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我的电影和书的列表：八月到十二月

2012-01-18T05:47:00.000-08:00

我刚才删除了我的记录。很生气也很遗憾。基辛格也有别的作家写的书上写的东西都失去了。我怎么办？我找了如果有别的办法所以我发现怎么恢复我的数据。看来这样的办法没有。基辛格的一本书叫《》上我写了很多事儿关中国政府的政策。不过现在都消失了。

<一首诗> by Li Bai
床前明月光
疑是地上霜
举头望明月
低头思故乡

看过的电影的列表
Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides (2011)
Rango
True Legend
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Megamind
Gentleman prefers blondes 1953
Cat Ballou 1965
Blue Kite
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Sniper
The legend of 1900
The revolutionary road
White Elephant
Rise of the planet of apes
Rio
Let me in
Ponyo
Last Airbender
Restrepo
Bank job
9 Rota
Quantum of Solace
Adjustment Bureau
The Reader
SHooter
Seraphim Falls
Casino.Royale
Toy Story 1
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Rightous kill
Troope de elite
The Duchess
Man on Wire
Catfish
The Big Lebowski
Solitary Man
Bande a Part AKA Band of Outsiders
Once 2006
读书的列表
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
The Mind Map Book
Sheep Falls
The Best advice I ever got
The genius in all of us
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
A man who loved China
On China by Henry Kissinger
SEAL Target Geronimo
Black Hawk Down: A story of Modern War
Looming tower: Al-Queda
The Price of civilization by Jeffrey Sachs
That used to be US by Thomas Friedman
Steve Jobs iLeadership
Steve Jobs:
INSIDE STEVE'S BRAIN:
Practicing mind

Steve Jobs iLeadership
Min39: About the half of what separates the successful ones from unsuccessful entrepreneurs is pure perseverance. There are so much rough moments that most people give up. I dont blame them. It's really tough. It consumes your life. You have to be burning with idea or plan or right the wrong. If you are not passionate from the start you will never stick it out.
How much difference a single person can make? Milestones are essential to make sure the achievement. Also the celebration of the milestones. Maintaining momentum in face of failures. One homerun is better than double! Quality is better than quantity. [Reserve the energy put everything into just few that will make you known well-throughout the world.]
INSIDE STEVE'S BRAIN:
"Most people would put Apple in that category. You could spend billions of dollars building a brand not as good as Apple. Yet Apple hasn’t been doing anything with this incredible asset. What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think outside the box, people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.”
min 4.47: There is a gotta. You've gotta have a vision for people to follow. A roadmap to infinity. You encourage the ideas that are in line with a vision or roadmap and then give people the chance to be part of it. You have to tolerate the mistakes without penalizing people. [will not give the message of wrong sort - your job would not be at stake]
Chap4: “In our business, one person can’t do anything anymore. You create a team of people around you.” by Steve Jobs
Perhaps most significantly, the public humiliation of the unfortunate rep put the fear of God into all the other sales reps. It sent a clear message that everybody at Apple is held personally accountable.[…] Jobs is famous for his reality distortion field—a ring of charisma so strong that it bends reality for anyone under its influence.
“The reality distortion field was a confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, an indomitable will, and an eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand. If one line of argument failed to persuade, he would deftly switch to another. Sometimes, he would throw you off balance by suddenly adopting your position as his own, without acknowledging that he ever thought differently. Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware of it, although the effects would fade after Steve departed.
In return, Jobs keeps a distance from rank-and-file employees. Except with other executives, he is fairly private at Apple’s campus. Kramer writes that remaining aloof instills a mixture of fear and paranoia that keeps employees on their toes. Staff are always working hard to please him, and it also allows him to reverse decisions without losing credibility.

Born to Run
233/610: Ultrarunning used to be just a handful of freaks in the woods with flashlights, but over the past few years, it had been transformed by an invasion of Young Guns. Like Karl Meltzer, who rocked “Strangelove” through his iPod while winning the Hard rock 100 three times in a row; and the “Dirt Diva,” Catra Corbett, a beautiful and kaleidoscopically-tattooed Goth chick who once, just for fun, ran all 211 miles of the John Muir trail across Yosemite National Park and then turned around and ran all the way back; and Tony “Naked Guy” Krupicka, who rarely wore more than skimpy shorts and spent a year sleeping in a friend’s closet while training to win the Leadville 100; and the Fabulous Flying Skaggs Brothers, Eric and Kyle, who hitchhiked to the Grand Canyon before setting a new record for the fastest round-trip run from rim to rim.
Matt Carpenter, a mountain runner in Colorado Springs, began spending hundreds of hours on a treadmill to measure the variations in body oscillations when, for instance, he took a sip of water (the most bio-mechanically efficient way to hold a water bottle was tucked into his armpit, not held in his hand). Carpenter used a belt sander and a straight razor to shave micro-ounces off his running shoes and plunged them in and out of the bathtub to gauge water retention and drying speed. In 2005, he used his Leadville—he finished in a stunning 15:42, nearly two hours faster than the fastest Tarahumara ever had.
But! What could the Tarahumara do if pushed? See, that’s what Caballo wanted to know.
259/610: Lisa Smith-Batchen, the amazingly sunny and pixie-tailed ultrarunner from Idaho who trained through blizzards to win a six-day race in the Sahara, talks about exhaustion as if it’s a playful pet. “I love the Beast,” she says. “I actually look forward to the Beast showing up, because every time he does, I handle him better. I get him more under control.” Once the Beast arrives, Lisa knows what she has to deal with and can get down to work.
308/610 : That fall, a photo appeared in UltraRunning magazine. It shows Jenn finishing a 30- mile race somewhere in the backwoods of Virginia. There’s nothing amazing about her performance (third place), or her getup (basic black shorts, basic black sports bra), or even the camera work (dimly lit, crudely cropped). Jenn isn’t battling a rival to the bitter end, or striding across a mountaintop with the steel-jawed majesty of a Nike model, or gasping toward glory with a grimace of heartbreaking determination. All she’s doing is … running. Running, and smiling.
“Nothing works out according to plan, but it always works out.”
391/610 “He’s from L.A., man; he thinks you’ve got to fill every space with noise.”
561: “No. Way. In. HELL!” growled Caballo, who was running in a pack of his own with Barefoot Ted, Eric, and Manuel Luna. When they got to the five-mile turnaround in the tiny Tarahumara settlement of Guadalupe Coronado, Caballo and Manuel started asking the Tarahumara spectators some questions. It didn’t take them long to find out what was going on: the Urique Tarahumara were taking side trails and shaving the course. Rather than fury, Caballo felt a pang of pity. The Urique Tarahumara had lost their old way of running, he realized, and their confidence along with it. They weren’t Running People anymore; they were just guys trying desperately to keep up with the living shadows of their former selves.

ROUGH GUIDE TO RUNNING
Which sports drink?
There are three types of sports drinks on the market:
Isotonic: The balance of carbs and electrolytes to water is thesame as in the human body, so it will be absorbed at around the same speed as water, but has greater calorific value.
Hypotonic: The carbs and electrolyte/water ratio is less that the body’s, so the fluid is absorbed quicker than water but with less energy replenishment.
Hypertonic: A greater carbs/electrolyte concentration than the body, so the fluid is absorbed the slowest, but the energy replacement is the greatest. Best as an after-race recovery drink.
Also, the addition of carbohydrate speeds up your body’s absorption of the drink’s water element. However, for it to be of value to you, a sports drink’s carb content has to be between five and eight per cent. If it is much lower, it won’t be enough to make any difference and you might as well save your
money. If it is higher than eight per cent then the concentration of sugar will actually impede your body’s water absorption, will require too much of the energy that should be saved for running to be used up in breaking it down, and will have a hugely increased chance of upsetting your stomach. This is why sugar-rich “energy” drinks are not recommended for runners.

Moral Animal: Why we are the way we are – Robert Wright
As Emile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, wrote at the turn of the century: human nature is "merely the indeterminate material that the social factor molds and transforms."

p.23: Darwinian anthropologists see the world's undeniably diverse cultures as products of a single human nature responding to widely varying circumstances; evolutionary theory reveals previously invisible links between the circumstances and the cultures (explaining, for example, why some cultures have dowry and others don't)
。。。Still, neither is the idea that the grimmest parts of the human experience are wholly immutable, grounded in "instincts" and "innate drives"; nor the idea that psychological differences among people boil down mainly to genetic differences. They boil down to the genes, of course (where else could rules for mental development ultimately reside?), but not necessarily to differences in genes
。。。But he must be ever "armed against the temptation of low indulgences," and must not "defile his body by sensuality, nor his mind by servile thoughts.
。。。"Fitness" is the thing that natural selection, in continually redesigning species, perpetually "seeks" to maximize. Fitness is what made us what we are today
。。。 [why there is competition for females? Why males chase after females?] As the evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson have succinctly put it: for males "there is always the possibility of doing better."7
There's a sense in which a female can do better, too, but it has to do with quality, not quantity
… Bateman saw the import: natural selection encourages "an undiscriminating eagerness in the males and a discriminating passivity in the females."
…
For a male mammal, the necessary sacrifice is close to zero. His "essential role may end with copulation, which involves a negligible expenditure of energy and materials on his part, and only a momentary lapse of attention from matters of direct concern to his safety and well-being." With little to lose and much to gain, males can profit, in the currency of natural selection, by harboring "an aggressive and immediate willingness to mate with as many females as may be available." For the female, on the other hand, "copulation may mean a commitment to a prolonged burden, in both the mechanical and physiological sense, and its many attendant stresses and dangers." Thus, it is in her genetic interest to "assume the burdens of reproduction" only when circumstances seem propitious

… One way to strengthen an evolutionary explanation is to show that its logic is obeyed generally.
…At some point, in other words, extensive male parental investment entered our evolutionary lineage. We are, as they say in the zoology literature, high in MPI.
…
But high MPI has also created whole new ways for male and female aims to diverge, during both courtship and marriage. In Robert Trivers's 1972 paper on parental investment, he remarked, "One can, in effect, treat the sexes as if they were different species, the opposite sex being a resource relevant to producing maximum surviving offspring.
…What drives men craziest is the thought of their mate in bed with another man; they don't dwell as much as women do on any attendant emotional attachment, or the possible loss of the mate's time and attention. Wives, for their part, do find the sheerly sexual infidelity of husbands traumatic, and do respond harshly to it, but the long-run effect is often a self-improvement campaign: lose weight, wear makeup, "win him back." Husbands tend to respond to infidelity with rage; and even after it subsides, they often have trouble contemplating a continued relationship with the infidel
… In a high-MPI species, the female seeks two things: good genes and high ongoing investment. She may not find them in the same {69} package. One solution would be to trick a devoted but not especially brawny or brainy mate into raising the offspring of another male. Again, cryptic ovulation would come in handy, as a treachery facilitator.
… You might think that the number of sperm cells in a husband's ejaculate would depend only on how long it's been since he last had sex. Wrong. According to work by Baker and Bellis, the quantity of sperm depends heavily on the amount of time a man's mate has been out of his sight lately.37 The more chances a woman has had to collect sperm from other males, the more profusely her mate sends in his own troops. Again: that natural selection designed such a clever weapon is evidence of something for the weapon to combat.
… A good example lies in Robert Trivers's 1972 paper on parental investment. Trivers noted two patterns that social scientists had already uncovered: (1) the more attractive an adolescent girl, the more likely she is to "marry up" — marry a man of higher socioeconomic status; and (2) the more sexually active an adolescent girl, the less likely she is to marry up.
… (Women report putting more emphasis on a sex partner's looks when they don't expect the relationship to last; they are apparently willing, unconsciously, to trade off parental investment for good genes.)
… Among all the data on contemporary marriage, two items stand out as especially telling. First is the 1992 study which found that the husband's dissatisfaction with a marriage is the single strongest predictor of divorce.66 Second is that men are much more likely than women to remarry after a divorce.67 The second fact — and the biological force behind the second fact — is probably a good part of the reason for the first.
… when monogamy is found in subsistence-level cultures, Alexander calls it "ecologically imposed." When it appears in more affluent, more stratified cultures, he calls it "socially imposed."3 The question is why society imposed it.
… The United States is no longer a nation of institutionalized monogamy. It is a nation of serial monogamy. And serial monogamy in some ways amounts to polygyny.15 Johnny Carson, like many wealthy, high-status males, spent his career monopolizing long stretches of the reproductive years of a series of young women. Somewhere out there is a man who wanted a family and a beautiful wife and, if it hadn't been for Johnny Carson, would have married one of these women. And if this man has managed to find another woman, she was similarly snatched from the jaws of some other man. And so on — a domino effect: a scarcity of fertile females trickles down the social scale
… There are ways to fool mother nature, to induce parents to love children that aren't theirs. (Hence cuckoldry.) After all, people can't telepathically sense that a child is carrying their genes. Instead, they rely on cues that, in the ancestral environment, would have signified as much. If a woman feeds and cuddles an infant day after day, she may grow to love the child, and so may a man who has been sleeping with her for years. This sort of bonding is what makes adopted children lovable and nannies loving. But both theory and casual observation suggest that, the older a child is when first seen by the substitute parent, the less likely deep attachment is. And a large majority of children who acquire stepfathers are past infancy.
… The best that natural selection can do is give us adaptations — "mental organs" or "mental modules" — that play the odds. It can give males a "love of offspring" module, and make that module sensitive to the likelihood that the offspring in question is indeed the {106} man's. But the adaptation cannot be foolproof. Natural selection can give women an "attracted to muscles" module, or an "attracted to status" module, and, what's more, it can make the strength of those attractions depend on all kinds of germane factors; but even a highly flexible module can't guarantee that these attractions translate into viable and prolific offspring.
… After reflection of unknown length, he modified the foregoing sentence with "better than a dog anyhow." He continued: "Home, & someone to take care of house — Charms of music & female chitchat — These things good for one's health. — but terrible loss of time." Without warning, Darwin had, from the pro-marriage column, swerved uncontrollably into a major anti-marriage factor, so major that he underlined it.
…And, as many husbands and wives can attest, the birth of a child often cements a marital bond, if obliquely; the love of spouse is partly diverted to the child and then refracted diffusely onto the family as a whole, mate included. It is a different kind of love for the spouse, but it's sturdy in its own way. In the absence of this roundabout recharge, love of spouse may tend to disappear entirely — by design.
…Divorce statistics support Samuel Johnson's characterization of a man's decision to remarry as "the triumph of hope over experience."
…He[John Stuart Mill] wrote: "Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures. ... It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides."
… Perhaps the greatest threat to lasting marriage — the temptation of aging, affluent, or high-status men to desert their wives for a younger {142} model — was met with great social firepower.
…Consider the sexual double standard. the most obvious Darwinian explanation is that men were designed, on the one hand, to be sexually loose themselves yet, on the other, to relegate sexually loose women ("whores") to low moral status — even, remarkably, as those same men encourage those same women to be sexually loose.
… So unless identifying kin is very hard, evolution should produce a strong and well-targeted strain of benevolence, not a weak and diffuse strain. And that is what has happened. It has happened, at least to some extent, with ground squirrels, which are more likely to deliver warning calls in the presence of close kin.7
…For, assuming the mother's poor health leads — through skimpy milk, say — to frail offspring, it will bode especially ill for the sons. Malnourished males may be shut out of reproductive competition altogether, whereas a fertile female in almost any condition can usually attract a sex partner.
Some nonhuman mammals seem to comply with this logic. {171} Florida pack rat mothers, if fed poorly, will force sons off the teat, even letting them starve to death, while daughters nurse freely. In other species, even the birth ratio of males to females is affected, with mothers in the most auspicious condition having mostly sons and less advantaged mothers having mostly daughters.26
In our species, somewhat polygynous through much of its evolution, wealth and status can be as important as health. Both are weapons with which men compete for women — and, in the case of status, at least,, this has been the case for millions of years.

In the course of his basically sound approach to evolutionary psychology, Darwin succumbed to a temptation known as group selectionism. Consider his central explanation for the evolution of the moral sense. In The Descent of Man he wrote that "an advancement in the standard of morality and an increase in the number of well-endowed men will certainly give an immense advantage to one tribe over another. There can be no doubt that a tribe including many members who, from possessing in a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to give aid to each other and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection." Yes, this would be natural selection, if it actually happened. But, while it isn't impossible for it to happen, the more you think about it, the less likely it seems. Darwin himself had seen the main snag only a few pages earlier: "It is extremely doubtful whether the offspring of the more sympathetic and benevolent parents, or of those which were the most faithful to their comrades, would be reared in {186} greater number than the children of selfish and treacherous parents of the same tribe." On the contrary, the bravest, most self-sacrificial men "would on an average perish in larger number than other men." A noble man "would often leave no offspring to inherit his noble nature."
… We now know that habits are passed from parent to child by instruction or example, not via the genes. In fact, no life experiences (except, say, exposure to radiation) affect the genes handed down to offspring.
… Once the prevailing winds of cooperation are shifting — from generation to generation, from one village to an adjacent village, or from one family to the next — these shifts are a force to be reckoned with, and a flexible strategy is the way to reckon. As Axelrod showed, the value of a particular strategy depends utterly on neighborhood norms
… One way to put the matter is to say that Victorian England was an admirable society, but not one composed of especially admirable people. They were only doing what we do — acting conscientiously, politely, and considerately to the extent that it pays. It just paid more in those days. And besides, their moral behavior, however laudable it was or wasn't, was more a heritage than a choice; the Victorian {224} conscience got shaped in ways the Victorians never understood and were in some sense powerless to affect.
…The simpler way to account for this sort of "excessively" moral behavior is to recall that human beings aren't "fitness maximizers" but rather "adaptation executers." The adaptation in question — the conscience — was designed to maximize fitness, to exploit the local environment in the name of genetic self-interest, but success in this endeavor is far from assured, especially in social settings alien to natural selection. {225}
Thus the conscience can lead people to do things that aren't in their self-interest except in the sense of salving the conscience itself. Sympathy, obligation, and guilt, unless subjected to a veritable extermination campaign during youth, always have the potential to bring behaviors of which their "creator," natural selection, would not "approve."
…Beneath the behavioral parallels between human and nonhuman primates lie biochemical parallels. In vervet monkey societies, dominant males have more of the neurotransmitter serotonin than do their subordinates. And one study found that in college fraternities, officers, {242} on average, have more serotonin than do their less powerful fraternity brothers.21
…In any event, there are good Darwinian reasons to believe that everyone is born with the capacity for high serotonin — with the equipment to function as a high-status primate given a social setting conducive to their ascent. The whole point of the human brain is behavioral flexibility, and it would be very unlike natural selection, given that flexibility, to deny anyone a chance at the genetic payoffs of high status, should the opportunity arise.
…What does serotonin do? The effect of neurotransmitters is so subtle, and so dependent on chemical context, that simple generalizations are risky. But often, at least, serotonin seems to relax people, {243} make them more gregarious, more socially assertive, much as a glass of wine does. In fact, one of alcohol's effects is to release serotonin. As a slight and useful oversimplification, you might say that serotonin raises self-esteem; it makes you behave in ways befitting an esteemed primate. Extremely low levels of serotonin can accompany not just low self-esteem, but severe depression, and may precede suicide. Antidepressants such as Prozac boost serotonin.
… "Woman seems to differ from man in mental disposition, chiefly in her greater tenderness and less selfishness," he wrote in The Descent of Man. "Man is the rival of other men; he delights in competition, and this leads to ambition which passes too easily into selfishness. These latter qualities seem to be his natural and unfortunate birthright."
…Under his rule, life was orderly and just. If two chimps were fighting, he would step between them with calm authority, ending hostilities without fear or favor. And when he did side with one combatant, it was almost always the one who was losing. This pattern of support for the downtrodden — {252} populism, we call it — had also been employed by Yeroen. It seemed to impress the females especially; being less caught up in the pursuit of status than males, they seemed to place a premium on social stability. Luit could now count on their support.
… Still, if we are not going to explain such things — respect, reverence, awe, honor, stubborn pride, contempt, disdain, ambition, and so on — as natural selection's way of equipping us for life in a status hierarchy, how, then, are we to explain them? Why are they found in cultures everywhere? Is there an alternative theory? If so, does it explain, as well, why pride and ambition, for example, seem to reach greater heights in men, on average, than in women? Modern Darwinism has an explanation for all of this, and it's simple: natural selection in a context of status hierarchy.
… Indeed, the hunger for status may actually lower the costs of redistribution. Humans, it seems, tend to compare themselves to those very near them in the status hierarchy — to those just above them, in particular.49 This makes evolutionary sense as a {257} ladder-climbing technique, but that's not the point.
… The range of things that can bring status in different cultures and subcultures is astonishing. Making beads, making music, delivering {259} sermons, delivering babies, inventing drugs, inventing tales, collecting coins, collecting scalps. Yet the mental machinery driving these various activities is fundamentally the same. Human beings are designed to assess their social environment, and, having figured out what impresses people, do it; or, having found what people disfavor, avoid it. They're pretty open-minded about what "it" is. The main thing is that they be able to succeed at it; people everywhere want to feel pride, not shame; to inspire respect, not disdain.
… In other words, what we call cultural "values" are expedients to social success.55 People adopt them because other people admire them. By controlling a child's social environment, by selectively dishing out respect and scorn, we can program his values as if he were a robot.
… The command of resources — that is, money — will tend to hold a certain appeal. Still, resistance is possible. There are cultures and subcultures that try to put less emphasis on the material and more emphasis on the spiritual. And their success is sometimes impressive, if less than total. And, moreover, there is {261} no reason to believe that any of them have reached the limits of biological potential.
…Reciprocal altruism brings its own agenda to the presentation of self, and thus to the deception of self. Whereas status hierarchies place a premium on our seeming competent, attractive, strong, smart, et-cetera, reciprocal altruism puts its accent on niceness, integrity, fairness. These are the things that make us seem like worthy reciprocal altruists. They make people want to strike up relationships with us. Puffing up our reputations as decent and generous folks can't hurt, and it often helps.

DARWIN’s STRATEGY:
First, Darwin strengthened his argument. While immersed in barnacles, he continued to gather evidence for his theory, partly through the postal interrogation of far-flung experts on flora and fauna. One reason for the Origin's ultimate success was Darwin's meticulous anticipation of, and preemptive response to, criticism. Two years before the book's publication, he correctly wrote, "[I] think I go as far as almost anyone in seeing the grave difficulties against my doctrine."
…
The second prong of Darwin's three-pronged strategy was to beef up his credentials. It's a commonplace of social psychology that cred ibility grows with prestige. Forced to believe either a college pro fessor or a grade-school teacher on some question of biology, we usually choose the professor. In one sense, this is a valid choice, as the professor is more likely to be right. In another sense, this is just another arbitrary by-product of evolution — a reflexive regard for status.
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The third prong of Darwin's strategy was to marshal potent social forces — to meld a coalition that included men of stature, men of rhetorical power, and men who fit both descriptions. There was Lyell, who would bring Darwin's first paper on natural selection before thes Linnean Society of London, lending it his authority (though Lyell was then an agnostic on natural selection); Thomas Huxley, who would famously confront Bishop Wilberforce in the Oxford evolution debate; Hooker, who would less famously confront Wilberforce and would join Lyell in unveiling Darwin's theory; and Asa Gray, the Harvard botanist who, through his writings in the Atlantic Monthly, would become Darwin's chief publicist in America. One by one, Darwin let these men in on his theory.
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We spend our lives desperately seeking status; we are addicted to social esteem in a fairly literal sense, dependent on the neurotransmitters we get upon impressing people. Many of us claim to be self-sufficient, to have a moral gyroscope, to hold fast to our values, come what may. But people truly oblivious to peer approval get labeled sociopaths. And the epithets reserved for people at the other end of the spectrum, people who seek esteem most ardently — "self-promoter", "social climber" — are only signs of our constitutional blindness. We are all self-promoters and social climbers. The people known as such are either so effective as to arouse envy or so graceless as to make their effort obvious, or both.

p.707

SWITCH
p.20 You need to control commitments, projects, and actions in twoways horizontally and vertically. "Horizontal" controlmaintainscoherence across all the activities in which you are involved.Imagine
your psyche constantly scanning your environment likepolice radar; it may land on any of a thousand different items thatinvite or demand your attention during any twenty-four-hourperiod:
the drugstore, the housekeeper, your aunt Martha, thestrategic plan, lunch, a wilting plant in the office, an upset cus
p.21 "Vertical" control, in contrast, manages thinking up and down the track of individual topics and projects. For example, your inner "police radar" lands on your next vacation as you and your spouse talk about it over dinner—where and when you'll go, what you'll do, how to prepare for the trip, and so on. Or you and your boss need to make some decisions about the new departmental reorganization you're about to launch. Or you just need to get your thinking up to date on the customer you're about to call.
[...]The goal for managing horizontally and vertically is the same: to get things off your mind and get things done.
p.24 THE CORE PROCESS I teach for mastering the art of relaxed and controlled knowledge work is a five-stage method for managing workflow. No matter what the setting, there are five discrete
stages that we go through as we deal with our work. We (1) collect things that command our attention; (2) process what they mean and what to do about them; and (3) organize the results, which we
(4) review as options for what we choose to (5) do.

p.51 The Six-Level Model for Reviewing Your Own Work

50,000+ feet: Life•
40,000 feet: Three- to five-year vision•
30,000 feet: One- to two-year goals•
20,000 feet: Areas of responsibility•
10,000 feet: Current projects•
Runway: Current actions

Bought & Found

2012-01-13T09:58:00.000-08:00

今天我找到我买过很多书或者下载很多epub书。上个年我真不读那么多书因为用很多时间学习汉语。即便我已经学习了八个月，我还不会读报纸读的流利。太遗憾！老天啊！
下面我陈列我买的，我下载的书名

Bought or found in pdf:

George Soros What it means

Edward Said: Orientalism

Edward Said: Culture and imperialism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Next 100 years Forcast

The greatest show on earth.

Brain Rules 12 principles

Power and plenty

Bottom billion

Superfreakeconomics

Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship

The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown

One Economics, Many Recipes by Dani Rodrik

The accidental guerilla

The post American world by Fareed&Zakaria

Too big to fail by Sorkin (Gave it to a friend on his birthday!)

How markets fail

The partnership: making of Goldman Sachs

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

How to read and why by Harold Bloom

Paul Krugman,The return of depression economics

Team of Rivals: Political genius of Abraham Lincoln

Mind Programing:From Persuasion&Brainwashing, to Self-Help & Practical Metaphysics

Rules for Radicals by Alinsky (HIGH PRIORITY)

The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

Michael Lewis Big Short

The audacity to win by David Plouffe

Free Fall by Joseph Stiglitz (audiobook)

The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement

A Confederacy of Dunces

Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

Thinking strategically

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Logic of Life by Tim Hartford

Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken

Location of culture by Homi Bhabha

End of History and the last man by Francis Fukuyama

Washington Consensus Reconsidered

A splendid exchange: how trade shaped the world

Change we can believe in by Barack Obama

Enough: true measures of money , business and life

"How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read" By Pierre Bayard

Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O'Neill

THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN: Easy Money, High Rollers

Andrew M Lobaczewski: Political Ponerology A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

Causing a scene by Prankster

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations) by Noah Feldman

Lynne McTaggart: The Field The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives by Carl W. Stern, Michael S. Deimler

Paul Krugman Consience of a liberal

The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel

Out of place memoir by Edward Said

Escaping the resource curse

David P. Calleo’s Follies of Power: America’s Unipolar Fantasies

Governing by Network:the New Shape of the Public Sector

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
by David E. Sanger.

Middle East: A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman

EPUB FOUND:

Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Mao’s Great Famine

Emperor of All maladies: A biography of Cancer

The Bridge: The life and rise of Barack Obama by David Reminick

Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P. Pan

Country Driving: a journey through China from Farm to Factory

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security: Biotechnology Innovation in Latecomers

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder

我的列表四月到八月

2011-08-24T00:37:00.000-07:00

相思
红豆生南国
春来发几枝
愿君多菜撷
此物最相思

电影列表
The Eagle 2011
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The.Wind.That.Shakes.The.Barley
The Night of the Hunter 1955
The secrets of Kell
Winter light
The.Taking.Of.Pelham.123
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo [ENG] (2009)
They fought for their country - Russian by Sergei Bondorchuk
White Sun of the Desert - Russian
The cranes are flying - Russian
Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession - Russian
Mary and Max
National Geographic Secrets Of The Taj Mahal
RED: Retired Extremely Dangerous
Sense and Sensibility
Rightous Kill
Donnie Brasco
The kid is all right
Magnolia
The Christmas story
About Schmidt
Kunfu Panda 2
Resident Evil Afterlife[2010]DvDrip[Eng]-FXG
Changeling
Remember me
the kite runner
In the valley of Elah
Edge of Darkness
The.Big.Lebowski
127
King's speech
The fighter
Next three days
The kid is alright
Pathology
Paul Blart Mall Cop
Source code
Adjustment bureau
History boys
Once upon a time in Tibet西藏往事
Let me in
Arrow Faster
Frost Nixon
Lolita by Stanley Kubrick
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders
Age of innocence
Meet the Fockers
Blue Kite 1993 (Chinese)
Thick as thieves
Usual Suspects 1995 – One movie that cannot be bored from keep watching
Bittersweet life
Informant
Chinatown 1974
Rogue Trader
Recount
Rising Arizona 1987
Roman Polanski – The Tragedy of Macbeth 1971
三国 2010 第一到第四十
三国2010 第四十到七十二
The losers
Cat Balou
Speed racer
State of play
The push
Straight Jacket 2007
Devil wears Prada
Insomnia

书列表
The looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11
Animal Spirits: How human psychology drives the economy and why it matters for global capitalism
Self analysis by Karen Horney
Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite navy seal sniper
The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the french revolution
The moral animal: Why we are, the way we are by Robert Wright
The social animal by David Brooks

2010.Dec - 2011.Mar

2011-04-20T03:11:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I have taken a major decision in freeing myself of all the load. The free time might kill me for good or might empower me to pursue what I love to do. Learning chinese will help me to understand what is really going on in China from the perspective within. Without the language, i would even know anything even if all hell broke loose.
Anyway should get back to memorizing hanzi-s!

黑夜给了我黑色的眼睛
我却用它来寻找光明！

Movies watched:

Christmas Carol
Unthinkable
Manchurian candidate
I proposal
Get him greek
Lakeview terrace
Tropa de Elit
Little fockers
The Road
Gran Torino
Road to perdition
Despicable me
Winter light by Ingrid Bergman
Tangled
Ul tanih emegtei
Next 3 days
True Grit
King's Speech
The fighter
Wolf creek
District 9
Letters to Juliet
TOwn
Infernal affairs(Wu2 jian4 dao4)
Red Clif(1-2008)
Red Clif(2-2009)
Spirit
New Police Story (Jackie Chan)

Books read:
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The Future of Power
The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
The Checklist Manifesto

Well it's a marvelous night for a moondance

2011-02-21T08:35:00.001-08:00

Van Morrison

Well it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
You know the night's magic
Seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight
Seems to shine in your blush...

Can I just have one a' more moondance with you, my love?
Can I just make some more romance with a' you, my love?

Well I wanna make love to you tonight
I can't wait till the morning has come
And I know now the time is just right
And straight into my arms you will run
And when you come my heart will be waiting
To make sure that you're never alone
There and then all my dreams will come true dear
There and then I will make you my own
And every time I touch you, you just tremble inside
And I know how much you want me that, you can't hide...

Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love?
Can I just make some more romance with you, my love?

Well it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
You know the night's magic
Seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight
Seems to shine in your blush...

One more moondance with you
In the moonlight
On a magic night
la, la, la, la, there's a moonlight
On a magic night
Can't I just have one more dance
With you my love?

Imp: Sleep

2011-01-28T01:32:00.001-08:00

Guide to Good Night’s Sleep
p.18People tested to measure how well they
have learned a new task improve their scores after a night’s sleep.
If repeatedly roused from REM sleep, however, the improvements
are lost. On the other hand, if they are awakened an equal
number of times from slow-wave sleep, the improvements in the
scores are unaffected. Such findings may help explain why students
who stay up all night cramming for an examination generally
retain less information than classmates who get some sleep.
Three to five times a night, or about every ninety minutes, a
sleeper enters REM sleep. The first such episode usually lasts for
only a few minutes, but REM time increases progressively over
the course of the night. The final period of REM sleep may last
half an hour. Altogether, REM sleep makes up about 25 percent
of total sleep in young adults. If someone who has been deprived
of REM sleep is left undisturbed for a night, he or she enters this
stage earlier and spends a higher proportion of sleep time in it—
a phenomenon called REM rebound.

