https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_End_of_the_Tunnel
https://www.myvideo.net.tw/details/0/205366
Monday, June 15, 2020
Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (末次冰盛期)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum
末次冰盛期（Last Glacial Maximum，LGM），又譯「末次巔冰期」，是指末次冰期中氣候最為寒冷、冰川規模達到最大的時期，距今約2.65至1.9～2萬年。在這一時期，末次冰期達到極盛，北歐大部、北美北部以及北亞的一部分均被大陸冰蓋覆蓋。
Soon after 20,000 BC global warming began. Initially this was rather slow and uneven - many small ups and downs of temperature and rainfall.
By 15,000 BC the great ice sheets had begun to melt; by 12,000 BC the climate had started to fluctuate, with dramatic surges of warmth and rain followed by sudden returns to cold and drought.
Soon after 10,000 BC there was an astonishing spurt of global warming that brought the ice age to its close and ushered in the Holocene world, that in which we live today. (After The Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC, Steven Mithen, 2003, p. 20)
末次冰盛期（Last Glacial Maximum，LGM），又譯「末次巔冰期」，是指末次冰期中氣候最為寒冷、冰川規模達到最大的時期，距今約2.65至1.9～2萬年。在這一時期，末次冰期達到極盛，北歐大部、北美北部以及北亞的一部分均被大陸冰蓋覆蓋。
Soon after 20,000 BC global warming began. Initially this was rather slow and uneven - many small ups and downs of temperature and rainfall.
By 15,000 BC the great ice sheets had begun to melt; by 12,000 BC the climate had started to fluctuate, with dramatic surges of warmth and rain followed by sudden returns to cold and drought.
Soon after 10,000 BC there was an astonishing spurt of global warming that brought the ice age to its close and ushered in the Holocene world, that in which we live today. (After The Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC, Steven Mithen, 2003, p. 20)
prehistory (史前史) (Daseinsanalysis)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools c. 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems. The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared c. 5,300 years ago and it took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted.
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools c. 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems. The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared c. 5,300 years ago and it took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted.
The Pessimist's Guide to History 3e: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres, and Mayhem—from 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007 (Doris Flexner, Stuart Berg Flexner, HarperCollins, 2008)
The classic irreverent look at the past—now updated with even more appalling facts!
Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded—and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hundreds of devastating epidemics; for every benevolent despot, a thousand like Vlad the Impaler; for every cup half-full, a larger cup half-empty. This enthralling, enlightening, and devilishly entertaining chronicle of disasters and dastardly deeds brings to light the darkest events in history and the most abysmal calamities to strike the planet . . . so far.
88 BC: Mithridates VI Eupator provides an early example of genocide by massacring 100,000 Romans.
1347: Saint Vitus' Dance Epidemic shimmies across Europe like a deadly disco fever, leaving its victims twitching, uncontrollably leaping, and foaming at the mouth.
1888: Jack the Ripper stalks through the dark alleys of Whitechapel, England, turning the world's oldest profession into the world's most dangerous one.
1939: A Swiss chemist wins a Nobel Prize for developing DDT—and the environment gets another nail in the coffin.
2005: Hurricane Katrina devastates the Gulf Coast. In a classic double whammy, the government response also devastates the Gulf Coast.
And much, much more! (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions (Peter Brannen, Ecco, 2017)
One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the Decade
New York Times Editors' Choice 2017
Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017
As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future
Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth’s past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future.
Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five extinctions. Using the visible clues these devastations have left behind in the fossil record, The Ends of the World takes us inside “scenes of the crime,” from South Africa to the New York Palisades, to tell the story of each extinction. Brannen examines the fossil record—which is rife with creatures like dragonflies the size of sea gulls and guillotine-mouthed fish—and introduces us to the researchers on the front lines who, using the forensic tools of modern science, are piecing together what really happened at the crime scenes of the Earth’s biggest whodunits.
Part road trip, part history, and part cautionary tale, The Ends of the World takes us on a tour of the ways that our planet has clawed itself back from the grave, and casts our future in a completely new light. (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals (Ross D E MacPhee (Author), Peter Schouten (Illustrator), W. W. Norton & Company, 2018)
The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth.
Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller―including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more―roamed the earth. These great beasts, or “megafauna,” lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone.
What caused the disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths? No one event can be pinpointed as a specific cause, but several factors may have played a role. Paleomammalogist Ross D. E. MacPhee explores them all, examining the leading extinction theories, weighing the evidence, and presenting his own conclusions. He shows how theories of human overhunting and catastrophic climate change fail to account for critical features of these extinctions, and how new thinking is needed to elucidate these mysterious losses.
