Louisiana Earthling Not Afraid Hu Jintao

Everybody's talking about China.  I attempt to watch tv like Washington Week with Gwen, the moderator. I watch, but precious little sinks in. I realize I am 40 but has my brain shrunk that much? Maybe so because I am really not concerned about the Chinese taking over. They don't need to take over, they already have us right where they want us. And we have them convinced we have them where we want the Chinese also. Exactly how all that works I am not sure.  But I think it beats the other options which all seemed to revolve around "peace the old-fashioned way" like I see on so many bumper stickers with the outline of a B52 in the background.  If I had any sort of brain left in my fractured sense of reality I would be trying to figure out how the Chinese doubled their economic output in 10 years.

In a way China may be like a flower blooming if you can appreciate capitalist ideas and the way they are connected to human motivation and psychology.  (What did I just say?)  I don't claim to understand world politics to that degree.  It falls under the heading of complexity theory -- a beautiful idea whose time my yet be on the horizon of my mind.  The patterns of change, patterns in analysis of massive amounts of data that only recently we have been able to study with super fast super computers.

But I hear that China crunches its number to make them look more favorable.  Heck I would do the same if I have under gone the transformation of their people who must feel absolutely teleported in to the 21st century.  It seems from my armchair view of the public television that changes have come rapidly to the people in that ancient culture. And I hear that "they" now have the superest super computer on the planet.

I wonder what questions are being asked of that computer in China or what it is being used for.  Surely they are not contemplating an attack on anyone.  Unlike America, China seems to take a much more tolerant role in foreign affairs.  Overall I like China, but that's just me. If Chinese do take over in my lifetime (which I doubt I will ever live to see that even though I do expect to live to see great earthquake hit the pacific coast before I die and what a crying time that will be....)  but I don't really expect China to take the reins out of the hands of the US govt if they did, by some stretch of the imagination (an that's what I'm here for -- developing the imagination) the I would be an illiterate vegetable farmer for them and I would be ok with that.  Isn't truth always stranger than fiction?

Data seems to be everywhere these days.  There is even data about data itself.  Again, like Chinese supercomputers, I have not a flippin' clue.  For me, luckily unencumbered by thought process or reality wither, I just go with my gut feeling and conjecture.  And perhaps even wishful thinking.  Overall I like Chinese and I am glad they are (mostly) our friends.  My gut tells me we are growing as a world united these days and once again I feel like we are beginning to understand that the world is in the balance now.  Maybe things have always been about the world in the balance.  Have our leaders always realized we all must together sink or swim?  Together? Having read the Tao Te Ching and lots of 25 cent fortune cookies, I think this notion of oneness with the planet has been on China's people's minds for a long long time now and we are the one's who are just beginning to reach some of the more inspirational philosophies offered by them.  Or should I say us Earthlings?