Seoul, Southern China

1. Seoul at a surface glance feels like Shanghai or Nanjing to me, but the inner lives of people are unknown to me without the language.

• State centralism/conglomerates - Hyundai, LG, are like BYD/Xiaomi
• Apple Pay is not widely accepted. Debates about the fee on subways. Issues using Google Maps, preference for localization with NAVER/Kakao. Adding transit card to Apple Wallet doesn’t work, is buggy.
• Chinese characters on temples (光华門), in Kyobo Bookstore (文具)
• CCTV/these rolling gates/numerically numbered subway exits

2. The western/globalist-feeling parts of it include the proliferation of fried chicken & french fries, baked goods, and coffee shops. The feeling of ‘western globalism’—malls, Starbucks, iPhones, and modern English ways of speaking should not be conflated with the old western civ of classical music, writers such as Locke, Kant, Hume, or Christian traditions. Arguably at this point western globalism has overwhelmed western civilization, which is now (or perhaps it always was) the purview of a select minor group.

3. Korea probably would’ve tried to conquer JP + CN in the 1900s world-order if it had the circumstances. This statism seems to be a central feature of the people, and perhaps now a begruding peace and acceptance can be made. The only thing headstrong people might agree upon is the inviolable sanctity of not betraying one’s dignity.

4. All northerners globally tend to be proud people, and Koreans have their own state conglomerates and habits: the head bow, the X symbol with hands, that for me somehow feels more natural for me to live in than Hong Kong or Kaoshiung.

5. There were not that many foreigners here in general. We may in retrospect see the growth of South Korea’s international presence and subsequent reversion to the mean as association with the United States during a time when it was ascending—not yet quite at the zenith but past the period of highest rate of change already (2nd derivative, acceleration).

• Another passing thought is that any sinic system has yet to be proved in terms of social relations, culture, ways of propagation and being, though the manufactures for a complete city-form (electrification of cars, flying drones) are nearing completion. A gasoline car city, like Seoul/Taipei/NYC, is loud and smells bad. I suspect, however, that it will be hard to witness because it may expand internally before externally.

• Recent events of past years can be seen as this sort of north-south migration back and forth. The UK going all across the world is a northern power intruding upon the south. Migration from the deep south to cities such as Baltimore and Detroit represents a southern invasion of the north, as does MENA/SSA migration toward Europe. The development of Shenzhen is an intrusion of the north upon the south, the resorption of Hong Kong with Muslims, and SEAs is a return of a northern outpost back to the south.

• My North/South power of geopolitics: when both America and China are controlled by northerners, there is world peace. When one is controlled by southerners (I remember reading something blaming Qing dynasty for being controlled by southern provinces even though Manchus were steppe), it exports instability. When both are controlled by southerners, idk what’s going to happen. By southerner, I mean demographically and globally. The Confederacy was Northern.

6. For the geographic area I think Seoul might be comparable to a Nanjing/Qingdao as opposed to Tokyo or Shanghai. Given an undeveloped mainland, its own language, and the comparable strength of Western civilization over Western globalization in previous decades, SK likely exhibited a global renown and reputation more than its actual material conditions seemed.

• Such overweighting may have been moreso the English-language sphere linguistic strength more than anything else. Places like New York, where people are pushed into subway tracks by hooligans, seemed to occupy more of the global mindshare than necessary.

• A move toward multipolarity will probably mean more enclosed worlds: we will still all be connected through the internet, but we won’t really have any idea of what is happening in other places without being there.

7. The city form and traveling are largely becoming exhausted, at least for myself I feel, a sort of world-weariness from the grime of cities and a want for a quiet life, but perhaps latent demand in emerging markets will propel it forth a bit longer. Some actions lend credence to this theory: Switzerland is capping tourists.

8. Keeping up with the leading edge of society is important, and I do not feel that things here are exactly what is most happening.

9. A passing thought I’ve had is that my blog is very ~blue America~/internationalist coded in the sense that a ~red America~ hobby is for example going for a cook-out on the lake.

10. This Hyundai Staria van is likely the equivalent of a Mercedes sprinter van. The ‘top guy’ in Korea has this 3/4ths length black coat, pants, and formal shoes and is around 1.85m and speaks quite forcefully; his presence is known.

Hong Kong

1. Hong Kong took me back to the past: the world of 90s Chinatowns and the world of Fu Manchu. It seems this form of small hawker shops of miscellaneous goods and restaurants pops up in form and appearance in many places. This reminded me of the Canary islands, to some degree. Chaotic, humid, loud, and fetid.

