Verandas used to mean something. Sit outside, greet whoever passes, let the breeze do its work before you even step inside.
Now we go straight from gate to living room, AC on before the door shuts. We didn't lose the space. We just stopped using it right.
I know Dave Chappelle is already writing Azealia Banks material for his next special. โShe said I cheated on my wife. I was furious. Everyone asked me โDave, is it true? Did you do it?โ And I was gonna deny it. But she also said I have good dick. Fellas, itโs a tough one...โ ๐
Meanwhile on Chinese TV, they're explaining why America's economics Nobel Prizes don't add up to anything.
Zhang Weiwei: every country that modernized needed a first pot of gold -- the starting capital that gets an economy growing.
"The West got theirs through violence, war, the slave trade. Ruthless plunder, ruthless slaughter."
China earned its own -- "through its own effort and sacrifice."
US-trained economist Wen Yi adds the punchline: Western models literally can't explain where that starting capital comes from. "Economics assumes it's given -- by God."
Which is why copying the Western model was never on offer for the Global South:
"Tell developing nations to copy you -- no pot of gold!"