[Siem Reap, 2/1/23] Two days ago, I took an 8-hour bus from Bangkok to Siem Reap. Entering Cambodia at Poi Pet, I saw the blackened shells of the Grand Diamond City Casino, where a fire on 12/28/22 killed at least 27 people. Weird, the “at least,” so there may be unrecovered corpses still. The rest of Poi Pet looked lively, as usual.
We get old, and we get so distracted. My wife booked the wrong date her last trip somewhere. I often wonder since reading you, about zoning laws in the USA. I look at my antiseptic block neighborhood and try to imagine cafes on the sidewalk. I would try it, if I liked it I would be there every day. Here one mustn’t hang around elementary schools, no no no…I was in VN in 2006 with my F-I-L and went nearly everywhere in the southern half of the country. I always thought the kids in the countryside, walking to or from school in their uniforms, were a cheerful site. I learned that the parents had to pay fees. I often wonder if that would be a better system for the USA. Kids would get a heck of a lot more pressure from parents, and maybe the teachers would get more respect, maybe the teachers would be more worthy of respect. As it stands now, Libs of TikTok has proven that there are many teachers in US elementary schools dedicated to queering the kids. Anyway, if school was pay-as-you-go here, if a kid drops out, then, finished, done, drop out already. Or switch to something that the kid wants to learn, like computers, or cars or HVAC. Why waste their time with Liberal Arts if they aren't interested? Unless indoctrinating mindless corporate drones is the point? (And I used drone intentionally, besides being workers, they can also be sexless.)
Thanks Linh, great read. Those plastic chairs seem to be a favorite of kids whose parents can't really afford manufactured toys. They can indeed do alot of things.
Orwell was actually born to the elite, so I assume he must have been given to coprophelia to have written such things. On the other hand, all the ritual abuses British elite afflict on their children through boarding school education, perhaps he was telling the truth.
"Orwell is always sold as gritty and on-theground, willing to get his hands dirty with the common folk. But if we study his bio, we again find he is from vast pools of wealth. His real name was Eric Blair, and on his father's side the Blairs were descended from the Earl of Westmoreland. So he was an aristocrat on his father's side. But his mother's side is more hidden. Even greater wealth came from that side, since she was a Limouzin, rich French timber merchants in Burma. Francis Mathew Limouzin was a millionaire many times over. We are told Orwell's family had slipped into poverty, but that is a myth. The Blair side had slipped a bit, though not into poverty. But the Limouzin side was still very wealthy. His childhood friend from next door was Jacintha Buddicom, and she married a peer. So they had to have been in a very posh neighborhood. She was related to billionaire industrialist William Buddicom, who manufactured locomotives for England and France. Interestingly, he was caught up in the revolutions of 1848, when workers tried to burn his holdings in Rouen." http://mileswmathis.com/chom.pdf
Cambodians truly are the most stunningly gorgeous of all people. I tried blood once, it wasn't bad. I made it a practice to eat anything offered to me by my gracious hosts without question. When you don't have any idea what it is, it usually tastes just fine. Our aversion to strange foods is obviously mental.
Lihn, if the bankers and warlords get their wish, there will be war with China soon, which will involve all of Asia. But let's hope not. In Western Europe, people are too old for war. But governments keep pushing for it nevertheless.
We get old, and we get so distracted. My wife booked the wrong date her last trip somewhere. I often wonder since reading you, about zoning laws in the USA. I look at my antiseptic block neighborhood and try to imagine cafes on the sidewalk. I would try it, if I liked it I would be there every day. Here one mustn’t hang around elementary schools, no no no…I was in VN in 2006 with my F-I-L and went nearly everywhere in the southern half of the country. I always thought the kids in the countryside, walking to or from school in their uniforms, were a cheerful site. I learned that the parents had to pay fees. I often wonder if that would be a better system for the USA. Kids would get a heck of a lot more pressure from parents, and maybe the teachers would get more respect, maybe the teachers would be more worthy of respect. As it stands now, Libs of TikTok has proven that there are many teachers in US elementary schools dedicated to queering the kids. Anyway, if school was pay-as-you-go here, if a kid drops out, then, finished, done, drop out already. Or switch to something that the kid wants to learn, like computers, or cars or HVAC. Why waste their time with Liberal Arts if they aren't interested? Unless indoctrinating mindless corporate drones is the point? (And I used drone intentionally, besides being workers, they can also be sexless.)
Thanks Linh, great read. Those plastic chairs seem to be a favorite of kids whose parents can't really afford manufactured toys. They can indeed do alot of things.
Orwell was actually born to the elite, so I assume he must have been given to coprophelia to have written such things. On the other hand, all the ritual abuses British elite afflict on their children through boarding school education, perhaps he was telling the truth.
"Orwell is always sold as gritty and on-theground, willing to get his hands dirty with the common folk. But if we study his bio, we again find he is from vast pools of wealth. His real name was Eric Blair, and on his father's side the Blairs were descended from the Earl of Westmoreland. So he was an aristocrat on his father's side. But his mother's side is more hidden. Even greater wealth came from that side, since she was a Limouzin, rich French timber merchants in Burma. Francis Mathew Limouzin was a millionaire many times over. We are told Orwell's family had slipped into poverty, but that is a myth. The Blair side had slipped a bit, though not into poverty. But the Limouzin side was still very wealthy. His childhood friend from next door was Jacintha Buddicom, and she married a peer. So they had to have been in a very posh neighborhood. She was related to billionaire industrialist William Buddicom, who manufactured locomotives for England and France. Interestingly, he was caught up in the revolutions of 1848, when workers tried to burn his holdings in Rouen." http://mileswmathis.com/chom.pdf
Cambodians truly are the most stunningly gorgeous of all people. I tried blood once, it wasn't bad. I made it a practice to eat anything offered to me by my gracious hosts without question. When you don't have any idea what it is, it usually tastes just fine. Our aversion to strange foods is obviously mental.
Lihn, if the bankers and warlords get their wish, there will be war with China soon, which will involve all of Asia. But let's hope not. In Western Europe, people are too old for war. But governments keep pushing for it nevertheless.