• Yet Seoul’s underground sellers of small miscellaneous goods reminded me of this. Or those going around picking cardboard. I felt to myself an upspring of emotion for the role and position these people played in society, and I asked if perhaps some sort of state-centralism would be beneficial to their dignity.

• Water tanks around HK.

2. Words such as WEST KOWLOON STATION, TSING YI, SHEK LEI, KWONG PAN TIN TSUEN, KAOSHIUNG seem completely foreign to me. I don’t speak the Cantonese language, all I know of the region are northern stereotypes. In time, maybe, perhaps I should and could learn. Though China and Shenzhen now seem and attempt to be relatively unified despite ethnic differences (I take the before back. It’s about as unified as different peoples in the US are. Which is you can feel barely at all.), I think this north-south divide will take place across the recent generation immigrants in the United States.

• The one thing that makes me feel comfortable in a place is when the infrastructure has the right fonts.

• I talked to someone from Hangzhou and they did not do the eye exercises?

• I saw the dragon dances in HK and the colorful bowls I ate from the 90s Chinatown. Yet this is perhaps is not my culture.

3. I am welcomed by some of the men in southern China who perhaps see this by an opportunity to build bridges despite past strife—The occasional small-store cigarette smoking vendor piths out his retessiment at me. I let him—and I am in some ways hated by the women who know only the edges of imperialism and not the stable life of the core. They miss their language, perhaps how they used to live. Hypergamy dictates they now go toward the core, as the edges of the ocean have closed and they can no longer lead themselves toward the west. They challenge me with their birdsongs and older characters, yet a truth is that in the north I am accepted for in some ways it is my birthright. They know this, instinctively, to some degree. I think of Lu Xun and Sun Zhongshan and self-determination, they know of it perhaps forced to in school but it has a different timbre.

• Those who chose Western globalization as their culture will be in a tough spot. Expected losers after US/Israel-Iran war and global rebalancing: Jews, African-Americans, feminists, homosexuals, Chinese liberals and dissidents, HK/Taiwan, European self-haters (how can you advise teaching English?), Silicon Valley, imitators, those of only moderate skill but high desires. Potential winners: American Republic, Western Civilization, Eastern Civilization, innovators. Now all the women who know who the losing side is but erred toward one direction are trying to shovel sand over their tracks like Trump is in Iran. Except if you meet someone who actually grew up in Civ. they have a lot of innate abilities and books they’ve read from pursuing a craft for so long, whereas those in glob. aren’t really good at anything specifically.

• Not many people know what the below exactly represents. It’s outside of the Yale Uni. library. Why the random carvings in different languages?

  • Go to the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh. Why are there rooms for dozens of different cultures, that even smell the same as the original?
    • The significance is that Western Civ. knew of other societies better than they often knew themselves, and in a sense was able to emulate it within its own. A similar example: some say that Japan takes one from every other culture and masters it… for example curry from the British.

• Let me explain the above. First there was Western civ.: Christianity, seriousness, state media/PBS/NPR/Tageeschau/NTK. We read Robert Frost or Rudyard Kipling, learned Iambic pentameter, etc. Then Bantus and Jews came to power with the Civil Rights Act in the United States because conditions at the time made America seem like an apartheid state compared to the Soviet Union. Tensions during that time and the decolonization movement was strong. Instead of being forthright citizens, Bantus and Jews then unleashed their worst, innate, and natural impulses for consumption and bragging counterpoint to civilization itself. They then spread these bad values—tattoos, degeneracy, lying, bragging, licentiousness, requiring humor in every conversation instead of seriousness—using the internet worldwide: “Western globalization.” Instead of historical relevance of texts, people like Kentaji Brown Jackson were installed for a non-historical, interpretive reading as fits their biological preference.

• Quite frankly, if the aforementioned groups don’t get their stuff together in America and start treating other humans fairly they’re opening themselves to reprisals across the entire world: Israelis being randomly attacked, Rwandans being armed and taking a chunk out of the Congo. The meaning of ‘respect’ to the Bantu/Jew simply means “this is the big man/women, give ‘em’ praise. Repeat their name multiple times and make them feel good.” This, obviously, is an intrusion and perversion but they can’t seem to control themselves. They mentally get frustrated if people talk to them in a straightforward way. They start smiling and their brain tickles/feels good if people say good things to them and repeat the words they use. As the Japanese said at the turn of the 1900s and as most in the east and northwest Europe intuitively understand, respect is a matter of perhaps there are differences, but we each give the other affordances and don’t intrude on the other. I’m pretty sure the CEO of ID.me physiognomy-wise is Judaic, and they’ve now embedded themselves across the state unemployment agencies to deny anyone who is not in their preferred group. Obviously looking back I now realize that these Bantus had to attempt to crush the recent American immigrants before they came of age, because in it was the seed of their political and social irrelevance. Mrs. Thompkins, you spoke with malice in your voice when you said “valedictorian, I knew it would be you.” In it was this understanding.