From Jul.09 to Nov.10

2010-12-27T17:35:00.000-08:00

Цаг хугацаа маш хурдан өнгөрч, бүтэн жилийг ардаа илээжээ. Гэвч энэ хугацаанд тун цөөн номыг уншсан байх юм. Гэхдээ л Economist сэтгүүлийг бараг л алгасалгүй уншиж, HBR-г хэд хэдийг зооглосон гэхээр бас чамлахааргүй ч юм шиг. Гэхдээ л дэндүү их цагийг хий дэмий зарцуулж дээ хөөрхий. За тэгээд энэхүү блогийн тоосыг бага ч гэсэн үргээе дээ.

All I need to know I learned in Kindergarden номноос:

p.6: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
That dreams are more powerful than facts
That hope always triumphs over experience
That laugher is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Movies watched
Sherlock holmes
Taxi driver 1976
My fair lady
invictus
Underworld Rise of the Lycans
Insominia
iron man 2
bRIDe valintine
My bloody valentine.
Race to the witch mountain
In Bruges
Revolutionary Road
Ip man 1
Ip man 2
Monsters vs alien
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
La misma luna
Knocked up
Law abiding citizen
Max Payne
Princess and a frog
Fast and furious 2009
Knocked up
Angel & Demons
Step up 3
Robin Hood
inglorious busterds
Karate kid
Lumamba
Legends of Gardians
Shattered Glass
Lovelybones
Cloudy withc chance of Meatballs
Night at the museum battle of the smithsonian
The Expandables
This is IT Michael Jackson
Lakeview Terrace
American Psycho
Caroline
Hanna Montana
J.I.Joe Rise of Cobra
Shotgun stories
Horseman
Social network
Clash of titans
Sweeney Todd-The demon barber of Fleet street
Underworld
500 Summer days
Shrek 4
Book of Eli
Aminaas unetei ami
Ip man
Knock up
Step up
Inception
Frog and princess
The talented Mr.Ripley
Gattaca
Hanna Montana
American Psycho
Kick Ass
Karate Kid
Robin Hood 2009
Legends of Guardians
Seventeen again
Ip man 3
Knowing
From Dusk till dawn
Bride war
You have got mail
B-13
Pink Pantera 2
Би чамд хайртай
Би чамд хайртай 2
Bedtime stories
Sex is Zero
Taken
Hotel Rwanda
Pink Pantera 1
Hangover
Ghost Rider
Harry Potter and the Half blood prince
Hurt Locker
District 9
Le samurai
God father I
God father II
He is not into you
Ninja assassin
In bruges
International
UP
Public Enemies
Fareed Zakaria Show Sept to Dec all episodes.
TED Talks Jul to Dec
Үлгэрийн хайр
Мөрөөдлийн баг
Illusionist
Insomenia
The bucket list
2012

Books read:
SuperFreakonomics by Levitt & Steven
The Winner Stands Alone by Paolo Coelho
How To Get Into the Top MBA Programs, 4th Edition
Чонон Сүлд by Jiang Rong
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Kamkwamba
Great Personal Statements for Law School
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
The Hypomanic Edge by John Gartner
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean Twenge
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Energy Autonomy by Herman Scheer
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmin Gallo
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Cheap Heath
The Amateurs by David Halberstam
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory by David Plouffe
Top Class Competitors: How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness by Stephane Garelli
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles Ellis
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
The Tipping Point
Start where you are by Chris Gardner
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
Don’t eat the marshmallow yet
Clear blogging: How people blogging are changing the world
Age of Terbulance
Brain rule
ӨМНӨГОВЬ АЙМГИЙГ ХӨГЖҮҮЛЭХ 2009 – 2012 ОНЫ ҮЙЛ АЖИЛЛАГААНЫ МӨРИЙН ХӨТӨЛБӨР
Орон Нутаг Болон Бүс Нутгийн Эдийн Засгийн Хөгжлийн Үзэл Баримтлалыг Тодорхойлох нь, 2008, GTZ
Төвийн Бүсийн Хөгжлийн Хөтөлбөр
Draft Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: UHG Phase II
Leadership lessons from Westpoint

p.7: There were three frogs that were floating down the river on top of a leaf. One of them decides to jump into the river. How many frogs are left on top of the leaf?
- 2.
-Wrong answer. Because deiciding to jump and jumping are two different things.

p.52: 30 seconds rule. No matter what you do for a living, you are first and foremost in the business of connecting with people. Those people will decide whether to connect with you within the first thirty seconds of meeting you. So you either make a good first impression or forget it.
p.53: Some experts estimate that twenty percent of your financial success comes from your skills, talents and knowledge, while eighty percent comes from your people skills, your ability to connect with other people and gain their trust and respect.

Clear blogging:
p.75 Our feeling of being more and more apart from everyone is borne out in the numbers.
In a major study published in the American Sociological Review, entitled “Social Isolation in
America” (www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/June06ASRFeature.pdf), fully one-quarter
of those surveyed reported that they had no one they could confide in, up from 10 percent 20 years
ago. On average, our number of close personal friends has dropped from three to two.
And yet, while the number of people we know and share with offline diminishes, because
we have too much to do and too little in common with the people who share some physical
space with us, the number of people we know online, especially if we blog, soars. Blogging is
the new campfire, office water cooler, town meeting, pub, and place of worship—the place
where you can connect with people who understand you and who you can understand.
New ideas on marketing.

Орон Нутаг Болон Бүс Нутгийн Эдийн Засгийн Хөгжлийн Үзэл Баримтлалыг Тодорхойлох нь, 2008, GTZ
p.7 Орон нутгийн хүчин зүйлсийг гурван төрөлд хуваан үзэх нь их түгээмэл байдаг. Үүнд:
1.Орон нутгийн биет хүчин зүйлс гэдэг нь ихэвчлэн хэмжиж, тооцож болохуйц “хатуу” шалгуур байдаг. Тухайлбал, газар зүйн байрлал буюу чухал нөөц, түүхий эд болон холбогдох зах зээлд ойрохн гэх мэт.[…]
2.Бизнес эрхлэгчдэд шаардалагатай биет бус хүчин зүйлсийг “зөөлөн” гэх ба хэмжихэд нэлээд бэрхшээлтэй байдаг. Үүнд: төрийн байгууллагын үйл ажиллагааны хүртээмжтэй байдал, түүни йажил хэрэгч байдлаар ажиллах чадвар,бизнесийн ерөнхий байдал (эрэлт хэр амьд, болдитой байгаагаар тодорхойлогддог) холбогдох болон дэмжигч комапаниудын олдоц,, бизнесийн дэмжих үйлчилгээ үзүүлэх байгууллагууд жишээ: ур чадварыг сайжруулах, технологи, санхү гэх мэт болно.
3.Биет бус хүчин зүйлс нь тухайн газар орны амьжиргааны түвшин, байдлыг тодорхойлж байдаг учраас хувь хүмүүст их чухал байдаг.
p.7 Улаанбаатарын бүсийн хүн амын жилийн дундаж өсөлт 2005 оны байдлаар 4.0 хувь байгаа бөгөөд хүн амын жилийн дундаж өсөлтийн дийлэнх хэсэг буюу 74.3 хувь нь механиз өсөлтөөр хангагдаж, механик өсөлт нь ердийн өсөлтөөс хэт өндөр байна. Цаашид механик өсөлтийг сааруулж, төрөлтийг дэмжиж, нас баралтыг бууруулах замаар хүн амын ердийн цэвэр өсөлтийг нэмэгдүүлэх шаардлагатай байна.
P.8 Улаанбаатарын бүсэд ядуурлын хамралтын хүрээ (27.3%), ядуурлын гүнзгийрэлт зэрэг үзүүлэлт өндөр хэвээр тууштай буурахгүй байна. […] Цаашид бүсийн хөгжлийн давуу тал, нөөц боломжийг бүрэн ашиглаж, жижиг дунд үйлдвэрлэл, үйлчилгээг бүх талаар дэмжин ажлыг байрыг олноор бий болгох, эдийн засгийн өсөлт, тэргүүлэх салбаруудын хөгжил, хөрөнгө оруулалтын арга хэмжээтэй нягт уялдсан хөдөлмөр эрхлэлтийн оновчттой бодлогыг хэрэгжүүлж ядуурлыг эрс бууруулах шаардлагатай байна.
Улаанбаатарын бүсийн мэдээлэл, харилцаа холбооны өнөөгийн сүлжээ нь хотын захын орон сууцны болон гэр хорооллуудын хүн амын хэрэгцээ шаардлагыг бүрэн хангаж чадахгүй байна. Иймд мэдээлэл, харилцаа холбооны нэгдсэн сүлжээг бий болгох шаардлагатай байна.
p.9 Хүн амын хэт төвлөрөл болон үйлдвэрлэл, үйлчилгээний цар хүрээ өсч байгаатай холбоотойгоор байглийн нөөцийн ашиглалт, байглаь хамгааллын холбогдролтой олон асуудлууд бий болж байна. Хотын агаар% ус хөрсний бохирдол нэмэгдэж байгаа нь хүн амын эрүүл мэндэд сөргөөр нөлөөлөх боллоо. Сүүлийн жилүүдэд нийслэл хот орчмын байгаль экологийн тэнцвэрт байдал алдагдах явдал эрс нэмэгдэж байна. Гал, үерийн аюул, газар хөдлөлт, химийн хорт болон цацраг идэвхт бодис алдагдах, хүн, мал, амьтны гаралтай гоц халдварт өвчин гараг зэрэг болзошгүй аюулаас урьдчилан сэргийлэх тогтолцоог бэхжүүлж, менежментийг нь эрс сайжруулах шаардлагатай байна.
p.10 Улаанбаатарын бүсийн хүн амын нутагшилт, суурьшилт тогтолцоог 1. Улаанбаатарын бүсийн түвшинд 2. УБ-н бүсийн эрчимтэй таталцал, нөлөөллийн бүсийн түвшинд 3. Улсын түвшинд гэсэн гурван түвшинд Монгол Улсын бүсчилсэн хөгжлийн үзэл баримтлалтай нийцүүлэн иж бүрэн цогцолбор байдлаар сайжруулан, хот төлөвлөлт, газрын менежментийн тогтолцоог зах зээлийн нөхцөлд нийцүүлэн боловсронгуй болгон шинэчлэх шаардлагатай байна.
p.10 Бүсийн хүн амын нутагшилт, суурьшилын тогтолцоог УБ-н бүсийн, УБ-н бүсийн таталцал, нөлөөллийн бүсийн, улсын гэсэн 3 түвшинд иж бүрэн, цогцолбор байдлаар нь сайжруулах эрх зүй, эдийн засаг, хот байгуулалтын таатай орчин бүрдэнэ.
Өмнөговь аймгийн дунд болон урт хугацааны бодлогын баримт бичгүүд
P.36 Нийгмийн халамж, хамгааллын үйлчилгээний чанар, хүртээмжийг сайжруулж, хүн амын өсөлтийг нэмэгдүүлэх, иргэдийн ажиллаж амьдрах таатай орчинг бүрдүүлэн гэр бүл, хүн ам зүйн бодлогыг зөв хөгжүүлэх
Хүн амын тогтвортой өсөлтийг хангах, гэр бүл, хувь хүний хөгжлийг дэмжих.
Хөдөлмөр эрхлэлтийг нэмэгдүүлэх замаар ажилгүйдэл ядуурлыг бууруулж нийгмийн хамгааллыг сайжруулах.
Нийгмийн хэрэгцээ шаардлагыг хангасан, өв тэгш хүмүүжилтэй, бие даан сурч, ажиллаж, амьдрах чадвар бүхий хүмүүнлэг иргэнийг төлөвшүүлэх
Сурч амьдрах таатай орчинг бүрдүүлэх, боловсролын салбарын үйлчилгээний чанар хүртээмжийг дээшлүүлэх
Ур чадвартай мэргэжлийн боловсон хүчнээр хангах, суурь боловсролыг нөхөн эзэмшүүлэх.

Төвийн Бүсийн Хөгжлийн Хөтөлбөр
p.4: Бүсийн хэмжээнд хувь хүн, гэр бүл болон хэсэг бүлэг хүмүүс хамтран нийгэмд хөдөлмөрлөх, өөрийнгөө хөгжүүлэх, чадавхиа дээшлүүлэх санал санаачлагыг бүх талаар дэмжих
p.5: Хүний амьдарлын нйигэм, эдийн засаг, орчин ахуйн таатай нөхцлийг бүрдүүлэх замаар хүн амын дундаж наслалтыг 65-д хүргэх
Малчид хувиараа хөдөлмөр эрхлэгчдийг нийгмийн даатгалд өргөнөөр хамруулах төсөл хөтөлбөрүүдийг хэрэгжүүлэх
p.7: Хүн амын төмс, хүнсний ногооны хангамжийг 2005 оны түвшингээс 20-30 хувь, жимс жимсгэний хангамжийг 20 хувь, цөцгийн тосны хангамжийг 50 хувь, загас загасан бүтээгдэхүүний хангамжийг 6 хувь тус тус өсгөн хүнсний хэрэглээний бүтцийг өөрчлөн чанаржуулна. (яг энэхүү тэргүүлэх зорилт хэр үр дүнтэй байх вэ? Энэхүү зорилтийг биелүүлэхдээ ямар арга замыг ашиглавал зорилтод хамгийн хурдан хүрч болох бол?)
p.10: Говьсүмбэр аймагт иргэдийн ундны болон ахуйн хэрэглээний усны нөөц хомсдолоос хамгаалах, бохирдлоос сэргийлэх, усны хатуулгийг бууруулах, чанарыг дээшлүүлэх, инженерийн хийцүүдийг сольж, дэмшилтэт технологи нэвтрүүлэх, усны хэрэглээнд хяналт тавих системтэй болж, зарцуулалтын хэмжээгээр төлбөртэй болох механизм бүрдүүлж ажиллах
p.11: Бүсийн аймгуудын гэр хорооллын усан хангамжийг сайжруулах, усны зохистой хэрэглээг бий болгоход хувийн хэвшлийн оролцоог идэвхижүүлж, тэднийг дэмжсэн үнийн бодлого, татварын бодлого зэрэг эдийн засгийн хөшүүргүүдийг хэрэгжүүлэх
p.13: Өмнөговь аймгийн сүүний үйлдвэрийн хүчин чадлыг бүрэн ашиглаж дотоодын цагаан идээний хэрэгцээг 100 хангана
p.16: Хэдийгээр ажилгүйдлийн түвшин улсын дундажаас бага байгаа боловч ажилгүйдэл, ядуурал их байна. Иймээс ядуурлын үндсийг арилгах, ядуурлаас гарах оновчтой арга зам, механизм боловсруулж хэрэгжүүлэх зайлшгүй шаардлагатай байна.
Бүсийн төв, аймаг, орон нутгийн нөөц баялагийг ашиглах, хуваарилах, өрхийн болон жижиг, дунд үйлдвэр хөгжүүлэхэд орон нутгийн удирдлагын эрхийг нэмэгдүүлэх эрх зүйн орчин бүрдүүлэх
Бүсийн хэмжээнд сайн дурын үндсэн дээр хөдөлмөр, хөрөнгөө нэгтгэн хоршоо, фермерийн аж ахуй, нөхөрлөл байгуулахыг дэмжиж, жижиг дунд үйлдвэрлэлийг өргөтгөх, шинээр байгуулах замаар ажлын байрыг нэмэгдүүлэх арга хэмжээ авах,
p.17: Бүсийн аймгуудын ажил эрхлээгүй залуучуудад техник мэргэжлийн сургалт, үйлдвэр дээрх сургалт зэргийг ажлын дадлага, ур чадвар олгох сургалтын бүх хэлбэрийг дэмжин хөгжүүлэх замаар тэдний мэргэжлийн ур чадварыг дээшлүүлэх
p.18: Өмнөговь аймагт тэтгэврийн сайн дурын даатгалд хамрагдалтыг өргөтгөж, даатгалийн мэдээллийн тогтолцоог бүрдүүлэх
Өмнөговь аймгийн сумдад асрамж үйлчилгээний төвийг байгуулан асрамжийн үйлчилгээг өрх гэрт тулгуурласан хэлбэрт шилжүүлэх
p.19: Ажлын дадлага суулгаж сургалтад хамрагдсан залуучуудыг тогтвортой ажлын байртай болгох
p.20: Бүисйн хэмжээнд бага хүүтэй зээл олгох замаар жижиг дунд үйлдвэрлэл, үйлчилгээг бүх талаар дэмжиж шинээр ажлын байр бий болгох хөтөлбөр боловсруулж хэрэгжүүлэх (ингэж ажиллахдаа банк-ны бичил зээлийн систем дээр тулгуурлан ажиллаж, орон нутагт үйл ажиллагаа явуулж буй ТББ-тай хамтрах)
p.21: “Ахмад настны эрүүл мэнд, нийгмийн хамгаалал” хөтөлбөрийг хэрэгжүүлэх замаар Мандалговьд ахмад настнуудын “Соёл үйлчилгээний төв” байгуулах
Мандалговь сум болон бүсийн бусад сумдад нийтийн ахуй үйлчилгээний салбарыг хувийн хэвшилд тулгуурлан бий болгох замаар үсчин, оёдолчин, гуталчин дархан зэрэг чиглэлээр мэргэжил эзэмшүүлэх сургалтыг бодлого чиглэлтэйгээр зохион байгуулах
Олон жилийн өмнө ашиглалтанд орсон сургуулиудын хичээлийн барилга байгууламж, тоног төхөөрөмж эвчдэрч хуучирсан байна. Мөн цахилгаан, дулааны байнгын хомсдол нь урт богино хугацаагаар сурагчдын хичээл тасрах явдалд хүргэж байна. Багшлах боловсон хүчин....
(НОМЫН САНГ САЙЖРУУЛЖ, ШИНЭ БАРИЛГА БАРИХ. ХӨГЖИЛ МЭДЭЭЛЛИЙН ТӨВ бий болгох. Номын сангийн фондыг баяжуулан, үйлчилгээний хүртээмжийг өргөжүүлэх )
p.24: Даланзадгад суманд орчин үеийн эрэлт шаардлагад нйицсэн 150 ортой зочид буудал, зоогийн газар шинээр байгуулах
Өмнөговь аймгийн нутагт байдаг хилийн боомтын эрх зүйн орчиг бүрдүүлж, боомтын нөхлийг сайжруулан, худалдаа эрхлэгчдэд учирдаг бэрхшээлийг арилгах арга хэмжээ авах.
(МОНГОЛ ТӨМС ХӨТӨЛБӨР http://www.monpotatopro.mn говийн бүсэд тохирох сорт, таримлыг сонгон шалгаруулах явдал нэн чухал бөгөөд Монгол Төмс Хөтөлбөрөөс 2009 онд Өмнөговь аймагт төмсний 10 шинэ сортыг сорт сорилын арга зүйн дагуу турших сорилтын ажлыг зохион байгуулж, хээрийн туршлагыг тавьсан.)
p.25: Байгалийн үзэсгэлэнт газрын нэг болох дархан цаазат Ёлын аманд байрлах Байгалийн салбар музейг палеонтологийн олдвороор өргөжүүлэн баяжуулж, улмаар гадаад дотоодын аялал жуулчдад морь тэмээн хөсөг, ардын уламжлалт урлаг, монгол үндэсний тоглоом наадгайгаар үйлчилдэг бүхэл бүтэн цогцолбор үйлчилгээний бааз болгох.
p.28: аймгийн нутаг дэвсгэрт байгаа түүхийн үл хөдлөх дурсгалуудыг эрэн сурвалжлах, хамгаалах, бүртгэл мэдээллийн санд оруулах арга хэмжээ авах
p.29: Дорноговь аймгийн мэдээлэл, холбооны технолгийд суурилсан зайны сургалтыг хөгжүүлэх, нээлттэй сургалтын хэлбэрийг өргөтгөх арга хэмжээ авах
Бүсийн амйгуудад англ хэлийг хоёр дахь албан хэл болгох зорл тыг хэрэгжүүлэхэд шаардагдах блэтгэл ажлыг хангаж, зхих нөхцөлийг бүрдүүлэх
Өмнөговь аймагт нийтийн ахуй үйлчилгээг системтэй сэргээж үйлчилгээний цогцолбор байгуулах
p.30: Сумдын сургуулиудад сурагчдын дотуур байр барих
... аймгийн ерөнхий боловвсролын сургуулиудад БСШУЯ-тай хамран компютержуулах арга хэмжээ авч, номын сангийн фондыг нэмэгдүүлэх
p.38: Эрүүл мэндийн анхан шатны тусламж үйчилгээний оновчтой тогтолцоог бүрдүүлж, хүртээмж чанар нь сайжруулан, хүн амын эрүүл мэндийн байдлын түвшинг дээшлүүлнэ.
Өмнөд бүс нутгийн эрдэс баялгийг ашиглах, дэд бүтцийг хөгжүүлэх талаар, Үйлдвэр Худалдааны Яам
Говийн бүсэд хүн амын өсөлтийг нэмэгдүүлэх, гадагш чиглэсэн шилжих хөдөлгөөнийг бууруулах, иргэд өөрийн төрж өссөн нутаг орондоо тогтвортой оршин суух нөхцлийг бүрдүүлж, хүний хөгжлийн түвшинг дээшлүүлэх стратегийн зорилтын хүрээнд хэрэгжүүлэх үйл ажиллагаа
- Төслүүдийг хэрэгжүүлэхдээ Монгол ажилчдыг сургах, дадлагажуулах, тэдний нийгмийн асуудлыг шийдвэрлэх, цалин хөлсийг нь гадаадын улс орнуудын хэмжээнд ойртуулах, инженер техникийн ажилтнуудыг гадаадын сургуулиудад бэлтгэх, давтан сургах зэрэг асуудлуудыг төсөл хэрэгжүүлэгч нартай хамтран шийдэх
- Говийн бүсийн онцлог нөхцөл байдлыг бүрэн тусгасан бодлого боловсруулах, хэрэгжүүлэх оролцоот механизм бүрдүүлэх
- Төр засгийн бүх шатанд Говийн бүстэй
ӨМНӨГОВЬ АЙМГИЙГ ХӨГЖҮҮЛЭХ 2009 – 2012 ОНЫ ҮЙЛ АЖИЛЛАГААНЫ МӨРИЙН ХӨТӨЛБӨР
- Хүмүүнлэг иргэний нийгмийг байгуулахын төлөө хүн амыг эрүүл, боловсролтой, ажилтай, орлоготой байх нөхцөл бүрдүүлэх оновчтой бодлого хэрэгжүүлж, хүний хөгжил, хүн амын өсөлтийг хангах нийгмийн таатай орчин бүрдүүлж, иргэдийн амьдралын чанарыг сайжруулахыг эрмэлзэх
- Бүсчилсэн хөгжлийн үзэл баримтлалын хүрээнд “Оюу толгой”, “Таван толгой”, “Овоот толгой”-н их ордыг дагасан Ханбогд, Цогтцэций, Гурвантэсийн үйлдвэржсэн шинэ хотуудыг байгуулах, түүнийг холбосон дэд бүтцийг байгуулж эхлэн, сум бүрт хүн ам, газар зүйн байршил, байгаль орчны даац, ашигт малтмалын нөөц, орон нутгийн чадавхид уялдуулан жижиг дунд үйлдвэрийг хөгжүүлж, ажлын байрыг нэмэгдүүлэх, мэргэжилтэй ажилтан бэлтгэх замаар ажилгүйдэл ядуурлыг өнөөгийн түвшнээс бууруулах
- Иргэдэд эрх зүйн туслалцаа үзүүлэх үйлчилгээг сайжруулан, гэмт хэрэг, архидалт, түүнийг бий болгож буй хүчин зүйлсэд нөлөөлөх замаар иргэн бүр эрүүл, аюулгүй орчинд амьдрах нөхцлийг бүрдүүлэх
- Мэргэжил, ур чадвартай боловсон хүчнээр төрийн жинхэнэ албаны нөөцийг бүрдүүлж, төрийн албан хаагчийн амьдралын нөхцөл бололцоо, ажлын үр дүн, тогтвор суурьшил зэргийг харгалзан тэтгэмж, тусламжид хамруулах, хөнгөлөлттэй зээл олгох, орон сууцны сангийн хөрөнгийг нэмэгдүүлэх замаар нийгмийн баталгааг сайжруулна.
- Боловсон хүчнийг гадаадын улс орнуудад мэргэшүүлэх, мэргэжил дээшлүүлэх сургалтанд шат дараатайгаар хамруулна.
- Архидан согтуурахаас сэргийлэх, хяналт тавих үндэсний хөтөлбөрийн хэрэгжилтийг эрчимжүүлж, архидалт түүнийг бий болгож буй хүчин зүйлсийг илрүүлэн, арилгах арга хэмжээг зохион байгуулна.
- Иргэдийн амь бие, эд хөрөнгө, нэр төрийг гэмт халдлагаас хамгаалах, тэдний аюулгүй, амгалан тайван амьдрах нөхцлийг бүрдүүлэхэд чиглэсэн цогц арга хэмжээг авч гэмт хэргээс урьдчилан сэргийлэх, нийгмийн хэв журам хамгаалах ажилд иргэдийг татан оролцуулж, орон нутагт зонхилон гарч байгаа гэмт хэрэгтэй тэмцэнэ
- “Монгол улсад хүний эрхийг хангах үндэсний хөтөлбөр”-ийн хэрэгжилтийг эрчимжүүлж, хүний эрх, эрх чөлөөг хангах баталгаа, боломжийг өргөтгөнө.
- Цагдаагийн хэлтсийг Цагдаагийн газар болгон өргөтгөх асуудлыг шийдвэрлүүлж, Тавантолгойн нүүрсний уурхай, Гашуун сухайтын хилийн боомтыг хариуцсан гэрээт цагдаагийн тасаг байгуулна.
- Хууль сахиулах байгууллагын алба хаагчдын мэргэжил, мэргэшлийн ур чадварыг дээшлүүлэх, сургалтын материаллаг баазыг сайжруулах арга хэмжээ авна.
- Гадаадын иргэдийн бүртгэл, хяналтыг сайжруулна.
- Гамшгаас сэргийлэх, гамшгийн үеийн бэлэн байдлыг хангах, аврах, хор уршгийг арилгах, сэргээн босгох үйл ажиллагааны шуурхай байдлыг хангана.
- Шүүхийн шийдвэр гүйцэтгэлийн албыг бэхжүүлж, шийдвэр гүйцэтгэлийн ажлын үзүүлэлт, чанарыг дээшлүүлэн, шийдвэр гүйцэтгэлийн бодит биелэлтийг жил бүр 80-аас доошгүй хувиар хангаж ажиллана.
- Хилийн застав, хилийн боомтод ажиллаж байгаа албан хаагчдын хэвийн ажиллах нөхцлийг бүрдүүлнэ.
- Улсын бүртгэлийн нэгдсэн тогтолцоонд шилжих боломжийг бүрдүүлж, бүртгэл мэдээллийн үйлчилгээг цахим хэлбэрт оруулна.
- Батлан хамгаалах болон цэргийн шинэчлэлийн бодлогыг үргэлжлүүлэн хэрэгжүүлж, орон нутгийн хамгаалалтын тогтолцоог төлөвшүүлэх зорилтын хүрээнд:
- Хилийн болон Зэвсэгт хүчний анги салбаруудын бие бүрэлдэхүүний нийгэм, соёлын асуудлыг анхаарч дэмжлэг үзүүлнэ.
- 3.4.2. Орон нутгийн хамгаалалтын тогтолцоог бэхжүүлнэ.
- 3.4.3. Цэргийн дүйцүүлэх албаны үйл ажиллагааны үр дүнг дээшлүүлнэ
Draft Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: UHG Phase II

As a result of coal transport, recorded injuries in Khanbogd soum have also
increased which has placed pressure on the Khanbogd hospital. 59.4 percent of
emergency calls are from Javikhlant bagh of Khanbogd soum (the bagh through
which the coal road crosses in Khanbogd), indicating81 that mining activity
impacts the capacity of health services.

Previously certain population groups, such as students and the self-employed (including traditional herders) had to pay their own insurance premiums, and health insurance coverage declined from 95.3 percent of the population in 1998 to 77.6 percent in 2005110.

However, there are almost no preventive tools (such as sanitary hygiene or nutritional education,
campaigns to control selected diseases, and epidemiological surveillance
measures)

High traffic levels and accidents, with a low vehicle safety culture:

Issues relating to infrastructure safety, exposure to disease, hazardous material
safety or increased exposure to natural hazards can potentially pose a risk to
community safety and security.

Construction of the 12MW power
plant will require an estimated 200 workers, expected to comprise a mixture of
Mongolian and Chinese workers. Likewise, construction of the CHPP will
include domestic and foreign employees. Accommodation for this diverse
workforce will need to take account of differences in language, diet, and other
cultural sensitivities that exist between Mongolian and Chinese people, or there
is potential for direct short term negative impacts on a local scale. To manage
these risks, ER’s ‘Code of Conduct’ will be applied to all workers and subcontractors
in and around the mine site as well as a detailed Camp Management
Plan, included in Section 8 of this document.

The potential impacts to workers if their rights are not met could range from
temporary to permanent and from negligible to major, depending on the
magnitude of the breach. Serious non-conformance could lead to project delays,
orders for a stop in work, fines or the withdrawal of finance. In the event of
major or persistent non-compliance with either Mongolian standards or
international norms, the Project could also be forced to suspend operations or
have lender funds withdrawn.

Jan.01.09 to Jul.01.09

2009-07-08T05:57:00.000-07:00

Маш завгүй байв. Хувийн амьдрал хувьсгалын замнал гээд олон зүйлийг ардаа орхиж, өчнөөн зүйлийг урьдчилан төлөвлөж явах замд нэгэн сайхан "surprise" байсан нь надад үнэхээр таалагдлаа. Ингээд унших үзэхийг бага зэрэг орхигдуулсан тул тооцоолж байснаас хамаагүй багыг уншиж, багыг үзэв.

