I’m not one for politics. I detest it actually, it makes me more emotional than almost anything else. I’m so easily roused by anger when I read about prejudices, dirty tricks, unjustified behaviour, corruption. Everything that is humanely destructive but equally bracketed into the flawed mortality of individuals I’m entrusting my country with.
But don’t you think we should have a choice? A two-party system so we have the ability to choose if the government is corrupt? Isn’t that what democracy is all about? Not being shushed or silenced because ‘they have done so much things for us’. Yes, they have done things for us, but they’re our government. It’s, I’m sorry to be blunt, their job.
”A Malaysian voter writes in the run up to the polls.
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“One child is holding something that’s been banned in America to protect them. Guess which one?”
Such a sad statement of American society
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Great discussion of the need for “pasar” approaches. Not the all or nothing of the cathedral - not the perfection of the studied, but the hybridity and fluidity of acceptance and understanding.
Really would enjoy more of this speaker.
Syed Khairudin: Death of cosmopolitanism (by malaysiakini)
Really love #Shinola belief in the #human element in production. Looking forward to July when I get one on my skinny litte wrist.
Beijing. Air quality. 9 AM Monday 28 January. A colleague just posted this on FB.
Absolutely petrifying…
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Asymptote’s January 2013 issue is now out, with stunning artwork by Michela Caputo!
This is our second anniversary and we’re celebrating it in style. This new issue features an excerpt from the 2012 Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Toh EnJoe, an interview with Edmund White, fiction by Amélie Nothomb, poetry by Aleš Debeljak, drama from Belarus and more! Remember to check out our Indiegogo fundraiser too.
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Plane reading.
Such a beautiful song and voice….
The desire to learn a language always begins with a song and a voice like this….