Replying to @NatGeo salute or no salute #species. least we can do for habitats we've taken. always good to see we can still do it https://t.co/amm5e9VdUs
I think Prince Albert came before the triumph of the shop-owners and had as much if not more to do with it as urbanisation. Urbanization scaled it. As so often, history narrows to today's tags. https://t.co/mLy5A7vNsY
maps always good but Forbes still on the pure economic story. Belt and Road part of much bigger idea than supply chains. that bigger picture is story told in last chapter of Becoming China. https://t.co/50SOSYSHsM
quick question tht might need longer answer: where will the alternative come from? if voting was abt opinion, mny things we can/should vote against. bt voting usually applied to a choice of things to vote for. sequencing sure, bt random seq'ing cld easily deliver other tyrannies. https://t.co/zHy5BpBRE6
Quick recap for Remainers. We didn't vote against the EU to change the colour of our passports. We voted against it because it is deeply illiberal, undemocratic institution that has inflicted hardship and technocratic tyranny everywhere from Greece to Ireland to Britain. OK?
reconciling the individual and the collective, as important as balancing the settled and the wild worlds. Fujian's hakka found an answer in architecture. https://t.co/X6BRCO9Z5L
A tulou is a round, earthen structure built centuries ago in eastern China, and NGOs hope restoring such fort-like buildings will rejuvenate rural culture #YearInReview https://t.co/wo7jPDGMzr
education as commodity always unlikely 2 succeed. hunger & culture always key; West lost hunger long ago & in world of 1 bn echo chambers, culture now politically incorrect. See Dharampal's The Beautiful Tree. 18th c. now open source. if any prescribed reading should b this https://t.co/rTP0dbSxrj
STATISTICS OF THE YEAR:
Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Being hit by a bus 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737
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the settled world was built on the wild world of ideas. as it chases greater objectivity, it is increasingly, and dangerously, forgetting its roots. https://t.co/w8bk3bvXiL
@kasparov63 What is 'America', what is anywhere ? old certainties, for what they were, are gone. present democracy unlikely to improve a promise that has hollowed out. time for reform. with what mechanisms ? west not used to the idea of reforming itself. https://t.co/Ty3ibFzTeb
Until Trump, I believed that official public spectacles of personal loyalty and nationalism that reminded me of the Stalinism were limited to dictatorships. https://t.co/gctNDnsfuk
社会 摇, the social shake, order in the wild world of society, including the 黑社会 black societies, that began as brotherhoods of men. https://t.co/m4ePE90er7
The "Social Shake" has become a cultural phenomenon. So, what exactly is this viral song that it is breaking the Chinese internet?
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languages r one of the 3 great global extinctions; details differ but whether led by top down minds or pressures on ground, cause is always push for uniformity; story of what happened in China is told in 'The Edges of Order' chapter of Becoming China https://t.co/lc56L41zHP
@UselessTree@JeremiahJenne@JKynge agreed. earliest land w mythical names instructive 2. 1911& immediate aftermath quite useful on pluralism & dynamism. agree centre/prov imp, bt think hard to separate from fabric of both past & present. less important for you. more for those who know much less; why I wrote book.
@UselessTree@JeremiahJenne@JKynge yes, but actually one then has to question what 'China' is; really only present geography since 19th century/late Qing. Timeframe certainly diff and size makes diff too, but battle of order same