The motto for the period is:
Years ago, when I was younger
I kind of liked, a girl I knew
She was mine and we were sweethearts
That was then but then it's true

I'm in love with a fairytale
Even though it hurts
Cause I don't care if I lose my mind,
I'm already cursed...
- ALEXANDER RYBAK

Movies Watched
Terminator Salvation
Миний хөрш чөтгөр
The day the earth stood still
Slumdog Millionaire
North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock
Howl’s moving house
Lord of the rings 3
Wanted
Prestige
Last boy scout
Platoon
A mighty heart
Unbearable lightness of being
Gone baby gone
Jane Austen book club
Crimes and Misdeamors
Enchanted
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Once upon a time in America
I am not there
Burn after reading
Eagle Eye
Once upon a time in America
Taxi driver 1976
Atonement
La Dolce Vita
Golden Compass
Fur an Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Nations and nationalism
Gone baby gone
Prestige
Platoon
A mighty heart
Unbearable lightness of being
Jane Austen book club
Crimes and Misdeamors
Enchanted
Tales From Earthsea
Lost highway
Fareed Zakaria GPS series (CNN)
Superbad
Untouchables
Ace in the hole(1951)

Read
Next 100 years
Dreams from my fathers by Barack Obama
Зуун Жилийн ганцаардал
Далайн хөвөөний алаг хав толгой by chingiz aimatov
Саятан Артем Тарасов
Trial by Kafka
Metamorphosis by Kafka
11 minutes by Paulo Coelho
The Ascent of Money by Neil Furgeson
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Animal farm by Orwal
Hot flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
Energy Autonomy by Hermann Scheer
Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Renegade: Making of the president (Audiobook)
How to move Mount Fuji
Barack Obama A Biography by Joann F.Price
Mozart Brain (Audiobook) by Richard Restak
Working with Emotional Intelligence (Audiobook)
The Powers to Lead (mp3 LSE)
Amazing palmistry secrets
Haruki Murakami and the Music of words by Jay Rubin
Уран Зохиолын Онол by С.Дулам

Далайн хөвөөний алаг хав толгой
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Next 100 years
p.12 Geopolitics assumes two things. First, it assumes that humans organize themselves into units larger than families, and that by doing this, they must engage in politics. It also assumes that humans have a natural loyalty to the things they were born into, the people and the places. Loyalty to a tribe, a city, or a nation is natural to people. In our time, national identity matters a great deal. Geopolitics teaches that the relationship between these nations is a vital dimension of human life, and that means that war is ubiquitous.
Second, geopolitics assumes that the character of a nation is determined to a great extent by geography, as is the relationship between nations. We use the term geography broadly. It includes the physical characteristics of a location, but it goes beyond that to look at the effects of a place on individuals and communities.
p.13 But the twenty- first century will be extraordinary
in two senses: it will be the beginning of a new age, and it will see a new global power astride the world. That doesn’t happen very often.
[..]So studying the twenty- first century means studying the United States.
p.18 But I am making a broader, more unexpected claim, too: the United States is only at the beginning of its power. The twenty- first century will be the American century.

p.24 In his book The Influence of Sea Power on History, Mahan makes the counterargument to Mackinder, arguing that control of the sea equals command of the world.

p.28This isn’t incompatible with American self- doubt. Psychologically, the United States is a bizarre mixture of overconfidence and insecurity.

p.65There are five areas of the world right now that are viable candidates. First, there is the all- important Pacific Basin. The United States Navy dominates the Pacific. The Asian rim of the Pacific consists entirely of trading countries dependent on access to the high seas, which are therefore dependent on the United States. Two of them—China and Japan—are major powers that could potentially challenge U.S. hegemony. From 1941 to 1945 the United States and Japan fought over the Pacific Basin, and control of it remains a potential issue today.
Second, we must consider the future of Eurasia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Since 1991, the region has fragmented and decayed. The successor state to the Soviet Union, Russia, is emerging from this period with renewed.

self- confidence. Yet Russia is also in an untenable geopolitical position. Unless Russia exerts itself to create a sphere of influence, the Russian Federation could itself fragment. On the other hand, creating that sphere of influence could generate conflict with the United States and Europe.
Third, there is continuing doubt about the ultimate framework of Europe. For five centuries Europe has been an arena of constant warfare. For the last sixty years it has been either occupied or trying to craft a federation that would make the return of war impossible. Europe may yet have to deal with the resurgence of Russia, the bullying of the United States, or internal tensions. The door is certainly not closed on conflict.
Fourth, there is the Islamic world. It is not instability that is troubling, but the emergence of a nation- state that, regardless of ideology, might form the basis of a coalition. Historically, Turkey has been the most successful center of power in the Muslim world. Turkey is also a dynamic and rapidly modernizing country. What is its future, and what is the future of other Muslim nation- states?
Fifth, there is the question of Mexican–American relations. Normally, the status of Mexico would not rise to the level of a global fault line, but its location in North America makes it important beyond its obvious power. As the country with the fifteenth highest GDP in the world, it should not be underestimated on its own merits. Mexico has deep and historical issues with the United States, and social forces may arise over the next century that cannot be controlled by either government.
In order to pinpoint events that will occur in the future, we need to examine now which of these events are likely to occur and in what order. A fault line does not necessarily guarantee an earthquake. Fault lines can exist for millennia causing only occasional tremors. But with this many major fault lines, conflict in the twenty- first century is almost certain.
Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman

It was an excellent book, and I always love reading Friedman, Furgason, Krugman and others. His language is clear and straight to the point without too much abstraction. Lots of stats included to back up his argument which I always appreciates. The one message clearly resonates throughout the book that is green green green or we die. Hehe “Renewable energy ecosystem for innovating, generating, and deploying clean power”
There were many ideas to pick, and also some business clues to pursue but without much feasibility study and small market in MOnoglia, it is hard to say anything substantial upfront.
Google said it was going into the energy innovation and generation business.

p.8: IN some ways, the subprime mortgage mess and housing crisis are metaphors for what has come over America in recent years: A certain connection between hard work, achievement, and accountability has been broken. We’ve become a subprime nation that thinks it can just borrow its way to prosperity – putting nothing down and making no payments for two years. Subprime lenders told us that we could have the American dream – a home of our own – without the discipline or sacrifice that home ownership requires.
p.23: Le me repeat that: Green is not simply a new form of generating electric power. It is a new form of generating national power – period. It is not just about lighting up our house; it is about lighting up our future.
56: At current rates of growth, the world economy will double in size in a mere fourteen years. (The bridge at the edge of the world by James Gustave SPeth)
“Americans” are popping up all over now […] moving into American stly living spaces, buying American style cars … Cities all over the world have caught America’s affluenza – surely one of the most infectious diseases ever known to man.

p.69: Tha bad news for today’s rising economic powers and new capitalists is that there are few virgin commons left to fule their takeoff into capitalism. “That’s why China is now reduced to stealing manhole covers,” said Pope. “Yes, it is unfair, but it’s the reality.”
p.117: 280 ppm CO2 in 1750, now 384 ppm.

p.187: Give me abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons, and I will give you water in the desert from a deep generator powered well. Give me abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons, and I will put every petrodictator out of business. Give me abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons, and I will end deforestation from communities desperate for fuel and I will eliminate any reason to drill in Mother Nature’s environmental cathedrals. Give me abundant, clean, reliable, and cheap electrons,
and I will enable millions of the world’s poor to get connected, …

p.203: A reent studyt found the average American golfer walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found American golfer drink on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americangolfers get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind of makes you proud. – From the internet

p.207: Pentagon planners like to say: “A vision without resources is a hallucination.”
p.244: But markets are not just open fields to which you simply add water and then sit back in a lawn chair, watch whatever randomly sprouts, and assume that the best outcome will always result. No, markets are like gardens. You have to intelligently design and fertilize them – with the right taxes, regulations, incentives, and disincentives – so they yield the good, healthy crops necessary for you to thrive.
p.273: Another way of putting it, Porter explained to me, is that pollution is simply waste: wasted resources, wasted energy, wasted materials. Companies that eliminate such waste will be using their capital, technology, and raw materials more productively to generate maximum value and therefore, will become more competitive. So properly crafted environmental regulations give a kind of two-for-one kick – they can improve both the environment and the competitiveness of a firm and a nation. […]
What is the difference betweena 20 percent and a 30 percent air conditioner energy-efficiency standard? Salon’s Leonard asked. Only about twelve 400 megawatt power plants.
p.290: A barrel of crude oil is forty two gallons. America consumes over twenty-one million barrels of crude oil per day, with more than half of that imported. About fourteen million of the twenty-one million goes to cars, trucks, planes, buses, and trains. The remaining seven million barrels go into heating buildings and manufacturing chemical and plastics.

p.309 “We always start by looking at the local power structure,” said Supriatna, “understanding the local communities, their cultures, their social and economic aspects, and the influence of the business sector – and [focusing on] what was in it for them and not just the orangutan.” If the orangutan benefits and the community doesn’t “ we lose th efounation for protecting the whole.”

p.373: America took roughly thirty two years between its first major effort to raise fuel economy standards for cars, in 1975 and its second major effort in 2007. Meanwhile, in 2003 China began to put in place a major fuel economy initiative for its cars and trucks and sent proposed new standards to the State Council for approval. They were adopted in 2004 and went into effect in 2005. Now all new cars and trucks must meet the new standard.
p.377: Jeff Biggers, author of The United States of Appalachia, wrote an essay in The Washington Post (March 2, 2008) that seemed to be a direct refutation of the plug into-coal advertisement:
Clean coal: Never was there an oxymoron more insidious, or more dangerous to our public health. Invoked as often by t eDemocratic Presidential candidates as by the Republicans… this slogan has blindsided any meaningful progress toward a sustainable energy policy… Here’s the hog-killing reality… No matter how “cap’n trade” schemes pan out in the distant future for coal fired plants, strip mining and underground coal mining remain the dirtiest and most destructive ways of making energy. Coal ain’s clean. Coal is deadly.

p.391: I understand politics. I am not naïve. But I also understand a crisis and an opportunity. As my friend the former Standford economist Paul Romer likes to say, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste” But we are well on our way.
p.411: So what am I? I guess I wold call myself a sober optimist – I prefer to hold on to both of Auden Schendler’s business cards. If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.

Energy Autonomy by Hermann Scheer

The author is an amazing guy. I have not met him yet, but I am already impressed by his achievements and perseverance to promote renewable energy. In this book, he argued clearly and coherently why renewable energy is the only option we have today why not the nuclear or others. Over 20 years of pursuit, he finally established IRENA.

p.11: The bottlenecks and limits of nuclear and fossil energy supplies are just too obvious for that. But every setback results not only in additional lost time; it also breeds social-psychological discouragement. It is difficult for people who have taken the initiative in a spirit of high hopes, only to suffer repeated setbacks and disappointment, to summon up th energy and take a second go at it.

p.38: The consequences of energy poverty are ruinous exploitation of biomass, increasing steppe land, rural flight into the cities overflowing slums, the destruction of social structures and the disintegration of states, and crises that spill over into international conflicts. And yet, in a grotesque musjudgement of reality, using indigenous renewable energy to overcome this energy-determined poverty crisis is deemed economically unreasonable.

p.53: What matters are ideas and attitudes that can unleash initiatives. In any event, the basic assumption of an insufficient technological potential in untenable.

p.163: The conference’s final declaration warns: We risk the entrenchment of these global disparities and unless we act in a manner that fundamentally changes their lives the poor of the world may lose confidence in their representatives and the democratic systems to which we remain committed, seeing their representatives as nothing more than sounding brass or tinkling cymbals.

p.231: There is an important job to be done and
Everybody expects that Somebody would do it
Anybody could do it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody gets angry about that because it is Everybody’s job.
Everybody thinks that Anybody should do it,
but Nobody realizes that Everybody would not do it.
It ends up that Everybody blames Somebody
when Nobody does what Anybody has to do.

Windup Bird chronicle
May Kasahara
Wind-Up Bird
Kumiko
Nutmeg
p. 29:A noncommissioned officer with Japan’s Manchurian garrison, the Kwantung Army, he had suffered burst eardrums when an artillery shell or a hand grenade or something exploded nearby during a battle with a combined Soviet-Outer Mongolian unit at Nomon-han on the border between Outer Mongolia and Manchuria.
p.56 I am thirsty but I have stay still. I am hungry and I have to stay still. Where I suppose to stay still, I have to stay till.
p.275 Those people believe that the world is as consistent and explainable as the floor plan of a new house in a high-priced development, so if you do everything in a logical, consistent way, everything will turn out right in the end. That’s why they get upset and sad and angry when I’m not like that.
p.297

THE POWER TO LEAD
Soft power:
1. Emotional Intelligence
2. Create a vision
3. Communications - Rhetoric & Non-verbal communication

Hard Power Skill
1. Organizational skills - capacity to manage information flows and get things done.
2. Machevillion political skills - ability to size up people's fears and their hopes, play upon it minimum coalition to make things done. Stregths and weakness to create a coalition
- how to make alliances
- how to bully people into setting standards (bullying with a vision)
3. Contextual intelligence - when to use what kind of strategies.
- You have to know the culture how to operate in it.
- You have to know about the timing - when to act, when not to act, like a skilled surfer: Steps up on the board fall of Ex: Eiserhouwer adapted in the environment to lead.

Barack Obama A Biography by Joann F.Price

p.36 Barack was handed a list of people to interview and was charged with
the task of finding their self-interest. That was how people became involved
in organizations, Marty said, because they believed they would
get something out of the process. Once he found an issue, a self-interest,
that people cared about, he could get them to take action, and with action,
there would be power. Barack liked these concepts of issues, spurring action,
power, and people’s self-interest. For the first three weeks of his job,
he worked around the clock.

p.40 Another member of the DCP, Loretta Augustine-Herron, said of Barack that he was “someone who always followed the high road,” and she remembered him saying, “You’ve
got to do it right . . . be open with the issues . . . include the community instead of going behind the community’s back . . . you’ve got to bring people together. If you exclude people, you’re only weakening yourself. If you meet behind doors and make decisions for them, they’ll never take ownership of the issue.”

p.42 Barack had wanted to be part of a community, have a sense of
belonging, and he had a desire for acceptance; this was, he realized, what
drove him away from New York and to Chicago in the first place. Yet
what he found in his work as a community activist was that, to be true to
himself, he had to do what was right for others and have a commitment
and faith. He also realized that to understand suffering required something
else, too, but he had to find out what that something was. Faith in
oneself wasn’t enough

p.49 In his speeches, he tried to steer clear of contention, stick to
safe topics, and listen to others’ opinions.

p.55 Paul L. Williams, a lobbyist in Springfield, Illinois, and
a former state representative, said that Barack “came with a huge dose
of practicality,” and characterized Barack’s attitude as, “O.K., that makes
sense and sounds great, as I’d like to go to the moon, but right now I’ve
only got enough gas to go this far.

p.74 On one evening alone, he raised nearly $1 million for the Arizona
Democratic Party at a dinner attended by nearly 1,400 people. He also, in
2005, raised an estimated $1.8 million for his own political action committee,
known as the Hopefund.
p.90 On a visit to New Hampshire in December 2006, to an audience
described as rock-star size, Barack said, “America is ready to turn the
page. America is ready for a new set of challenges. This is our time. A
new generation is prepared at lead.”
p.93 Portraying
his candidacy as a movement rather than a campaign, he said, “Each
and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to
be done. Today we are called once more, and it is time for our generation to answer that call.
p.100 When asked if senators who voted in favor of authorizing
the war bear some responsibility for the war in Iraq, Barack answered that
the authorization allowed the Bush administration to wage a war that has
damaged national security. “I leave it up to those senators to make their
own assessments in how they would do things differently or not.”

How to move mount Fuji
P.21 The "ordeal by trick question" was
possibly raised to the highest art by the monks of Japanese Zen.
Zen riddles are the antithesis of the Western logic puzzle,
though one might describe them as demanding an extreme sort
of outside-the-box thinking. A student of Zen demonstrates
worthiness by giving a sublimely illogical answer to an
impossible question. Zen master Shuzan once held out his short
staff and announced to a follower: "If you call this a short staff,
you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore
the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?" In traditional Zen
teaching, the penalty for a poor answer was a hard whack on the
head with a short staff.
Where do you see yourself in five
years? What do you do on your day off? What's the last book
you've read? What are you most proud of?
p.35 Terman defined intelligence as the ability to reason
abstractly. You may not feel this definition says a whole lot. It
was nonetheless reverentially quoted in the twentiethcentury
literature of intelligence testing. Today, it would
probably satisfy Microsoft's interviewers as a definition of
intelligence. Terman's main point was that intelligence is not
knowledge of facts but the ability to manipulate concepts.
p.59In 1979 Microsoft was fifteen people in Albuquerque headed by a twenty-threeyear old kid.
p.66Just in case anyone is in danger of forgetting this, the secret
to remaining ahead of the pack is not "Get Fat" It's "Stay
Hungry." Creativity doesn't happen without a few
constraints. That's why wise use of resources has been a
business tradition at Microsoft since the early days, when, to
be perfectly honest, there wasn't much choice in the
matter. But it remains our practice today, for the simple
reason that when you start leaning on your wealth instead
of living by your wits, you're in real danger of losing your
edge.
p.79"Good candidates have a tendency to try to naturally
keep things moving forward," says Spolsky, "even when you
try to hold them back. If the conversation ever starts going
around in circles, and the candidate says something like
'Well, we can talk about this all day, but; we've got to do
something, so let's go with decision X,' that's a really good sign."
p.98 "Throughout the interview, you look for the
candidate to say something that is absolutely, positively,
unarguably correct. Then you say, 'Wait a minute, wait a
minute,' and spend about two minutes playing devil's
advocate. Argue with them when you are sure they are right.
"Weak candidates will give in. No hire. Strong
candidates will find a way to persuade you. They will have a
whole laundry list of Dale Carnegie techniques to win you
over. 'Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you,' they will say. But
they will stand their ground. Hire."

p.104 Some recent analyses send the message that no one knows how to solve a problem until he or she solves it. In contrast to Simon's solution space, Harvard psychologist David Perkins speaks of a "clueless plateau." If the space of possible solutions is a landscape, and the right solution is somewhere on a big plateau over there, then you've got to search the whole plateau (and are clueless about where to start).
p.132 1. First decide 'what kind of answer is expected (monologue or dialogue). Design questions ("Design a spice rack") have no single right answer. That does not mean that everything is a right answer. "Not-so-smart candidates think that design is like painting: you get a blank slate, and you can do whatever you want," says Joel Spolsky. "Smart candidates understand that design is a difficult series of trade-offs."
p.136 6. "Perfectly logical beings" are not like you and me.
p.137 When you hit a brick wall, try to list the assumptions you're making. See what happens when you reject each of these assumptions in succession.
When crucial information is missing in a logic puzzle, lay out the possible scenarios. You'll almost always find that you don't need the missing information to solve the problem.

The Ascent of Money by Neil Furgeson
p.88: With success came ever greater wealth. When Nathan died in 1836 his personal fortune was equivalent to 0.62 percent of British national income. Between 1818 and 1852 the combined capital of the five Rothschild houses rose from ₤1.8 million to ₤9.5 million. As early as 1825 their combined capital was nine times greatr than that of Baring Brothers and the Banque de France.
p.98: The fate of those who lost their shirts on Confederate bonds was not especially unusual in the nineteenth century.
p.105: Worst of all was the social and psychological trauma caused by the crisis. “ Inflation is a crowd phenomenon in the strictest and most concrete sense of the word,” Elias cannetti later wrote of his experience as a young man in inflation stricken Frankfurt.
p.111: Yet it would be wrong to see this as yet another case of a defeated regime liquidating its debts through inflation. What made Argentina’s inflation so unmanageable was not war, but the constellation of social forces: the oligarchs, the caudillos, the producers’ interest groups and the trade unions – not forgetting the impoverished underclass or descamizados…
p.182: It may sound like just another story of Southern moral laxity or proof that those who live by the tort, die by the tort. Yet, regardless of Scrugg’s descent from good fellow to bad felon, the fact remains that both State Farm and All State have now decl;ared a large part of the Gulf of Mexico coast a “no insurance” zone.
p.183: The average American’s lifetime risk of death from exposure to forces of nature, including all kinds of natural disaster, has been estimated at 1 in 3288. The equivalent figurefor death due to a fire in a building is 1 in 1358. The odds of the average American being shot to death are 1 in 314. But he or she is even more likely to commit suicide (1 in 119); more likely still die in a fatal road accident (1 in 78); and most likely of all to die of cancer (1 in 5).
p.215: For Jose Pinera, just 24 when Pinochet seized power, the invitation to return to Chile from harvard posed an agonizing dilemma. He had no illusions about the nature of Pinochet’s regime. Yet he also believed there was an oppotrunity to put into practice ideas that had been taking shape in his mind ever since his arrival in New England. The key, as he saw it, was not just to reduce inflation. It was also essential to foster that link between property rights and political rights which ahd been at the heart of the successful North American experiment with capitalist democracy. There was no surer way to do this, Pinera believed, than radically to overhaul the welfare state, beginning with the pay as-you-go system of funding state pensions and other benefits. As he was it:…

Underground by Haruki Murakami

Oct.09.08 to Dec.31.08

2008-12-31T10:51:00.000-08:00

Энэ хугацаанд нилээд хэдэн орчуулга хийсэн тул толгойгоо амраах нэрийдлээр оройдоо баахан кино үзэж амжуулав. Амьдарлын энэхүү хэсэгхэн хугацаандаа доорх ишлэлийг зориулав. \
"People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wonder the world over seeking one another."

Movies watched:
88
Charlie Wilson’s War
Away from her
Body of lies
no country for old man
King kong 2005
Before sunrise
Michael Clayton
One flew over cackoo's nest
Freud Analysis of a Mind
The Secret
Body of lies
Three kings
CJ7
The kingdom
Kunfu Hustle
The kingdom
The Counterfeiters
Rescue down
no one messes with zohan
Son of rainbow
Million dollar baby
Bridge.To.Terabithia[2007]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo
the others (Nicole Kidman)
Bicycle thief
Goodfellas
The Last Castle
Curse of Golden flower
Unbearable lightness of being
Resident Evil
Children of Man
Shaolin Soccer
Leatherheads
Atonement
2046
Hunted
Indiana Jones, Kingdom of Crystal Skulls
Blade Runner
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Rocky I
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V (I am in love with Rocky! Eye of the tiger baby!)
Standard operation procedure
No country for an old man
Tropic Thunder
Frenheit 9/11
Good luck Chuck

Books read:
Time management by Marc Mancini, McGrawHill.
Advanced reading power 4.
Түүвэр зохионл by Дамдинсүрэн
Яруу найргийн цоморлиг By Д.Равжаа.
Great People decisions
Wind up bird chronicle

Time management by Marc Mancini, McGrawHill.
A great book. I stopped using my mobile as a result of reading this book. Right now my planning has improved greatly and the productive time has increased which means less time wasted.
There number of issues which I have remind myself from time to time on time management. Of course that then should be referred back to the book: priorities, ROCKS, BLOCKS GOALS AND CLUSERS.

GREAT PEOPLE DECISIONS
The book emphasizes the people decisions where the company success ultimately lie. Without the right people in the right places, company is not going to perform as profitful as it might be capable of. My impression of the book is that whatever we choose to do, we need to be aware of that everything involves people in any business. Therefore choosing the right people in the right time, and firing the wrong people before it is too late has magnificent impact on the success of any business.

p.11 In Buckingham’s words, it is Discover what is unique about
each person and capitalize on it. In other words, first you hire great people,
then you assign the right person to the right job—both fundamental
kinds of people decisions.

p.18 The point should be clear: These experts aren’t checking their guts;
they’re identifying and checking the key indicators. You can do the same
thing with people decisions.
p.29 Dick Cooley understood that in a volatile world, the ultimate
hedge against uncertainty is to have the right people who can
adapt to whatever the world might throw at you—like having the
right climbing partners with you on the side of a big, dangerous,
and unpredictable mountain.

p.31 It seemed clear, moreover, that there was no chance
that these losing operations could ever be made profitable, in part because
they were located in cities that were too small to sustain them.But other stores presented a more complicated picture. For example,
one store we looked at was practically across the street from a competitor.
Our client’s store was languishing, and the competitor appeared
to be thriving. Our client believed that more advertising was needed to
increase customer traffic. “Wait a moment,” we said. “Are you sure you
have the right product mix and service?”

p.38 Figures 2.1 through 2.3, adapted from my MIT Sloan Management
Review article, “Getting the Right People at the Top,” make two complementary
points: (1) Organizations that hire or promote mediocre executives
tend to suffer greatly, and, conversely, (2) organizations that are
able to identify and appoint great people tend to develop a unique competitive advantage.17

p.79 One of the largest studies, reported by David Callahan, indicates that in some cases, 95 percent of college-age respondents were willing to lie in order to get a job—and that in fact 41 percent of the students had already done so! (I admit that I was shocked.) Another study, reviewing 2.6 million job applications in 2002 by a U.S. firm that conducts background checks, revealed that 44 percent contained at least some lies.

p.92 In the past, you needed massive market power in commodity businesses; today, you have to contend with greatly increased customer and investor power in all businesses. In the past, Fortune pointed out, you had to know how to negotiate with
unions; today, it’s all about attracting and retaining top talent

p.115 They are rigorous, not ruthless. To be ruthless means hacking and cutting, especially in difficult times, or wantonly firing people without any thoughtful consideration. To be rigorous means consistently applying exacting standards at all times and at all levels, especially in upper management. To be rigorous, not ruthless, means that the best people need not worry about their positions
and can concentrate fully on their work.
p.141 There are many ways in which EI has been defined, and therefore many clusters of competencies and many ways of measuring them. The most useful is the model developed by Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, which includes four clusters: (1) self-awareness (where the What to Look For 141 respective competencies are emotional self-awareness, accurate selfassessment, and self-confidence); (2) self-management (emotional selfcontrol, transparency, adaptability, achievement orientation, initiative, and optimism); (3) social awareness (empathy, organizational awareness,
and service orientation); and (4) relationship management or social skills (developing others, inspirational leadership, influence, change catalyst, conflict management, and teamwork and collaboration).

p.144 icludes five essential steps toward change.14 The first step is to want to
change, and therefore define your ideal self—who you want to be. The second is to discover your “real self.” Given the limits of our selfawareness, this requires feedback from others. The third step is to create, again with the help of others, a realistic learning agenda to build on your strengths while compensating for weaknesses.The fourth step is to experiment with the new behaviors, thoughts,
and feelings, practicing them until you master the new competencies.
This is an essential point, and it constitutes a major difference between
traditional learning and the development of emotional intelligence–
based competencies. Yes, these competencies can be learned, but they
require much hard work over an extended period, so that new habits can
be developed.

The fifth and final condition, which applies to each of the previous steps, is to develop trusting relationships that can help, support, and encourage each step in the process. In short, the “development dilemma” referred to earlier shouldn’t
center on whether development is or is not possible. We can develop the competencies most important to leadership. The real dilemma is that development takes time. It requires a significant personal effort, and has to be properly supported by the organization.

p.146As I see it, potential consists of three main components. First, of
course, you need ambition. Are you hungry? What are you aspiring to,
over the long term? David McClelland pointed to three great motivators:
the need for achievement, the need for affiliation, and the need for
power.15 Well, how motivated are you? Are you willing to make major
sacrifices to satisfy one or more of those needs?

Second, you need the ability to learn from experience. Morgan McCall
and others make this case eloquently.16 Do you seek out opportunities to
learn? Do you take risks, seek and use feedback, learn from your mistakes,
stay open to criticism, and so on?

Last but not least, the research from our firm’s own databases,
which includes the assessments of thousands of executives over several
years, suggests that some specific competencies are a strong indicator of
high potential. Do you have high levels of the future-oriented competencies
(including strategic orientation, change leadership, and results orientation)
that are strongly correlated with high executive potential?

p.146 In Winning, Jack Welch describes
integrity as the first acid test you need to conduct before you even think
about hiring someone.17

p.147 “You can teach a turkey
to climb a tree, but it’s easier to hire a squirrel.”

p.151 First, establish the priorities for the position by answering a series of
questions along the following lines:
• Two years from now, how are we going to tell whether the new
manager has been successful?
• What do we expect him or her to do, and how will he or she do it
in our organization?
• What initial objectives can we agree on?
• If we were to implement a short- and medium-term incentive
system for this position, what key variables would matter most?

p.154
p.38 Figures 2.1 through 2.3, adapted from my MIT Sloan Management
Review article, “Getting the Right People at the Top,” make two complementary
points: (1) Organizations that hire or promote mediocre executives
tend to suffer greatly, and, conversely, (2) organizations that are
able to identify and appoint great people tend to develop a unique competitive advantage.17

P.176 The third basic way in which people pursued jobs was through “direct
application,” meaning that they wrote directly to an organization
without using a formal or personal intermediary, and without having
heard about a specific opening from a personal contact. (Direct application
through a company’s web site would also fall into this last category.)
Granovetter found that personal contacts were the predominant
method of finding out about jobs, used by almost 56 percent of the respondents.
Job-seekers preferred this approach, believing that they got and
gave better information using this strategy. Based on observations from
my professional experience, most employers also prefer to work through
personal contacts.
P.178
Successful job-hunters, for their part, tended to share three characteristics.
Those not actively searching for a job got better jobs than those
who were searching actively. More surprisingly, almost half got jobs without
a previous incumbent leaving. And finally, most drew heavily on past
contacts and career patterns.
Speculating as to why employers and employees prefer to make use
of personal contacts, Granovetter observed that personal ties yielded
more intensive information, as opposed to more extensive information.
Investing in extensive information is appropriate when you’re shopping
for standardized goods, such as a new car. But getting better intensive
information is critically important when you’re assessing a candidate for
a job.
P.200 We humans make snap judgments all the time, and at amazing
speeds. Recent discoveries from neuroscience indicate that social judgments,
in particular, come quickly. This is true for two reasons. First, a
newly discovered class of neurons, called the spindle cell, is the fastestacting
brain cell of all, and is dominant in the part of the brain that directs
our (snap) social decisions. Second, the neural circuits that make
these decisions are always in the “ready” position. As Daniel Goleman
describes in his latest book:
Even while the rest of the brain is quiescent, four neural areas remain
active, like idling neural motors, poised for quick response.
Tellingly, three of these four ready-to-roll areas are involved in
making judgments about people.8
It turns out that we make judgments about people much faster than
we do about things. Amazingly, in your first encounter with someone, the
relevant areas in your brain are making your initial judgment (pro or
con) in just one-twentieth of a second.

p.225 Too late, I remembered the warning of our firm’s
founder, Egon Zehnder, who used to say that complacency is a twin that
grows side by side with superb performance results.
p.231

WIND UP CHRONICLE
p.120 “Do you know the story of the monkeys of the shitty island?” I asked Noboru Wataya. He shook his head, with no sign of interest. “Never heard of it.” “Somewhere, far, far away, there’s a shitty island. An island without a name. An island not worth giving a name. A shitty island with a shitty shape. On this shitty island grow palm trees that also have shitty shapes. And the palm trees produce coconuts that give off a shitty smell. Shitty monkeys live in the trees, and they love to eat these shitty-smelling coconuts, after which they shit the world’s foulest shit. The shit falls on the ground and builds up shitty mounds, making the shitty palm trees that grow on them even shittier. It’s an endless cycle.”
p.144 and so you see, my friends,” he was saying, “everything is both complicated and simple. This is the fundamental rule that governs the world. *We must never forget it. Things that appear to be complicated- and that, in fact, are complicated-are very simple where motives are concerned. It is just a matter of what we are looking for. Motive is the root of desire, so to speak. The important thing is to seek out the root. Dig beneath the complicated surface of reality. And keep on digging. Then dig even more until you come to the very tip of the root. If you will only do that”-and here he gestured toward the map-”everything will eventually come clear. That is how the world works. The stupid ones can never break free of the apparent complexity. They grope through the darkness, searching for the exit, and die before they are able to comprehend a single thing about the way of the world. They have lost all sense of direction. They might as well be deep in a forest or down in a well. And the reason they have lost all sense of direction is because they do not comprehend the fundamental principles. They have nothing in their heads but garbage and rocks. They understand nothing. Nothing at all. They can’t tell front from back, top from bottom, north from south. Which is why they can never break free of the darkness.” Noboru Wataya paused at that point to give his words time to sink into the minds of his audience. “But let’s forget about people like that,” he went on. “If people want to lose all sense of direction, the best thing that you and I can do is let them. We have more important things to do.”
p.183: you have been moving toward the proper state, step by step. The worst is over for you, and it will never come back. Such things will never happen to you again. It will not be easy, but you will be able to forget many things once a certain amount of time has passed. Without a true self, though, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.
p.268 I guess time doesn’t flow in order, does it- A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like going.
p.271 So these little eyes of mine have seen a hell of a lot. Everybody burns out in this world: amateur, pro, it doesn’t matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That’s why everybody takes out a little insurance. I’ve got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you can manage to survive if you burn out. If you’re all by yourself and don’t belong anywhere, you go down once and you’re out. Finished.

June,08,07 to Oct,08,08

2008-10-12T09:51:00.000-07:00

Түмэн уймаж, төр засарсан он жилүүд улиран өнгөрөхөд, ном хэмээгч энэ эдийг ширээн дээрээс нэг нэгээр нь цэрэг би буудан унагаана. Харанхуй шөнө, гэрэлт өдөр ялгаа нь үгүй буудах эдгээр номноос өөрийн эрж буй эрдэнэсээ, хайж буй бурханаа олно гэсэн зүрхний үзүүр дахь итгэл дээр тулгуурлан би тэднийг буудна. Буудах буудахдаа баяр баясгалангаар дүүрэн, шантаршгүй сонирхолоор халин, тэсвэр тэвчээртэйгээр буудна. За тэгээд буудаж унагааснаас санаж байгааг энд бичие дээ.

Энэ удаагийн пост-н гол quote-г өгүүлбэрээр биш дууны үгээр илэрхийлюу.

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply, as time goes by.

And when two lovers woo, they still say 'I love you Lauren,' On that you can rely.
No matter what the future brings, as time goes by.

Moonlight and love songs never out of date,
Hearts full of passion, jealousy and hate.
Woman needs man and man must have his mate,
That no one can deny.

It's still the same old story, a fight for love and glory, a case of do or die.
The world will always welcome lovers,
As time goes by.

