ELIZABETH | 2006-06-01
P.J. O'Rourke commented in one of his books that, if the U.S. was ever in
real trouble with our food supply, we'd be growing crops on the green spaces between
airport runways.
Our crops are pretty well dispersed, except, of course, for citrus (California,
Florida, Texas).
A lot of the canned vegetables, for instance, come from the South. Get off the
interstate sometime and look around. Also, you can find good stuff at produce
stands, usually for far less than in the grocery stores, even if it comes
from out of state. (The produce stand folks don't have the grocery stores'
overhead, even if they have to make a 50 or 100 mile trip a couple of times
a week or so to the state or area farmers' market.)
Comment by Elizabeth
MY REPLY:
Good old PJ, the bourbon man!
What is important here is that it refers back to my basic point about Orientals. They have a natural talent for being organized like ants do. But they lack something basic.
If you blast out a part of the American economy different groups of us will build others. There is no center, no Queen Bee.
Chinese history is either national tyrants or warlords. You destroy their paddies and they will have to go back and spend decades or centuries planning and buiilding a substitute.
And the paddies were an INDIAN invention.
I am one of the few whites who can tell most of the time whether a person is Japanesse, Korean or Chinese. I do better with that I do at spotting white nationalities. But I can't tell yo HOW I do it.
I busted a gut trying to explain how Oriental desires on a power level are just different from ours.
I just don't have the ENERGY to do it again.
But you and PJ hit a critical point.
Whites woud grow food and go ahead. A Chinese population grouped around a tiny piece of paddy land never even conquered its OWN highlands.
Chinese never even mentioned conqueting the world. They WERE the Central Kingdom, to which all foreign rulers ALREADY owed fealty and kowtowing. But they never had a Norman Experience of going out and conquering other worlds.
You deal witht he Chinese on the basis of what THEY want, not as if they were just like us with epicanthric folds on their eyes.
China refers to Chinese in other countries as "Chinese living abroad." This is not just a figure of speech. This is a world view.
They are considered mysterious because they genuinely do not look at the world he way we do, and we have always been convinced that everybody was, at heart, a good little Baptist or Catholic or Libertarian at heart.
They are CHINESE. And until you get that point you are being ridiculous.
Even their Communism is a return to the old Chinese peasant-emperor. It drives Western Marxists nuts.
For at least a thousand years, the vast population of China was going to overrun everybody.
They kept getting overrun.
Could anybody look at the random stuff I just I just wrote above and look at how SILLY the standard view of China is?