Squareville.. those paradigms, that self-contained, pretend to offer a self. The hope is that it can satisfy the knawing of the heart of hearts. Forgive me for sounding arrogant, but I think we are fortunate to see, so early in our lives, that nothing so facile can satisfy this - and to notice that promiscuity (the oppo-same sqaresville occupied by "lady's men," "bar stars" and their respective permutations)will not satisfy the hunger either. Neither will lead us deep into the innermost chamber (as the sufis say) the epicenter of mortal anguish. Neither will take us THERE, where we may find our self and our purpose... that ground from which we may envision a better social future.
1) I know one person who wasn't annoyed by your observation that China is "a strange synthesis of the greatest heights of old Eastern culture and the lamest bullshit of modern Western culture". Me. I ran out of fiction again, which makes this best thing I've read all day, and possibly all week.
2) Sweeping generalizations are problematic, I know, but I really would like to hear any that you can patch together concerning the generation that nearly starved. I imagine them to be tougher and to have much more interesting hobbies than populations who did not nearly starve in their youths. Would I be disappointed?
3) Did Mao really have syphilis? (Is this common knowledge? Am I the only person who didn't know?)
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2) Sweeping generalizations are problematic, I know, but I really would like to hear any that you can patch together concerning the generation that nearly starved. I imagine them to be tougher and to have much more interesting hobbies than populations who did not nearly starve in their youths. Would I be disappointed?
3) Did Mao really have syphilis? (Is this common knowledge? Am I the only person who didn't know?)
-erin
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