Үзсэн кино:
Geisha
Hancock
Die Hard 4
Iron man
There will be blood
Casablanca (1942)
4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days
Incredible Hulk
V for Vindetta
Kunfu panda
Meet the Spartans
Simpsons 2007, movie
Haima
Perfect strenger
Batman begins
Batman 2
Oldboy
Rendition
April snow
La mala educacion
Vintage Point
Buena Vista Social Club
Autumn and Spring
My life as a dog/ Mitt liv som hund
A knife in the water
Imperor's new groove
Manhattan
Good thief
Seventh Seal
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
When father was away on business
Bourne Ultimatum
Transformers
Pursuit of Happiness
Maria Full of Grace
Apt Pupil
Wall-E
Any given Sunday
Geisha
Departed
Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo bay
Into the Wild
Starting out in the Evening
Mummy 3
Equilibrium
London
Katyn
Mama mia (musical)
The three burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

Books read:
Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R.Brown
Doha Declaration, WTO
Seven Habits of successful people
The Chinese Economy, Transitions and growth by Barry Naughton
Studies in Fiction by Bonazza/Emil Roy
С. Дулам, Монголын Аман Зохиолын Онол
Nietzsche: A philosophical Biography by Safranski
How societies choose to fail or succeed, by Jared Diamond
Why is sex fun by Jared Diamond
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
Broker by John Grishnam
Eletronic Trading guide for Nasdaq
Guide to Electronic Trading by Yu Jea
The New Nasdaq Marketplace, 2007 Springer
Martin Eden by Jack London
Company Law
Law on Central Bank
Joan of Arc and the hundred years war
BadBoys’ Lifestyle
Good to great by Jim Collins
Long Tail
Edward R Tufte - The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
ANGEL AND DEMONS by Dan Brown
Never be laid to again by David Lieberman
In the Court of Public Opinion
Raising Capital – Get the money you need to grow your business
Seven habits of highly effective people
Powerful Sleep: How to sleep less and have more energy than you ever had before
Компанийн засаглалын кодекс
The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera
By river Piedra I sat down and wept by Paulo Coelho (reread)
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
Brida by Paulo Coelho
Neuromancer
Jonathan Seagull Livingston
Vault Career Guide investment banking
Attacting wealth
Never be lied to again
Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murikami
Dynasties by David Landes
Nordic exchange rules
Global Future: Next challenge for asian business (notes were taken on the book)
Audacity of hope by Obarak Obama
Love in time of cholera
Speed reading

Судалгаа болон бусад:
241 Forex
Automated trading journal
Economic way looking at life, Nobel lecture by Gary S. Becker
BHP review 2007
Citigroup corporate & investment banking by VAULT
Doing business Overview 2008
"The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race” by Jared Diamond
Ensuring India’s offshoring future
МОНГОЛ УЛСАД ХУВИЙН ХӨРӨНГӨ ОРУУЛАЛТЫН САН БАЙГУУЛАХ
ТӨСЛИЙН ТЕХНИК, ЭДИЙН ЗАСГИЙН ҮНДЭСЛЭЛИЙГ ТОДОРХОЙЛОХ
СУДАЛГАА I
МОНГОЛ УЛСАД ХУВИЙН ХӨРӨНГӨ ОРУУЛАЛТЫН САН БАЙГУУЛАХ
ТӨСЛИЙН ТЕХНИК, ЭДИЙН ЗАСГИЙН ҮНДЭСЛЭЛИЙГ ТОДОРХОЙЛОХ
СУДАЛГАА II
Oxytocin Increases Trust in Humans
Risk, Financial Crises, and Globalization: Long-Term Capital Management and the Sociology of Arbitrage by Donald MacKenzie, 2002
Financial innovation and the management and regulation of financial institutions by Robert C.Merton
BusinessWeek Jan.28
Almost all economist magazines.

С. Дулам, Монголын Аман Зохиолын Онол
check the book.

LONG TAIL
p. 52 The theory of the Long Tail can be boiled down to this: Our culture and economy are increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of hits (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve, and moving toward a huge number of niches in the tail. In an era without the constraints of physical shelf space and other bottlenecks of distribution, narrowly targeted googds and services can be as economically attractive as mainstream fare.

ANGEL AND DEMONS by Dan Brown
p.192: His holiness once told me that a Pope is a man torn between two worlds… the real world and the divine. He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.
p.197: God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

p.288: Stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secret’s making you laugh.

Ward off the mental cobwebs.

Powerful Sleep:
How to sleep less and have more energy than you ever had before
I cannot over emphasize how important this is! As explained earlier, the amount
of natural sunlight that enters your eyes has a drastic effect on your temperature
body rhythm.
• When we're exposed to high intensity light, our body temperature increases, and
melatonin levels rapidly decrease.
• Exposure to natural sunlight also delays the temperature drop. This allows you
to stay awake and alert for longer periods of time.
• Lack of sunlight results in higher melatonin levels, this leads to lower body
temperature levels, feeling very sleepy, and tired through out the day.
Power Naps - The Secret to Energy With Little Sleep
If done correctly, taking regular day-time naps will give you a huge boost of
energy throughout the day. It takes about 45 minutes to enter the first deep sleep phase. If you limit your nap to 45 minutes, you will sleep mainly in Stage 2 sleep.
Having a Regular Rising Time & Sleeping Time

Never be laid to again by David Lieberman
p. 90 And while your clues to deception will let you know what kind of person you're dealing with, the following strategy will prove useful in these situations.

1. Always, if possible, get a second opinion. It's easy to do and can save you a lot of heartache.

2. Make sure the person is licensed, insured, and registered to do the actual work.

3. Have your agreement drawn up in writing. Oral contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on.

4. Ask for referrals or testimonials.
If he balks at any one of these points, you might want to take your business elsewhere. The con artist operates best when you're in the dark.
Finally, the following strategy should give you an accu-rate insight into the person's intentions. The key is to ask for the opposite of what you really want.
You asked your waiter for decaffeinated coffee and five minutes later the busboy comes by with a filled cup of coffee.
Sample question formation: "This is regular coffee, right?" If he confirms that it is, either he doesn't care enough to know for sure or it really is regular. Again, either
way, you now know that you may not be getting what you asked for. However, should he tell you that it is decaf-feinated—something he thinks you don't want—then you can be pretty sure that you're getting what you originally asked for.

p.92 You ask the waiter if there is MSG, an additive that some people are allergic to, in the salad and he tells you there isn't. He doesn't seems terribly convincing and you just want to make sure.
Sample question formation: "Okay, Albert, that's great. Just so you know I'm deathly allergic to MSG. One forkful and it's off to the hospital I go." After

p.115
. . would be helpful."

4. "You can pretend anything and master it."

5. "I understand what you're . . . saying ... it doesn't make it true."

6. "If you expected me to believe that, you wouldn't have said it."

7. "Your question is what you knew it would be, isn't it?"

8. "Your response says what you're unaware of."
9. "Do you believe that you knew what you thought?" 10. "How do you stop a thought once you get it?"

11. "Why would you believe something that's not true?"

12. "Why axe you agreeing with what you already know?"

13. "What happens when you get a thought?"

14. "The less you try the more you'll agree ..."

15. "Are you unaware of what you forgot?"

p.121
Don't ask someone to change his mind without giving him additional information. Remember that while you're talking to the person he listens with his ego—and you must accommodate it. Many people see changing their mind as a sign of weakness. He's given up and you've won.
So instead of asking him to change his mind, allow him to make a new decision based on additional information. Politicians have a penchant for this because they never want to appear wishy-washy. They rarely say that they've changed their mind on an issue—rather, they say their "position has evolved," as it were.
For example, you might say, "I can see why you said that then, but in light of the fact that [a new bit of information to justify him changing his mind], I think you owe me an explanation."

p.130
When you go into a meeting wanting it to work out, you'll overlook too many things that may make it a bad deal. You must try to remain as objective as possible—^as if you were reviewing the information for someone else. Wishful thinking, desire, and hope cannot allow you to lose sight of reality.
P.132
Emotional states are either self-induced, externally
brought on, or arise from a combination of the two. Some of the more powerful ones are: guilt, intimidation, appeal to ego, fear, curiosity, our desire to be liked, and love. If you're operating in any of these states, your judgment is likely to be impaired.

LIAR’S POKER by Michael Lewis
John Gutfreund’s now legendary comment that to succeed on the Saloman Brothers trading floor a person had to wake up each morning “ready to bite the ass of a bear.”

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Samuel Johnson.

p.22 A chaired professor of the LSE who tooka keen interest in material affairs, stared at me bug-eyed and gurgled when he heard what I was to be paid. It was twice what he earned. He was in his mid-forties and at the top of his profession. I was twenty-four years old and at the bottom of mine. There was no justice in the world and thank goodness for that.

All Quiet on the Bond Front
p.35 Solomon had been able to snatch away were worth many times their weight in gold and treated like the family china.
p.36 Bond traders and salesmen age like dogs.
He become that most revered of all species: a Big Swinging Dick.
But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.
Equities in Dallas – Just bury that lowest ofrm of human scum where it will never be seen again.
Lower than the whale shit on the bottom of the ocean. P.43 One day I was out playing the Invisible Man, feeling the warmth of the whale shit and thinking that no one in life was lower than I.
p.57 Myron Samuels described the morning following the boat ride as a “coyote morning.” After an ill-considered one-night stand you wake up and see for the first time the face of the woman you’ve slept with; your arm, is pinned to the bed by her head, and rather than wake her, like an entrapped coyote, you chew off your arm and scram.
p.62: Noun, verb, adjective: fucker, fuck, fucking. No part of speech was spared. His world was filled with copulating inanimate objects and people getting their faces ripped off.
p.101 My product took off first, says Ranieri. “Investors started to buy the gospel according to Ranieri.” The gospel according to Ranieri was, in simple terms, “that mortgages were so cheap your teeth hurt.”
p.142: geek was both B) a person immediately out of the training program and in a disgusting larval state between trainee and man.”
p.152: Many of our French and English speculators however, honestly believed the charts contained the secrets of the market. They are aboriginal chartists.
p.175: God gave you eyes, plagiarize. Hehe
p.176: My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.
p.199 Drexel Burnham had cleared $545.5 million on revenues of $4 billion, more than Salomon brothers had made at their best.
p.200 Mortgages and junk mdade it easier to borrow money for people and companies previously thought unworthy of the funds.
p.208 From virtually zero in the 1970s, new junk bond issuance grew to $839 million 1981 to $8.5 billion in 1985, and to $12 nillion in 1987. By then junk bonds were 25 percent of the corporate bond market.
p.211: The embodiment of the take-over market is a high-strung, hyperambitious twenty six year old, employed by a large American investment bank, smiling and dialing for companies.

COLLAPSE by Jared Diamond

One of Diamonds's best. I wish I can invite him to do through study on Mongolia's current development. As far as I am concerned, we seem to take a path which Diamond specifically advise not to take in his own book. I read couple of other books by him and most of his books simply emancipating the chained mind of ours in a way that eventually think of our actions.

In Mongolia, some people are just starting to do what he wrote to us not to do in the first place. His reasons of societal collapses are as follows:
1. Human environmental impacts - deforestation, small scale mining in Mongolia, mercury usage, cyanide nitrate condemnation etc
2. Climate change - desertification, temperature rise in last 40yrs by 3 degrees in UB, and other areas in Mongolia etc(effects are interacted with the effects of human environmental impacts)
3. Dependency - especially that of food and other essential consumer goods. What if the supplier cease to provide due to political or any other reasons?
4. Religions factors play important role. Mongolia is sliding to Buddhism or more of superstition and christianity. The more radical christian groups are taking more support among the youth as I see it. Maybe I am wrong. Hope I am wrong.
5. External enemies - russian, chinese mafia or criminal groups already taking rapid expansion in Mongolian economy - which will eventually cause internal conflict between relevant groups within the country - maybe.

p.33: How much past environmental damage was unintentional and imperceptible, and how much was perversely wrought by people acting in full awareness of the consequences? For instance, what were Easter Islanders saying as they cut down the last tree on their island? It turns out that group decision-making can be undone by a whole series of factors, beginning with failure to anticipate or perceive a problem, and proceeding through conflicts of interest that leave some members of the group to pursue
goals good for themselves but bad for the rest of the group.

p.46 In the U.S. today, a company opening a new mine is required by law to buy a bond by which a separate bondholding company pledges to pay for the mine's cleanup costs in case the mining company itself goes bankrupt. But many mines have been "underbonded"
(i.e., the eventual cleanup costs have proved to exceed the value of the bond), and older mines were not required to buy such bonds at all.
p.47 For instance, in 1998, to the shock of the industry, and to politicians supporting
and supported by the industry, Montana voters passed a ballot initiative banning a problem-plagued method of gold mining termed cyanide heapleach mining and discussed further below
p.165Within our five-factor framework for understanding societal collapses, four of those factors played a role in the Anasazi collapse. There were indeed human environmental impacts of several types, especially deforestation and arroyo cutting. There was also climate change in rainfall and temperature, and its effects interacted with the effects of human environmental impacts. Internal trade with friendly trade partners did play a crucial role in the collapse: different Anasazi groups supplied food, timber, pottery, stone, and luxury goods to each other, supporting each other in an interdependent complex society, but putting the whole society at risk of collapsing. Religious and political factors apparently played an essential role in sustaining the complex society, by coordinating the exchanges of materials, and by motivating people in outlying areas to supply food, timber, and pottery to the political and religious centers. The only factor in our five-factor list for whose operation there is not convincing evidence in the case of the Anasazicollapse is external enemies. While the Anasazi did indeed attack each other
as their population grew and as the climate deteriorated, the civilizations of the U.S. Southwest were too distant from other populous societies to have been seriously threatened by any external enemies.

p.287: Small societies occupying a small island or homeland can adopt a
bottom-up approach to environmental management. Because the homeland
is small, all of its inhabitants are familiar with the entire island, know that
they are affected by developments throughout the island, and share a sense
of identity and common interests with other inhabitants. Hence everybody
realizes that they will benefit from sound environmental measures that they
and their neighbors adopt. That's bottom-up management, in which people
work together to solve their own problems.

p.351: Thus, there were many reasons why deforestation and other environmental
problems began earlier, developed over a longer time, and proceeded further
in Haiti than in the Dominican Republic. The reasons involved four of
the factors in this book's five-factor framework: differences in human environmental
impacts, in variously friendly policies or unfriendly policies of
other countries, and in responses by the societies and their leaders.

p.363: Consumerist aspirations are rampant and beyond levels that the country could support.

p.370 It is also the world's largest producer and consumer of fertilizer, accounting for 20% of world use, and for 90% of the global increase in fertilizer use since 1981, thanks to a quintupling of its own fertilizer use, now three times the world average per acre. As the second largest producer and consumer of pesticides, China accounts for 14% of the world total and has become a net exporter of pesticides.

P.430 This question of why societies end up destroying themselves through disastrous
decisions astonishes not only my UCLA undergraduates but also professional historians and archaeologists. For example, perhaps the most cited book on societal collapses is The Collapse of Complex Societies, by the archaeologist Joseph Tainter. In assessing competing explanations for ancient collapses, Tainter remained skeptical of even the possibility that they might have been due to depletion of environmental resources, because that outcome seemed a priori so unlikely to him. Here is his reasoning: "One
supposition of this view must be that these societies sit by and watch the encroaching
weakness without taking corrective actions. Here is a major difficulty. Complex societies are characterized by centralized decision-making, high information flow, great coordination of parts, formal channels of command, and pooling of resources. Much of this structure seems to have the capability, if not the designed purpose, of countering fluctuations and deficiencies in productivity. With their administrative structure, and capacity to allocate both labor and resources, dealing with adverse environmental conditions may be one of the things that complex societies do best (see, for example,
Isbell [ 1978]). It is curious that they would collapse when faced with
precisely those conditions they are equipped to circumvent.... As it becomes
apparent to the members or administrators of a complex society that
a resource base is deteriorating, it seems most reasonable to assume that some
rational steps are taken toward a resolution. The alternative assumption—
of idleness in the face of disaster—requires a leap of faith at which we may
rightly hesitate."

p.435 Politicians use the term "creeping normalcy" to refer to such slow trends
concealed within noisy fluctuations. If the economy, schools, traffic congestion,
or anything else is deteriorating only slowly, it's difficult to recognize that each successive year is on the average slightly worse than the year before, so one's baseline standard for what constitutes "normalcy" shifts gradually and imperceptibly. It may take a few decades of a long sequence of such slight year-to-year changes before people realize, with a jolt, that conditions used to be much better several decades ago, and that what is accepted as normalcy has crept downwards.

p.441 Conversely, failures to solve perceived problems because of conflicts of
interest between the elite and the masses are much less likely in societies
where the elite cannot insulate themselves from the consequences of their
actions. We shall see in the final chapter that the high environmental awareness
of the Dutch (including their politicians) goes back to the fact that
much of the population—both the politicians and the masses—lives on
land lying below sea level, where only dikes stand between them and
drowning, so that foolish land planning by politicians would be at their
own personal peril.

p.472 In the year 2000 the outgoing Clinton administration
proposed mining regulations that achieved both of those goals while also
eliminating corporate self-guarantees of financial assurance. But in October
2001 a proposal by the incoming Bush administration eliminated almost all
of those proposals except for continuing to require financial assurance, a requirement
that would in any case be meaningless without a definition of
the reclamation and cleanup costs to be covered by financial assurance.

p.493It was also the case for oil companies before the Santa
Barbara Channel oil spill disaster of 1969, and for Montana mining companies
before recent cleanup laws. When government regulation is effective,
and when the public is environmentally aware, environmentally clean big
businesses may outcompete dirty ones, but the reverse is likely to be true if
government regulation is ineffective and if the public doesn't care.

p.502
In addition, deaths in the U.S. from
air pollution alone (without considering soil and water pollution) are conservatively
estimated at over 130,000 per year.

p.513"The environment has to be balanced against the economy." This quote
portrays environmental concerns as a luxury, views measures to solve environmental
problems as incurring a net cost, and considers leaving environmental
problems unsolved to be a money-saving device. This one-liner puts
the truth exactly backwards. Environmental messes cost us huge sums of
money both in the short run and in the long run; cleaning up or preventing
those messes saves us huge sums in the long run, and often in the short run
as well. In caring for the health of our surroundings, just as of our bodies, it is cheaper and preferable to avoid getting sick than to try to cure illnesses
after they have developed. Just think of the damage caused by agricultural
weeds and pests, non-agricultural pests like water hyacinths and zebra mussels,
the recurrent annual costs of combating those pests, the value of lost
time when we are stuck in traffic, the financial costs resulting from people
getting sick or dying from environmental toxins, cleanup costs for toxic
chemicals, the steep increase in fish prices due to depletion of fish stocks,
and the value of farmland damaged or ruined by erosion and salinization
534This dilemma reminds me of Winston Churchill's response to criticisms of
democracy: "It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government
except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
In that spirit, a lower-impact society is the most impossible scenario for our
future—except for all other conceivable scenarios.

CHINA INC.

p.8The U.S had lost 2.9 million manufacturing jobs over the previous five years.
p.9: In 2003, China’s GDP was $1.4 trillion. … GDP of $10. trillion (US) The world economy can also be measure by its own GDP; it totalled $36.4 trillion in 2003.
p.10: China’s $1.4 trillion eoconomy, in the CIA’s calculations, looks more like on ewith GDP of $6.6 trillion.
p.14: In 2004, according to the calculatins of Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, Chinese bought 7 percent of the world’ oil, a quarter of all aluminium and steel, nearly a third of the world’s iron ore and coal, and 40 percent of the world’s cement. The trend is for bigger amounts yet to come.
The discrepancy between China’s official count of 1.3 billion and western estimates of up to 1.5 billion arises from an analysis by intelligence agencies of China’s grain consumption, which far exceeds the needs of 1.3 billion people.
p.74: Since 1978, nearly 40000 state-owned industries have been shut down. From 1996 to 2001, 53 million people working in China’s state sector lost their jobs.
p.75. … while the rest of the world worries about the power of China’s best factories to kill off jobs, the Chinese themselves must worry about how competition in their own country is spiking unemployment.
p.98: In 2001, a count of the out of wedlock children produced by Shenzhen’s working women and mistresses over two decades numbered 520,000.
p.99: Recent estimates pu the number of hepatitis B sufferers at 120 million and HIV-positive Chinese at close to 1 million. The UN warns of 10 million AIDS suffers by 2010. [Not only Mongolia has these similar problems. Every country faces the problems too. It is the method which the governments fight with these problems can differ across countries and cultures.]
p.116: An estimated 400 thousand people die every year from illnesses such as lung and heart disease related to air pollution.
p.133: The communist party may wish to relegate its failures to the dustbin of history. They are going into the sale bin instead.
p.140: Nearly 17 million acres of farmland have disappeared since the mid-1990s. … in the summer of 2004, when a fall in china’s grain harvest caused the country to be a net importer of food for the first time ever. … World Bank predicts the country’s global food imports will more than double by 2020.
p.150. When told of nine-year old Shanhai company that became the world’s leader in cast aluminium wheels for cars just a few years after its founding, Parson sinsks into his chair. How can such a company find the skilled labor it needed to grow so quickly? He asks. When told further that the wheel company is now in the car business turning out tens of thousands of light trucks a year, assembled largely by recent graduates of China’s technical high schools using hand tools, he says, “I find that vision frightening.”
p.151 A 2003 survey of Illinois manufacturers found that 13 out of every 20 firms face competition from China. Of those, 84 percent stated that Chinese competition hurt their sales by an average of 17 percent that year.
p.152: One reason they cited was that the Chinese can often receive financial support at far better terms than manufacturers in Illinois. That includes government subsidies and other assistance such as loans from Chinese government banks that are offered cheaply and often with little expectation that they will be paid back.
p.154 [Washington Post]Peter Goodman and Phillip Pan note that if Wal-Mart were a nation, it would be China’s fifth largest export market, ahead of Germnay and Great Britain. Wal-Mart’s Trade with and in China accounts for 1.5 percent of that country’s gross domestic product.
p.164: Siemnes has some 45 companies operating in China, employs 30000 people there, and sold $5 billion worth of equipment in the country in 2003.
p.182: Goldman Sachs the world’s premier investment bank, predicted thath 6 million jobs would leave the US by 2014, at a cost of 150 billion in wages to Americans. A study by economist at the University of California at Berkeley predicted 14 million U.S service jobs alone could be transferred overseas within a decade. That’s 10 percent of the current American labor force.

IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION
Is the lawsuit unique, out-of-the-ordinary, or otherwise "man bites dog"?

Does the case involve sensational facts?
Does the case involve, or potentially involve, a large sum of money?
Are the parties to the suit well known or otherwise high profile?
Is it a case that will merit attention in hte regional or trade media?
Does the case make new law?

Does the case involve a new application of old law?

Is the area of the law considered "hot" bny the media right now?
Does the case have a compelling "human face"?

Is the case indicative of a trend?
Does the case have broader implications as a business story?
Is there a political or regulatory aspect that will attract interest in the case?
Does the opposing counsel have a history of publicizing his or her cases?

If the law is on your side, pound the law.
If the facts are on your side, pound the facts.
If neither is on your side, pound the table.

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
p.26: They had just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and they were not capable of living for even an sinstant without the other , or without thinking about the other, and that capacity diminished as their age increased…. That was why she did not treat him like a difficult old man but as a senile baby, and that deception was providential fore the two of them because it put them beyond the reach of pity.
p.63: At least once a week he ended the evening with a little night bird, as he called them, one of the many who sold emergency love in a transient hotel for sailors.
p.107: When the curlew sang five o’clock along with the local roosters, Dr. Juvenal Urbino commended himself body and soul to Divine Providence because he did not have a heart to live another day in his rubble-strewn homeland. But in time the affection of his family, the Sundays in the country, and the covetous attention of the unmarried women of his class mitigated the bitterness of his first impression. Little by little he grew ccustomed to the sultry heat of October, to the excessive odors, to the hasty judgements of his friends, to the We’ll see tomorrow, Doctor, don’t worry, and at last he gave in to the spell of habit. It did not take him long to invent an easy justification for his surrender. (eventually we all surrender, but the difference is who can stand the longest without giving up) This was his wolrd, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it. The first thing he did was to take possession of his father’s office. He kept in place the hard, somber English furniture made of wood that sighed in the icy cold of dawn, but he consigned to the attic the treatises on viceregal science and romantic medicine and filled the bookshelves behind their glass doors with the writings of the new French school. He took down the faded pictures, except for the one of the physician arguing with Death for the nude body of a female patient, and the Hippocratic Oath printed in Gothic letters, and he hung in their place, next to his father’s only diploma, the many diverse ones he himself had received with highest honors from various schools in Europe . He tried to impose the latest ideas at Misericordia Hospital, but this was not as easy as it had seemed in his youthful enthusiasm, for the antiquated house of health was stubborn in its attachment to atavistic superstitions, such as standing beds in pots of water to prevent disease from climbing up the legs, or requiring evening wear and chamois gloves in the operating room because it was taken for granted that elegance was an essential condition for asepsis. They could not tolerate the young newcomer’s tasting a patient’s urine to determine the presence of sugar, quoting Charcot and Trousseau as if they were his roommates, issuing severe warnings in class against themortal risks of vaccines while maintaining a suspicious faith in the recent invention of suppositories.aHe was in conflict with everything: his renovating spirit, his maniacal sense of civic duty, his slow humar in a land of immortal pranksters – everything, in fact, that constituted his most estimable virtues provoked the resentment of his older collegues and the sly jokes of the younger ones.

p.121: Dr. Juvenal Urbino listened to his mother without hearing her as he clutched the doorframe, and then he gave a half turn, trying to reach his bedroom, but he fell flat on his face in an explosion of star anise vomit. “Mother of God” shouted his mother.

p. 151: The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love.

p. 160 They came back with a new conception of life, bringing with them the latest trends in the world and ready to lead, he with the most recent developments in literature, music, and above all in his science. He had a subscription to Le Figaro, so he would not lose touch with reality, and another to the Revue des Deux Mondes, so that he would not lose touch with poetry. He had also arranged with his bookseller in Paris to receive works by the most widely read authors, among them Anatole France and Pierre Loti, and by those he liked best, including Rémy de Gourmont and Paul Bourget, but under no circumstances anything by Emile Zola, whom he found intolerable despite his valiant intervention in the Dreyfus affair. The same bookseller agreed to mail him the most attractive scores from the Ricordi catalogue, chamber music above all, so that he could maintain the well-deserved title earned by his father as the greatest friend of concerts in the city.

p. 167: No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich.
“No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the
same thing.”
p.183: Florentino Ariza remembered a phrase from his childhood, something that
the family doctor, his godfather, had said regarding his chronic constipation: “The world is divided into those who can shit and those who cannot.” On the basis of this dogma the Doctor had elaborated an entire theory of character, which he considered more accurate than astrology. But with what he had learned over the years, Florentino Ariza stated it another way: “The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not.” He distrusted those who did not: when they strayed from the straight and narrow, it was
something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it. Those who did it often, on the other hand, lived for that alone. They felt so good that their lips were sealed as if they were tombs, because they knew that their lives depended on their discretion. They never spoke of their exploits, they confided in no one, they feigned indifference to the point where they earned the reputation of being impotent, or frigid, or above all timid fairies, as in the case of Florentino Ariza. But they took pleasure in the error because the error protected them. They formed a secret society, whose members recognized each other all over the world without need of a common language, which is why Florentino Ariza was not surprised by the girl’s reply: she was one of them, and therefore she knew htat he knew that she knew.
p.248: Then he reached the admirable decision not to go to Miss Lynch’s house at five o’clock in the afternoon. The vows of eternal love, the dream of a discreet house for her alone where he could visit her with no unexpected interruptions, their unhurried happiness for as long as they lived--everything he had promised in the blazing heat of love was canceled forever after. The last thing Miss Lynch received from him was an emerald tiara in a little box wrapped in paper from the pharmacy, so that the coachman himself thought it was an emergency prescription and handed it to her with no comment, no message, nothing in writing. Dr. Urbino never saw her again, not even by accident, and God alone knows how much grief his heroic resolve cost him or how many bitter tears he had to shed behind the locked lavatory door in order to survive this private catastrophe. At five o’clock, instead of going to see her, he made a profound act of contrition before his confessor, and on the following Sunday he took Communion, his heart broken but his soul at peace.

THE AUDACTIY OF HOPE

The book gave me hope. I used to believe in good people so I get disproportionally stressed when their number falls by seconds as I see. The materialism is destroying the virtues in people and whatever I consider “good” is being wiped out of the earth’s surface with considerable speed.
After reading Obama, I believe in good in people. Most of the people would have good and bad in them. As Obama says in his book “No matter how wrong headed I might consider their policies to be – and no matter how much I might insist that they be held accountable for the results of such policies – I still find it possible, in talking to these men and women, to understand their motives, and to recognize in them values I share”.
I was moved by his understanding of the value of individual freedom. When I compare the states with home, we have so tilted level of competition here just because most people don’t understand that freedom comes with responsibility. Here people who pay bribes do perform and survive better and those who stick with their principles go broke in no time.

I read the whole book Mongolia in mind. During the book I made so many comparisons and some of which made me despair because I am not sure whether Mongolia will even be more advanced as states is. ...

Finally I thought of contributing $20 to Obama but when I tried I found out that he does not accept my contribution or any other foreigner’s contribution for his campaign. But my heart and soul is with you Obama!

p.56: At times our values collide because in the hands of men each one is subject to distortion and excess. Self-relience and independence can transform into selfishness and license, ambition into greed and a frantic desidre to succeed at any ocst. More than once in our history we have seen patriotism slide into jingoism, xenophobia, the stifling of dissent; we’ve seen faith calcify into self-righteousnes, closedemindedness, and cruelty toward others. Even the impulse toward charity can drift into a stifling paternalism and unwillingness to acknowledge the abiolity of others to do for themselves.
p.63 Sometimes we need both cultural transformation and government action - a change in values and a change in policy - to promote the kind of society we want. ..... That is one of the things that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our sense of mutual responsibility and social solidarity, should express themselves not just in the church or the mosque or the synagogue; not just on the blocks where we live, in the places where we work, or within our own families; but also through our government. Like many conservatives, I believe in the power of culture to determine both individual success and social cohesion, and I believe we ignore cultural factors at our peril. But I also believe that our government can play a role in shaping that culture for the better - or for the worse."
p.68: If we aren’t iwlling to pay a price for our values, if we aren’t willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
p.87: Enlightenment thinkers like Hobbes and Locke suggested that free men would form governments as a bargain to ensure that one man’s freedom did not become another man’s tyranny; that they would sacrifice individual license to better preserve their liberty.
p.114: And although my own worldview and their corresponded in many ways – I had gone to the same schools, after all, had read the same books, and worried about my kids in many of the same ways – I found myself avoiding certain topics during conversations with them, papering over possible differences, anticipating their expectations.
p.115: The problems of ordinary people, the voices of the Rust Belt town or the dwindling heartland, become a distant echo rather than a palpable reality, abstractions to be managed rather than battles to be fought.
p. 146: But there’s also no denying that globalization has greatly increased economic instability for millions of ordinary Americans. To stay competitive and keep investors happy in the global marketplace, U.S –based companies have automated, downsized, outsourced, and offshored. They have held the line on wage increases, and replaced defined-benefit health and retirement plans with 401k and Health Savings Accounts that shift more cost and risk onto workers.
The result has been the emergence of what some call a “winner take all” economy, in which a rising tide doesn’t necessarily lift all boats.
p.150: Our greatest asset has been our system of social organization, a system that for generations has encouraged constant innovation, individual initiative, and the efficient allocation of resources. (that system is lacking in Mongolia, thus at this point of time we cannot have American dream in Mongolia. If we had similar structure and system that permit individuals pursue their dreams without much pressure, then Mongolia would not be as poor as today. We have to change structurely before we inject any kind of investment into the system. Otherwise the effects will be much less with this current rotten system)

p.153: T.Rooselvelt recognized that monopoly power could restrict competition, and made “trust busting” a centerpiece of his administration. Woodrow Wilson instituted the Federal Reserve Bank, to manage the money supply and curb periodic panics in the financial markets. Federal and state governments established the first consumer laws – the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Meat inspection Act – to protect Americans from harmful products.

p.167: In other words, we can afford to do what needs to be done. What’s missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency. (maybe it is true with current Mongolian government. They only subsidize the sunset industries under umbrella of national security and finance their relatives’ businesses with our tax moneys. I am kind of ashamed of making this system survive even a minute longer by paying my taxes fully. Following rules is part of my virtues but then this shit bother me so bad when I see such bad system that trying to squeeze life out of me)

p.203: For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closedmindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness.
p.206: I knew their book and shared their values and sang their song. But they sensed that a part of me remained removed, detached, an observer among them. I came to realize that without a vessel for my beliefs, without an unequivocal commitment to a particular community of faith, I would be consigned at some level to always remain apart, free in the way that my mother was free, but also alone in the asmae ways she was ultimately alone.

p.215: Solving these problems will require changes in government policy; it will also require changes in hearts and minds. I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturerer’s lobby.
p.240: I choose to think about Robert instead, and the small but difficult gesture he made. If a young man like Robert can make the effort to cross the currents of habit and fear in order to do what he knows is right, then I want ot be sure that I am there to meet him on the other side and help him onto shore.
p.356: The audacity of hope. That was the best of the American spirit, I thought – having the audacity to believe despite all the evidence to the contrary that we could restore a sense of community to a nation torn by conflict; the gall to believe that despite personal setbacks, the loss of a job or an illness in the family or a childhood mired in poverty, we had some control – and therefore responsibility – over our own fate.
P.361: And in that place, I think about America and those who built it. This nation’s founders, who somehow rose above petty ambitions and narrow calculations to imagine a nation unfurling across a continent. And those like Lincoln and King, who ultimately laid down their lives in the service of perfecting an imperfect union. And all the faceless, nameless men and women, slaves and soldiers and tailors and buchers, constructing lives for themselves and their children and grandchildren, brick by brick, rail by rail, calloused hand by calloused hand, to fill in the landscape of our collective dreams. It is that process I wish to be a part of. My heart is filled with love for this country.

