Yesterday, I twisted my ankle, if not worse.
All I know is that while cutting trees and branches in my back garden, I jumped off a wall, onto a chair. Well, that was it. Not that I haven’t done that before –from higher walls even. Of course, I blame the chair. Never jump on Chinese chairs. They are just not made for it. Anyway, I jumped onto the chair, the chair made movements I’ve never seen it do before (more…)
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October 6, 2012 | Categories: Asia, China, Weekly Journal | Tags: chengdu, China, Dorgelo, fun, hospital, humor, progress, worry | 4 Comments
All progress has a price. Well known are of course the issues of over-population and pollution and corruption and spoiled kids. But not often mentioned, surely not in China, is the issue of equality. Yes, you read it correctly: the issue of equality. Equality as an issue.
So I called Alain de Botton. Not really, of course -for who am I?- but real enough to include this philosophical thinker and popular crowd speaker on this matter in an imaginative roundtable talk. (more…)
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July 26, 2012 | Categories: China, Weekly Journal | Tags: Alain de Botton, China, democracy, envy, equality, fun, humor, hypocrisy, progress, quality time, socialism | 1 Comment