Keith,
That last paragraph is the beginning of a very good book. Keep it fun.
Natalia
On 12/24/2010 11:33 PM, Keith Hudson wrote:
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/
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