Unbearable lightness of being
p.101 Perhaps Tomas was led to surgery by a desire to know what lies hidden on the other side of Es muss sein! ; in other words, what remains of life when a person rejects what he previously considered his mission.
p.102 Then they would greet him with a bottle of champagne or slivovitz, sign for thirteen win-dows on the order slip, and chat with him for two hours, drinking his health all the while. Tomas would move on to his next flat or shop in a capital mood.
p.104 As recently as fifty years ago, this form of conquest took considerable time (weeks, even months!), and the worth of the conquered object was proportional to the time the conquest took.
… Men who pursue a multitude of women fit neatly into two categories. Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women. Others are prompted by a desire to possess the endless variety of the objective female world. The obsession of the former is lyrical: what they seek in women is themselves, their ideal, and since an ideal is by definition something that can never be found, they are disappointed again and again. The disappointment that propels them from woman to woman gives their inconstancy a kind of romantic excuse, so that many sentimental women are touched by their unbridled philandering. The obsession of the latter is epic, and women see nothing the least bit touching in it: the man projects no subjective ideal on women, and since everything interests him, nothing can disappoint him. This inability to be disappointed has something scandalous about it. The obsession of the epic womanizer strikes people as lacking in redemption (redemption by disappointment).
p.108 She did not want him to study her. She wanted to draw him into the magic stream that may be entered only with closed eyes. The reason she refused to get down on all fours was that in that position their bodies did not touch at all and he could observe her from a distance of several feet. She hated that distance. She wanted to merge with him. That is why, looking him straight in the eye, she insisted she had not had an orgasm even though the rug was fairly dripping with it. It's not sensual pleasure I'm after, she would say, it's happiness. And pleasure without happiness is not pleasure. In other words, she was pounding on the gate of his poetic memory. But the gate was shut. There was no room for her in his poetic memory. There was room for her only on the rug.
p.109 I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

p.121 Perhaps he hoped his words would ring so outrageously false that they would wake Hrubin from the dead. But the world was too ugly, and no one decided to rise up out of the grave.
p.126 If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond Es muss sein!

p.133In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. It follows, then, that the true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions. A question is like a knife that slices through the stage backdrop and gives us a look at what lies hidden behind it. In fact, that was exactly how Sabina had explained the meaning of her paintings to Tereza: on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth showing through.
p.143 He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

March 31st to June 8, 2007

2007-06-08T22:56:00.000-07:00

Movies watched:
Shrek 3 by Chris Miller
Lives of others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Reserver Dogs by Quentin Tarantino
Tiger and the snow by Roberto Benigni
Monster in Law
Arizona dream by Emir Kusturica
When father was away by Emir Kusturica
Capote by Bennette Miller
A one and a two (Yiyi) by Edward Yang
Dead man by Jim Jarmush
Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Eisenstein
Ivan the Terrible I by Sergei Eisenstein
Ivan the Terrible II by Sergei Eisenstein
Walk the line by James Mangold
Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry
12 angry men by Sidney Lumet
All quiet on the western front
Jarhead by Sam Mendes
Being John Malkovich
Draughtsman’s contract by Peter Greenaway
Born on 4th of July by Oliver Stone
Anything else by Woody Allen
Annie hall by Woody Allen
Sleeper by Woody Allen
Zelig by Woody Allen
Full metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick
Odyssey 1968 by Stanley Kubrick
Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola
Gandhi by Richard Attenborough
Paris Texas by Wim Wenders
Zatoichi
Dodesukaden by Aikiro Kurosawa
Kagemusha by Aikiro Kurosawa
Good bye Lenin by Wolfgang Becker
Volver by Almodovar
Finding Forrester
Chicago by Rob Marshall
Singing in the rain by Stanley Donne and Gene Kelly
The gospel according to St Matthew by Pisolini
Flags of our fathers by Clint Eastwood
Mystic river by Clint Eastwood
Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
Institute Benjamenta
Ichiban utsukushiku [videorecording] = Most beautiful by Akira Kurosawa
When a woman ascends the stairs by Mikio Naruse

Books read:
Soros on Soros
Chaos and Order in the Capital Market by Peter
Agricultural Price Policy in India
Trade LIberlization and Indian Agriculture
Kurosawa by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Stumbling on Happiness by Danie
Shell Game by Stephen Kiesling
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers by Robert Heilbroner
Winners and Losers from Microsoft Case
Metaphysics Club
Nietzsche Philosophical Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures adn Poems
Antitrust CASE

ANTITRUST
Antitrust and the Information Age: Section 2 Monopolization Analyses in the New Economy

p.1623: On April 3, 2000, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared that the Mircosoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) had maintained monopoly power in the personal computer operating system market by anticompetitive means, in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antirust Act.
p.1624: In US v. Grinnell Corp., the Supreme Court distilled the monopolization offence of Section 2 into two elements: “(1) the possession of monopoly power in the relevant market and (2) the wilful acquisition or maintenance of that power as distinguished from growth or development as a consequence of a superior product, business acumen, or historic accident.”

Concept of monopoly power set forth in United States v. E.I du Pont de Nrmours&Co. “Monopoly power is the power to control prices or exclude competition.”

p.1625: Once the relevant market is identified, evidence of monopoly power within that market must exist. Courts rely on several types of evidence in order to assess whether a firm enjoys such power. The most widely adopted approach is that a finding of dominant market share in conjunction with substantial barriers to entry is sufficient to create the presumption of monopoly power.
“Market share above seventy percent typically suffices to support an inference of monopoly power.”
p.1626: Barrier to entry + add fear it provides at low price.

In addition to monopoly power, under the Grinnell formulation courts must also find that there has been a “wilful acquisition or maintenance of that power as distinguished from growth or development as a consequence of a superior propduct, business-acumen, or historic accident.”

Compete aggressively on the merits.
Distinguishing lawfully acquired and maintained monopoly power from objectionable monopoy power has been a difficult task for courts.
p.1627: In making a such a determination, many courts have inquired whether conduct htat is seemingly irrational for a profit-maximizing firm becomes rational only in light of its adverse impact on competition. “pricing below an appropriate measure of cost for the purpose of eliminating competitors in the short run and reducing competition in the long run.”

p.1631: Lock in effects abound in IT markets, occurring whenever a consumer becomes so committed to a particular product that she cannot switch to a competing product without incurring significant costs. These switching costs can include the cost of acquiring new equipment or technology; the transaction cost of switching suppliers’ the cost of learning to use new equipment and functioning in the new technological environment; consumer uncertainty about ht equality of untested brands; foregone benefits of loyalty programs, such as frequent flyer programs; and psychological brand loyalty. To induce consumers to switch, the benefits of the new technology must outweigh these costs.

p.1634: The very nature of knowledge as a commodity naturally tends toward monopolization, or at least requires such for profitability. (to achieve such dominance, what is done is anticompetitive. NOT ON MERIT)
p.1635: network effects, which lead to the mass adoption of a standardized product, facilitate single-firm market dominance. Only one or a handful of networks tend to survive in any given market, meaning that the firm or firms behind such networkd will likely become dominant. (the table with numbers, it is possible but the error/complain is different for US gov)
p.1639: When they scrutinize a firm in a market characterized by network effects, regulators and courts should determine to what extent these effects cause market dominance. .. dominance that results from widespread consumer adoption of a technology is a natural and inevitable outcome in networdked markets.

p.1641: Lock-in effects – Consumer lock-in primarily impacts pricing and barrier to entry. Once a firm has developed a committed customer base, it is diffciutl for a challenger to dislodge those customers. … Lock-in effects are enhance by the dominant firsm’ competitive advantage derived from better access to consumer demographic information.

Exclusivity and Tying in US v. Microsoft: What we know and don’t know.
By Michael D. Whinston
p.64: Microsoft’s most visible act was the physical integration of Internet Explorer into Windows…. While these contracts rarely required complete exclusivity, they did require preferential treatment for Internet Explorer. Moreover, Microsoft often tied access to Windows to acceptance of these contracts…. They [OEMs] could not modify the boot sequence or have programs that automatically launch at its conclusion, which could give users an easy way to choose Navigator over Internet Explorer. [it was separate before in 1995]

Thomas G. Krattenmaker and Steven C. Salop, "Anticompetitive Exclusion: Raising Rivals' Costs to Achieve Power over Price," Yale Law Journal, 96 (December 1986), pp. 209-293; link.

Yet at its core antitrust law is simple matter: It seeks, by prohiting undue collusion among competitors and unjustifiable exclusion of competing firms, to prevent compantes from obtaining and exercising the power to price above competitive levels. Collusion and exclusion are the twin objects of antitrust scrutiny, but they are not equally focused in the sights of antitrust enforcers and courts.

p. 214 we demonstrate that, in carefully defined circumstances, certain firms can attain monopoly power by making arrangements with their suppliers that place their competitors at a cost disadvantage. Our central argument is that claims of anticompetitve exclusion should be judged according to whether the challenged practice places rival competitors at cost disadvantage sufficient to allow the defendant firm to exercise monopoly power by raising its price.
First, one should ask whether the conduct of the challenged firm unavoidably and significantly increase the costs of its competitors. If so monopoly power possible – raise its price above the competitive level.
p.216 In each, the expressed fear is that, rather than enhancing competition by reducing costs or iumproving quality, the challenged practice may destroy competition by providing a few firsms with advantageous accesss to goods, markets, or customers, thereby enabling the advantaged few to gain power over price, quality, or output.
p.219 The terms and conditions under which goods are bought and sold, it is argued, are simply one of the ways in which firms compete. How, the critics ask, can an exclusive dealing or tying contract be labeled exclusionary when all firms may compete to obtain or offer such an agreement?

Goal of protecting agains the acquisition or enhancement of market power might justify the court’s results.

p.221 Given the lack of concentration and the absence of entry barriers in both shoe manufacturing and shoe retailing, vertical integration could not unduly disadvantage any firm.
p.224: Raising rival’s costs can be a particularly effective method of anticompetitive exclusion. This strategy need not entail sacrificing one’s own profits in the short run; it need not require classical market power as a preresquisite for its success; and it may give the excluding firm various options in exercising its acquired power.

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2007-03-31T16:57:00.000-07:00

Quote of the month:
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.” T.S.Eliot

Jan/07-Apr/07
Man of marble by Andrzej Wajda
Man of iron by Andrzej Wajda
Ikiru by Kurosawa
Rashamon by Kurosawa
Throne of blood by Kurosawa
Dersu Uzala by Kurosawa
Ran by Aikiro Kurosawa
Stray dog by Aikiro Kurosawa
The lower depths by Aikiro Kurosawa
Idiot by Aikiro Kurosawa
1% of anything by talentless shit
Full house by talentless shit
Battle for Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo
Paths of glory by Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick
Das Experiment by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Syriana by Stephen Gaghan
Ocean’s 12
Catch me if you can
Run Lola run
300 by Zack Snyder
Deer hunter by Michael Cimino
Fireworks by Takashi Kitano
Hana-Bi/fireworks by Takeshi Kitano
Gohatto/Taboo by Nagisa Oshima
The last king of Scotland
Rain man by Barry Levinson
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
Bullet in the head
Not a one less by Yimou Zhang
Fargo by Joel Coen
Batoru rowaiaru / Battle royale by Kinji Fukasaku
Trainspotting Danny Boyle
Syriana
Todo sobre mi madre by Almodovar
Habla con ella by Almodovar
Gentleman’s agreement by Elia Kazan
Splendor in the grass by Elia Kazan
Salo: 120 days of Sodom by Pisolini
Constant Gardener by Fernando Meirelles
Decameron by Pisolini
Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
Good Shepherd by Robert De Niro

Nov.01.2006 to Jan.20.2007

2007-01-27T10:40:00.000-08:00

There are two quotes I have to have it here. Both of them are equally impressive and meaningful to those who survived. (including YOU)

One age, he is hag-ridden, bewitched;; the next, priestridden, befooled;[then he is greed-ridden, be-exploited;] in all ages, bedevilled.(added on Carlyle on Man in Sartor Resartus)

“An Age of ____” (fill in: Reason, Faith, Science, Absolutism, Democracy, Anxiety, Communication) is always a misnomer because insufficient, except perhaps “An Age of Troubles,” which fits every age in varying degrees.

Non-book items:
http://af-north.org/other%20pamphlets/luxemburg.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2006/06/people.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/01/01/SPG66NB8FO1.DTL
many more…

Books read:
Body Mind and Sport, John Douillard, 1994
High Performance Rowing, John McArthur, 2005
Getting Stronger, Bill Pearl, 1986
Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, Viking Penguin Inc, 1989
World without borders, Lester R. Brown, Random house, 1972
Cochabamba, Oscar Olivera, South End Press, 2004
The end of the world as we know it, Immanuel Wallerstein, 1999
Mayan Vision, June Nash, Routledge, 2001
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond, 1999
Making Globalization Work, Joseph Stiglitz, 2006
Models of My Life, Herbert Simon, 1991
Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest, Steve Stern
Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, 1989
From Dawn to Decadence, 1500-Present, Jacque Barzun, NY, USA, 2000 ISBN 0-06-017586-9
After the waste land: A democratic economics for the year 2000, Samuel. B, David. Gordon, Thomas. Weisskopf, New York, USA, 1999
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams, 2006
China. Inc, Ted Fishman

You can take the notes I made from here as a pdf file

Between Oct.07 to Oct. 31st 2006

2006-10-31T11:38:00.000-08:00

No time godamnit, no time! Quote of the month:
"Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee".

Books read:
The Raw Youth, by Dostoyevsky, Macmillan Company, 1950
The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler,
Ambivalent Conquest,
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
The Man who loved only numbers by Paul Hoffman
From Tank town to High Tech, June Nash, 1989
Malambo
Intellectuals, Paul Johnson, ISBN 0-06-016050-0, 1988
Slaves, Peasants and rebels

The Raw Youth, by Dostoyevsky, Macmillan Company, 1950
Do you think you know Dostoyevsky? I don’t think I know. The Raw Youth is one of his best I would say. After reading “Crime and punishment,” and “Brother Karamazov”, I can read Raw Youth with speed and delight. Dostoyevsky is a psychiatrist in his own sense besides being a writer. All my expectations for the future of the protagonist failed once Dostoyevsky took turns at random corners. Very hard to generalize the book but the book is full of emotions.
The main character is Dolgoruky, a illegitimate son of Versilov. His father is Makar Ivanov Dolgoruky. Dolgoruky is smart but not as disciplined. His mother and sister lives not luxuriously. Versilov helps the expenses besides Liza earning a bit. There is a old prince Nikolay Ivanitch. He is rich and his daughter Katerina Nikolaevna wanted to put his father in mental clinic to inherit his wealth. The events rise around the letter which Katerina Nikolaevna wrote to his lawyer requesting to double check the method that it works well. In the end the prince comes to Dolgoruky for refuge in his apartment. He refuses…

The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler,
p.19 Despair – salable and self-indulgent – has dominated the culture for a decade or more. The Third Wave concludes that despair is not only a sin (C.P Snow) but htat is also unwarranted.
p.22: George Steiner has written “ To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to contrain the life of understanding.”
p.26: The first wave of change – the agricultural revolution – took thousands of years to play itself out. The second Wave – the rise of industrial civiliazation – took a mere three hundred years. Today hisoty is even more accelerative, and it is likely tjat the Third wave will sweep across hisotyr and complete itself ina few decades.
p.41: The precondition of any civilization, old or new is energy. First Wave societies drew their energy from “living batteries” – human and animal muscle- power or from sun, wind,and water…. All second wave societies, by contrast, began to draw their enegy from coal, gas and oil – from irreplaceable fossil fuels.
p.57: Correct in identifying this dehumanization of interpersonal bonds, Marx was incorrect, however, in attributing it to capitalism… For the obsessive concern with money, goods, and things is a reflection not of capitalsm or socialism, but of industrialism.
p.62: Every civilization has a hidden code – a set of rules or principles that run through all its activities like a repeated design. As industrialism pushed across the planet, its unique hidden design became visible.
p.64: The principle of standardization ran through every aspect of daily life.
p.65: A second great principle ran through all second wave societies: specialization.
p.67: In second wave societies even political agitation was conceived of as a profession. Thus Lenin argued that the masses could not bring about a revolution without professional help.
p.69: The rise of the market gave birth to yet another rule of second wave civilization – the principle of concentration.
p.71: “Big” became synonymous with “efficient,” and maximization became the fifth key principle.
p.76: To undertand who will run things tomorrow when the Third wave becomes dominant, we must first know exactly who runs things today.
p.91: Thus elections, quite apart from who won them, performed a powerful cultural function for ht eelites. TO the degree that everyone had a right to vote, elections fostered the illusion of equality.
p.98: What we call the modern nation is a second wave phenomenon: a single integrated political authority superimposed on or fused with a single integrated economy.
p.100: [imperial drive] for them life went on, one way or another. The fruits of overseas conquest enriched the ruling class and the towns rather than the mass of ornidary people who lived as peasants. In this sense, First Wave imperialism was still petty – not yet integrated into the economy. The second wave transformet this relatively small – scale pilferage into big business. … here was a new imperialism aimed not at bringing back a few trunkloads of gold or emeralds, spices and silks. Here was an imperialism that uiltimately brought back shipload after shipload of nitrates, cotton, palm oil, tin, rubber, bauxite, and tungsten.
p.102: At Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, this superior technology was displayed with withering effect in 1898 when Dervish warriors led by the Mahdi were defeated by British troops armed with six Maxim machine guns. An eyewithness wrote: “It was the last day of Mahdism and the greatest. … It was not a battle but an execution.”
p.105: Cultures that had subsisted for thousands of years in a self-sufficient manner, producing their own food supplies, were sucked willy-nilly into the world trade system and compelled to trade or perish.
p.107: In 1492 when Columbus first set foot in the New World, Europeans controlled only 9 percent of the globe. By 1801 they ruled a third. By 1880, two thirds. And by 1935 Europeans politically controlled 85 percent of the land surface of the earth and 70 percent of its population. Like Second Wave society itself, the world was divided inot integrators and integrates.
p.117: Darwin himself wrote unfeelingly of the massacre of the aborigines of Tasmania and, in a burst of genocidal enthusiasm, prohphesied that “At some future period … the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.” The intellectual frond-runners of Second Wave civilization had no doubt about who deserved to survive.
p.128: Unless a civilization has some explanation for why things happen – even if its explanation is nine parts mystery to one part analysis – it cannot program lives effectively.
p.133: The greater the divorce of producer from consumer – in time, in space, and in social and psychic distance – the more the market, in all its astonishing complexity, with all its train of values, its implicit metaphors and hidden assumptions, came to dominate social reality.
p.224: Today, once more, egos are breaking like eggshells against the wall. Now, however, the guilt is associated with the fracture of the family rather than the economy. As millions of men and women clamber out of the strewn wreckage of their marriages they, too, suffer agonies of self-blame. And once more, much of the guilt is misplaced.
p.243: Seen from the outside they [big corporation] present a commanding appearance. They control vast resources, employ millions of workers, and they deeply influence not merely our economies but our political affars as well.
p.252: a corporation no longer responsible simply for making a profit or producing goods but for simultaneously contributing to the solution of extremely complex ecological, moral, political, racial, sexual, and social problems.
p.314: When we leave the vast heavens the enter the world of microscopic particles or waves, we find similarly puzzling phenomena. At Columbia University Dr. Gerald Feinber haas even hypothesized particle s called tachyons that move faster than light and for which – according to some of his colleagues – times moves backward.
p.353: At the Paris Exposition of 1855, according to a contemporary account, newly-invented threshing machines were dramatically demonstrated. “Six men were set to threshing with flails at the same moment that the different machines commenced operations, and the following were the results of an hour’s work:
“Six threshers with flails ……………………… 36 liters of wheat.”
“Belgian threshing machine ……………………… 36 liters of wheat.”
“French threshing machine ……………………… 36 liters of wheat.”
“French threshing machine ……………………… 36 liters of wheat.”
“English threshing machine ……………………… 36 liters of wheat.”
“American threshing machine ……………………… 36 liters of wheat.”

p.376: Nobody knows. Even today, 300 long years after the fact, historians cannot pin down the “cause” of the industrial revolution. As we have seen, each academic guild or philosophical school has its own preferred explanation. The technological determinists point to the steam engine, the ecologists to the destruction of Britain’s forests, the economists to fluctuations in the price of wool. Others emphasize religious or cultural changes, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and so on.
p.389: Individuals need life structure. A life lacking in comprehensible structure is an aimless wreck. The absence of structure breeds breakdown. … Faced with an absence of visible structure, some young people use drugs to create it. “Heroin addiction” writes psychologist Rollo May, “gives a way of life to the young person. Having suffred under perpetual purposelessness, his structure now consists of how to escape the cops, how to get the money needs, where to get his next fix- all these give him a new web of energy in place of his previous structureless world.”
p.396: If so, it would not be the first time un home nouveau was supposedly detected on the horizon. In a brilliant essay, Andre Reszler, director of the Center for European Culture, has described earlier attempts to forecast the coming of a new type of human being.
p.428: Pentagon officials, for example have lost track of $30 billion in foreign weapons orders and do not know whether this reflects colossal errors in accounting, or a failure to bill the purchasers for the full amounts due, or whether the money was dribbled away on other things entirely.
p.452: For today the single most important political conflict is no loger between rich and poor, between top-dog and underdog ethnic groups, or even between capitalist and commmunit. The decisive struggle today is between those who try to prop up and preserve industrial society and those who are ready to advance beyond it. This is the super-struggle for tomorrow.
p.456: Some generations are born to create, others to maintain a civilization.
p.459: The responsibility for change, therefore, lies with us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Ambivalent Conquest, Inga Clendinnen, Cambridge University Press, 1987
“When the Spaniards discovered this land, their leader asked the Indians how it was called; as they did not understand him, they said uic athan, which means, what do you say or what do you speak, that we do not understand you. And then the Spaniard ordered it set down that it be called Yucatan… (Antonia De ciudad Real, 1588)

The book speaks of the Yucatan province of Maya Empire during the Colonial period. First part of the book is about the Spaniards in Yucatan that being explorers, conquerors, settlers, missionaries as well as the conflict between them. Second part is about Indians. Missionaries very few in the beginning of the colonialization of Yucatan and one of the first friars to appear in Yucatan was called Fr Diego de Landa later become Bishop of Yucatan. When he was fresh and young, he went to bushes to convert Indians and apparently saved many souls. But later when he become powerful he killed and tortured as many as he saved. His argument was “it takes long time to convert them truly without force and by then everyone would go to hell”. I would say Friar Diego de Landa was one of the Crusaders in Latin American continent. Alas, there were not any Immanuel Kants born at the time to stop the Crusade in New Spanish at that time.
I had an impression that the indigenous people in Latin America were very subservient. The reason is that they were subjugated to the kings under great empires then moved to different kind of encomenderos until late 19th century. Why they seemed to be submissive? Or am I incorrect in my judgment?

p.46 Shortly after he had achieved his conquest he petitioned Pope and Crown that the establishment of the new Church in the Indies be entrusted to the Franciscans, whose simplicity, self-forgetfulness and devotion to poverty fitted them for the massive task. Pope and Crown concurred.
p.47: In those early days – as, indeed, later – ‘teaching’ focused more on training in correct external behaviour than on the transference of knowledge; on bowing the head, on kneeling, on maintaining a hushed silence and stillness in the manner of Spanish piety.
p.54: The Xiu ‘conspiracy’ was the last overt Maya attempt – if attempt it was – to resist the conversion programme by offering violence to its agents, and its successful resolution strengthened the Franciscan preference for psychological manipulation over physical punishment.
p.56: That violence came not only from individual encomenderos, but was endemic to the corruption and brutality of the whol system of government in the peninsula, with local administrators wining at such offeces, or impsing trivial penalties ‘because they are neighbours and because on is a judge on year and the other on e the next year one sentces the other to pay two maravedis for some offences and for others they are set at liberty…’
p.59: There were two possible solutions. [who was to rule?] The friars seized the initiative. Under the shaky warrant of Lopez Medel’s recommendations that Indians be gathered together, they proceeded to concentrate scattered Indian settlements. Depleted villages had new populations grafted on them: others were forcibly cleared and burnt. Often with no more warning than the underalded arrival of a solitary firar, Indians were ordered out of their houses, which were then put to the torch, along with their carefully nurtured fruit trees and their few meagre possessions. Then the dazed and weeping Iians were herded off to the new sites the friars judged ‘convinient’.
p.63: With the winning of that very public battle the Franciscans had forced acquiescence in their own definition of the proper and legitimate scope of ecclesiastical authority in Yucatan. But Yucatan would continue vulnerable to the uninformed and destructive interference of outsiders – like the Archbishop of Mexico- for as long as it lacked a bishop.
p.77 The unashamed violence of the Franciscan inquisition is at once the best evidence for the political domination they had achieved in the peninsula, their anger at Indian betrayal, and their sense of the desperate urgency of the situation. Landa was later to justify his disregard of legal formalities on the grounds that:
“all [the Indians] being idolaters and guilty, it was not possible to proceed strictly juridically against them… because it we had proceeded with all according to the order of the law, it would be impossible to finish with the province of Mani alone in twenty years, and meanwhile they would all become idolaters and go to hell…”
p.92: The suspiciously dilapidated state of the ‘idols’ offered to the friars was explained; and the lies, evasions, and omissions of the confessions, so often gratuitous on any rational analysis, proved the Maya to be not only strangers to truth, but its enemies.
p.114: The friars also had the impediment, for impediment it was, of being able to use force on their converts. Even missionaries who lack that power and who must rely on persuasion have been profoundly shaken when they discovered who their messages have actually been received, and transformed in the receiving. The Franciscans were convinced that their labours would be aided by God Himself. They lacked all recognition of the profound and systematic otherness of others. They had no sense of the intricate interrelationships between different aspects of Indian life, rather seeing here the hand of the Devil, there the tender intervention of Christ, and so they could have no sense of the difficulties in the way of the reception and understanding of their message.
p.124: He [Landa] had known, and had nkown with complete certainty, the ‘truth’: the Indians were idolators, blasphemers and murderers. It had been his task and his duty to lay bare that truth. But he also knew that in performing that task he had been forced into moulding the evidence of their iniquities. He had pointed ot mountains of idols as proof of the Indina’s idolatry: he knew that some of those ‘idols’ were not idols at all, but odd frafments oand shards collected from abandoned sites by desperate men… He had presented the confessions as true accounts, but he knew their confusions and contradictions, and what sustained pressure it had taken to get even a limited measure of coherence.
p.140: One probably had something to do with preferred conditions of work and of household size. Most Maya lived in multi-generational households of a father and his sons, married and unmarried, and it was that group of related males which made up the usual milpa team.
Throughout the colonial period individual towns jealously guarded their individual histories in their Books fo Chilam Balam.
p.156: “In times of crisis human victims died, but even then a dog or other animal could sometimes replace a man: Maya deities did not demand extravagance.” In war a village would be plundered for its stored food, and those villagers who could not escape into the bush were enslaved, but the dwellings were left intact and the sacred standing maize was left untouched.
p.158: What appears to be being implemented here is a Maya strategy to bring their traditional authority structures into parallel with (and so laternative to) the Spanish system, which required some adjustment and some innovation in those traditional forms.
p.177: The difficulties in the way of understanding are formidable. We have somhow to detach ourselves from our Christian-drenched notions of ‘sacrifice’ as the offering up of something of value – comfort, possessions, bodily integrity, life-as a token of submission or propitiation before a notable jealous and watchful personal god… We cannot assume the Maya shared in those notions so ‘natural’ to us. For the friars, the killing of a human was a surpreme offence.
p.182: As for the ‘blasphemous’ details the firars found so appalling, I have already suggested thtat the ‘cenote cult’ is a historia’s fiction built on an Indian invention. Its acceptance involes altogether too much lugging of bodies – some with crosses still attached – around the countryside ; to casual a pollution of drinking water; too relaxed a response to insult both by the humans whose slaughtered children were tossed back into the home cenote as by the rain gods offered corpses whose bloods and hearts had been consumed elsewhere.

Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
I have read “Manufacturing consent”, “Rogue state”, “Year 501” and many articles by Noam Chomsky before. He is extraordinary in his ability to draw logical conclusion and analyze his opponent’s arguments. In journalism these skills are virtue and journalists are required to have it. The book is “advertised” in UN chamber by Hugo Chavez.
I was reading Paul Johnson and Noam Chomsky simultaneously, and it seems they belong into opposite rival gangs of Intellectuals. Noam Chomsky is more “lefty” in his views and his contra-arguments are basically impossible to oppose. Paul Johnson is more to the right and his view are biased in a way that you can feel his feelings in his arguments which I don’t precisely like.

p.4: [Bush planners] decisions may not be irrational within the framework of prevailing ideaology and the institutions that embody it. There is ample historical precedent fro the willingness of leaders to threaten or resort to violence in the face of significant risk of catastrophe.
p.11: In the official rhetoric of the National Security Strategy, “Our fores will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United states.”
p.12: But the justifications for preemptive war, whatever they might be, do not hold for preventive war, particularly as that concept is interpreted by its current enthusiasts: the use of military force to eliminate an imagine or inveted threat, so that even the term preventive is too charitable.
p.19: The propaganda impact persisted past the end of the war. After the failure of intense efforts to discover WMD, a third of the population believed that US forces had found WMD and more than 20 percent believed Iraq had used htem during the war.
p.48: An honest look would only generalize Thomas Jefferson’s observation on the world situation of his day: “We believe no more in Bonaparte’s fighting merely for the liberties of the seas, than in Great Britan’s fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth, and the resources of other nations.”
p.71: The standard interpretation is different: the “democratic peace” reflects “some happy combination of liberal norms and institutions such as representative democracy and market econmies.”
p.90: In early 1964, the State Department Policy planning council expanded on these concerns: “The primary danger we face in Castro is … in the impact the very existence of his regime has upon the leftiest movement in many Latin American countries… the simple fact is that Castro represents a successful defiance of the US, a negation of our whole hemispheric policy of almost a century and a half.”
p.100: President Carter assured Americans that we owe Vietnam no debt htat have no responsibility to render it any assistance because “the destruction was mutual.” Others thought we should not be so soft-hearted.
p.120: Privatization has other benefits. If working people depend on the stock market for their pensions, health care, and other means of survival, they have a stake in undermining their own interests:opposing wage increases, health and safety regulations, and other measures that might cut into profits that flow to the benefactos on whome they must rely, in a manner reminiscent of feudalism… If there was to be any hope of maintaining political power, the Bush forces were vitually compelled to adopt what Anatol Lieven calsl “the classical modern strategy of an endangered right wing oligarch, which is to divert mass discotent into nationalism,” strategy which is second nature to tehm in any event, having worked so well during their first twelve years in office.
p.156: Voilence is a powerful instrument of control, as history demonstrates. But eh dilemmas of dominance are not slight.
p.161: In the terminology of the Foreign Office, local management was to be left to an “Arab façade” of weak compliant rulers, while Britain’s “absorption” of these virtual colonies would be “veiled by constitutional fictions,” a device considered more cost-effective than direct rule. With variations, the device is familiar elsewhere.
p.183: The British governor had explained to the people of Kenya in 1946 that Britain controls their land and resources “as of right, the product of historical events which reflect the greatest glory of our fathers and grandfathers.” If “the greater part of the wealth of the country is at present in our hands,” that is because “this land we have made is our land by right – by right of achievement,” and Africans will simply have to learn to live in “a world which we have made, under the humanitarian impulses of the late nineteenth and twentieth century.”
p.188: A US Army manual defined terrorism as “the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature … through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear.”
p.189: The reasons do not seem obscure: the official definitions of terrorism are virtually the same as the definitions of counterterror. But counterterror is official US policy, and it is plainly will not do to say that US is officially committed to terrorism.
p.201: Perhaps the former director of Human Rights Watch Africa, now a professor of law at Emory University, spoke for many others around the world when he addressed the International Council on Human Rights Policy in Geneva in January 2002, saying that “I am unable to appreciate nay moral, political or legal difference between this jihad by the United States against those it deems to be its enemies and the jihad by Islamic groups against those they deem to be their enemies.”
p.214: In the critical year 1958, President Eisenhower and his staff discussed what eh called the “campaign of hatred against us” in the Arab world, “not by the governments but by the people.” The basic reason, the National Security Council advised, was the perception that the US supports corrupt and brutal governments and is “opposing political or economic progress” in order “to protect its interest in Near East oil.”

