cognitivedissonance - 2014-02-24
The fun thing about "Journey to the West" week is that it coincides with me actually reading it irl, and it feels like I'm getting synchronicity messages from the cosmos.
I found the complete four volume set at a local used bookstore. I'm halfway through the second volume. It amazes me how wicked funny it is, the various bureaucratic deities. It makes me wonder if China has just always been as corrupt as it has apparently been for over a thousand years. Then it makes me wonder of there is any true novelty in world politics, and then I start thinking about whether or not democracy is even a natural state and I get cosmically depressed.
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