• Whatever. I’m not one to hold a generational grudge over this, that makes us all net poorer. Society has more important problems that need to be addressed. Maybe you’re reading this and you are thinking I’m an enemy for saying this and I’m causing you pain on purpose. My thought is: can’t we just discuss how things are? (obviously, we can’t, cuz the truth physically/mentally hurts some ethnicities and women somehow). So this mental contradiction is really impossible to resolve.

• Instead of elite education being about understanding, it became reading of secondary sources that said “whitey bad” and “men are bad.” You know why everyone is blabbing about “prestige” and rank these days? Because Jews like doing that, I went to Chabad once and they were talking about “love how amazing and how Jewish you are.” (Hard workers create prestige through their diligence and don’t brag about it.) They then fucked up the money system by making standards lower and money easy: DEI preferential hiring, DBE (a trucking program for ‘minority’ brokers to get easy government money), low government interest rates rewarding those who borrow a ton and spend/build recklessly over those who save, making college essays an “anti-racism” shibboleth, saying schools should go ’test optional’, causing riots around the United States, and saying things like “defund the police” and “the present experience and feeling is most important” cause Bantus cause the most crime, have the most HIV, and think of the future the least, while the Jewish media would periodically direct their bioweapon toward whatever group by emphasizing certain divisive media (for African-Americans it would upplay cop shootings, for ‘Asians’ they would talk about ‘spa shootings’, for ‘whites’ they would say ‘we are white people! we are bad!’). Clearly we see this “make others take the blame” is what the Judaic media is doing all the time just like how they are causing false flag attacks in the Gulf and Caucasuses. Arguably African-Americans are the more innocent ones here because without Jews taking control of the levers of US power none of this would have happened, and hopefully things can get to better order once the Judaic menace is defeated in the mid-east. Then during Western globalization (keeping in mind what made SK, JP, TW strong was Western civilization) a bunch of people growing up knowing no better and thinking “China bad! Beijing bad and encroaching on us!” decided to pursue “democracy!” and “freedom!” and fuck themselves up and act dumb. So we’ll call everything before the 1964 Civil Rights act “Western Civilization” and everything after “Bantu-Judeo Leftism,” maybe someone else can come up with a better term cause the way I describe it is really analytical.

• And that’s how you end up in a tech meetup in Shenzhen where everyone starts introducing themselves with “here’s a joke!” Because Bantus innately feel upset if you are too serious and don’t joke with them, because they have a brain state/internal state more suited to this sort of reflexive-adaptive-humor side-to-side (as opposed to a sort of up-down technical/analytical communication) understanding suitable for societies for less than 200 people for social competition in an environment where natural resources are seen as abundant. So all these Tiananmen anti-government activities came out of the activities of Bantus and Jews from the 1960s so to speak.

• Anyhow some of them probably saw that the Europeans/whites eradicated smallpox, and realized they could do that to other peoples if they mustered together the organization. So thus began their attack across all measures of human vitality: health, community, society, so long as they would survive. Which explains why the whole past decades and recent events w. Trump in Iran have been nothing but an ineffectual grasping. Does China care if the West gets borked by internal enemies? Idk. Arguably they should look at the specific peoples and family lineages that were responsible rather than looking at countries or “nation”-states, which are multiple peoples wearing the same disguise.

• But the modern world is different, and nobody has really developed the integrated swarm-like method of close human organization characteristic of past societies as opposed to distance governance by finance, media, and engineering, because the former tends to provoke a fairly large response. So there’s less actual violence, more just discussion of things and maneuvering.

• Anyways here’s the fundamental contradiction in the world that needs to be resolved: groups of people who don’t have the innate capability to build certain things want to live in a society where they have these things, and they also want political control. So they play a parasitism role. Groups of people who have the ability to build things don’t like being around or working for those those who can’t. Either someone has to contribute something or the former group needs to accept their place in society and listen to those who know how to order things.