The Man who loved only numbers by Paul Hoffman
I like the book a lot. The book is about a Mathematician called Paul Erdos, a Hungarian born Jew. He was so smart to prove the Continuum theory and he worked 19 hours a day until his late in his life. He did not have a house or home, so he lived traveling from one mathematicians to other. All he did was mathematics and even he could not take care of himself, so was in someone’s care. Sounds so redundant but fires me up to do more mathematics since I think I am getting stupider every day. I should do more math…

p.85 “equation fir me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God” said Ramujan.
p.103: Under orders from Stalin to fill quotas of prisoners to be sent to the GULAG< the majority never to return, the liberators pick men in the streets at random for the malenkii robot [small labor] wrote Lazlo Babai.
p.117: Andre Weil, number theorist extraordinaire, put it: “God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”
p.118: Russell, on the other hand, was crushed: “I wanted certainty in the kind of way in which people want religious faith. I thought that certainty was more likely to be found in mathematics than elsewhere. But I discovered that many mathematical demonstrations, which my teachers wanted me to accept, were full of fallcacies…. I was continually reminded of the fable abou thte elephant and the tortoise. Having contructed an elephant on which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to contruct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was no momre secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable.
p.119: paradox of a la barber of Seville.

Tank town to high tech, June Nash, State University of New York Press, 1989

Globalization is dynamic force inflicted on local communities to change and thrive. The force itself can be benign as well as malevolent. This book talks about a small community of Petersburg in MA from its inception till later day. In meanwhile, the book focuses on the social changes taking place as a result of globalization. Although boring, the book giver deep insights into the social changes reflecting both negative and positive effects. Also proposes certain solutions to the social problem created as a result of globalization. I don’t think particularly uses word globalization. The criterion of globalization can be a power of union and as globalization progress, the unions have no but little power. It gave facts about how powerful the multinational firms are as compare to “barefoot” laborer.

p.11 Hegemony is, in Gramsci’s (Williams 1960:587) terms: … an order in which a certain way of life and thought is dominant, in which one concept of reality is diffused throughout society in all its institutional and private manifestations, informing with its spirit all taste, morality, customs, religious and political principles and all social relations, particularly in their intellectual and moral connotations.
p.12 Corporate hegemony works in America, as sutart Hall and Tony Jefferson (1983:39) indicate it does in Great Britain, “by inseting the subordinate class into the key institutions and structures which support the power and social authority of the dominant order.”
p.13: Equal opportunity and upward mobility are important validations for corporate hegemony. And if mobility is often translated into horizontal geographical movement, or if certain minorities never entered the circuits of monbility , that is blamed on individual failure or natural conditions. So long as one could assume equal opp[ortunity , each and every individual is expected to maximize his or her own potential.
p.14: Hegemonic control is found in all societies where unequal social relations are successfully reproduced without the constant use of force. The existing power structure is able to incorporate threatening elements in such a way that the configuration of cultural traits is not disturbed.
p.15: The success of hegemonic control depends upon the ability of the power elite to respond to new interest groups as they make claims on the society.
p.22: The consensus sustaining corporate hegemony draws upon institutions that redistribute wealth accyumulated at the source of production. Redistribution, following Polanyi’s (1947) model, requires a central pooling of resources controlled by individuals or groups whose political power is strengthened in the process of allocating shares to a wider polity.
p.115: The basic rules of hegemony can be decoded form the corporate managerial tactics of the thirties and forties. First and paramount is management’s assumption of leadership of any initiatives stemming from the rank and file and appearing to have a broad support. Second is the containment of potitical activicsm in the unions. Finally there is the grounding of these strategies in generally accepted principles that are part of the American way of doing things. All of these rules require a management that reduces opposition to and inforces the dominance of management over the work force in the workplace and in the community.
p.229: The philosophy of the corporation embracing the central values in corporate hegemony draws on the social-Darwinian struggle for survival. War is a challenge that brings out the best competitive quatlities, and through this engagement, the success of the firm, and it follows, the community and family is ensured.
p.236: On March 28, 1985, the Pentagon imposed a ban on bidding on new defense contracts by the Space Systems Division of Gernal Electric Company, following an indictment charging that the firm’s Space systems division defrauded the government of $800000. Nicholas Boraski, general manager of Pittsfiels’ GE plant, sent an open letter to the Pittsfield Ordnance Systems division charging employee misconduct in the allocation of time on time cards. In an interview with Berkshire Eagle rreporter Margaret Pantridge (June 5, 1985) John F.Welch claimed that GE was singled out because of its visibility. He reiterated the charge that it was “low level engineering folks” and that the corporation was unable to find the guilty person. The corporate ombudsman urged employees to report any suspected violation. The company paid a fine of $1,040,000 hardly more than the alleged $800000 false charges.
p.325: Deindustrialization theory poses a nationalistic model of change that, from a Third world perspective, involves industrial growth. Bluestone and Harrison (1982) attack both sides of this global transformation, althouthg thei policy concerns ar eproimarily twith the impact of “widespread systematic disinvestmento the nations’ productive capacity”.
p.338: The future struggles of American workers are more likely to be organized outside of the workplace and in neighborhoods and communities were the unemployed and homeless meet with the poorly paid underclass of workers and heavily mortgaged homeowners to work out a new social contract.

Malambo:
“The Rimac, and the barrio of Malambo its banks, shapes the narrative of this compelling historical novel thatprobes the brutal clash of ethnicity, religion and class in sixteenth and seventeenth century Peru. Set against the backdrop of Spanish colonialism and the Spanish Inquisition in the ‘New World’ Malambo peels back the layers of Perys society to focus on the sublte connections among indigiounous peoples, Africans, jews, chirstians ndad others, whose cultural fusion pervades Latin American hisotyr and culture.”
The book was dry throughout but gave interesting details at times. The reading in my opinion cannot be for pleasure unless one is interested in colonial societies in Latin America. Main characters are: Tomason – a painter, Catalina Ronceros – old widow who wants to marry De la Piedra, De la Piedra – a master of slave trade, Pancha Parra – girls who is left with Tomason and later become herb woman, Altagracia M – a mistress of her master and servant, Nazario Bernabe – husband of Altagracia and coachman, Venancio – a fisherman who wants to marry Pancha. Anyway, the book was confusing at times and was not well-structured.

Intellectuals, Paul Johnson, ISBN 0-06-016050-0, 1988
After reading the intellectuals by Paul Johnson, I diagnize myself as lazy bum. John Paul Satre read above 300 hundred books a year and Ernst Hemmingway read well above 200 a year. Satre said “Every single of my theories was act of conquest. I thought one day with help of them all I will conquer the world.”
Paul Johnson said “it is just about two hundred years since the secular intellectuals began to replace the old clerisy as the guides and mentors of mankind.” Indeed, I agree with him in this issue. But what I don’t agree with him is that “they should be kept well away form the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice.” I believe we need the advice of intellectuals in our decisions especially if the decision would affect lives of many.
In my opinion, Paul Johnson has his own bias against certain intellectuals and judge them according to set-up norms of his own, rather than giving proper and full explanation in intellectual’s behavior. I found the book quite ill-judge in many ways and somehow distorting the truth in others. Otherwise, it reveals “negative” side effects of being an intellectual in great extend.
If there exists after life in any kind of form like heaven and hell, I might to prefer to go to hell not because I am lunatic but for purpose of being not bored eternally. The reason is many intellectuals seem to thrown to hell who are surely to fall into hell whom I love to argue, discuss and question indefinitely.

p.1: For the first time in human history, and with growing confidence and audacity, men arose to assert that they could diagnose the ills of society and cure them with their own unaided intellects: more, that they could devise formulae whereby not merely the structure of society but the fundamental habits of human beings chould be transformed for the better. Unlike their sacerdotal predecessors, they were not servants and interpreters of the gods but substitutes. Their hero was Prometheus who stole the celestial fire and brought it to earth.
p.3: Rousseau insisted that reason itself had severe limitations as the means to cure society. That did not mean, however, that the human mind was inadequate to bring about the necessary changes, because it has hidden untapped resources of poetic insight and intuition which must be used to overrule the sterilizing dictates of reason.
p.12: Extravagance of personality is one way in which the pill can be sugared and the public induced to look at works dealing with ideas.
p.28: Like Rousseau, Shelley Believed that society was totally rotten and should be transformed, and that enlightened man, through his own unaided intellect, had the moral right and duty to reconstruct it form first principles.
p.77 Karl Marx’s beds were sold to pay the butcher, milkman, chemist and baker. They found refuge in a squalid German boarding house in Leicester Square and there, that winder, the baby Guido died. Jenny left a despairing account of these days, from which her spirits, and her affection for Marx, never really recovered.
p.137: Tolstoy’s case is another example of what happens when an intellectual pursues abstract ideas at the expense of people. The historian is tempted to see it as a prolegomenon, on a small, personal scale, of the infinitely greater national catastrophe which was soon to engulf Russia as a whole. Tolstoy destroyed his family, and killed himself, by trying to bring about the total moral transformation he felt imperative.
p.150 [Hemingway] In his best work he always avaided preaching at the reader, or even nudging his elbow by drawing attention to the way his characters behaved.
p.152: trying to live a good and honest life, according to the values of each and usually failing. Tragedy occurs because the values themselves turn out to be illusory or mistaken, or because they are betrayed by weakness within or external malice or the intractability of objective facts. But even the failure is redeemed by truth seeking, by having the ability to perceive the truth and the courage to stare I tin the face.
p.227: He formed and for many years maintained, the habit of reading about three hundred books year. The range was very wide; American novels were his passion.
p.232: Sartre was preaching freedom to people who were ungry and waiting for it. But it was not an easy freedom. “existentialism” said Sartre, “ defines man by his actions… It tells him that hope lies only in action, and that the only thing that allows man to live is action.” So Man comitts himself tto his life, and thereby draws his image, beyond which there is nothing.”
p.236: Every single one of my theories, he says in La Nausee, “was an act of conquest and possession. I thought that one day, with the help of them all, I ‘d conquer the world.”
p.253: Edmund Wilson was always a man capable of hard, persistent and systematic reading… No man ever read more thoroughly and thoughtfully than Wilson; in his judge-like way, he read as though the authoer was on trial for his life.
p.268: The cruelty of ideas lies in the assumption that human beings can be bent to fit them. The beneficence of great art consists in the way in which it build up form the individual illumination to generality.
p.302: As has been shown repeatedly, the memoirs of leading intellectuals – Sarttre, de Beauvoir, Russell, Hemingway, Gollancz are obvious examples – are quire unreliable. But ht most dangerous of these intellectual self-glorifications are thoese which disarm the reaser by what appears to be shocking frankness and admission of guilt.
p.308: Orwell was an intellectual in the sense that he believed, at any rate when young, that the world could be reshaped by the power of intellect. He thus thought in terms of ideas and concepts. Orwell: “I felt I had got to escape not merely from imperialism but from every form of man’s dominion over man. I wanted to submerge myself to get right down among the oppressed, to be one of them and on their side against the tyrants.”
p.309 Orwell had always put experience before theory, and these events proved how right he had been. Theory taught that the left, when exercising power, would behave justly and repect truth. Experience showed him that the left was capable of a degree of injustice and cruelty of a kind hitherto almost unknown, rivaled only by the monstorous crimes of the German Nazis and that it would eagerly suppress truth in the cuase of the higher truth it upheld.
p.311: What Orwell came reluctantly and belatedly to accept – the failure of utopianism on account of the fundamental irrationality of human behaviour – Waugh had vociferously upheld for most of his adult life.
p.311: Gollancz believed in government:”men cannot live together without rules” but these “should be kept to the bare minimum of safety”. “No form of government ordained from God” was better than another and “the anarchic elements in society” were so strong it was a “whole time job to keep the peace.”
p.322: The White Negro, which proved to be his most influential piece of writing, indeed a key docemntet of the post-war epoch. In this he analysed ‘hip consciousness’. The behaviour of young, self-assertive and confident blacks, as a form of counterculture; he explained and justified it, indeed urged its adaptation by radical whites.
p.338: As Bertrand Russell put is, “how comes it that human beings, whose contracts with the world are brief and personal and limited, are nevertheless able to know as much as they do know?” There are two rival explanations. One is the theory that men are born with innate ideas. As Plato put it in his Meno: “There are, in a man who doens not know, true opinions concerning that which he does not know.” The most important contents of the mind are there from the beginning, though external stimulation or experience, acting on the senses, is required to bring this knowledge into consciousness. Descarted held that such intuitive knoweldeg is more dependable than any other and that all men are born with a residuum of it, though only the most relective realize its full potentially. Most Continental European philosophers take this view to some degree.
As against his there is the Anglo-Saxon tradition of empiricism, taught by Locke, Berkeley and Hume. It argues that, while physical characteristics can be inherited, the mind is at birth a tabula rasa and mental characterists are all acquired through experience.Theses views, usually in a highly qualified form, are generally held in Britain, the United States and other countries which follow their culture.

Slaves, Peasants and rebels, Stuart B. Schwartz, University of Illinois Press, 1992
The book is about Brazilian Slavery. I read 4 chapters in this book out of total six. Chap2 concerns “sugar plantation labor and slave life”. Slave trade was originated when the Indian population decreased considerably. Besides, there was some pressure from Crown to protect Indian people.
Slaves resist especially when the gender balance was not kept or the condition deteriorated. “Chap 4 Rethinking Palmares: Slave Resistance in Colonial Brazil” illustrates it well. Many run away to build their own village similiar to one they had in mother AFrica. One of them was Palmares. The population was Palmares was increased dramatically but later reduced due to constant assault. Eventially it was brought down by alliance of Portugese and native Indians in 1694.

p.xi I argue that the expansion of Brazil’s slave based export economy was accompanied by a parallel expansion of internal markets for foodstuffs supplied by large and small producers, many of whom could be called peasants, and that these turned increasingly to slavery for their labor needs.
p.13: Schwartz (1978) demonstrated the transition on northeastern sugar planations and argued that the causes were to be found in Brazil and were essentially a combination of Indian demographic decline, shifting levels of supply and price for the two kinds of laborers, the productivity and skills of Africans, and the increasing efficiency of the slave trade.
p.41: This demographics regime had a profound impact on planter perceptions and policies as well as on slave actions and reactions. Most planters, for example, saw no reason to stimulate stable families to promote a natural growth of the population. Since a slave could produce in fourteen to twenty – four months enough sugar to equal his or her value at purchase, as long as the trade remained open, planters believed that the risks and costs of raising crioulos (Brazilian born black) children for fourteen years until they could become full workers was not worth the effort.
p.44: While considerable attention has been devoted to the house slaves and those in skilled or managerial positions, in reality these made up less than twenty percent of the total slave force. Entry into these relatively few skilled and favored positions therefore was a desired privilege that could be controlled and manipulated by the slaveowners to extract cooperation and good service.
p.48: A certain amount of slave autonomy made the system operate more smoothly, but planters also realized that a slave tradition of self-reliance and authonomy was a potential danger to that system.
p.103: Throughout the Americas wherever slavery was a basic institution, slave resistance, the fear of slave revolt, and the problem of fugitive slaves plagued colonists and colonial administrators. This resistence took a number of forms and was expressed in a variety of ways. Day to day recalcitracen, slow downs, and sabotage were probably the most common forms of resistance, while self-destruction through suicide, infanticide, or overt attempts at vengeance were most extreme in a personal sense.
p.104: Where were the run-away communities located? Far from possible white retaliation... What kind of societies did fugitives create? More or less egalitarian ones based on African traditions.
p.105: Patterns in the Atlantic slave trade and a planter preference for young adult males over women resulted in a chronic sexual imbalance. These problems made for a population that had less to lose by flight or other forms of resistence, at least in the view of observers in nineteenth-century Brazil who advocated stable families and a balanced sex ratio among the slaves as a means of control.
p.108: Portuguese military expedition in 1692 finally destroyed this mocambo by laying siege to the stockaded village. The final battle cry of the defenders: “Death to the whites and long live liberty.”
p.122: Palmares was not a singly community but a number of mocambos united to for a neo-African kingdom.
p.138: In this chapeter I examine a form of fictive kinship, compadrio or ritual godparentage, within Brazilian familial and spiritual life. By examining the manner in which slaves participated in the system of ritual godparentage, I seek to view the slave family within a context wider than genrational, consanguineal, and legal dimensions tha usually set the limits fo rthis type of study.
p.140: The fundamental law code of Portugal and its empire, teh Ordenacoes filipinas (1603) ordered all slaveowners to baptise their African slaves above ten years old within six months and those under that age within on emonth of acquiring them or forfeit htem ot hte crown.
p.147: But the battismal records indicate that in ideological and religious terms at least some masters made distincltions between Indians adn Africans.
p.155: By the mid-nineteenth century, exceptions to the perception or rule of incompatibility began to increase because religion and the theological meaning of compadrio had lessimpact in the lives of the slaveowning class. In 1871, hte Law of Free Birth would have changed the rules governing this relationship. In 1871, the Law of Free Birth would have chnged teh rules governing this relationship. After that date, all children born to slave mothers were considered free and in a stateof tutelage until reaching the age of majority.
p.161: teh pervasive and pernicious nature of slavery as a social and economic system, and as a sturcture that, so long as it remained viogrous, determined the contours of all else in Brazilian life. In effect, to consider the history of slavery in brazil is to deal with the history of Brazil itself.

Between September 1st and 7th of October

2006-10-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

September was not as busy as it could have been. Quote of the month is "Remember from time to time that we have tendency to waste time"

The books read:
The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas Friedman, 1999
Indian Givers, by Jack Weatherfod, 1988
We eat the mines and the mines eat us, June Nash
Discourse on Colonialism, Aime Cesaire, 1972
Civilization and its discontents, Sigmund Freud, 1989
Let me Speak, Domitila Barrios De Chungara, 1978
Mongolian Nomadic Society, Bat-Ochir Bold, 2001
New Introduction lectures on psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, 1933
What is life?, Erwin Schrodinger, 1955
Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano, 1973
Inside CIA's private world, edited by H.Bradford Westerfield, 1995
Modern Latin America, Thomas E. Skidmore, 2005

What is life?, Erwin Schrodinger, 1955
A little book on life. The book explains what composes of life in terms of its physical structure rather than ethical.
p.11: But if you look at one of the droplets under the microscope you find that it does not permanently sink with constant velocity, but performs a very irregular movement, the so-called Brownian movement, whcih corresponds to a regular sinking only on the average.
p.72: What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. Or, to put it less paradoxically, the essential thing in metabolism is that the organism succeeds in freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive.
p.74: -(entropy) = k*log(1/D) where D is a measure of disorder.
p.82: We seem to arrive a t the ridiculous conclusion that the clue to the understanding of life is that it is based on a pure mechanism, "clock work" in the sense of Planck's paper. THe conclusion is not ridiculous and is, in my opinion, not entirely wrong, but it has to be taken "with a very big grain of salt."

June Nash, We eat the mines and the mines eat us
p.xiii: Their reaction to the genocidal threat in a massacre in which the army used machine guns and bazookas to kill children as well as men and women massed in a peaceful protest was combines with a general awareness that life could not be sustained and reproduced at the standard of living to which Indian and cholo peasants and workers had been reduced.
p.xvii: Dr.Guido Strauss’s plan did not include any mention of the forty on ndian tribes with a total population of about 120000 recorded as living in the zone specified for colonization in eastern Bolivia. {immigration}
p.9: Action may be paralyzed by the underlying contradictions if the confluct is not recognized and made explicit and somehow resolved. One such resolution is to impose a hierarchy of values that suggests priorities in the field of action. Another resolution is to forge hegemonies, so that the priorities of one social group are brought into alignment with those of another such as to form a partnership for some collective goal.

p.24: A collective consciousness arises in the shared historical experiences that give shape to each generation. Zeitlan and Petras (1968) have pointed to the significance of generational differences in the formation of political ideology in Cuba. Their thesis, which develops Karl Mannheims’ general formulation that common experiences during youth create a common world view(1932:270), is that “the specific historical period in which succeeding generations of workers first become involed in the labor movement had significant consequences for the formation of their political outlooks.”

p.55: In the Bolivian mining family there are three basic paradigms for relating to others: dependency, competition, and cooperation.
p.58: The organization of the mining family has changed almost more radically in the past half century than any other institution in Bolivian society. The change has been in a conservative direction, tending to minimize the political radicalization of miners, as the nuclear family emerged out of the shambles of the communal ayllu.
p.99: Bolivian workers point out that their social security law is one of the most advanced of South America, but the actual benefits are often not forthcoming.
p.170: There is a cannibalistic quality in the relationship between the workers and the mine. “We eat the mines,” one man told me at challa, “and the mines eat us”. Their feelings about ht emines are expressed in the names they give the work sites: moropoto, Black Anus;… El Tambo Mata Gente, People-Killer Inn.
p.232: In the first weeks of my stay, the administrators of the mine advised me about the miners’ inability to save, their lack of planning for the future, their drinking and fighting. These myths protect the sensibilities of the middle class, who would otherwise be overwhelmed with the inequalities which exist in a wage and salary structure that rewards the nonproducer and reduces the standard of the subsoil worker to a bare subsistence.
p.238: Many of the sons of workers who had entered college and were hoping to continue their education were forced to leave in order to work and supplement the family income when I was living in Oruro. This bourgeoisement of the workers and reinforces a snse of class solidarity when they accept the fact that there is no escape even for the future generation.
p.242: Many workers lost savings that they had put into old mining companies when they were nationalized, or the money they had saved became almost useless as the inflation rose to indices of over 40000 over 1937 base prices. When I asked one women hwy she had three sewing machines, she said she had bought them as a dowry for her daughters.
p.247: Price, waterhouse, Peat and company estimated that COMIBOL lost US $124 million between 1952 and 1957 in price changes alone. (Bedregal 1959), an effective way of controlling the revolutionary process taking place in Bolivia.
p.249: Bolivia’s deteriorating position in the world market for tin was reflected in the decapitalization of the nationalized mines. This was a result of both mismanagement as well as a shift in interest to oil. Arce (1965:15) blames much of the decline in the productivity of the mines on failure on the part of management on invest in exploration.
p.254:
The wage structure in mining fails to respond to change sin the cost of living and in the profits of production in accord with classical market theory in economics. In fact, the reverse situation has taken place in Bolivia: wages are declining in response to increasing costs in the subsistence products and the rising prices of tin.

Aime Cesaire: Discourse on Colonialism, 1972
p.21: My turn to state an equation: colonization = “thingification”. I hear the storm. They talk to me about progress, about “achievements,” diseases cured, improved standards of living. I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out. They throw facts at my head, statistics, mileage of roads, canals, and railroad tracks. I am talking abou thtousands of men sacrificed to the Congo-Ocean. … I am talking about millions of men torn from their gods, their land, their habits, their life – from life, from the dance, from wisdom.

p.23: Every day that passes, every denial of justice, every beating by the police, every demand of the workers that is drowned in blood, every scandal that is hushed up, every punitive expedition, every police van, every gendarme and every militiaman, brings home to us the value of our old societies.
p.31: Once again, I systematically defend our old Negro civilizations: they were courteous civilizations. So the real problem, you say, is to return to htem. No, I repeat. We are not men fo r whome it is a question of “either –or”. For us, the problem is no tto make a utopian and sterile attempt to repeat the past, but to go beyond. It is not a dead society that we want to revive… It is a new society that we must create, with the help of all our brother slaves, a society rich with all the productive power of modern times, warm with all the fraternity of olden days.
p.41: M.Mannoni makes [Aime is criticizing him] his diagnosis: “The Madagascan does not even try to imagine such a situation of abandonment. … He desires neither personal authonomy nor free respobsibility.”
p.46: But what about this: “Everytihing in this world reeks of crime: the newspaper, the wall, the countenance of man.”
p.49: Whether one likes it or not, the bourgeoisie, as a class, is condemned to take repsobibility for all the barbarism of history, the tortureso fthe Middle Ages and the Inquisition, warmongering and the appeal to the raison d.Etat, racism and slavery, in short everything against which it protested in unforgettable terms at the time when, as the attacking class, it was incarnation of human progress.
p.51Lastly, it is for excessive egalitarianism, for once, that American thinkers are taken to task- Otto Klineberg, professor of psychology at Columbia University, having declared: “It is a fundamental error to consider the other cultures as inferior to our own simply because they are different.”

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its discontents, 1989
p.27: The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against all the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself. There is indeed, another rand better path: that of becomein ga member of the human community, and , with the help of a technique guided by science, going over to the attack against nature and subjecting her to the human will. […] In last analysis, all suffering is nothing else than sensation; it only exists in so far as we feel it, and we only feel it in consuequence of cetain ways in which our organism is regulated.
p.33: The enjoyment of beauty has a peculiar, mildly intoxicating quality of feeling. Beuty has no obvious use; nor it is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
p.48: The last, but certainly not the least important, of the characteristic features of civilization remains to be assessed: the manner in which the relationships of men to one another, their social relationships, are regulated – relationships which affect a person as a neighbour, as a source of help, as another person’s sexual object, as a member of a family and of a State.
p.49: Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger that any separate individual and which remain united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as ‘right’ is opposition to the power of the indivudal which is condemned as ‘brute force’. This replacement of the power of the individual by the power of a community constitutes th e decisive step of civilization. The essence of it lies in the fact that the members of the community restrict themselves in their possibilities of satisfaction, whereas the individual knew no such restrictions. The first requisity of civilization, therefore, is that of justice – that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law. […] The final outcome should be a rule of law to which all – except those who are not capable of entering a community – have contributed by a sacrifice of their instincts, and which leaves no one – again with the same exception – at the mercy of brute force.
p.59: The work of civilization has become increasingly the business of men, it confronts them with ever more difficult tasks and compels them to carry out instinctual sublimations of which women are little capable Since man doe sno t have unlimited quantities of psychical energy at his disposal, he has to accomplish his tasks by making an expedient distribution of his libido.
p.69: Homo homini lupus = ‘Man is a wolf to man’ {Derived from Plautus, Asinaria}
p.88: The people of Israel had believed themselves to be the favourite child of God, and when the great Father caused misfortune after misfortune to rain down upon this people of his, they were never shaken in their belief in his relationship to them or questioned his power or righteousness. […] Thus we know of two origins of the sense of guilt: one arising form fear of an authority, and the other, later on, arising from fear of the super ego. The first insists upon a renunciation of instinctual satisfactions; the second, as well as doing this, presses for punishment, since the continuance of the forbidden wishes cannot be concealed form the superego.
p.103: In the course of our analytic work we have discovered to our surprise that perhaps every neaurosis conceals a quota of unconscious sense of guilt, which in its turn fortifies the symptoms by making use of them as a punishment. … When an instinctual trend undergoes repression, its libidinal elements are turned into symptoms, and its aggressive components into a sense of guilt.
p.105: In the developmental process of the individual, the programme of the pleasure principle, which consists in finding the satisfaction of happiness, is retained as the main aim. Integration in, or adaptation to, a human community appears as a scarcely avoidable condition which must be fulfilled before this aim of this aim of happiness can be achieved. … The development of the individual seems to us to be a product of the interaction between two urges, the urge towards happiness, which we usally call ‘egoistic’, and the urge towards union with others in the community, which hwe call ‘altruistic’.
p.12.: Man have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficultu in exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and hteir mood of anxiety. And now it is to be expected that the other of the ‘HeavenlyPOwer’, eternal Eros, will make an effort to assert himself in the struggle with his equally immortal adversary.

Domitila Barrios De Chungara: Let me Speak, 1978

In reading this book, I felt like having deep insight into social repression, class division and human suffering. My understanding human suffering was only limited to war zones and hunger stricken areas. Now I see how much people suffer in areas where poverty means eventual distinction of group of people and tyranny means more blood shed.
She was imprisoned with her child first. She said “I swallowed my tears, watching my children cry. In our own country, thrown out of our own village … where would we go? We’d been born there, we’d been raised there, we’d live there.” It turned out, her first imprisonment was much easier than the second. When Domitila was about to give birth, she was put in prison and tortured. She felt piece of her teeth in the month after repetitious beatings by officers. She was put in cell rather than hospital when she was just about to give birth. Pain was too much to bear, so she rarely remembers what happens in the cell. In her words, “The only thing I remember is that I knelt thre and covered my face because I could not stand anymore. … I noticed the head was coming out… and rightat htat moment I fainted.” Then she gained conscious but was soaking wet. It was blood and the liquid you lose during childbirth that had wet her all over. She says “Colonel [who was beating her] shouted ‘she gave birth?’ after hearing it from the guard. And he came in, ‘get up whore …’ and he kicked me. I did not feel much, because I was half frozen.” She lost her baby, and soon after had mental breakdown which resulted in hysteria. Thanks god, with help of her family she eventually recovered to be a leader in her community.
After reading this book, I am half paralyzed with horrible images of her life and fully convinced the brutality of the military regime. Moreover, I undertood that there is no limit to evil in humans, especially MAN.

Bat-Ochir Bold, Mongolian Nomadic Society, 2001
There are many books on Mongolian history. This is one of them which is written by professor in University of Iceland. The difference of this book from other history books is that its development was not based on chronological order and the author clearly not aimed to set certain timelines. Contents were: 1.Starting point for viewing the history of the Mongols, 2. Econmic conditions and their development, 3. Socio-political organization in the development of Monglia, 4. Social strata of Mongolian nomadic society, 5. The effect of Lamaism on traditional Mongolian nomadic society, 6. The dynamics of the development of Mongolia nomadic society.

The book had couple good insights on effect of Lamaism on tradional Mongolian society. Also it provided statistics on number of temples, lamas and households.

Jack Weatherford, Indian Givers, 1988
Contents: 1. Silver and Money Capitalism, 2. Piracy, Slavery, and the birth of corporations, 3. The American Indian path to industrialization, 4. The food revolution, 5. Indian Agricultural technology, 6. The culinary revolution, 7. Liberty, anarchism, and the Noble savage, 7 The founding Indian fathers, 9. Red sticks and revolution, 10. The Indian healer. 11. The drug connection, 12. Architecture and urban planning, 13. The pathfinders, 14. When will America be discovered?

The book was easy read. It portrayed the truths about the colonilization in Latin America, especially how much mita they took along with their precious metals. Very good insight into latin American culture and what it offered to world including the architecture and food. Indians in North America was not excluded but the book mostly concerned of latin America. I was surprised to find that the first pirates were given titles of “sir” by queen of Engand, and they did not have problems as long as the profits were flowing into country.
Before discovery of America, the precious metals used to come from Africa. Towns on the route in Africa and port for ships to Europe prospered. But once America was discovered along with it Cerro Ricos, the towns in Africa had nothing to support itself. As a result they opted for the slave trade to sustain the economy.

p.17; Asia experienced a temporary gain from the discovery of America, but Africa suffered. America had all the silver and gold Europe needed, and this destroyed the African gold markets and the dependent trade networks. Cities such as Timbuktu and the Songhoi Empire of which it was a part crumbled as merchants abandoned the ancient trade routes.
p.38: The discovery of America created what he called a “revolution in commerce.”. … These great trading companies helped create what Immanuel Wallerstein calls the “world system.” They made a single economy out of the previously diverse regiounal economies of the far east, sub Saharan Africa, India and south asia, the south pacific, and Europe together with the Americas. Goods could now be produced in any part of th world and transported to virtually any other aprt of the world, and all of this was accomplishe dusinght e standardized values of the gold and silver supplied by the Indians of America.

p.82: Now rather than allowing foreigners to experiment with the Indians by teaching htem to raise foreign trees, the government seeks the aid of the Indian sto teach researchers how to grow a wide variety of yams, potatoes, and tubers for which there exist no names in either English or Spanish.

Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano, 1973I am very happy to come across with Eduardo Galeano. If you think Thomas Friedman is the bestseller and “the man” today in journalism, then Eduardo Galeano was 70’s Thomas Friedman. My failure to categorise his writing style is not derived from neither my judgemental values nor my inability to distinguish cadres. Anyway, Eduardo Galeano has distinct style of his own and his writings should be categorized by itself. I would like to recommend this book to everyone who has little sense of “lefties”. Satisfaction is guaranteed.

p.12: Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into Europena – or later United States – capital, and as such has accumulated in distant centers of power. Everything: the soil, its fruits, and its mineral rich depths, the people and their capacity to work and to consume, natural resources and human resources.

p.14: New factories are built in the privileged poles of development – San Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City – but less and less labor is needed. The system did not foresee this small headache, this surplus of people. And the people keep reproducing. They make love with enthusiasm and without precaution.

p.18: When Alexander Von Humboldt investigated the customs of the ancient inhabitants of the Bogota plateau, he found that the Indians called the victims of ritual ceremonies quihica. Quihica meant “door”; the death of each chosen victim opened the door to a new cycle of 185 moons.

p.26: The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494, allowed Portugal to ooccupy Latin American territories below a dividing line traced by the Pople, and in 1530 Martim Affonso dde Sousa founded the first Portuguese communities in Brazil, expelling French intruders.

p.39: This enormous mass of capital, Mandel notes, created a favourable climate for investment in Europe, stimulated the “spirit of enterprise,” and directly financed the establishment of manufacrtures, which in turn gave a strong thrust toeh Industrial Revolution. But at the same time the formidable international concentration of wealth for Europe’s benefit prevented the jumo into the accumulation of industrial capital in the plundered areas.

p.46: Sucre decayed along with Potosi. This valley city of pleasant climate, successively known as Charcas, La Plata, and Chuquisaca, enjoyed a good share of the wealth flowing from Potosi’s Cerro Rico.
p.50: In 1685 only 4000 Indian families remained of the more than 2 million that had once lived between Lima and Paita, according to the Marquis of Barinas. … While metals flowed unceasingly from Latin American mines, euqlly unceasing were the orders from the Spanish Court granting paper protection and dignity to he Indians who killing labor sustained the kingdom. … between 1616 and 1619, Governor Juan de Solorzano carried out a survey of work conditions int eh HUancavelica mercury mines “The poison penetrated to the very marrow, debilitating all the members and causing a constant shaking, and the wormers usually died within four years,” he reported to the Council of the Indies and to the king. But in 1631 Philip IV ordered that the same system be continued and his successor Charles II later reaffirmed the decree.

p.54: The Aztecs irrigation works and artificial islands dazzled Cortes – even though they were not made of gold. The conquest shattered the foundations of these civilizatins. The installation of a minig ecnomy had direr consequences than the fire and sword of war. The mines required a great displacement of people and dislocated agricultural communities; they not only took countless lives htrough forced labor, but also indirectly destroyed the collective farming system.

p.105: A coffee era began in Venezuela in 1873; coffe, like cacao continued to expand invading the humid lands of Carupano. … two products created the capital that enabled landlords, merchants, and moneylenders to live as wasteful parasites.
p.107: Ecuador’s economy depend on the sale of bananas, coffee, and cacao, three food products highly subject ot price fluctuations. According to official daa, seven of every ten Ecuadoreans suffer from basic malnutrition, and the country has one of the highest death rates in the world. (1960s)
p.111: Toward the end of the century [19th] coffee planters, by then the new Brazilian social elite, sharpened their pencils and totted up their accounts: subsistence wages worked out cheaper than the purchase and maintenance of increasingly scarce slaves.
p.113: A drop of only one cent in the price meant a losss of $65 million to the combined producing countries. With the price falling continually between 1964 and 1968, the consuming country – the United States – helped itself to more and more millions from the producing country, Brazil. But for the benefit of whom? Of the coffee drinking citizen? In July 1968 Brazilian coffee cost 30 percent less in the United States than in January 1964, but U.S. consumers did not pay less: they paid 13 percent more. Thus in the 1964- 1968 period mddlemen kept the 13 percent as well as the 30 percent, feathering their nests twice over.
p.120: In general – but especially in Guatemala – this structure of labor force appropriation is visibly identified with racism: Indians suffer the internal colonialism of whites and mestizos blessed ideologically by the dominant culture, just as Central American countries suffer foreign colonialism.
p.121: In 1912 President William H. Taft declared: “The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South pole. The whole hemisphere will be ourse in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.”
p.128: Thomas Melville: Jan, 1968 Guatemaln police murdered over 2800 intellectuals, students, trade union leaders, and peasant swho were trying “to combat the sicknesses of Guatemalan society.”
p.133: In our day the Uruguayan countryside looks like a desert: five hundred families monopolize half of all the land and , to crown their power, also control three quarters of the capital invested in industry and banking.
p.155: The uncommonly arrogant Lima oligarchy continued enriching itself and amassoing symbols of its power in the palaces and Carrara marble mausoleums which sprouted amid sandy deserts. Once it had been Potosi’s silver that nourished ht egreat families of the capital city; now they lived from bird-droppings and the shiny white clots in the nitrate fields – more vuilgar means to the same legant ends.
p.158: In the thirsty desert of Tamarugal, where the land dazzles one’s eyes with its brilliance, I have stood beside the ruins of Tarapaca. During the boom there were one hundred and twenty nitrate fields here; now only two remain in operation. …”Here money flowed and everyone thought it would never stop” I was told by the surviving residents.

p.166: But the worst of it was the dust: circles of light from the miners’s helmets danced dimly in the gloom, showing thick white curtains of deadly silica. It does not take long to do its work. The first sympthoms are felt within a year, and in ten years one enters the cemetery.
p.168: With a mere $5000 in declared capital, this pompously named enterprise secured a contract that enabled it to amass more than $900 million.
p.198: In the difficult early days, when British industry was still at a disadvantage, an Englishman caught exporting raw wool was sentenced to lose his right hand, and if he repeated the sin he was hanged.
p.207 [how the war against Paraguay wrecked the only successful attempt at independent development] Although Britain took no direct part in the ghastly deed, it was in the pockets of British mercahngts, bankers and industrialists that the loot ended up. The invasion was financed from start to finish by the Bnk of London.
p.218: As the finance minister in the period when [Argentina] the loan was contracted said “We are not in a position ot make measures against foregign trade, particularly British because we are bound to that nation by large debts and would expose ourselves to a rupture which would cause much harm…”
p.223: Congress voted the ultra-protectionist “McKinley” tariff in 1890, and the Dingley Act further hiked customs duties in 1897. Soon afterward the developed countires of Europe felt obliged to erect customs barriers against the invasion of dangerously competitive U.S. manufactures.
p.228: What happened to Latin America’s industrial bourgeoisie was what happens to dwarfs: it became decrepit without having grown.
p.241: According to this brief but meaty “capitalist manifesto”, the law of the jungle is the natural code governing human life; injustice does not exist, for what we know as injustice is merely an expression of the cruel harmony of the universe: poor countries are poor because … they are poor; our fate is written in the stars and we are born only to fulfil it.
p.252: Numerous daggers glint beneath the cloak of aid to poor countries. Teodor Moscoso, who was chairman of the Alliance for Progress, confessed: “It may happened that US needs the vote of a particular country in the UN or the OAS, and it is possible that the government of that country [following the sacred tradition of cold war diplomacy] may ask a price in exchange.
p.255: US has one-fourth of the votes in the World Bank: the 22 countries in Latin America have less than onetenth. The WB responds to the US like thunder to lightning.
p.261: But the most starling contradiction between theory and reality in the world market emerged in the open “soluble coffee war” in 1967. It then became clear that only the rich countries have the right to exploit for their own benefit the “natural comparative advantages” which theoretically determine the international division of labor.
p.266: Latin American underdevelopment is not a stage on the road to development, but ht eocunterpart of development elsewhere’ the region “progresses” without freeing itself from the structure of its backwardness and, as Manuel Sadosky points out, the “advantage” of not participating in progress with its own programs and goals is illusory.
p.270: Wages can remain low while productivity rises, and productivity rises at the expense of cuts in the labor force.
p.281: The poles of prosperity that flourished to supply Europe’s need for metals and foodstuffs were not interconnected: the ribs of the fan had their vertex across the ocean. People and capital were displaced according to the rising and falling fate of gold or sugar, silver or indigo, and only the ports and the capitals, the leeches of the productive regions, had a permanent existence.
p.282: Each Latin American country still identifies itself with its own port – a negation of its roots and real identity – to such an extent that almost all intraregional trade goes by sea: inland transport is virtually nonexistent. Furthermore, the global feight cartel fixes rates and itineraries to suit itself, and Latin America merely endures the exorbitant charges and ridiculous routes. Of the 118 regular shipping lines operating in the region only seventeen fly regional flags; freightage bleeds the Latin American economy of 2.6 billion a year. Thus merchandise shipped from Porto Alegre to Montevideo arrives faster if it goes via Hamburg, and the same for Uruguayan wool bound for the US; freightage from Buenos Aires to a Mexican gulf port is more than 25 percent lower if the shipment goes via Southampton. Shipment of timber from Mexico to Venezuela costs more than double the shipment of timber from Finland to Venezuela, although the maps still insist that Mexico is closer.
p.283: Bolivar prophesied shrewdly that the US seemed fated by Providence to plague America with woes in the name of liberty. … It is big load of rottenness that has to be sent to the bottom of the sea on the march to latin america’s reconstruction. The task lies in the hadnd of the dispossessed, the humiliated, the accursed. The Latin American cause is above all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and challenge. There aer ethose who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.

New Introductory lectures on psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, 1933
Before reading Freud, I read five or six books by Carl. G. Jung. Jung is the one God who I worship in field of psychology, if I can say that. But without Freud, my god looses its heart. Reading this book by Freud gave me broader comprehension of the psychology in general and early development of psychoanalysis. In one word: “good book”.

p.27: For we must never forget that the dream-life is, as Aristotle has already told us, the way our mind works during sleep. The state of sleep represents a turning away from the real external world, and thus provides a necessary condition for the development of a psychosis.
p.31: Let me repeat the stages of dream-formation. The introduction: the wish to sleep, the voluntary withdrawal from the outside world. Two things follow from this: firstly, the possibility for older and more primitive modes of activity to manifest themselves, i.e. regression; and secondly, the decrease of the repression-resistence, which weighs on the unconscious.
p.32: The whole process of dream-foramtion, which is permitted by the sleeping ego, is, however, under the control of the censorship, a control which is exercised by what is left of the forces of repression. I cannot explain the process more simply; it is not in itself simpler than that.
p.43: We have kept our theory intact by dividing dreams into wish-dreams, and punishment-dreams. Even punishment-dreams are wishfulfilments, but they do not fulfil the wishes of the instinctual impulses, but those of the critical, censuring and punishing function of the mind.
p.90: Identification is a very important kind of relationship with another person, probably the most primitive, and is not to be confused with object-choice. One can express the difference between them in this way: when a boy identifies himself with his father, he wants to be like his father; when he makes him the object of his choice, he wants to have him, to possess him; in the first case his ego is altered on the model of his father, in the second case that is not necessary. Identification and object-choice are broadly speaking independent of each other.
p.95: For us the super-ego is the representative of all moral restrictions, the advocate of the impulse towards perfection, in short it is as much as we have been able to apprehend psychologically of what people call the ‘higher’ things in human life. … They have forgotten the difficulties of their own childhood and are glad to be able to identify themselves fully at last with their own parents, who in their day subjected them to such severe restrains. The result is that the super-eog of the child is not really built up on the model of the parents, but on that of the parent’s super-ego; it takes over the same content, it becomes the vehicle of tradition and of all the age-long values which have been handed down in this way from generation to generation.
p.105: Naturally, the id know no values, no good and evil, no morality. The economic, or if you prefer, the quantitative factor, which is so closely bound up with the pleasure-principle, dominates all its processes.
p.109: When the ego is forced to acknowledge its weakness, it breaks out into anxiety: reality anxiety in face of the external world, normal anxiety in face of the superego and neurotic anxiety in face of the strength of the passions in the id.
p.141: We suppose that there are two fundamentally different kinds of instincts, the sexual instincts in the widest sense of the word and the aggressive instincts, whose aim is destruction.
p.163: In short, we gain the conviction that one cannot understand women, unless one estimates this pre-oedipal attachment to the mother at its proper value.
p.172: The discovery of her castration is a turning-point in the life of the girl. Three lines of development diverge from it; one leads to sexual inhibition or to neurosis, the second to a modification of character in the sense of masculinity complex, and the third to normal femininity.
p.182: The mother can transfer to her son all the ambition which she has had to suppress in herself, and she can hope to get from him the satisfaction of all that has remained to her of her masculinity complex. Even a marriage is not fimly assured until the woman has succeeded in making her husband into her child and in acting the part of a mother towards him.
p.220 If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness amid the changing vicissitudes of life and it guides their thoughts and actions by means of precepts which are backed by the whole force of its authority.
p.221: In so far as religion brushes away men’s feaw of the dangers and vicissitudes of life, in so far as it assures them of a happy ending, and comforts them intehir misfortunes, science fannot compete with it. Science, it is true, teaches how one can avoid certain dangers and how one can combat many suffering with success; it would be quite untrue to deny that science is a powerful aid to human beings but in many cases it has to leave htem to their suffering and ccan only advise them to submit to the inevitable. IN the performance of its third function, the provision of precepts, prohibitions and restrictions religion is furthest removed from science.
p.234 reason- is among the forces which may be expected to exert a uynifying influence upon men – creatures who can be held together only with the greatest difficulty, and whom it is therefore scarecely possible to control.
p.235: The struggle, therefore is not yet at an end. The followers of the religious Weltanschauung act in accordance with the old maxim: the best defence is attack.
p.240: [according to anarchistic doctrine]What we give out as scientific truth is only the product of our own needs and desires, as they are formulated under varying external conditions; that is to say, it is illusion once more. Ultimately we find only what we need to find, and see only what we desire to see. We can do nothing else. And since the criterion of truth, correspondence with an external world, disappears, it is absolutely immaterial what views we accept. All of them are equally true and false. And no one has a right to accuse any one else or error.

Inside CIA’s private world.

The book was quite an insight into the world of agents. When I was young, we used to play as secret agents. It was thrilling game since it needed wit to play. In this book, Westerfield selected and published the papers which were once classified, but no longer fall into the category after cold war. An story of the Swedish recruit, the spy plane taking picture, how to survive through interrogation etc etc.

p.321: [economic intelligence] 1970s, beginning with some adaptations of existing econometric models of foreign economies, OER built its own model of the world economy which linked the principal countries through foreign trade flows and which hcould approximate and simulate the global impact of changes in national economic policies or of major shocks tro the world economy.
p.417 [counterespionage] This is a grim subject, and part of the mental preparation – a most impartn part – consists in accepting and living with tehse possibilities. An agent conditioned to face them honestly is likely to be far more capable and careful than change – taker who hopes somehow to get by without self-discipline and without the intensive preparation that is the only way to success in any clandestine operation.
p.419: [interrogation] The initial stages of any interrogation is best for the prisoner to play the role of a well intentioned but confused and innocent victim. The jails are full of prisoners who made the mistake of being clear and precise in their replies to seemingly harmless questions. The first thing every interrogator has to determine is whether his prisoner can tell a straight story about anything, or whether he is in a state of confusion. Prisoners are under no obligation to collaborate with their captors by exhibiting good memories and making coherent statements. This is the time to forget as much as possible.
In all interrogation sessions, the prisoner should try to discover the following:
a. What is know about him; more specifically, what evidence does the interrogator have? Even communist interrogators have to have evidence to convict sustpects. Nothing should ever be admitted unless the evidence that the interrogator exhibits is overwhelming. One should never assume that the case is hopeless and that one might as well tell all.
b. Where did the interrogator get his information? The prisoner often overlooks the fact that interrogator may let slip information which will indicate who betrayed the operation. By feigning stupidity and confusion and pretending no to understand questions, the prisoner may maneuver the interrogator into making further disclosures which may indicate the source of the betrayal.
c. What are the intentions of the authorities?
d. How much importance do the authorities attach to the prisoner?

The lexus and the Olive tree, Thomas Friedman, 1999
p.In July 1998 issue of Golf magazine reported that many golf courses are starting to sinstall the Spyder 9000 computer system in their golf carts, “which allows cart riders to keep score electronically, measure yardages digitally, view videotaped hole previews, view video golf tips, order lunch, check stock prices, and watch TV commercials.” The only thing it doesn’t do it is putt for you.
p.100: Asked if he had ever lost hope during the Cultural Revolution, he answered with a Chinese proverb: “No hand can block out the sun.”
p.102: His message was that Thailand had messed up. People knew it. They would now have to tighten their belts and get with the program and there wasn’t much else to say. Wasn’t he mad? I asked. Didn’t he want to burn down some government building in anger at being wiped out? No, Sirivat explained to me: “Communism fails, socialism fails, so now there is only capitalism. We don’t want to go back to the jungle, we all want a better standard of liing, so you have to make capitalism work, because you dong have a choice. We have to improve ourselves and follow the world rules… Only the competititve survive. It will probably require a national unity government, because the burden is so big. … Fablo Feldmann is a liberal and I asked him about the nature of the political debate in Brazil today. He responded: “The [ideological] left in Brazil have lost their flag. The challenge of the federal government is jobs and employment. You have to generate and distribute income. And what is the program of the left? They don’t have proposals to generate income, only to distribute it.”
p.147: Firs the African visits the Asian minister in his country, and at the end of the day the Asian takes the African to his home for dinner. The Asian minister lives in an absolutely palatial residence. So the African minister asks his Asian counterpart, “wow how can you afford such a home on your salary.”The asian minister takes the African over to a big bay window and points to a new bridge in the distance.. “You see that bridge over there?” the asian minister asks the African. “Yes, I see it,” the African says. Then the Asian miniter point a finger at himself and whispers “10 percent” signaling 10 percent of the cost of the bridge went inot his pocket. Well, a year later hta asian went to visit the African minister in his country and afound that he lived in an even more palatial home than his Asian counterpart. “Wow, how can you afford usch a home on your salary” the asian asked the African. The African pulled his asian counterpart over to the big bay windor in his living room and pointed out to the horizon. “Do you see that bridge over there?” the African asked the Asian. “No, there is no bridge there” answered the asian. “That’s right” the African miniter said, pointing to hiself: “One hundrew percent.”
p.148: Kleptocracy is the fact that in Albania tax cheating was so rampant that in 1997 the 35th highest taxpaying company in the country was an Albanian-American pizza parlor, and auto theft was so rampant that American officials estimated that 80 percent of the cars on the road in albania were stolen from somewhere else in Europe. … [It is no wonder that under Suharto Indonesians had a saying : If your neighbor steals you goat, whatever you do don’t take him to court, because by the time you get done paying off ht epolice and the judges, you will end up losing your cow as well.
p.150: the Times of India reported on December 17, 1998 that an eighteen-month-long search in the corruption riddled Indian state of Punjab had been called off. The search was for an official who could be given 100000($2380) award for providing “honest” government service, in a state where everything from electricity hookups to public school enrollments requires pauing a bribe to someone. But no official could be found who was appropriate for the award. Instead of identifuing a recipient for the award, the New Delhi newspaper said the search produced evidence that may be sused to bring charges agains 300 corrupt officials.
p.169: Wimar Witoelar, a popular Jakarta talk-show host, who was describing for me the young generation of the Indonesian middle class. He remarked that what many of these educated twenty – and thirty year olds had in common was that they wanted to get rich, without having to be corrupt, and they wanted democracy but they did not want to go in the streets and fight for it. This generation of Indonesians understood that under SUharto there would never be a democratic revolution from above, but they were terrified of democratic revolution form below, because fi the urban poor revolted it would be the year of living dangeriously all over again. So their whole strategy was revolution from beyond, or globalution. Their whole strategy was to do everything they could, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, to integrate Indonesia into the global system. They hoped that by tying Indonesia into these global institutions and markets – whether it was to the world Trade Organization, pizza hut, … - they might be able to import form beyond the standards and rules – based systems that they knew would never be initiated from above and could never be generated from below.
p.182: The Foreign Corrupt Practices act, passed in 1977, makes it illegal for American companies to pay bribes to advance foreign business deals. On November 20,1997 the twenty nine nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD which comprises the world’s leading industrial democracies agreed to adopt much of America’s anticorruption legislation.
p.317: “stay in school so you can buy all this stuff that I have”. I am not sure that’s the right message. The message should be, stay in school so you can do what you want to do in life.
p.330 [Brazil, Dejair Birschner, 48 yr ols mayor of Una] “do we have any future?” His question hit me like a fist in the stomach. It almost brought tears to my eyes, looking across the table at this proud, sturdy man, a mayor no less asking meif he and his villagers had any future. I knew exactly what he was asking in his question: “My villagers can’t live off the forest anymore, and we are not equipped to live off computers. My father and grandfather made a living off logs and my grandchildren might make a living off the Internet. But what are all the rest of us in between supposed to do?”
… they needed to start making a transition from an agro-economy to a more knowledge – based economy, beginning by better educating the town’s children.
p.331: Unfortunately, not everyone is equipped to run fast. There are a lot of turtles out there, desperately trying to avoid becoming roadkill.
p.335: As for the poorest human turles in the developing world, those really left behind by globalization, they will express their backlash by simply eating the rain forest – each in their won way – without trying to explain it or justify it or wrap it in an ideological bow. In Indonesia, they will eat the Chinese merchants by ransacking their stores, in Russia they will sell weapons to Iran or turn to crime. In brazil, they will log the rest of the rain forest or join the peasant movement in the brazilian countryside called “sem teto” who simply steal what they need.
p.390: Our leaders in their public speeches don’t use the term globalization. They use the term modernization. There is a cultural reason for this. The historical lesson is still fresh in Chinese people’s mind that china was forced into the international community in the last century by gunboats so globalization represents something that china doesn’t pusue but rather something that the west or America is imposing. Moderinization on the other hand is something we can control. There is an annual new year’s television program that is shown on the main ntational television channel.
p.406: If there is a common denominator that runs through this book it is the notion that globalization is everything and its opposite. It can be incredibly empowering and incredible coercive.
p.447: If you are not replacing everything you know by then, your career is going to turn sour fast. As Jim BOtkin and Stan Davis not I ntheir book “tH emosnter Under the bed,” in the knowledge economy you don’t earn a living, you “learn a living.”

Books read between Apr 20th, 06 and Sept 1st, 06

2006-09-03T14:49:00.000-07:00

World is flat by Thomas Friedman
Secret history of Mongolia by UNKNOWN authors
Гамшигийн менежмент
Adventure of English by Melvin Bragg
Revolt of the masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
Тэнцвэрийн зарчим by Altangerel.T
Гадаад худалдаа
Free to choose by Milton Friedman.
Acing through admission
Брэнд бүтээх 22 зарчим
Эсээ хэрхэн бичих вэ?
БНХАУ-н шинэ бодлого
Өөрийгөө хөгжүүлэхүй by EMOS
Төрийн шагналт зохиолууд {collection}
Cases and materials on International law, by DH Harris
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
The decay of the angel by Yukio Mishima

World is flat and Adventure of English excerpts

Minirals in African underdevelopment by SAMUAL. A. OCHOLA
p.130 Mining itself cannot seriously tackle the problem of unemployment in Africa. The solution for unemployment lies in the establishment of industry initially based on the available mineral resources and in linking industry with agriculture.
p.132 Revenye earned from the oil industry has not found its way into the generation of development of the economy because it has not increased the productive capacity of the economy; and it encourages the increased importation of luxury goods. It is evident that Libya has only been ea recipient of a windfall income.

p.134 In Africa today, the repatriation of capital by the foreign mining companies and their extriate employees, i.e. the outfard flow of capital hardly equals the inward flow of fresh capital. Africa, in other words, exports capital.
The development of transport and other infrastructure.
The location of mines remote areas opens up the region by providing transport facilities, electricity and water development, or so it is argued. However, the fact is that the social, overheads capital so developed is geared exclusively to the mines. The roads constructed lead to the coast and are outward orientated, connecting the mines with the ports, for exporting raw material.
[…] In Africa in general, the transportation system related directly to mine production represents 40 to 60 % of total minig cost using the present day installations. His cost is normally substracted as operating expenses though it does not contribute substantially to the general development of the countryside When the mining activities cease, there is usually no alternative use for the network constructed. The development of the mining industry in Africa has not been part of the process of development of the whole economy.
p.137: The lack of know-how and the entrepreneurial skills are not long-term problems. This is a problem which can be solved if the governments in the various African countries put their minds to solving it. As to the lack of capital, it is the wish of the western world to control the flow of capital to Africa. The west will invest its capital only when it is assured of profits, profits which are transferable back to the Metropolis. The other implicit confusion which arises is the misunderstanding between the term of development and growth. The western theoreticians have advanced a concept htat so long as there is an increase in per cpaita income, there is supposedly some development. This notion has been embraced by the underdeveloped countries to the extent that they have increasingly devoted their attention to per capita income growth than to development.
[…] if a country is dependent on oil only, hten it should initially build up industries based on crude petroleum, nad then using the oil revenues, it should expand the indusrial base so as to establish a viable industrial unit before the long-off day arrives when oil reserves are seriously depleted and eventually exhausted.

p.139: Africa exports to import. The countries have nether the sovereignty over their natural resources nor the right to dispose of them freely. And instead of struggling for their rights, the African countries have said ‘amen’.

OPTIONS FOR DEVELPING COUNRTIES IN MINING DEVELOPMENT by Raj Kumar
P.4: This brief survey in not intended to discuss the fortunes of the mining sector of the respective countries, but purely to summarise its relative importance to the economy. The larger the contribution of the mining sector to the national economy, the larger impact it would have on economic growth, employment, foreign exchange earnings and the general stability fo the country.
p.5: Botswana, which became independent in 1966, two years after Zambia, when it had a per capita income of US $69, had it raised to above US $1000 in 1981, largely due to mining activity. It has a relative large and dominant mineral sector which contributed about 32% of the GDP in 1980, and 69, 5 pr cent of the total value of exports, compromised mainly of diamonds, copper nichel form the Selibi-Pikwe mine and coal form Morupula.
p.19: The type of mineral and the methods used for its extraction have profound effects on the licensing system of all the countires considered. All the acts contain definitions of minerals which establish the basis for the licensing system. For example, Quebec recognises ‘mineral’ or ‘mineral substance’ as ‘all natural solid, liquid or gaseous mineral substances, and all fossilised organiz matter’. By so defining mineral the act establishes the framework for the adminsistaraion of the search for , development, and disoposal of , all hard minerals and hydrocarbons.
p.24: Note, however, that in the case of QUebes, the Act(art.76 to 88) defines in very great detail the nature and amoung of the required work, thus reducing the area for arbitrary discretion on the part of the Minister.
p.25: The provisions with respect to renewal in Art. 104 of Quebec, 45 of Papua New Guinea, 38 of Botswana and 52 of Tanzania are typical of the way in which renewals are handled.

Books read between Jan 21st, 06 and Apr, 17th, 06

2006-04-17T23:55:00.000-07:00

Books read:
Modern Mongolia by Mossabi
The company of strangers by Seabright
Four archetypes by Jung
Girl with the golden eyes by Balzac
The media students' book by Gill Branston adn Roy stafford
Year 501 the conquest continues by Noam Chomsky
manufacturing consent by Noam chomsky
pedagogy of the oppressed by Paul Freire
the grand chessboard by zbigniew brzezinski
Foundations of John dewey's educational theory by baker
On education by Bertrand russell
the sociology of education by Baker
young people and new media by Sonia livingstone
The conquest of happiness by Bertrand russell
Bengali Nights by Mircea Eliade
Botswana A short political history by Anthony Sillery
Minerals in African Underdevelopment by Samuel Ochola
The Quest: history and meaning of religion
In search of prosperity by Doni Rodrik
Goldmund und Narziss by Hermann Hesse
Confessions of Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
From Confrontation to Coorperation

Year 501 the conquest continues by Noam Chomsky
Year 501 by Noam Chomsky:
p.11: [free trade] These were significat factors leading to the pacific war, as Japan set forth to emulate its powerful predecessors, having naively adopted their liberal doctirines only to discover that they were a fraud, imposed upon the weak, accepted by the strong only when they are useful. So it has always been.

p.32: Explaining that “the demographic catastrophe which befell early Latin America was .. caused not by wickedness byt by himan failing and by a form of fate: the grinding wheels of long-term historical change,” the London Economist writes that “Where cruelties and atrocities accurred, historians know of them precisely because of the 16th century Spanish passion for justice, for they were condemned by moralists or recorded and punished in the courts.”

p.43: The general point was clarified by Carter’s Latin America adviser Robert Pastor, at the critical extreme: the US wants other nations “to act independently, except when doing so would affect U.S. interests adversely2; the US has never wanted “to control them” as long as developments do not “et out of control”. Others can be quite free as long as they are “pragmatic.”
p.55: It was accelerated by the neoliberal economic doctrines dictated by the world rulers. The UN Economic Commission for Africa found that countries pursuing the recommended IMF programs had lower growth rates than those that relied on the public sector for basic human needs.
p.61: In the current version, “the construction of a new global system is orchestrated by the Group of Seven, the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT” in “a system of indirect rule that has involved the integration of leaders of developing countries into the network of the new ruling class”- who, not surprisingly, turn out to be the old ruling class. Local managers can share the wealth, as long as they properly serve the rulers.
p.66: Foreign capital participation in Russian railways reached 93 percent by 1907, catpital for development was mostly foreign, largely French, and debt was rising rapibly, as Russia settled into the typical 3rd world pattern. By 1914, Russia was “becoming a semi-colonial possession of European capital”.

p.69: [Truman said] “if we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought ot help Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible.”
p.89: Again the lesson is clear: the priorities are profits and power; democracy in more than form is a threat to be overcome; human rights are of instrumental value for propaganda purposes, nothing more.

p.99: The truth of the matter was well articulated by a US banker in Venezuela under the murderous Perez Jimenez dictatorship: “You have the freedom here to do what you want to do with your money, and to me, that is worth all the political freedom in the world.” That about sums it up.
p.101: Case by case, the record of export-led growth refutes the doctrines of the neoliberal “new orthodoxy,” economist Stephen Smith points out. Success was based on “activist trade and industrial policies” that deliberately alter market incentives to place “long run development goals over short run comparative advantage”.
p.116: Like other developed countries, the US did not abide by the rules it now seeks to impose. IN the 19th century, the US reected foreign claims to intellectual property rights on grounds that they would hamper its economic development. Jpan followed the same course. And today, the concept of “intellectual property rights” is finly crafted to suit the needs of the powerful. Exactly as in the case of “free trade,” Churchill’s disruptive “hungry nations” with their indecent clamor are to be denied the methods that were used by the “rich men dwelling at peace within their habitaions.”
p.213: […] Father Aristide was overthrown in part because of concerns among politically active people over his commitment to the Constitution, and growing fears of political and class-based violence, which many believe the President endorsed.”
p.286:During periods of popular activism, it is often possible to salvage elements of truth from the miasma of “information” disseminated by the servants of power, and many people not only “consult their” neighbors” but learn a good deal about the world; Indochina and Central America are two striking recent examples. When activism declines, the commissar class, which never falters in its task, regains command. While left intellectiuals discourse polysyllabically to one another, truths that were once understood are buried, history is reshaped in to an instrument of power, and the ground is laid for the enterprises to come.

the grand chessboard by zbigniew brzezinski
THE GRAND CHESSBOARD by ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
p.24: In brief, America stands supreme in the four decisive domains of global power: military, it has an unmatched global read; economically, it remains the main locomotive of global growth, even if challenged in some sspects by Japan and Germany; technologically, it retains the overall leas in the cutting-edge areas of innovation; and culturally, despite some crassness, it enjoys and appeal that is unrivalled, sespecailly among the world’s youth – all of which give s the US a political clout that no other state comes close to matching. It is the combination of all four that makes America the only comprehensive global superpower.
p.26: The American emphasis on political democracy and economic development thus combines to convey a simple ideaological message that appeals to many: the quest for individual success enhances freedom while generating wealth. The resulting blend of idealism and egoism is a potent combination. Individual self-fulfillment is said to be a God-given right that at the same time can benegit others by setting an example and by generating wealth. It is a doctrine that attracts the energetic, the ambitious and the highly competitive.

p.98: Barely a month after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he [Andrei Kozyrev] noted: “ IN abandoning messianism we set course for pragmatism. … we rapidly came to understand that geopolitics … is replacing ideology.”

p.140: The troubling fact is that some elements in Russian political elite act as if they prefer that the area’s resources not be developed at all if Russia cannot have complete control over access. Let the wealth remain unexploited if the alternative is that foreign investment will lead to more direct presence by foreign economic, and thus also political, interests. [it explains why the Russian minister came to Mongolia almost at the same time as Mr.Baker. Both were interested in the exploiting the natural resources. China gave 300 million US dollar loan, of which IMF did not have idea before the agreement. IMF thus helps Mongolia in checking the loan amount]

p.163: Some China experts have even prophesied that China might spin into one of its historic cycles of internal fracgmentation, thereby halting China’s march to greaness altogether. But the probability of such an extreme eventuality is diminished by the twin impacts of mass nationalism and modern communications, both of which work in favour of a unified Chinese state.

p.198: As in chess, American global planners must think several moves ahead, anticipating possible countermoves. A sustainable geostrategy must therefore distinguish between the short-run perspective, the middle run term, and the long run. Moreover, these phases must be viewed not as watertight compartments but as part of a continuum. The first phase must gradually and consistently lead into the second-indeed, be deliberately pointed toward it- and the second must tehn lead subsequently into the third.