Along the way, we learn how time is determined in earth history; how DNA is used to explain the genomics and phylogenetic history of megafauna―and how synthetic biology and genetic engineering may be able to reintroduce these giants of the past. Until then, gorgeous four-color illustrations by Peter Schouten re-create these megabeasts here in vivid detail.
78 color illustrations (amazon)
Humans at the End of the Ice Age: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene―Holocene Transition (ed. Lawrence Guy Straus, et al., Springer, 1996)
Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts. (amazon)
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000–5000 BC (Steven Mithen, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)
20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction.
But these people live on the brink of seismic change--10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. After the Ice is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself.
Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, human genetics, and environmental science, After the Ice takes the reader on a sweeping tour of 15,000 years of human history. Steven Mithen brings this world to life through the eyes of an imaginary modern traveler--John Lubbock, namesake of the great Victorian polymath and author of Prehistoric Times. With Lubbock, readers visit and observe communities and landscapes, experiencing prehistoric life--from aboriginal hunting parties in Tasmania, to the corralling of wild sheep in the central Sahara, to the efforts of the Guila Naquitz people in Oaxaca to combat drought with agricultural innovations.
Part history, part science, part time travel, After the Ice offers an evocative and uniquely compelling portrayal of diverse cultures, lives, and landscapes that laid the foundations of the modern world. (amazon) (accessible via scribd)
不正常的人？台灣精神醫學與現代性的治理 (2018-7-15)
https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010792159
http://med2.cgu.edu.tw/files/14-1006-59792,r34-1.php?Lang=zh-tw
https://read.dukeupress.edu/easts/article-abstract/14/1/187/148626
https://www.academia.edu/43060267/Abnormal_People_Psychiatry_and_the_Governance_of_Modernity_in_Taiwan_Tsai_You-Yu_and_Chen_Jia-Shin_eds._?auto=download&email_work_card=download-paper
http://med2.cgu.edu.tw/files/14-1006-59792,r34-1.php?Lang=zh-tw
https://read.dukeupress.edu/easts/article-abstract/14/1/187/148626
https://www.academia.edu/43060267/Abnormal_People_Psychiatry_and_the_Governance_of_Modernity_in_Taiwan_Tsai_You-Yu_and_Chen_Jia-Shin_eds._?auto=download&email_work_card=download-paper
the last day (Daseinsanalysis)
陽光明媚落髮竟然失去文字
意思是說離開人類造作系統
跨過邊界去到另一個世界
life elsewhere非retreat亦非escape
為此過午將重返泉源
發現有其內在邏輯此邏輯
就是意外大於人為謀劃
有時緩慢到匪夷所思地步
有時狂亂到驚天動地地步
有時靜止不動到死寂地步
非到如是地步不足以重返
昨天J說在台北工作之年輕人
購一小套房需八九百萬
年輕夫妻家居房一千五百萬
稍微像樣再大幾坪兩千多萬
無價就是沒有辦法出價
比如說此刻窗前山林無價
陽光明媚無價
你現在可以理解落髮就是落草
就是落葉回到它該去的地方
最後一天
必須是視覺的
意思是說離開人類造作系統
跨過邊界去到另一個世界
life elsewhere非retreat亦非escape
為此過午將重返泉源
發現有其內在邏輯此邏輯
就是意外大於人為謀劃
有時緩慢到匪夷所思地步
有時狂亂到驚天動地地步
有時靜止不動到死寂地步
非到如是地步不足以重返
昨天J說在台北工作之年輕人
購一小套房需八九百萬
年輕夫妻家居房一千五百萬
稍微像樣再大幾坪兩千多萬
無價就是沒有辦法出價
比如說此刻窗前山林無價
陽光明媚無價
你現在可以理解落髮就是落草
就是落葉回到它該去的地方
最後一天
必須是視覺的
Sunday, June 14, 2020
War Dogs (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Phillips
Todd taught us, to hangover seriously, it must be three times
Phillips said in 2019, in the aftermath of his dark drama Joker release, that he had stopped making comedy films because of the backlash of "woke culture", saying: "Go try to be funny nowadays... There were articles written about why comedies don't work anymore— I'll tell you why, because all the fucking funny guys are like, 'Fuck this shit, because I don't want to offend you.' It's hard to argue with 30 million people on Twitter."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Phillips
Todd taught us, to hangover seriously, it must be three times
Phillips said in 2019, in the aftermath of his dark drama Joker release, that he had stopped making comedy films because of the backlash of "woke culture", saying: "Go try to be funny nowadays... There were articles written about why comedies don't work anymore— I'll tell you why, because all the fucking funny guys are like, 'Fuck this shit, because I don't want to offend you.' It's hard to argue with 30 million people on Twitter."
Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine
Prigogine is best known for his definition of dissipative structures and their role in thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium, a discovery that won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977. In summary, Ilya Prigogine discovered that importation and dissipation of energy into chemical systems could result in the emergence of new structures (hence dissipative structures) due to internal self reorganization.
see also
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00942.2007
Prigogine is best known for his definition of dissipative structures and their role in thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium, a discovery that won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977. In summary, Ilya Prigogine discovered that importation and dissipation of energy into chemical systems could result in the emergence of new structures (hence dissipative structures) due to internal self reorganization.
see also
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00942.2007
David Abram (b 1957)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Abram
In 1996 Abram coined the phrase "the more-than-human world" as a way of referring to earthly nature (introducing it in the subtitle of The Spell of the Sensuous and throughout the text of that book); the term was gradually adopted by other scholars, theorists, and activists, and has become a phrase within the lingua franca of the broad environmental movement.
In 1996 Abram coined the phrase "the more-than-human world" as a way of referring to earthly nature (introducing it in the subtitle of The Spell of the Sensuous and throughout the text of that book); the term was gradually adopted by other scholars, theorists, and activists, and has become a phrase within the lingua franca of the broad environmental movement.
Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction (Simon P. James, Polity, 2015) (Daseinsanalysis)
Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong to it? Which parts of it are we morally obliged to protect?
Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of sources, from virtue ethics to Buddhism, leading environmental philosopher Simon P. James sets out to answer these vitally important questions.
The book begins with a discussion of animal minds, before moving on to explore our moral relations with non-human organisms, ecosystems and the earth as a whole. James then considers environmental aesthetics, humanity's place in the natural world and the question of what it means to be wild. In the concluding chapter, he applies his findings to the topic of global climate change, building a strong moral case for urgent action.
This accessible, entertainingly written book will be essential reading for students of the environment across the humanities and social sciences. It will, moreover, be an ideal guide for anyone keen to deepen their understanding of environmental issues. (amazon) (kindle 2020-6-15)
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Brooks was here. So was Red. (2020-11-28 SP)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tPqU_bQJoEnFfek3hJPjfsbSTKnHfu2M/view?usp=sharing
Friday, June 12, 2020
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
桂林下雨，城市在水中
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaXt9NRHQc
https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugwl6bEbprhDFdlpNL94AaABCQ
希望水早日退去2011年四月訪桂林溯江赴陽朔帶回安太歲圖印象中劉三姐很誇張
https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugwl6bEbprhDFdlpNL94AaABCQ
希望水早日退去2011年四月訪桂林溯江赴陽朔帶回安太歲圖印象中劉三姐很誇張
Monday, June 8, 2020
游民文化與中國社會 (王學泰, 2007) (1942-2018)
https://www.books.com.tw/products/CN10102650
https://www.facebook.com/notes/likbor-ng/%E7%99%BC%E7%8F%BE%E5%8F%A6%E4%B8%80%E5%80%8B%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B-%E6%B8%B8%E6%B0%91%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E8%88%87%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E5%BA%8F/10156051451329615/
https://kknews.cc/zh-tw/culture/2vorg8r.html
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%A6%E6%B3%B0
https://www.facebook.com/notes/likbor-ng/%E7%99%BC%E7%8F%BE%E5%8F%A6%E4%B8%80%E5%80%8B%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B-%E6%B8%B8%E6%B0%91%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E8%88%87%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E5%BA%8F/10156051451329615/
https://kknews.cc/zh-tw/culture/2vorg8r.html
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%A6%E6%B3%B0
The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism (Hernando De Soto, Basic Books, 2002)
In this, his classic book on the informal economy of Peru and the reasons why poverty can be a breeding ground for terrorists, Hernando De Soto describes the forces that keep people dependent on underground economies: the bureaucratic barriers to legal property ownership and the lack of legal structures that recognize and encourage ownership of assets. It is exactly these forces, de Soto argues, that prevent houses, land, and machines from functioning as capital does in the West--as assets that can be leveraged to create more capital. Under the Fujimori government, de Soto's Institute for Liberty and Democracy wrote dozens of laws to promote property rights and bring people out of the informal economy and into the legitimate one. The result was not only an economic boon for Peru but also the defeat of the Shining Path, the terrorist movement and black-market force that was then threatening to take over the Peruvian government. In a new preface, de Soto relates his work to the present moment, making the connection between the Shining Path in the 1980's and the Taliban today. (amazon)
