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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (17238)	4/16/2007 5:01:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218551

Not to mention some helpful foreigners who owned property there, bringing economic development and modern political concepts rather than emperors and eunuchs: <The Chinese communists robbed the entire Chinese people of ALL their property, ALL their rights, ALL their freedoms of every sort.> TJ has said many times that grabbing what you can is the right way. <Why does a person like you who celebrates HK's freedom defend as righteous and just the Chinese communist victory over the Nationalist government? > He teaches Coconut to beat the little opponents and take their things [is delighted to see her adopt the local culture enthusiastically, instinctively]. He pulled up his neighbours carrots and took the carrot, putting the top back in place. China operates by grab, take, and deception. It was hilarious as local yokels would approach we foreigners with all sorts of lies designed to separate us from our money. There are no doubt some honest people in China, but they weren't crowding me. People lie because they find it of benefit and they adopt cultural norms in which they live; set from the top. I consider it unnatural to lie. It is a skill learned by fearful children who have to protect themselves against the depredations of others and to get at least their share of limited resources which others are grabbing like queue jumpers for buses in London. Ethics is the basis of truthfulness. Where ethics are thin on the ground, truth is thin on the ground. I don't think ethics is a big deal in China. Property, possession and power are what matters, not ethics. Hence TJ is unworried about shooting Tibetan children escaping over the mountains to India, gung ho on nuking Taiwan to show them who is boss, and racist against Japanese who he says buy and sniff panties [as though it's a cultural norm rather than a weirdo oddity of which there are plenty everywhere]. Children are like chimps and will adopt chimp cultural norms unless instructed in civilized ways. Mqurice