Motley Kamuka

I like to look up various spots in travel books. Porter starts in Hong Kong, and thrills us with tails of avoiding over priced travel. Traveling the silk road with Bill Porter in The Silk Road starts in Xian : I didn't know China is named after the Qin Dynasty .  Underground Warriors . Wikipedia calls it the Terracotta Army .  "Impressive thought it was, a person can only stare at such a sight for so long. After a half hour we had seen enough." (p. 14) There's a TV show called Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors (2024) on Netflix I probably won't watch.  Kukai, one of my many spiritual heroes, could have seen the Goose Pagoda when he was in Xi'an. They went to the Emperor Wu 's tomb, a hill, that those warriors were supposed to be guarding.  I'm not sure where I've read about  Yang Guifei before, but I've seen those statues. She's among the 4 great beauties of ancient  history.  Famen Temple . Supposedly there's a Buddha finger there...

The question isn't yes or no, but how to be honest. There's an article in the NY Times . It provoked in me the question, do we lets these avaricious capitalist harm our society, or do we regulate it communism style? Of course those aren't all the choices, but that is what is being chosen in this moment.  How can we make people do the right thing? Government is a terrible blunt weapon. Capitalism is a terribly selfish and harmful weapon.  The fantasy growing up for me was that if we can just educate people enough. But that's not an opinion that is popular enough and the education isn't effective enough. I'm a wreck of a person, more akin to a baseball player who doesn't get on base most of the time. Tepid democratic capitalism will regulate it eventually, and the capitalists will throw up their arms. From my perspective, the Chinese government regulating and taking over the social media industry just feels wrong. It is possible for the America tech giants to ...