May 08 2009
Fireflies in a Bottle II
Continuing the sentiment …
Taking notes from Yakima, WA. Beautiful full moon rising over the vast East Washington plain tonight. Reminded me of Ansel Adam’s famous photograph.
Notes:
Leading Democrats advocated financial market deregulation as late as 2007
From a yellowing page I saved from two years ago, on Feb 5, 2007 issue, James Surowiecki commented on a report released by Bloomberg and Schumer. The thesis? Too much regulation hurts America capital market. “The U.S. is losing its leading competitive position” because rules like Sax-O.
Also in the article: numbers to undermine the study and previous dooms day predictions to stall major reforms.
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The Dec. 8, 2008 issue has a profile on Naomi Klein
Summary: accused Milton Friedman of using turmoil and disasters to promote fundamental capitalism. Book “Shock Therapy”. Seems like a popular activist with little academic grounding.
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Stunning photograph: Chen Jiagang, The Great Third Front
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July 28, 2008 Profile on the Chinese PhD student who compiled a popular video after the Tibetan riot. First video of such. Neither artistic nor articulate, yet pretty full of anger (my impression)
Date: 4/25/2008, Name, CTGZ/Tang Jie. Fudan Western Philosophy PhD student, can read English and German. Used books to support his bed.
A typical Fen Qing netizen, except he’s imbused with exposure to Western thoughts. Also, his professor “rejoiced” over the video he produced.
A disconnection between experience and learning, possibly.