製毒投毒傳播全世界中共病毒疫情之完美超限戰行动之黑皮書
http://www.xinhuanet.com/2020-06/07/c_1126083631.htm
https://www.dw.com/zh/37%E4%B8%87%E5%AD%97%E8%87%AA%E6%88%91%E8%A1%A8%E6%89%AC-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%8F%91%E5%B8%83%E6%8A%97%E7%96%AB%E7%99%BD%E7%9A%AE%E4%B9%A6/a-53719412
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgxTZPN-tBkV3UEQV-R4AaABCQ
https://www.dw.com/zh/37%E4%B8%87%E5%AD%97%E8%87%AA%E6%88%91%E8%A1%A8%E6%89%AC-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%8F%91%E5%B8%83%E6%8A%97%E7%96%AB%E7%99%BD%E7%9A%AE%E4%B9%A6/a-53719412
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgxTZPN-tBkV3UEQV-R4AaABCQ
关于印发<中央和国家机关党员要作时间之外政治言行若干规定（试行）>的通知
https://www.secretchina.com/news/gb/2020/06/08/935791.html
https://ntdtv.com/gb/2020/06/07/a102865262.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsvIgCxcA0
老寶提到中南海南北院之爭有點像武俠小說南北派之爭禪宗發展過程中也有類似情節這點說明諾大中國從古至今基本上只能分兩派相爭符合封建宮廷內鬥的基本邏輯
這說明辯證的出發點只可能是二而中國歷史的悲劇在反覆從二又退回一始終都沒有蛻變為三
https://ntdtv.com/gb/2020/06/07/a102865262.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsvIgCxcA0
老寶提到中南海南北院之爭有點像武俠小說南北派之爭禪宗發展過程中也有類似情節這點說明諾大中國從古至今基本上只能分兩派相爭符合封建宮廷內鬥的基本邏輯
這說明辯證的出發點只可能是二而中國歷史的悲劇在反覆從二又退回一始終都沒有蛻變為三
这份中共内部文件共6页，题为《关于印发<中央和国家机关党员要作时间之外政治言行若干规定（试行）>的通知》。
该试行规定有一连串20个“不准”，包括在“任何场合”，包括一切私生活场合，不准说不同意见，特别是“不准发表偏离‘两个维护’”的言论，搞任何“低级红、高级黑”；不准点赞；不准浏览“反动网站”；不准“收听收看境外反动电台和电视节目”。
不准擅自接受媒体，特别是境外媒体采访；不准利用工作中掌握的资讯发布“内部”消息；不准以非工作时间为由不理睬群众诉求；不准组织、参加自发成立的同乡会、校友会、战友会等……
不准散布违背党的理论和路线方针政策的言论；不准妄议中央；不准制造、传播政治谣言及丑化党和国家形象的言论；不准拉帮结派、搞团团伙伙；不准搞两面派、做两面人等等。
这份文件发布的时间是2020年5月20日。发布文件的单位是中央和国家机关工委。翻查网络发现，中共发改委官网上，6月5日有转发要求学习这份同名文件，但没有披露内容。
15 Years a Nomad: My History of Living on Wheels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglum6cny70
https://www.facebook.com/cheaprvlivingdotcom/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAj7O3LCDbkIR54hAn6Zz7A
https://www.amazon.com/Live-RV-Debt-Travel-Freedom-ebook/dp/B008S129XY/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=bob+wells&qid=1591571664&s=books&sr=1-1
now, as usual, it all started from a divorce, and a failed life, in other words, you've got to be a loser, to lose yourself, to find yourself, for the first time, in your remaining life
Bob Wells was convincing, because he tried it twice (actually more than twice), like running the RCT trials twice, before FDA approves a new drug
but, i'm not sure why he has to refurnish this one, the old van must be beyond repair, in my point of view, that's the real pain in the ass for van lifers, that is, the van has to be maintained, like a house, otherwise you won't be able to move freely
i think the philosophy for van lifers should be return to life's basic needs, in a minimalistic way, but meantime, if you are an avid reader, or creative photographer, that would make your van life beyond boredom, like i said before, one should always have two trips, at the same time, in one journey, so that when shit happens, you can feel a little distance away from it, like it is someone else' business, we shall call this healthy dissociation, it has nothing to do with trauma, vertical split, or altered states of consciousness, memory, and identity
i sincerely cherish the off-grid freedom of van life, but, the over-joyful Bob leaves the money part out, or under-emphasizes it, which means, even if one keeps one's basic needs down, as possible, one still has to pay for the food and gas and van repair, to enjoy those starry wilderness nights
now, to own something, means to keep something in order, to prevent something from decay, that is biggest pain in the ass
is it possible not own anything, probably too extreme and thus unlikely, so our best shot is, to own as little as possible, and not feel obliged to keep it in order, and learn to live with it till decay
this something, can be your self, your body, your apartment, your house, or your van, of course
https://www.facebook.com/cheaprvlivingdotcom/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAj7O3LCDbkIR54hAn6Zz7A
https://www.amazon.com/Live-RV-Debt-Travel-Freedom-ebook/dp/B008S129XY/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=bob+wells&qid=1591571664&s=books&sr=1-1
now, as usual, it all started from a divorce, and a failed life, in other words, you've got to be a loser, to lose yourself, to find yourself, for the first time, in your remaining life
Bob Wells was convincing, because he tried it twice (actually more than twice), like running the RCT trials twice, before FDA approves a new drug
but, i'm not sure why he has to refurnish this one, the old van must be beyond repair, in my point of view, that's the real pain in the ass for van lifers, that is, the van has to be maintained, like a house, otherwise you won't be able to move freely
