High school battleground: the smarts, the street-smarts, the cruelty and the ennui

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Tuesday June 21, 2011 · 11:15 PM PDT

2011/06/21 · 23:15

In my other life in another country, I've heard a phrase when I was very young which made me wonder about its veracity for the next 40+ years. At that time, we very much admired the Japanese and considered them the model we should emulate to make our lives better. It was commonly said among us that "Individually, we were just as smart as the Japanese. The problem is, together, they are united and we are not."

Is that really true ? Could we really get much better just by uniting together ? Uniting to do what ? What can someone say or do that makes everybody else agree ? Other than a war for the sake of survival as a country, it's hard for everybody to agree on anything. And the few things that the vast majority of the populace agree on, like there should be no corruption, are almost never practiced, even among those who regularly and honestly criticize corruption.

So what's the real problem ? What makes us destroy each others and, therefore, cannot get ahead ?

CalvinV

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Sunday February 27, 2011 · 2:13 PM PST

2011/02/27 · 14:13

From an email I received today while discussing income inequality and the need for unions

"We should be more compassionate but should beggars dictate the terms ?"

I suppose that's the gist of the "compassionate conservatism" world order where a group of rich overlords decide which one of the beggars they should take a little pity on and toss them some underpaid jobs so they can live on as virtual slaves with no future.

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Thursday May 24, 2007 · 9:59 PM PDT

2007/05/24 · 21:59

We all know what happened in 2003. We would not allow a two-bit dictator such as Saddam Hussein to defy the UN order to allow the weapon inspectors unfettered inspection of any places at any time in Iraq for WMDs, including in his palatial hiding. The vast majority of Americans were firmly behind the president (the title he was called then and not Bush, or just Stubborn Stupid Liar). Even some of my intelligent friends said that the UN had no teeth and so it was all up to the US to do something against this threat ...

It was an internationally-broadcasted confrontation between the righteous and mighty US vs the murderous Saddam (with mushroom cloud potential as The Presidente warned us). We just could not back down and lose our faces and so the war proceeded and we emerged victorious just as planned. Or did we ?

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Tuesday February 28, 2006 · 1:31 PM PST

2006/02/28 · 13:31

This is intended to be a humorous diary entry for the day. I wonder if this is a trick from the Indian government since everybody knows that people often compare Bush facial expressions to that of a chimpanzee. Now, the only proof we need is that they will talk to each others on global policies.

This is from CBS news:

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