Shen Chuan Flexes

Despise China. Admire Japan. Perhaps simply a cold war mindset? A little more penetration would indicate a preference for Japanese adaptation of the western model over Mao's disastrous application of Marxism which the contemporary party has not truly repaired-- which is not to convey western democratic principles work for all of Asia. Democracy and personal liberty fail in large populations, which are governed primarily these days by statutory enforcement that Constitutional principles check or support as a last resort, but Japan, that ferociously zealous island of samurai, found the right balance after Truman nuked them. I argued vehemently with my foreign policy professor about the decision. It was wrong to radiate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If we had allowed Japan to control Korea and to take the Chinese coastal region, today's Caucasian entrepreneurs wouldn't be pissing their pants every time the Chinese military rattles its sword about Pacific hegemony-- and this points to my disillusion with our national politicians. All of them. We could easily put Xi Jinping in his place, especially as conflict tends to ignite western economies in stagnation, but nary a peep from anyone, and why is that? Money to be made on a billion and a quarter, disposable citizens in the very eyes of the party officials who control them, boxed in stark flats like my own, walled off by an intranet to propagandize the security of those in control. I can afford my contempt, as I am nothing, teetering on the brink of homeless because I want to be left alone, but remain under no illusions. Certainly not about ideology. Atul Gawande, if he really listens to himself, sounds like a libertarian, perhaps mincingly, in his promotional interviews for Being Mortal.

There was an interesting news item on Wednesday about a young female chimpanzee who had a difficult birth and wound up with cerebral palsy. She is younger, more endearing than Knuckles, and being rehabilitated out of moral guilt. It would be better to euthanize the primate. She is already imprinting on her therapists, having been rejected by her mother-- and this is the truth about me. Dropping pretenses. Empathy sometimes produces worse outcomes than extermination, and I pity the full arc of life this baby girl will lead as an adult ape. Disability law doesn't filter down the five percent difference between us, our relatives.