i think the philosophy for van lifers should be return to life's basic needs, in a minimalistic way, but meantime, if you are an avid reader, or creative photographer, that would make your van life beyond boredom, like i said before, one should always have two trips, at the same time, in one journey, so that when shit happens, you can feel a little distance away from it, like it is someone else' business, we shall call this healthy dissociation, it has nothing to do with trauma, vertical split, or altered states of consciousness, memory, and identity
i sincerely cherish the off-grid freedom of van life, but, the over-joyful Bob leaves the money part out, or under-emphasizes it, which means, even if one keeps one's basic needs down, as possible, one still has to pay for the food and gas and van repair, to enjoy those starry wilderness nights
now, to own something, means to keep something in order, to prevent something from decay, that is biggest pain in the ass
is it possible not own anything, probably too extreme and thus unlikely, so our best shot is, to own as little as possible, and not feel obliged to keep it in order, and learn to live with it till decay
this something, can be your self, your body, your apartment, your house, or your van, of course
Peter Navarro: China has exploited coronavirus pandemic to advance its strategic interests – here’s how (Fox News, 2020-6-7)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/peter-navarro-china-has-exploited-coronavirus-pandemic-to-advance-its-strategic-interests-heres-how
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The Chinese Communist Party has a long history of exploiting crises to advance its strategic hegemony. During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, for example, China invaded India while America and the Soviet Union were distracted. China’s war prize: the annexation of part of India’s Aksai Chin.
Today, behind the cloak of a pandemic the Chinese Communist Party itself created, we are witnessing similar kinds of strategic behavior as China seeks to advance its own agenda and Chinese propagandists seek to advance a pro-authoritarian government narrative.
Based on this behavior – including China’s attempt to snuff out democracy in Hong Kong – let’s consider whether COVID-19 might better stand for China On to Victory In Death by19 ways.
Here is a chronology beginning in late 2019:
In mid-November, new pneumonia cases from a novel coronavirus start appearing in Wuhan. While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) later suggests this outbreak started in a Wuhan wet market, two government laboratories in Wuhan handle exotic coronaviruses harvested from wild bats. In addition, China has had a coronavirus outbreak in at least one other lab in the past. Two Chinese scientists from the South China University of Technology identify the Wuhan Center for Disease Control as the possible source.
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On Dec. 30, Dr. Li Wenliang sends a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning of human-to-human transmission and community spread. He and seven other whistleblowers are detained by police and censured. Dr. Li later dies from the virus.
On Dec. 31, local Chinese officials bleach the Wuhan wet market. Doing this destroys the best possible evidence that could determine whether the wet market is the source of the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the virus samples gathered have yet to be shared with the world.
From early December through Jan. 20 this year, the CCP hides the virus from the world behind the shield of a puppet World Health Organization. China denies international experts and those from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention access to Wuhan to study the virus. On Jan. 14, the WHO tweets that “preliminary investigations conducted by Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” of the coronavirus.
On Jan. 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping issues demands to a CCP Politburo Standing Committee to “contain the outbreak.” Yet Xi allows Chinese diplomats to travel to the White House a week later to shake the hands of President Trump and his trade team. Only after the Phase I trade deal with the U.S. is signed on Jan. 15 does Xi reveal on Jan. 20 the “demon” virus the Chinese Communist Party has allowed to spread.
On Jan. 21, despite promising in the Jan. 15 trade deal not to steal American intellectual property, the Wuhan Institute of Virology – where the deadly virus may well have originated – applies for a patent on Remdesivir, a therapeutic developed by an American company. The clear objective: break the American patent.
By late January, the CCP locks down internal domestic travel but keeps international travel open until the end of March. While more than 5 million Chinese citizens flee Wuhan before its lockdown, hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens fly around the world spreading the virus, thereby turning what could have been a contained outbreak in Wuhan into a global pandemic.
On Jan. 31, President Trump makes a courageous decision. He suspends and limits the entry into the United States of foreign nationals who had been in People’s Republic of China within 14 days of their attempted entry into the United States. The CCP calls it an “overreaction.” A day later presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden calls Trump a “xenophobe.”
