With summer coming, the pandemic is moving in different directions, a tale of two pandemics between the developed world and the developing one.
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Year of the Ox, Day 75. In a post-truth world, how can we relate to each other, when we suffer from a lack of trust?
“Yesterday I left home to get some groceries,” says a Revel Alliance member named Emily, in our chat, looking to share a horrible experience. We were there for her, as we always are for each other. It’s why I made the group. “I went to the Kowloon Market in my[…]
“These are the characteristics of the rational soul: self-awareness, self-examination, and self-determination. It reaps its own harvest.. . . It succeeds in its own purpose . . .” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations CPAC and republican America is embracing nazi fascism symbology and ideology as they cling to Trump’s weathered pantlegs—[…]
“All cruelty springs from weakness”, Seneca says. It’s been a tough year to champion China’s COVID response because Netizens have been bombarded with endless negative propaganda, often from conservative, far-right corners funded by the military-industrial complex. They say favourability levels are at all century low in the West, a country[…]
I’m finishing a book, walking around the buffet, but everyone’s waiting in lines, and I’ve got this empty plate … I just don’t feel the need for anything because I have enough already. “I’m hungry,” Shaolin says and finds the live shrimp tank with a weave basket in her hand.[…]
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. -Epictetus Many parts of the planet saw unusually cold weather this week. Folks were ice skating on Amsterdam canals, and skiing down Moscow streets. Students at the University of Damascus in Syria got a snow day that canceled[…]
Somewhere in the vast darkness known as the great silence was a most remarkable thing. Although they were quite an arduous, wasteful, and inefficient lot, there was a conglomeration of atoms contemplating other atoms. At one particularly trying point in space-time and having filled the bath with steaming water, I[…]
Day 352: As the year of the Rat winds down, many changes are afoot, and many opportunities await us if we meet the year of the Ox with hard work and methodology.
Day 343: Kai looks back at 2020, and a life well lived.