• All of the stuff about either Said’s books ‘Orientalism’ or other such books written in that manner are meant to cause analytic type people to engage in social-emotional relation with non-analytical capable people so as to preserve them and see them as the ‘same community’ rather than a nonbiotic/animal factor.

• Actually the main question is which people you allow to parasitize. Actually, a bunch of commensal organisms are not that bad, it’s the parasites that harm the host which are the problem.

• Anyways I’m going to analyze Kipling from his actual meaning, and from the Bantu/Jew meaning listed as the “disclaimer” below.

• Kipling’s meaning:

  • There are strangers in our society.
  • Are they possibly (good? - the western idea of ‘universal good’)
  • They do not speak in our same way (in the modern day it would be, they speak our same language but do not think like us)
  • I do not feel his mind/soul. Only the physical appearance.
  • People of my own kind, maybe they are good or bad.
  • But they tell my type of lies, and we intuitively understand each other.
  • The stranger within: perhaps evil or good.
  • What things sway his mind and control his mood?
  • The Gods/ideas/values they believe in will one day come to claim them/their behavior.
  • The men of my own type, as bad as they are: they see what I see and think of me, I think of them.
  • My father and I believe this. Let all be the same, before our children are set on edge by bitterness.

• In short:

  • People could be good. In the second half, they can also be very bad.
  • Those of different societies: as bad as those of our own may be and perhaps even worse than the stranger, those of other societies will destroy our posterity.

• Bantu/Jew analysis:
  • Wants to parasitize (be together with higher level organisms), so denounces separation.
  • Thematic focus is correct. Mutual thinking between certain ethnicities is not possible.
  • Repetition is something Bantu/Jews love. Lies are something they also love. Pragmatic acceptance of shared deception is their natural trick.
  • Form and Structure: attacks the idea of history/Bible/structure to advance an interpretative view of the world.
  • Relation: attempts “melting pot” or cultural mixture so they can continue parasitizing. Anxiety/neurosis is probably not representative of this relaxed British demeanor. Description is characteristic of those writing it.
  • Same fear/criticism of above is actually self-descriptive.
  • ‘universalism’ is another shibboleth for ‘melting pot.’ not going to spend more time analyzing what is obvious

• I was born into this and I know no other way of being from my birth in the Nordics to my childhood upbringing in the Northeast. I speak the language of Imperium and of the American Republic; it is a welcome sight for Western women who have suffered under Bantu-Jewish tyranny in the United States disguised as equality over the past decades. At occasion I meet women who chose this leftist camp and they cannot meet my eyes; they know they have chosen human emotional debasement over human reason as in the Enlightenment as their governing method. Now that the board game is flipped in reverse and I have come of age they fear me. In America I will seek to build bridges with those who value human reason and dignity—whether they be American whites, American blacks, or any other such group. I am reminded: who are they to take up an entire color for themselves? It is time to deconstruct color from the right. But I will remain true to myself, as I hope they can also be to themselves.

• How did I escape the above globalization and somehow grow up in Western civilization instead? I have no clue.

4. Western globalization which was the amalgation of culture by Jews, Bantus, and Silicon Valley found itself fundamentally opposed at its core to both Western civilization and Eastern civilization. If you meet somebody who believes in leftism (which really is a sort of inversionism) throw a national flag or anthem at them: American, Chinese, it doesn’t matter. They will fear it like demons fear holy water. Footsoldiers at the bottom knew what they were doing, continuing with their anti-government anti-order perspectives regardless of country, yet in some way they too were caught in the current of events beyond their personal understanding in how whatever past step they were in, this next step toward Western globalization seemed to be the only present form which made sense for them.

• Yet Western globalization is strictly inferior to both types of civilization; being a mix of the two (though I admit sometimes I drink CHAGEE and use Xiaomi, a sort of Eastern globalization which has material goods but less visible notices on the culture) I could never find myself related to those whose culture was Western globalization (aka “liberalization” which really meant wastefulness and carelessness).

5. Nobody growing up in the USA really yearns for a quiet life in the suburbs unless they’ve experienced the near-vertical towers of Hong Kong and rickety trucks billowing out smoke perhaps an arm’s length from the sidewalk. Some young people in Hong Kong, surely, are thinking to themselves: finally, I will get out of this slum just as million others worldwide are thinking: I will get myself out of this suburban hell that is Dallas, I will get myself out of these remote Eastern European villages, I will etc. etc. etc. But should you end up in a desolate suburb you will once again yearn for the noise. A society then must manage adjacency to these contradictions.

