TIME MAGAZINE and also a PREDICTION FOR 2008

First of all everybody and I mean EVERYBODY should go and find a copy of Time Magazine's June 27, 2005 issue and read every article in there about China. It's fucking BRILLIANT. They did an excellent job covering a lot of different angles of a difficult and contradictory country. And most important for the world is that Americans educate themselves about China. They really are going to be our new rival if they play their cards right (which I don't think they will but...uh..see below).

Yeah SO GO AND READ IT.

Also



Something we we're talking about yesterday:

In China any time anybody wants to go somewhere, they can't. They're too many people! Also there are scalpers that go in and buy up a shit ton of train tickets so when a visitor (like me) goes to get a ticket somewhere, the train office is mysteriously out of any tickets and one ends up trapped in a city. Now, how is a visitor (like me) supposed to find a Chinese black market scalper and avoid the Chinese police and eventually somehow get where I need to be going? Well, sure it's possible. But it's highly improbable and just a real pain in the ass.

This problem is not going to go away.

In 2008 this problem will still be here.

That is only three years away.

Three.

So in three years China is going to have to completely revamp and expand it's transportation systems or loose face to the entire world when Olympic tourists try to become China tourists and venture anywhere beyond Beijing and Qing Dao. Hell even getting from Beijing to Qing Dao is going to be a complete nightmare. And into the interor to see cultural China places? Save up your pennies cuz your gonna have to buy an overpriced third class plane ticket and good luck even getting that.

Also....

THE SMOG

Beijing (and Wuhan) makes LA look like a sparkling example of air quality control.

How are people supposed to RUN in that fucking chemical soup that they call air? The olympians might as well light up a big cigar while they crawl around the tracks.

So my prediction:

The 2008 Olympics are going to be a complete embarrassment for China. Everything is going to be completely fucked up and then the government will try to cover it up with lies, propaganda, censorship, et cetera which will only cause the world media to be even more pissed off. The roaring Chinese economy will fizzle as foreign investors, scared off by the Olympics disaster, put their money into other countries. They'll probably even come up with a catchy name for the fear and retreat of investors like "I don't know Mike, I got a bad case of the Chinalympics about this deal." or Headlines like "JINTAO JITTERS CAUSE WALMART STOCK TO PLUMMET" or something.

Yeah, I hope I'm totally wrong though.