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estebanana
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RE: F*** the rich (in reply to aeolus)
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Like the Japanese and there insistence in continuing the un-needed practice of whaling, Asian attitudes toward wildlife and its preservation are trumped by deep cultural attitudes. I wonder if there is even one Asian group dedicated to species preservation. The Chinese have a different attitude abut conservation than the Japanese, and in China there are conservationally enlightend people working to change a lot of practices in handing wildlife management. The problem in China is that for decades and decades the governments problems were focused in population growth management and food production, wildlife took a back seat. But there are really smart scientists and activists in China who see the problems. Whaling is not so much a traditional ritual act that is engrained deep in Japanese culture as it is a small industry which is dying a slow and very internationally infamous death. In the past having enough food to eat in stock was a big deal and that still is in the consciousness of the older population, but younger people don't have the hoarding food mentality;whaling was one of the ways in the past the government could stock pile a large inexpensive protein supply. But the stocks lay uneaten and whale meat is not popular among youth, who also are more international citizens than those who are older. In Taiji on the Pacific side you may have heard there's a small mouthed cove they drive dolphins into and then net off the entry to the cove trapping the dolphin. They take the healthiest dolphins and the separate then and the slaughter the rest to sell for food. The separated dolphins are then put on the market to aquariums around the world to bid on as live capture specimens. Aquariums buy the dolphins trapped at Taiji for prices upwards of $125,000.00 dollars each larger marine mammals up to Orca will fetch prices up to two million dollars each. The problem is not hunting dolphins to eat because the Japanese are hungry for dolphin meat, which by the way is toxic because they are large apex preditors, the reason Taiji stays in business is because the sales of live dolphins supports the economy of a whole city. And the international community that patronizes aquariums with live dolphin exhibits area also blame alike for they are the ones who create the demand for live dolphin shows. The West is culpable in the dolphin entertainment industry because European and US companies that run for profit aquarium amusement parks are the cultural institutions which train children to accept the keeping on dolphins and other large marine mammals in swimming pool sized tanks. South of Taiji there's another city that holds the waters off it's coast as a dolphin sanctuary area. This sanctuary was set up through the cooperation of local prefectural government and a citizens conservation group working together. Tokyo bay was at one point so polluted that the fish populations were dying off and toxic. The government enacted strict pollution control and fishing regulations and today Tokyo bay still supports a good fishing industry of clean fish. Compare that to the cleaning up of the Potomac River; the shad run died off, the crabs and seafood industry of the Potomac was ruined by heavy industry, at about the same time Tokyo bay was cleaned up so was the Potomac river. ___Akatune : Hope your guitar is still humming along and is not too raspsy! Hard to explain to those who have not lived in Asia how common attitudes towards Asia( a very big chunk of the planet) from Westerners are funny.
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Date Jun. 2 2014 0:19:17
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Ruphus
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RE: F*** the rich (in reply to estebanana)
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El Burro mentioned a very valuable point which is enabling solutions for local economies instead of enforcing secondary measures of pseudo PC like allowing mass fluctuation and destroying individual cultures. In some places environmentalists are gradually succeeding with conveying to the people how local wild-life is being their own future capital ( tourism / states support for preservation / compensation for preyed cattle etc.). However, the main destructive point, of which all the other malaise spring off, is the arrogation of labour value. This is what allows irrational margins of profiteering and amassement of buying power which again is the foundation of societal insanity and perversion. Working men´s inalienable right on his labours value is the first human right. It must be inserted in all constitutions. A second societal statute for an authentic democracy, which after the above though should end up self-fulfilling, would be a limitation of income discrepancy. The lowest and highest income must be set into rationally related to effort / traceable proportion. Like say 1:6 or at most maybe 1:10. This would render disconnection of effort and income impossible. And it would prevent excessive accumulation of possession and depriving of fellow men and environment / leave air to breath. You would not have to wonder what the super rich are cynically doing with values they squeezed off their surrounding, and property would spread among people in reasonable ways. You would have noone eating tiger penisses, neither anyone eating dog poo. And we have been prevented from understanding how average living standard would be looking like if excessive possession occupied by the oligarchs and entourage was released to the worlds community. - Very humble truisms need to be understood by a menkind now brainwashed in kingdoms and disconnected from reason since 5 millenia. Truisms like that we have to share a planet. That elite and social gap is being a construct / that every human with birth has equal right to feed from earth. And that fellow creature just as much has a right on its habitat and on its untouched being. - Allow expropriation of labour surplus value to be perceived in the first place, then to be banished, and see menkind, mentality and ( what be retrievable still of) nature recover in a rapid way you would had not dared dreaming of in your wildest dreams. However, in place of such an awakening we are already facing the turbo version of excessiveness and insanity. I think that point needs at least a dedicated post below. Ruphus
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Date Jun. 2 2014 10:02:53
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estebanana
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RE: F*** the rich (in reply to akatune)
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Esteban, Thanks for asking. The guitar is not too raspy. A bit raspy on the g-string when flat. But raspy on the g-string could add an exotic aire. The guitar sounds nice and has mellowed. People always compliment it. It's a charming guitar and it's played every day. It appears you have accustomed yourself to Japan and learned quite a bit of history. Maybe I was wrong and you will enjoy your time there. Yes, confronting the stereotypes is an interesting mind game. I use to develop questions to ask my Japanese acquaintances, ask everybody i could then tabulate the answers. Turns out they have some amusing stereotypes about us as well. Turns out we're all people! (except for the rich. ha ha ha ha) Akatune, Well now that I've been here 13 months we could have an interesting chat all about rural Japan. Since we both have the experience of living in a Japanese family in the outback. It's a funny place to see things from, and like you I have been seated a position to test and question the perception of stereotypes; You know what I'm saying to look at it backwards and forwards- it's oddest to me when the stereotype comes true, but then you realize that we are all people....barring the rich of the rich course, like Larry King, as we know he is a lizard. The Japanese people break my heart, but they also piss me off. The cohesiveness of some parts of the culture is just precious beyond explanation, the DMV on the other hand should be sent straight to a special hell with six headed dogs which bite your testicles until they rot off and then grow back again to be bitten off again. It sounds like the G string is giving you happy ending. Amen. I am pleased and hope to hear you play that guitar again someday. We'll catch up, I want to hear about your transition into your new career. Keep the Glock clean and change your strings every 30,000 miles.
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