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To: TobagoJack who wrote (67485)	10/22/2010 8:02:53 PM
From: Canuck Dave	Respond to of 218039

The part on silver has started me drooling again. Been a GREAT year. As usual, the standard analysis totally misses the point which one of your players nailed; "dollars" don't have any intrinsic value and shouldn't be used as a yardstick. Say Jay, I think there was a discussion on this thread recently about a book in the 1880's asking why China had been subjugated. I think some of the reasons cited were the difficulties with the written language, the stifling bureaucracy and lack of a true banking sector, the culture of tending to look inwards and backwards, and a circular rather than linear view of history. What about an entrenched leisure class blocking a society evolving? Every good decaying civilization seems to generate rich lazy fat bastards. America calls its country club Republicans. Wasn't a lot of China's problems at that time to do with the battles between the mandarins and the Eunuchs? Are today's party cadres and their offspring China's fatal flaw? What do you think? Was Western domination in the 1800's inevitable? Can China develop enough socio-political flexibility today to adapt to its new role in the world? Where will the frayed edges be and how will they be addressed? CD