• This journey and where it ends up taking people and what they respectively end up realizing is for to each their own discovery.

• And as many grand thoughts and plans I might have, what use are they to the people living here? What use is my thinking to someone working retail in a Dollar General? Though scholars and thinkers do change the world, I am more cognizant of the immediate grasps of regular people’s desire for food, shelter, and family and the need to bridge the two.

6. What I’ve realized over time is that population transfers are really still on-going. The “immigrant myth” and “diversity myth” is just a population transfer of labor from other parts of the world to the United States, no different from how Stalin moved Koreans to Kazakhstan, only that the modern world is slower in these ways of doing things and more built on the battle of media and public opinion first. Immigrants, having come here, don’t realize their role as human feedstock piped along in the designs of others. Advertisements in the Hong Kong airport for cellphones, are really meant to divert domestic savings from being stored into iPhones into Huawei Mate Pros, a growth in fake-status competition due to the frontier being closed (Hong Kong has too many mountains to build more housing easily I think!) Savings goes into iPhones, clothes, cars at most, and rent.

• The world-building temple form of grain taxes now looks like population transfers to host countries, media propaganda to make things appear a certain way and that choices are made from individual action, and a dumping of useless manufactures in other countries to absorb savings. Going to Starbucks is really sending your money to their world! It is tribute! And they enshittify everything later like how Lululemon turns into polyester slush. TEMU and SHEIN appear to be doing the same but in a reverse of different geography.

• This is by no means an advertisement for China—evaluating things from objective rather than subjective quality, I do not think Huawei or Xiaomi is comparable to Apple yet in the cell-phone arena. Yet across many other subjects things are getting close.

Shenzhen

1. I don’t like living in many places in mainland China. It reminds me of living in an endless mausoleum, the same too-large impersonal constructions characteristic of American 5-overs, coupled with insides of stone and lack of windows. If there is a window, the only view outside are other skyscrapers from a 30th-floor that somehow seems grounded and still rather than floating in the air, leaving you with no recourse but to shut the windows and imagine you are living near to the ground again.

2. I suddenly feel unmistakably drawn back to the West for the mountains and fields; I dream of buffalo herds and endless horizon. For the people who had raised me and that I had grown up with, who are now being replaced by untold hordes of immigrants as the lack of public decorum and mess in even Costco can now attest, and whom I love so dearly.

• First in the US there was Western governance, then there was Southern governance. I think that time is now over and we should have some sort of Western/Eastern governance. Think should combine all the midwest/PNW/Canadian whites + eastern ethnic groups + remnant Amerindian tribes.

3. All the material pieces of a well-ordered society are there in China—from a glance afar it may seem that things are well-designed, yet like the hotel rooms you will inevitably find mold on the grout, floors that are dusty, and the lingering smell of smoke from cigarettes, and piss from the mop which is improperly sanitized so this pee-water-smell gets smothered all over the place.

4. Electric (new-energy?) cars (vehicles?) in the city-form are the future. They’re quiet and don’t smell bad. Yet often this is ruined by frequent honking. Having grown up with scarcity to some degree, and perhaps a natural parsimony or low wages, the competitive drive to get ahead at any moment still lives with a fervor in these drivers. These aggressive taxi drivers are seen in both China and Korea.

5. I find the same totalizing impulse that LKY did to remove these loud and acrid night stalls or the American highway planners to pave over all the corner stores. Yet I realize some of these people could not live in certain more ordered ways, nor would it necessarily benefit them to do so, but that if they wanted to embark on such a journey into the ordered administrative-managerial-professional appartus perhaps they could do so.

6. Surrounded by all the people and noise you forget that countries, nation-states, and communication networks form one giant super-organism. It’s much more evident, somehow, in the more formalized USA. Whether we will return to amalgamations of corner stores, and whether for good or for bad, is to be seen. The parking lot barbeque appears at times with no electricity; everyone is out on the side of the street.

7. There are apparently Chinese business-dealers (somewhere between the spectrum of business and warlordism) who sell motorcycles in Burkina Faso and move prostitutes around from Southeast Asia to the tune of 2 million USD per month. This reminds me of the at-times mentioned CIA drug trade. Fuck. I need money just to build a house and live a normal life and to help people live in a good and redeeming society. Living an Anthony Bourdain life is not to me redeeming.

