Monday, September 28, 2009

Can I Wax Before Hot Bath

LUXURIES, DISTANCES AND OTHER CHINESE TALES ... U.S.

Social Democracy is not dead and that there are still millions of unjust causes why keep fighting, many things to change, and above all, a great world power. Nevertheless, and 'the thing' once 'crisis, "our world is getting better, except for the climate, the international distribution of power, wealth sharing and hunger ... - ya better go depending on many factors ...

Moving on and looking at our planet in another way, everyone is talking about, the emergence (or rather, re-emergence) of Asia-more specifically China and India, and multi-polarization the world. A world in which, apparently, the 'North Atlantic' is no longer the principal place of decision in the world.

Certainly not for me to put into question the global macroeconomic analysis - how could I do that? - But I think I can highlight and point out some differences that seem abysmal and take into account: if well, as noted in the English edition of Foreign Policy in August and September this year, Asia generates 30% of global economic output, due to its population its GDP per capita is only $ 5,800 (combined of countries, none in particular) against the 48,000 of our 'Ally Yankee. " Obvious differences in the mass of the population are latent and manifest.

Sun Tzu, the Art of War uses a distance measurement, the Li, which is about 576 meters, thanks google! -. Sun Tzu The operations are seen as normal based on distances from 500 to 600 kilometers. This work written in the V ° and IV ° BC makes 'our wars of the time' no more than just neighborhood fights. Perhaps, making a mega-blogger- abstraction Sun Tzu has some validity and We do know that although our challenges ahead of them are neighborhood, they lack standing hundreds of miles to see our streets. It is not as fierce as they paint the lion, but despite all the lion has teeth and claws ...

Come on, that while Asia's rise is unstoppable, from a sociological point of view, political and economic - and population ... does anyone know anything Asian pension? - we would have to ask how far it is just such an advance in itself. Is it a harmonious rise? Is it a re-emergence that questions our status quo in the immediacy? Is it the end of the monopoly of the West? Is it a boom that would lead us to question our system of production of luxuries?

NOTE: How many distance Li can be deployed body euro / euro force / army euro / whatever you call it? What can we do? Are we, in all senses in such a crucial aspect of European integration? Did not have to be a social democratic response to this?

NOTE 2: mental masturbation petite ... I've stuck

Sunday, August 9, 2009

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In Philadelphia, 23.44 local time ... At 5.44 CET an AZERTY ordenadoe without Word ...

and ten days after the United States (East Coast), I explain some of my impressions (based on experiences in NYC and Philadelphia):

The first of all is the size of everything: extreme greatness (in cars , ice cream, hamburgers, people, clothes ... EVERYTHING) and extreme tiny (in cars, ice cream, hamburgers, people, clothes ... ALL), we, the middle term is conspicuously absent ...

The second of all is the ability to constantly change depending on the needs of the citizen-consumer ... for example, broke the shower faucet rented apartment ... I sent a mail to the tenant at 21 hours and 21.40 and had a technician (Mexican) sent by the tenant willing to fix the tap ... I can tell similar example of the fall of a front mid-afternoon for two-three hours after being clean street and a scaffold mounted protective ...

The third is in relation to the plundering of art: while the MoMA or the Metropolitan are full of European works (innumerable paintings by Picasso, Miro, Velazquez, Goya ...) Today I was surprised at the Philadelphia Art Museum (known in the world to be the stairs that Rocky goes into his workouts ;-)), seeing that many of the doors inside the museum are native Andalusian convents (Ecija, While Osuna ...).... you know which to admire the Parthenon in the British Museum, or the Venus of Milo in the Louvre to admire colonial depredations, one can not imagine how painful it can be seen as heritage culture has gone through the power of money ... Well, while you enjoy seeing a Zurbaran hung on a wall in Philadelphia, comes to hurt so many works are so far from where they were conceived ... This I mean, that the undersigned has felt largely won and highly protectionist as regards cultural level ....

Otherwise, this country and its people (from all over the world, of all colors) continues to amaze even one second ... I like know and while there are still ten days of travel, I have security and be back to visit! ;-)

en route to DC tomorrow!