While hiding the China virus from the world, the CCP turns from a large net exporter of personal protective equipment (PPE) to a huge net importer. China’s PPE hoarding including over 2 billion coveted N-95 masks – helps create a deadly shortage among doctors and nurses from Milan to New York and beyond.
After the Wall Street Journal publishes an opinion piece (not a news article) on Feb. 3 criticizing the Chinese virus response, the CCP revokes the credentials of three Journal reporters based in Beijing on Feb. 19. A month later, it revokes the credentials of reporters from The New York Times and Washington Post and – in violation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law – extends the bans to reporting from Hong Kong.
In late January, Beijing officials prevent the Wuhan Institute of Virology from sharing sample isolates of the novel coronavirus with the University of Texas biocontainment lab. This overrules an initial agreement by the Wuhan lab to share these samples. The CCP installs People’s Liberation Army Maj. Gen. Chen Wei, the Chinese military’s top epidemiologist and virologist, into a senior position at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
As the CCP quells the outbreak in Wuhan, in part by barricading citizens into their own homes, it uses its vast stockpile of PPE to profiteer. Chinese enterprises hawk masks, gloves, gowns, and goggles at huge markups – even selling PPE at inflated prices back to countries like Italy that had originally provided the PPE.
To further profiteer, China begins to flood world markets – from Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands to Georgia, the Czech Republic and the United States – with defective test kits and PPE. Rather than fix the problems, the CCP blames “user error.”
On April 4, following a well-established playbook of capitalizing on international crises, a Chinese Coast Guard vessel sinks a Vietnamese fishing trawler. The CCP then adds 80 more islands, reefs and other sea features to further assert its false territorial claims in the South China Sea. The U.S. State Department warns the CCP to “stop exploiting the distraction or vulnerability of other states to expand its unlawful claims.”
On April 24, Europe bows to CCP pressure by whitewashing China’s culpability in a European Union report on disinformation campaigns about the virus. On April 30, in a demonstration of “Wolf Warrior” diplomacy that rejects any acknowledgment of blame, the CCP warns the Netherlands to change the name of its de facto embassy in Taiwan or face a halt in PPE and a Chinese boycott of Dutch products.
On April 29, a senior CCP official blames the Trump administration for “wasting weeks after the threat posed by the virus first became apparent.”
On May 13, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issue warnings that hackers with links to the CCP are attempting to steal the intellectual property of the American and other foreign companies seeking to develop a vaccine – this despite a CCP promise in the Phase I China trade deal to stop stealing America’s intellectual property.
On May 18, the CCP promises $2 billion over two years in assistance for the pandemic response globally. This is a fraction of the more than $9 billion in U.S. funding to benefit the global China virus response and less than China borrows from the World Bank. China has failed in its attempt to block 193 other member states from adopting a resolution that calls for an impartial, independent, comprehensive investigation into the WHO’s response and the origins of the virus. But the CCP has already begun to try and stall these important investigations.
On May 22, after subduing Hong Kong protesters with a lockdown and “under the cover of the virus,” the CCP moves in for the democracy kill with a new security law. This law will put Chinese security officials into the streets of Hong Kong, escalate surveillance of Hong Kong citizens, and impose a social credit score system designed to punish peaceful protests and dissent. This jackboot follows the April arrest of 81-year old Martin Lee, the founder of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party; news publisher Jimmy Lai; and more than 10 prominent pro-democracy leaders.
As we move forward in time, there will likely be many more political, economic and military gambits added by the CCP to exploit a pandemic that the CCP’s own bad behavior created.
The irony, of course, is that the CCP is now propagating the myth that the Chinese authoritarian rule provides a superior system of governance to the free and democratic rule of law. If public opinion polls are to be believed, however, nobody is buying what the CCP is selling.
We here in America surely are not buying it; and the CCP is hereby on notice that we are not distracted. We know exactly what the CCP is attempting to do.