8. At times I am once again at times faced with the common West African Bantu attitude that subsumes himself to any society he takes part in. He knows to lift the bag when walking bys so as to be courteous to others; I move accordingly for him. He seems to know no fear unlike other men who are distinct in their own ways for he feels comfortable in his disguise; even light-skinned Ethiopians know they are in a foreign country. He speaks an amalgamation of Chinese and is both familiar and strange to me having lived in the American South.

9. Once a country decides to become an empire then everyone starts trying to claim to be a part of it. Your random mountain villager in Shenzhen who barely speaks the national language starts claiming to be 中国人. I mean, I am not unkind and unwelcoming, but then you will have everyone in the developing world claim to be 中国人, which is a very American problem! I suggest we do some bubbles like this: National -> Regional -> Long-term -> Short-term (humans).

• So Chinese -> Eastern -> Long-term society (which can include almost everybody) -> Short-term people (people who destroy society).

• Or American -> Western -> Long-term -> Short-term

• It has not been good for the United States that many people around the world think it is great and amazing and want to immigrate there, nor would it be good for China or other countries to fall into that position, so the best choice is that people have a reasonable quality of life at home.

10. Though China claims thousands of years of history, I believe on the ground understanding of the inherent nature of other ethnicities worldwide is not as advanced as in America, nor are preparations for who can and cannot be Chinese is seriously considered. Maybe at the higher level echelons there is. It is important for China to not be arrogant right now, it is like counting chickens before they hatch. There are no permanent victories in life and hubris wears away all the past accumulations.

11. To some degree this sense of identity and outward-pushingness was the European side of African-Americans speaking, you can see it in that their foreheads are more forward, their ears less nubly packed, and the body shape approximates the bulky northern European form.

12. Of the West Africans there appear to be a thin and small headed type with naughty and playful personalities, a chubby and emotionally vatuous type that seems to absorb and mix all sensations it comes across, some with the reduced form ears and backwards sloping head, a wide-headed and aggressive one perhaps common to Angola that comes with physical strength at the cost of density and cognition, and various light-skinned ones from the result of genetic crossing who approximate and fit into modern society well enough. I met some people from Tanzania once and they seemed to better approximate the modern human form and personality compared to some of these other types.

13. I heard there are some Hakka buildings in Shenzhen. I must admit that the beetle-prongs on the ends of the roofs feel unfamiliar to me. Supposedly they were few-hundreds in size. If I built a community would it only naturally scale to that large? Maybe you can never really build an empire with that easy mutual trust.

14. Quite frankly Western exaggerations of Chinese danger are overblown—the amount of people in the country that spit onto the floor and lounge around smoking cigarettes is too high. What it would actually look like today given the same technological supercession of Europe post-industrial revolution over the rest of the world in past centuries would be: hypersonic flight sending out colony-ships with no interaction or backwash with the local populations. Their habits and ways of being would be studied by robotic flies and beetles in the way animals are in their natural environment, their genetic and historical ways of being sequenced. Weapons would be like spears hitting metal hulls.

• No single player in the world is like that. We are all sort of stuck in this morass together, each contingent and dependent upon others as a part of a globe-system. We all deal with crowded trans-pacific trans-atlantic flight. Freedom from noise and dignity for all for those living at home is not at all achieved for any nation, nor have people even clearly defined which group is ‘in’ and which is ‘out’. Getting to the leading edge of material manufactures and human hallucination/knowledge is not there yet.

• What some in the West fear is simply the reversion to the mean of what they presumed from a self-assured sense of world-supremacy built upon the sacrifices and rites of their ancestors they no longer follow. Once these pretenses are given up we can maybe go toward real world-peace. And perhaps, it was never actually what they personally believed because the classics have always warned of hubris, it was the media that made you think this way and who has been in control of the media?

15. The two hands handing thing and the ‘here is your tea’ motion appears to me a servile thing for internal consolidation. Quite frankly it is not good to have that inside an internal group.

Some things I did of interest of this trip:

• Open a Chinese bank account.
• Learn about advanced VPN methods.
• Got SIM Card A2580 model.
• Visit various hardware and software places.
• Get an opinion on various types of housing and hotels.

Huaqiangbei is quite frankly just a secondhand street of electronic goods and phones no different than someone selling old grocery store produce at a so-called farmers’ market. Outside of some DJI and Xiaomi products, there were not many things I wanted to buy. Visiting the area seems just like Nanjing East Road in SH - no idea why people would go there, just a bunch of 2nd tier goods when someone could order things online. The Starbucks Reserve in Shanghai isn’t even that good.

Anyways I need to upload some more photos and update this when I have time.