Unusually, I woke up slowly this Xmas Day morning and thus remembered my
dream, which doesn't normally happen. I dreamt that I was a politician
addressing a large crowd that swept away to the horizon. I had been saying
that, "above everything else, our nation should respect scholarship". And
then, when the speech had ended and the crowd was dispersing, I became one
of the crowd going homewards and could hear their private comments. They
were deriding the politician.
Every new day, usually, is too exciting for me to delay getting up, but I
did so this morning, thinking about my dream. I fell to wondering. In how
many countries might this not be true? I could only think of two
unambiguously. China and Israel. Russia perhaps. There might also be others
of which I know little -- Bhutan or Peru perhaps -- but I could think of no
more. And then I realized that both China and Israel had both been through
periods of almost complete cultural destruction (starting in China at
around 1450AD and Israel in 100AD) but had since revived.
And then I wondered further. If the world experiences a currency
catastrophe -- which seem very likely to me in 2011 -- and if I were a
galactic insurance agent looking down on the planet, which cultures would I
rate as having a better chance of surviving more than most? And then I
swung my feet onto the floor and started Xmas Day with a pot of tea and a
tot of something extra.
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
<http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2010/12/>http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2010/12/
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