4:35 AM (Daseinsanalysis)
順前段關於文明及其不滿
所以存有分析的存有或存有在世間
你必須理解為hunter-gatherer-scavenger在更新世 (pleistocene)
tribal-villager-farmer在全新世 (holocene)
megacity-multinational-corporational-frequent-flyer在人類世 (anthropocene)
你可以用生命與系統的關係來理解這三者
更新世基本上沒有完整的人為系統
因為當時人類頂多只有proto-language還沒有文字
當你說你的貓可以喵四百字那就是proto-language
全新世的後半近五千年人類終於有了文字
近兩千多年終於開始寫得出書
正常的書每本十萬字兩百頁
正常的作者一輩子寫過一本重要的書
然後接下來三十年順著寫其他二十本不重要的書
加起來一輩子總共寫了八百萬字
這兩千多年的圖書館大概可以讓google公司的收納歸檔者忙上一陣
好學的人文學者比如說歷史學家或哲學家一輩子瀏覽過六萬冊書
意思是說學海無涯的海其實不過是一個淤積兩千年的池塘
人類唯一擁有的池塘
好學者不過多飲了幾杯
近數百年乃至近數十年的變化是生命被越來越大越來越繁複的系統取代
你應該疑惑為甚麼人類歡喜雀躍這樣的變化
很多人說活在當今世界擁有無盡的可能真他媽的爽
但你要知道那是無盡的垃圾堆
我們當今的存有的命運就是在這無盡的垃圾堆拾荒乃至被當成垃圾丟棄
我先前說過九年來我有幸窗口一片山丘
九年來這片山丘被開發整理成公園步道
山丘已經不是山丘自然已經不是自然
如今我將離開這個窗口這片山丘
尋訪另一片蒼青注意不是另一個部落村莊
這算不算hnnter-gatherer-scavenger在人類世
在文字的世界裡如果你畢竟不當真那就是善
在文字的世界裡如果你當真過度以至認為擁有唯一的真那就是惡
唯一的真就是意識形態就是基本教義就是中國特色社會主義
我在山林等著覺醒的中國友人來訪
所以存有分析的存有或存有在世間
你必須理解為hunter-gatherer-scavenger在更新世 (pleistocene)
tribal-villager-farmer在全新世 (holocene)
megacity-multinational-corporational-frequent-flyer在人類世 (anthropocene)
你可以用生命與系統的關係來理解這三者
更新世基本上沒有完整的人為系統
因為當時人類頂多只有proto-language還沒有文字
當你說你的貓可以喵四百字那就是proto-language
全新世的後半近五千年人類終於有了文字
近兩千多年終於開始寫得出書
正常的書每本十萬字兩百頁
正常的作者一輩子寫過一本重要的書
然後接下來三十年順著寫其他二十本不重要的書
加起來一輩子總共寫了八百萬字
這兩千多年的圖書館大概可以讓google公司的收納歸檔者忙上一陣
好學的人文學者比如說歷史學家或哲學家一輩子瀏覽過六萬冊書
意思是說學海無涯的海其實不過是一個淤積兩千年的池塘
人類唯一擁有的池塘
好學者不過多飲了幾杯
近數百年乃至近數十年的變化是生命被越來越大越來越繁複的系統取代
你應該疑惑為甚麼人類歡喜雀躍這樣的變化
很多人說活在當今世界擁有無盡的可能真他媽的爽
但你要知道那是無盡的垃圾堆
我們當今的存有的命運就是在這無盡的垃圾堆拾荒乃至被當成垃圾丟棄
我先前說過九年來我有幸窗口一片山丘
九年來這片山丘被開發整理成公園步道
山丘已經不是山丘自然已經不是自然
如今我將離開這個窗口這片山丘
尋訪另一片蒼青注意不是另一個部落村莊
這算不算hnnter-gatherer-scavenger在人類世
在文字的世界裡如果你畢竟不當真那就是善
在文字的世界裡如果你當真過度以至認為擁有唯一的真那就是惡
唯一的真就是意識形態就是基本教義就是中國特色社會主義
我在山林等著覺醒的中國友人來訪
Sunday, June 7, 2020
彭氏兄弟
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BD%AD%E6%B0%8F%E5%85%84%E5%BC%9F
其中彭順喜歡泰國取景這點有可能有趣如果能透露出跨文化的意涵但老彭應該做不˙到
其中彭順喜歡泰國取景這點有可能有趣如果能透露出跨文化的意涵但老彭應該做不˙到
文明及其不滿 (Daseinsanalysis)
起因不是佛洛伊德 (Civilization and Its Discontents,1930)
Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (The Uneasiness in Civilization)
佛洛伊德只是不適沒有不滿
起因是回到自然
自然就會遇見Chad和Chrome的Van Life
自然就會遇見生態心理學生態心理治療
看多了山川湖泊冰天雪地的Bushcraft camping
自然就會遇見狼嗥
自然就會遇見演化
這幾個遇見明顯
是有其內在邏輯的遇見
然後就會想起文明的代價
你所見病理
包括精神病理
就是代價
所以這是不滿不是不適
不適是不舒適不適應的意思
我沒有不舒適不適應我是不滿
不舒適不適應是有點自責自己做不成趙家人
分到一杯羹就乖乖閉嘴的意思
不滿是他媽的不願不從再這麼被搞下去的意思
回到自然是Phylogeny不是Ontogeny
雖然Ontogeny中隱含著被遺忘的Phylogeny
回到這個被遺忘的Phylogeny就是回到自然
文明和文化的差別是
前者制約了後者
意思是說前者決定了框架
後者只是在這個框架裡塗抹
我要拋棄的就是那個框架
當然連帶也必拋棄那些塗抹
這兩個拋棄的後果是甚麼
當然是遇見無語
浩瀚星空蒼茫大地
這是我說的回到自然
Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (The Uneasiness in Civilization)
佛洛伊德只是不適沒有不滿
起因是回到自然
自然就會遇見Chad和Chrome的Van Life
自然就會遇見生態心理學生態心理治療
看多了山川湖泊冰天雪地的Bushcraft camping
自然就會遇見狼嗥
自然就會遇見演化
這幾個遇見明顯
是有其內在邏輯的遇見
然後就會想起文明的代價
你所見病理
包括精神病理
就是代價
所以這是不滿不是不適
不適是不舒適不適應的意思
我沒有不舒適不適應我是不滿
不舒適不適應是有點自責自己做不成趙家人
分到一杯羹就乖乖閉嘴的意思
不滿是他媽的不願不從再這麼被搞下去的意思
回到自然是Phylogeny不是Ontogeny
雖然Ontogeny中隱含著被遺忘的Phylogeny
回到這個被遺忘的Phylogeny就是回到自然
文明和文化的差別是
前者制約了後者
意思是說前者決定了框架
後者只是在這個框架裡塗抹
我要拋棄的就是那個框架
當然連帶也必拋棄那些塗抹
這兩個拋棄的後果是甚麼
當然是遇見無語
浩瀚星空蒼茫大地
這是我說的回到自然
Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine: The Origins of Psychopathology 2nd Edition (Martin Brune, Oxford University Press, 2015)
Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine are concerned with medical conditions affecting brain, mind and behaviour in manifold ways. Traditional approaches have focused on a restricted array of potential causes of psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions - including adverse experiences such as trauma, neglect or abuse, genetic vulnerability and epigenetic regulation of gene expression. Whilst essential for the understanding of mental disorders, these approaches have disregarded important questions such as why the human mind is vulnerable to dysfunction at all.
The Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine updates and expands on the original Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry (OUP, 2008) to provide answers to these questions by emphasising an evolutionary perspective on psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions. It explains how the human brain/mind has been shaped by natural and sexual selection; why adaptations to environmental conditions in our evolutionary past may nowadays work in suboptimal ways; and how human cognition, emotions, and behaviour can be scientifically framed to improve our understanding of how people try to attain important biosocial goals pertaining to one's status in society, mating, eliciting and providing care, and maintaining rewarding relationships.
The evolutionary topics relevant to the understanding of psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions include the concepts of genetic plasticity, life history theory, stress regulation and immunological aspects. In addition, it is argued that an evolutionary framework is also necessary to understand how psychotherapy and psychopharmacology work to improve the lives of patients with psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders.
The Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine is a valuable text for all students of Psychology, Medicine, and Psychotherapy who seek an understanding of the evolutionary issues surrounding health and disease. (amazon)
The Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine updates and expands on the original Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry (OUP, 2008) to provide answers to these questions by emphasising an evolutionary perspective on psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions. It explains how the human brain/mind has been shaped by natural and sexual selection; why adaptations to environmental conditions in our evolutionary past may nowadays work in suboptimal ways; and how human cognition, emotions, and behaviour can be scientifically framed to improve our understanding of how people try to attain important biosocial goals pertaining to one's status in society, mating, eliciting and providing care, and maintaining rewarding relationships.
The evolutionary topics relevant to the understanding of psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions include the concepts of genetic plasticity, life history theory, stress regulation and immunological aspects. In addition, it is argued that an evolutionary framework is also necessary to understand how psychotherapy and psychopharmacology work to improve the lives of patients with psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders.
The Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine is a valuable text for all students of Psychology, Medicine, and Psychotherapy who seek an understanding of the evolutionary issues surrounding health and disease. (amazon)
Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning 2nd Edition (Anthony Stevens, John Price, Routledge, 2014)
Challenging a medical model which has supplied few effective answers to long-standing conundrums, Evolutionary Psychiatry proposes a new conceptual framework for psychiatry based on Darwinian theory.
Anthony Stevens and John Price argue that psychiatric symptoms are manifestations of ancient adaptive strategies which are no longer necessarily appropriate but which can best be understood and treated in an evolutionary and developmental context. They propose theories to account for the widespread existence of affective disorders, borderline states and schizophrenia, as well as offering solutions for puzzles such as sadomasochism and the function of dreams.
This comprehensive introduction to the new science of Darwinian Psychiatry is readily accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader. It describes in detail the disorders and conditions commonly encountered in psychiatric practice and show how evolutionary theory can account for their biological origins and functional nature. (amazon) (kindle 2017-7-7)
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