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To: elmatador who wrote (23695)	10/8/2007 11:51:21 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Respond to of 217686

This is my field of study for the past 21 years, Dr. Vodoo. I always admire yours and TJ's knowledge. Just want to get it all out for the cb's to admire. I can only claim by marriage, that: This is my field of study for 12 years by commitment + 2 with alterior motive. Sometimes it feels like 21, which can only be followed by alternative sleeping arrangement...(kidding, I would never make my wife sleep on the couch!) Three things that scare the crap out me about China: 1.) It's not long before everything is public domain. Maximum entropy. It is odd that I don't feel that this is necessarily a bad thing. I feel as though everything was going to be stolen anyway, if not by intellect, by litigation, legislation, taxation, war.... or simply by gift by some fat bastard who thought he was doing me a favor. 2.) We will all have to adapt, we have not a choice. There is nothing like this, nor will there ever be. I can share with you stories of chinese lawlessness that occur even to this day. Things which I have experienced as well as those of some of my expat friends. The average american would only cry foul. The chinese don't care, they adapt. And the most scary of all: 3.) We are perhaps only in the 3rd inning. Maybe the first, but are too tired and seem to have lost count. The chinese don't care. They will go on biggering, and fastering until TEOWAWKI. My grandfather was an USAF photographer, who once took a photograph of himself with a broom pretending to be cleaning up after Dewey did not win the Whitehouse. I have this photograph, blown up superdupersize. My mother wonders why I like this photo of most of all(Including several of JFK). It's because he always had a sense of what what was important in history at the moment that he picked up the camera. I think children everywhere should be taught in gradeschool by way of pictures of Shanghai circa 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005...etc. Side by side with pictures of Detroit, Austin, Manhattan. In this case a picture is worth more than 22 million words, and growing more each day. I have not lived and fully understood the important meltdowns, only know those scars through others wisdom. Have been paying attention watching, learning, occasionally profiteering. Now heading full long into the storm, as there is no looking back. At least when it is time for the Beast and I to sit down, I can look forward to practicing my mandarin!