Four archetypes by Jung
But why on earth," you may ask, "should it be necessary for man to achieve, by hook or by crook, a higher level of consciousness?" This is truly the crucial question, and I do not find the answer easy. Instead of a real answer I can only make a confession of faith: 1 believe that, after thousands and millions of years, someone had to realize that this wonderful world of mountains and oceans, suns and moons, galaxies and nebulae, plants and animals, exists. From a low hill in the Athi plains of East Africa I once watched the vast herds of wild animals grazing in soundless stillness, as they had done from time immemorial, touched only by the breath of a primeval world. I felt then as if I were the first man, the first creature, to know that all this is. The entire world round me was still in its primeval state; it did not know that it was. And then, in that one moment in which I came to know, the world sprang into being; without that moment it would never have been. All Nature seeks this goal and finds it fulfilled in man, but only in the most highly developed and most fully conscious man. "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1939). In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. P. 177

The company of strangers by Seabright Paul.
p. 27: Two kinds of diposition have proved important to our evolution: a capacity for rational calculation of the costs and benefits of cooperation, and a tendency for what has been called reciprocity – the willingness to repay kindness with kindness and betrayal with revenge, even when this is not what rational calculation would recommend.
p.28: We frame rules for behaviour toward strangers that mimic the way we treat our family and our friends, and we reinforce these rules by explicit systems of incentives, as well as by eduction and traingin – an apprenticeship for social life that is designed to make opportunistic behaviour more uncomfortable for us.
p.46: Our emaitonal reaction to risk are still shaped by that hunter gatherer heritage. We treat those who suffer the hazards of life either as casualties of a blind chance that we may fear but cannot logically resent, or as victims – chosen sufferers of deliberate aggression to which the only emotional response is resentment and the only justifiable response, revenge.
51: It is well known that once a certain characteristic becomes a basis for sexual preference, such preferences can be self-reinforcing. This is a tendency that has been adduced to explain such runawayu evolutionary phenomena as the peacock’s tail and the large antlers of some species of deer. The fact that females in future generations will be attracted by some characteristic, even a wholly arbitrary one, increases the adaptive benefit to any female in the current genereation of seeking a mate that has that characteristic.
59: this led Cosmides and Tooby to conclude that our reasoning abilities are sensitive to context in ways that would have been beneficial for our ability to spot cheats during our evolutionary history.
61: At the same time that it disables people’s capacity for exercising trust wisely, alcohol is enabling people to inspire trust by stimulating an excellent signal of positive affect, namely laughter, that is not under direct voluntary control.
77: Balzac put in his novel Splenors and Miseries of the Courtesans: A girl with no income finds herself in the mud, as I was before I entered the convent. Men find her beautiful, they make her serve their pleasure without according her the smallest respect, they come for her in a carriage and then send her away on foot. If they never quite spit in her face, it is only her beauty that spares her this outrage. But let her inherit five, or six million, and she will be sought out by princes, saluted as she passes in her carriagel she can shoose form the most ancient coats of armas of France and Navarre. This world, which would have sneered at us [her and her impoverished lover] for being two handsome creatures, united an content, has constantly honoured Madame de Stael with her bohemian life, because she had an income of two hundred thousand livres. The world, which bows before Money and Glory has no wish to honour happiness and virtue.
p.100: in fact, the history of recent economic development suggests that the poor and the rich can have a mutual interest in exchange, but it’s important to remember that competitive markets are about exploring avenues of mutual interest, not about redressing pre-existing imbalances of power and wealth.
P212: the club that prehistoric man used to ward off attackers was the same club he used to attack others.
p.257: To manage the hazards imposed on us by the action s of strangers has required us to deploy a different skill bequeathed to us by evolution for quiote different purposes, the capacityfor abstract symbolic thought. Modern political institutions temper their appeals to the deep emotions, to family and clan loyalty, with just enough abstract reasoning to help Homo sapiens sapiens, they shy, murderous ape, emerge from his family bands in the savanna woodland in order to live and work in a world largely populated by strangers. This experiment is still young, and needs all the help it can get.

Bengali nights, Pedagogy of the oppressed, Howard Zinn zereg baigaa:LINK
Baabar's book excerpts: LINK

Anticorruption things:LINK

Rodrik and some other scholars wrote:LINK

From coorperation to confrontation:LINK

Modern Mongolia
p.60
Sumati […] and Hulan and Oyun claimed that in promoting rapid privatization and a weaker government, the international donors had not taked into consideration Mongolia’s hitroy of nepotism and favouritism. Such associations had been held in check during the communist era. With a less powerful government, the restraints were eliminated. The nexus of close relations, family or otherwise, among the small, generally well-educated, and comfortable elite in Ulaanbaatar also contributed to an environment of favouritism in which corruption flourished.

p.97
It [TDB] had a net profit of $6 million in 2000 and almost $5 million in 2001 and in the latter year, it contributed just undert $4 million to the Mongolian treasury. […]

Sonirhol tatahaar asuudal hondson 20-n huudsiig Canon-dov.

Mossabi Modern Mongolia LINK

Hermann Hesse's Goldmund und Narziss excerpt:LINK

Soviet Aid LINK

Books read between Nov 20th, 05 and Jan 21, 06

2006-01-21T17:54:00.000-08:00

The prophet by Kahlil Gibran (His style is self-expressing){Your daily life is your temple and your religion"}
Modern man in search of soul by Carl Gustav Jung
The rise of teh Korean Economics by Song
Asia's next giant
The east asian Miracles
Balzac and his world by Felicien Marceau
Autobiography by Mircea Eliade
Economics of Monetary Union by De Grauwe
Introduction to Romanian literature by Twayne
We, by Yevgeny zamyatin
Da vinci code
Extreme rock and ice!{ amisgaa davchdaj tsos hoorson hormhon mochuud...}
Che Guevara Reader
Bolivian diary, by che guevara!
Nuuts Tovchoo {nahisan unshiv}
New society, Che guevara
Confession of a mask by Yukio Mishima
The temple of the golden Pavilion by Yukio mishima
Tetgelgeer suraltsakh bolomj 2005

We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
p.56:Somehow this never entered my head before, but this eis really how it is: We on this earth are walking the whole time above a boiling crimson sea of fire, hidden down there in the bowels of the earth. But we never think of it. And then suddenly the thin shell beneath our feet seems to turn to glass, and suddenly we see ….
I became glass. I saw into myself, inside. There were two me’s. One me was the old one, D-503, Number D-502, and the other… The other sued to just stick his hairy paws out of his shell, but now all of hims came out, the shell burst open, and the pieces were just about to flu in all directions… and then what? (describing his drunkness)
p.59 :The sky is covered over with some milky gold fabric, and you cant’s see what’s up there, beyond, higher. The ancients knew what was up there: there magnificent, bored sceptic – God. We know that it’s a crystalline blue, naked indecent nothing. Now I don’t know what’s there. I have learned too much. Knowledge that is ablsoluytely sure it’s infallible – that is faith. I had a firm faith in myself, I believed I knew everything about myself. And now…

Yukio Mishima, The temple of the golden pavilion

P.118: In life, an instant that assumes the form of eternity will intoxicate us; but the Golden Temple knew full well that such an instant is insignificant compared with what happens when eternity assuymes the form of an instant, as the temple itself had now done. It is at such times that the fact of beauty’s ethernity can realy block our lives and poison our existences. The instantaneous beauty that life lets us glimpse is helpless against such poison. The poison crushes and destroyes it at once, and finally exposes life itself under the light-brown glare of ruin.

p.125: That’s how it was. I was enwrapped in beauty, I was certainly within that beauyty; yet I doubt whether I was so sonsuymmately wrapped up in the beabuty as not to be supported by the will of that ferocious wind, which was endlessly gathering force.

p.131: How could I reach that – sound that mysterious sound like the one which Kashiwagi was blowing out of his flute? It was skill alone that made it possible. Beauty was skull. A thought came to me and filled me with courage: just as Kashiwagi could attain such beautiful clear soubds despite his clubfeet, so I could attain beaty by means of skill.

p.136: How shall I put it? Beauty = yes, beauty is life a decayed toth. It rubs against one’s tongue, it hands there, hurting one, insisting on its own existence. Finanly it gets so that one cannot stand the pain and one goes to the dentist to have the tooth extracted. […] What was the basis of this creature’s existence? Was the basis within me? Or was it within this creature itself? Yet this creature which has been pulled out of my mouth and which now lies in my hand is something utterly different. Surely it cannot be that?

p.203: Let’s pu it this way – human beings posses the weapon of knowledge in order to make life bearable. For animals such things aren’t necessary. Animals don’t need knowledge or anything of the sort to make life bearable. But human beings do need something, and with knowledge they can make the very intolerableness of life a weapon, though at the same time that intolerableness is not reduces in the slightest. That’s all there is to it.
p.56:Somehow this never entered my head before, but this eis really how it is: We on this earth are walking the whole time above a boiling crimson sea of fire, hidden down there in the bowels of the earth. But we never think of it. And then suddenly the thin shell beneath our feet seems to turn to glass, and suddenly we see ….
I became glass. I saw into myself, inside. There were two me’s. One me was the old one, D-503, Number D-502, and the other… The other sued to just stick his hairy paws out of his shell, but now all of hims came out, the shell burst open, and the pieces were just about to flu in all directions… and then what? (describing his drunkness)
p.59 :The sky is covered over with some milky gold fabric, and you cant’s see what’s up there, beyond, higher. The ancients knew what was up there: there magnificent, bored sceptic – God. We know that it’s a crystalline blue, naked indecent nothing. Now I don’t know what’s there. I have learned too much. Knowledge that is ablsoluytely sure it’s infallible – that is faith. I had a firm faith in myself, I believed I knew everything about myself. And now…

Yukio Mishima, The temple of the golden pavilion

P.118: In life, an instant that assumes the form of eternity will intoxicate us; but the Golden Temple knew full well that such an instant is insignificant compared with what happens when eternity assuymes the form of an instant, as the temple itself had now done. It is at such times that the fact of beauty’s ethernity can realy block our lives and poison our existences. The instantaneous beauty that life lets us glimpse is helpless against such poison. The poison crushes and destroyes it at once, and finally exposes life itself under the light-brown glare of ruin.

p.125: That’s how it was. I was enwrapped in beauty, I was certainly within that beauyty; yet I doubt whether I was so sonsuymmately wrapped up in the beabuty as not to be supported by the will of that ferocious wind, which was endlessly gathering force.

p.131: How could I reach that – sound that mysterious sound like the one which Kashiwagi was blowing out of his flute? It was skill alone that made it possible. Beauty was skull. A thought came to me and filled me with courage: just as Kashiwagi could attain such beautiful clear soubds despite his clubfeet, so I could attain beaty by means of skill.

p.136: How shall I put it? Beauty = yes, beauty is life a decayed toth. It rubs against one’s tongue, it hands there, hurting one, insisting on its own existence. Finanly it gets so that one cannot stand the pain and one goes to the dentist to have the tooth extracted. […] What was the basis of this creature’s existence? Was the basis within me? Or was it within this creature itself? Yet this creature which has been pulled out of my mouth and which now lies in my hand is something utterly different. Surely it cannot be that?

p.203: Let’s pu it this way – human beings posses the weapon of knowledge in order to make life bearable. For animals such things aren’t necessary. Animals don’t need knowledge or anything of the sort to make life bearable. But human beings do need something, and with knowledge they can make the very intolerableness of life a weapon, though at the same time that intolerableness is not reduces in the slightest. That’s all there is to it.
Da vinci code
{Physical union with the female remained the sole means through which man could become spiritually complete and ultimately achieve gnosis - knowledge of the divine.
Spiritual orgasm? from }

From New society
This is one of the points where our differences get concrete. We are no longer dealing wiht nuances. For the advocates of financial self-management, direct material incentives extending into the future and accopmpanying society in all of hte various stages of building communism are not counterpopsed to the "developmet" of consciousnes. For us they are. It is for this reason that we struggle against the predominance of material incentives, for it would signify the delaying the devleopment of socialist morality.

Exactly 18 years before I was born, Che was writing hte following:
"A new stage begins todya. We arrived at the farm by night. The trip has been quite a good one. ... " He died in Oct 9th 1967. CIA backed government capture him first hten a day later killed him.
Patria o muerte! Victory or Death is his favourite line, it seems. All of his letters ended with that line. What a revolutionary person inspiring millions worldwide for justice. Justice was all he fought, not communism. Communism seemed to provide an answer for this world of injustice. Otherwise, all he initually wanted was JUSTICE. We all want it, but how to achieve depends on the previous experience of hte people. Since nonvoilent nature of mine prevails as I grow up, the best way for Mongolians to get close to justice is our EDUCATION. If my group of people can educate both hte rich and poor alike, then we get closer to justice and fair life for all. Without education, rich lives lives in expence of hte poor, and the poor's suffering will amke our society dangeruious. I wish I could tell my ideas to Che. What a great alpha he is!
Asia's next giant
P.8 : The institutions of late industrialization that underscore its success, and whose absence is responsible for delay, are the following: an interventionist state, large diversified business groups, an abundant supply of competent salaried managers, and an abundant supply of low-cost, well-educated labor. These institutions are the focal point of later chapters.
P.16: The sternest discipline imposed by the Korean government on virtually all large size firms—no matter how politically well connected—related to export targets. There was constant pressure from government bureaucrats on corporate leaders to sell more abroad—with obvious implications for efficiency. Pressure to meet ambitious export targets gave the Big Push into heavy industry its frenetic character. Additionally, firms have been subject to five general controls in exchange for government support.
P.20 Whatever the time period and whatever the firm structure, learners rely heavily on foreign know-how to narrow the gap. If they are to be at all successful at learning, they visit international expositions, attend conferences and lectures, read technical journals, hire experienced workers, visit overseas plants, engage foreign technical assistants, consult machinery suppliers, and buy, borrow, beg, and steal foreign designs. The form of technology acquisition has tended to change, however, as technology itself has become more science-based and as the firm has come to be viewed less as a means to earn a livelihood and more as a means to earn a profit. The central tendency has shifted from the absorption of foreign technology through copying and self-teaching to the adoption of foreign technology through investing in foreign licenses and technical assistance. The former mode of technology acquisition may be called imitation, and the latter, apprenticeship (see Amsden and Kim, 1985b). (One reason why our Ikh Huraldai website need to be developed)
In Korea, massive imports of foreign licenses and assistance have been viewed as a means to attain technological independence, and thus as part of a larger effort, in both the public and private spheres, to avoid foreign control. Industrialization has occurred almost exclusively on the basis of nationally owned rather than foreign-owned enterprise.
p.23: It would be an exaggeration to say that the industrial community in Korea became "surely and unresistingly" drawn in under the rule of the technological expert, because, by world standards, there were no experts in Korea. Nevertheless, like their German counterparts, the production engineers who were the gatekeepers of technology transfer came through the schools. And in a society hungry to catch up, with a steadfast faith in the value of education, the practical knowledge that these professionals wielded went a long way toward winning them influence and esteem. The industrial community in Korea, therefore, became "surely and unresistingly" drawn in under the rule, if not of the expert, then of the technological trainee. Once the entrepreneurs recognized that government subsidies could make manufacturing activity profitable, and that Korean engineers could build ships that floated and steel that bore weight, they increasingly turned their attention away from speculating toward accumulating capital.
Symptomatic of the passionate desire to organize and hasten the process of catching up, the Koreans pushed ahead with forming a native cadre of engineers and technicians. The number of schools in both Germany and Korea was large, unusually so by contemporary standards. The plain fact of the matter is that Korea was a successful learner partly because it invested heavily in education, both formal and foreign technical assistance
p.27Finally, the regimes of Syngman Rhee and General Park Chung Hee are introduced in relation to their two major antagonists, the student movement and the U.S. AID administration.
p.32: The Japanese dismantled the institutions of 1,000 years of dynastic rule and accomplished overnight, in 1910, what the dynastic rulers had failed or neglected to achieve in centuries: the abolition of slavery, the codification of civil law, and more.9 The Japanese also created a modern infrastructure in the areas of finance, transportation, and commerce. Nevertheless, Japanese colonialism was far more successful in smashing old foundations than in establishing new ones.
p.51:Although the U.S. aid advisors in Korea had tried earlier to formulate their own development plan—a task they subcontracted to a private Washington-based consulting firm—the plan's object, to terminate aid, led to its rejection by the Rhee forces. In 1958, however, Rhee had established an Economic Development Council, staffed by many "young foreign-educated intellectuals," fed on the ideas of planning that were then sweeping the economic development profession from the universities (H. B. Lee, 1968, p. 90). It was this concept of national planning, if not the identical plan, that later inspired the military rulers.
p.57: Korea, twenty years later, had only low wages with which to compete against Japan, and low wages in the absence of government support proved insufficient to stimulate export activity. In the 1950s Washington actually thwarted Korea's efforts to export by prohibiting U.S. imports of Korean-made textiles that embodied American aid-financed raw cotton.
P59: At one level a product of the social climacteric, higher productivity in Britain derived directly from the inventions that gave the First Industrial Revolution its character and established the direction of the long wave of technological change that ensued. Labor-saving processes in Britain outcompeted less mechanized techniques in lower-wage countries that failed to import the superior but costly techniques. When, moreover, the United States and Germany caught up with Britain and then overtook it, they did not do so on the basis of lower wages in conjunction with parity in "best practice" technique.
p.68: The government implemented numerous export promotion measures including preferential loans for operation and facility expansion, tax and tariff exemptions, wastage allowances, and other social overhead and administrative supports. It could be said that the textile industry was more effective in taking advantage of such benefits, since it had strong business organizations and more large-scale enterprises than other [light] industries. (Y. B. Kim, 1980, p. 232)
As Table 3.5 indicates, in the year, say, 1976, 37% of respondents said the effect of export targets on their firm was positive, 10% said these targets had no effect, and as many as 53% listed negative effects.
If overseas sales were not always profitable, however, as suggested
.69: As Table 3.5 indicates, in the year, say, 1976, 37% of respondents said the effect of export targets on their firm was positive, 10% said these targets had no effect, and as many as 53% listed negative effects. If overseas sales were not always profitable, however, as suggested by the negative responses of exporters, then the government compensated the losers by inflating the returns on domestic sales. It did so by imposing trade barriers on imports.
P.72: Out of Park's remonstrations with millionaires came the crux of Korea's investment policies. One month after the 1961 coup, the military regime passed the Law for Dealing with Illicit Wealth Accumulation, and with great theatrics, arrested profiteers under the First Republic and threatened them with confiscation of their assets. Instead of becoming victims of martial emasculation, however, the millionaires were "allowed to enter the central stage" like the Meiji millionaires before them, albeit in a kneeling position. The government exempted most businessmen from criminal prosecution and eschewed confiscating their property. In exchange, businessmen were required to pay off their assessed obligation by establishing new industrial firms in basic industries and by donating the shares to the government, the latter condition rarely being fulfilled (Jones and SaKong, 1980). Within days, however, an alliance had been formed between business and government that laid the basis for subsequent industrialization.
P78: In all, liberalization amounted to nothing more than a footnote to the basic text of Korean expansion. To attribute the role of equilibrator in such expansion to the market mechanism rather than to the government's dual policy of discipline and support is to misrepresent a fundamental property of the most successful cases of late industrialization.
p.79: The Three Facets of Growth
Late industrialization is characterized by three facets of growth, as Korea exemplifies. The first relates to diversification, or entrepreneurial decisions concerning penetration of new industries—which ones to penetrate, when, and with what size investment. The second relates to stabilization, or short-run macroeconomic policies to maintain the level of economic activity. The third relates to the growth momentum itself. Once under way, growth gains a momentum whose properties are distinct, depending on the presence or absence of new technological discoveries. This chapter is divided into three parts, each devoted to one of these facets of growth.

p.82: To promote higher value-added products embodying a greater level of skill and technology, the government took the following steps, above and beyond its usual incentive measures, which included arranging foreign loans totaling $221.6 million:
1. It established an industrial estate for the production of semiconductors and computers.
2. To promote "the importation of advanced technology and to accelerate technical progress," it established a research institute in this industrial estate for product development, the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI). A fund of $60 million was created for the purpose.
3. It protected the domestic market against foreign competition. In the computer field, it passed legislation in 1983 to restrict imports of computers and peripherals in both the low and medium ends of the market. The law prohibited the import of most microcomputers, some minicomputers, and selected models of disk drives printers, terminals, and tape drives

4. It restricted direct foreign investment in electronics. It did, however, view joint ventures favorably, and most of the major business groups in the computer field—Hyundai, Daewoo, Lucky-Goldstar, and Samsung—formed them.

p.112: Conclusion
This chapter examined three aspects of growth: diversification and entrepreneurship, short-run stabilization, and productivity. In the case of entrepreneurship, by historical standards the big businesses of late industrialization have curtailed the role of the private entrepreneur. On the one hand, as discussed in this chapter, the state has usurped the domain of the traditional private entrepreneur by making milestone decisions about what, when, and how much to produce. On the other hand, as discussed in later chapters, the salaried managers have carried the burden of implementing investment decisions because it is they who hold the technical expertise. The private entrepreneur of late industrialization is a pale reflection of the heroic figure of the past.
As for short-run stabilization, the way it has been managed by the state has been critical in late industrialization, which has been subject to sharp and recurrent external shocks. The management of stabilization by the state in Korea has been contrary to what has typically been the prescribed medicine of the Bretton Woods institutions. Rather than soften external shocks with austerity measures, the Korean government has been wont to adopt expansionary policies and borrow its way out of balance-of-payments difficulties. It has been able to do so because heavy foreign borrowing has been balanced by large productivity increases. Therefore, despite massive foreign borrowing to finance diversification, the debt/GNP ratio even fell slightly in Korea by the end of the Big Push into heavy industry in 1979

p.129: The specific nonprice factors that the chaebol compete on are characteristic of a particular type of oligopolist—the learner. First, learners compete to get additional favors and industrial licenses from the government. They do so by wining and dining bureaucrats, by preparing investment packages that meet planners' specifications, and by distinguishing themselves on the basis of their achievements (like introducing products novel to Korea, winning Korea's equivalent of the Deming Award for quality, exporting Korean-made steel to Japan and Korean-made cars to the United States, etc.).11 Second, they compete to get foreign technical licenses on the best terms from the foremost international firms. Third, they compete in the labor market for the best college recruits and the most experienced skilled craftspersons, supervisors, managers, and engineers (see the discussion in Chapter 8). Fourth, they compete in the marketplace on the basis of quality and delivery. In the case of the automobile industry, domestic price is not a competitive factor because it is set by the government according to liter capacity. But the two major automobile companies compete—in the local market and abroad—on the basis of gas mileage, appearance, safety, service, and resale value (Amsden and Kim
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Autobiography by Mircea Eliade
p.74 For a long time my "peculiarity" had protected me like an innter armor from all sorts of failures and humiliations. And at the same time my singularity, which seemed predestined, wighed on me like a tombstone. I would have tried anything to have broken free of it, to have been able to get close to som eone who could "understand" me. That someone, obviously, could not have been one of my male friends, but one of those girls I met on Sunday afternoons at homes of classates or at meeting of the Muse.

p.72 The attacks of melancholia, with which I was to struggle for many years to come, had started. It required a great effort of will for me to resist the first outbreaks of sadness. They would come upon me unexpectedly, toward sunset. At first I did not know what was wrong; I thought it must be fatigue brought on my lack of sleep. But in vain did I try to rest, or even to go to bed; I could not fall asleep. I was not exhausted; I did not feel tired. There was only that terrible sensation of the irremediable - the feeling that I had lost sth essential and irreplaceable. I felt there was no purpose in my life, htat there was no reason for me to spend my time reading or writing. In fact, nothing held any meaning for me now: neither music nor camping trips, nor walks nor parties with my friends. I was trying desperately to identify what it was that i had "lost", nad sometimes it seemed to me that it pertained to my childhood, the years at Rimnicu-Sarat and Cernovoda, the first years in BUcharest, which now seemed fraught with beatitude and miracle.

p.81: It was as if the whole world had suddenly turned to ashes and I found myself in a universe of shadows and vanities, without meaning or hope, where all things are essentially vain and empty. During those endless moments of dfespair I tried to regain myself and find an answer to the question: What for? Of what use is De Pythiae oraculis? Sitting there on hte bench, with Plutachr's volume on my lap, I tried to smile. I wiped my glasses with a handkerchief and sought an answer. "To annoy you," I whispered, "you, the one who's asking me!" I fel this was not quite the right answer, bu tI insisted on it stubbornly. "It is just because Plutarch's treatise is useless adn absurd that you ought to read it ! And because nothing has any meaning, I laugh at both meaning and meaninglessness, and I will do what I want, even if it doesn't have any meaning !" But I felt htat all these were cries of helplessness. I sensed how false they were because, in those moments, I no longer wanted anything; and I certainly did not want to read Plutarch.

p.109-110: In the winter of 1926, I read with fury several philosophers including Bacon, Knat, adn Malebranche. But I felt myself increasingly drawn to the history of religious. [...] I continued to sleep four or at the most five hours a night.Perhaps I should have been content to stop with that if I had not read somewhere that Alexander von HUmboldt had not required more than two hours of sleep. This set me thinking. For several years, ever since reading 'L'Education de la velonte' I had been convinced that a human being could do anything, provided he wnated to, and knew how to control his will. Long ago I had learned to master my sense of taste by forcing myself to unpleasant thing: first toothpaste, then soap, and finally cockchafers, flies and caterpillars. When I saw that I could chew and swallow an insect or larva without feeling the normal revulsion, I would go on to a more daring exercise. I believed that such self-discipline was the gateway to absolute freedom. The struggle against sleep, like the struggle against normal modes of behaviour, signified for me a heoic attempt to transcend the human condition. I did not know then that this is precisely the point of departure of the techniques of yoga. But it is quite probable that my interest in yoga, which three years later was to lead me to India, stemmed from my faith in the unlimited possibilites of man. I did not realize at hte time the consequences of this Faustian ambition.

p.129: We were together all the time, and in the evening we shut ourselves away in the attic. But when I was by myself, I tried to fight against this passion that seemed to threaten my freedom and spiritual integrity. The articles I wrote at that time were part of my coded dialogue with Rica. [...] a fiancee can help the man she loves to become a genious, while a wife can only make him commonplace.
p.131: We ate at a student canteen, but often in the evening we would have nothing but coffee with cream, and with the money we saved we would buy books. I discovered Leon Bloy and completed my reading of Remy de Gourmont.
p.140: When recalling the choral rehearsals in the attic and hte first dates with Rica, I had hte feeling that all this might be prolonged if I had not decided that I must give up But, at nay rate, I had to free myself from this new reservoir of melancholy, constituted by the memories of student life, adn especially by the history of my romance.
153: I knew that by leaving for India all these works would remain buried, like those files on Renaissance philosphy. But on the other hand, I knew that if I did not tear myself away form everyone and everthing - from Rica, from Cuvantul, from my "works" finished or in the process of gestation -- and if I did not do it now, when the wounds of my separation were still bleeding, I would not get there in time to encounter the mystery that was waiting for me somewhere in India, that mystery of which I knew nothing except that it was there for me to decipher and that in deciphering it would at the same time reveal to myself the mystery of my own existence; I would discover at last who I was and why I wanted to be what I wanted to be, why all the things that had happened to me had happened to me, why I had been fascinated in turn by material substances, plants, insects, literature, philosophy, and religioun, and how I had gotten from the games on the vacant lots to the problmes that perplexed me now.

p.186: Our hope - mine and Maitreyi's - that we could be married, had been born of an illusion. I had learned enough INdian philosphy to know how hard it is to free oneself from illusions, to waken oneself from illusions, to waken onelsef from dreams. In rare moments of complete lucidity I realized very well that I had been deluded by my own hallucinations. I had allowed myself to be bound and enchanted by mirages, and there was nothing else for me to do but tear asunder the veil woven by maya and become again free, serene, and invulnerable.

p.257: I should go even further and say that paradox of the coincidence of opposites is found at the base of every religious experience. Inded, any hierophany, any manifestation of the sacred in the world illustrates a coincidentia oppositorum: an object, a creature, a gesture bcecomes csacred - that is, transcends this world - yet continues to remain what it was before: an object, a creature, a gesture; it participates in the world and at the same time transcends it.

p.264: Why had she fallen in love with me, of all people, and hwy couldnot she forget me? Why did she wander like phantom through places where we had gone together, frequenting circles of mutual friends in order to see me, knowin g full well I would hide sas soon as caught sight of her? for many years thereafter I did not dare be happy: I knew that the thing I should be able to call happiness was built on a monstrous, absurd sacrifice, which no man could accpet with an easy conscience.
p.267-68 But I wanted ore than NIna's happiness: I wanted to fulfill her destiny by a restitutio ad integrum; everything that she had had and had lost in an absurd manner had to be restored by me. I realize very well what this would mean for me, but I was prepared to make any kind of sacrifice. What pained me even more than the sacrifice of Sorana was the sarificing of my familiy. I sensed that in the bottom of their heards my parents felt that they had lost me forever.

273: Although I was sure that if I had been allowed to live alongside Maitreyi I should have weitten several "great books," I could not beliveve that I owuld be unable to write them living with another woman, for instance with Nina. There were, to be sure, certain extreme situations in which the possibility of my "failure" as a writer and man of letters might have had a positive meaning; htat is, hte renunciation of the irrelevant objective (to write books, to "make culture") in favor of an "absolute" goal: spiritual perfection. This is what would have happened, very likely, had I remained forever in teh Himalayas - or if I had succeeded in surviving as Sorana's companion. But in both instances, "failure" would have meant only my fulfillment on another plane than that of literature or science.

p.291 For years these confessions were repeatedly reproduced and misinterpreted. I never replied to these critics. I knew very well that I myself had encouraged them, that in fact I had provoked them, once I had entered the arena " with my guard dow." Anyone could strike me, using for a weapon my own indiscretions. But i had confessed all these things, above all my haste, in order to awaken my readers, to force them to undertstand that "we dont have time." I repeated that "we are cursed to consume time uselessly," that we do not know how to "control time and make it fruitful." [...] To some extent, Oceanografie inaugurated a new type of Romanian literature: personal prose, carelessly and rapidly written, liberated from academic interdictions and inhibition.

p.318: My characters were mainly intellectuals, living somehwat on the margins of "life"; their sporadic outbursts and sexual excesses were, in fact, hteir desperate attempts to embody and obtain a vital dimension that they did not posses. I dont believe I ever wrote a single erotic scene simply to "shock" or to unleash a literary scandal tha would "launch" my books - as was the case not only with obscure Romanina "opportunists" in the years 1936-1937, but also with other writers of unknown talent.

{From C.G Jung book: What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise for above the realm of personnal life and speak form the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.}

Balzac and His World by Felicien Marceau
The characters
P.20: Their clamorous appetities: “To succeed! To succeed whatever the cost … We are as ravenous as wolves”(Pere Goriot) Contempt for danger: they fight duels, and they go to meet their opponents as though they were merely going for a walk.
p.21: They are all bachelors, needles to say. Marriage is always the death of a lion. Either he marries badly, like Beaudenord, and this ball and chaing around his ankle keeps him out of the running; or he marries well and retires from the arena to digest his prey in comfort. From then on his teeth are drawn. As with Rastignac.
p.30: The footmen snicker at him behind his back. Or at least he imagines they do, for there is nothing quite so sensitve as an ambitious uyoung man without money. In short, Rastignac is ripe for his encounter with the devil.
p.38: “Only a young man without a penny,” he says, “can know how much flaling in love can cost in the way of gloves, coats, shirts etc.”
p.105: At the age of eithteen, Felicite is no longer a virgin except in body. Freed of all prejudices, all taboos, she is ruled by intellect alone. Moreover, having been brought up more like a boy than a girl, there is a strong element of virility in her character.
p.190: Moreover, in reading Sandeau’s work one discovers a certain kinship with that of his great employer. The kinship is distant one, needless to say, about as distant as the one between my pipe and Vesuvius. [Balzac-iin enekhuu nom unshdagaar olon sonirholtoi nom taniltsuulj boloh ba characteriinhoo gol ZURHEND yu baidgiig tailbarlaj bolno. Jishee ni Nietzsche-iin MADMAN-iig shutdeg ni iim uchirtai harin Obermanch bol ternii gants morgodog burhan zergeer gol characteriinhaa dotood setgeliig unshigchiddaa gargaj irj bolno.] [ooriin zohioldoo altangerel-iin slovart gardag shig zuragtai tsonh tavij tailbariig MarkSkayzsan shig tsonhond hiin zohioliinhoo technic-iin taliin humuusiin meddeggui zuiliig meduulj gargaj bas ulam sonirholtoi bolgoj bolno. Uun deer Dostoyevsky-iin hoyor hunii margaan esvel yariagaar FUNDAMENTAL question-r unshigchiddaa ooriin bodol sanaagaa ilerkhiilj bolno. Bas yag brother Karamazov deer gardag shig Character-iinhaa tuhai yarihdaa yamar neg yavdal bolood ongorson hoine ter dund bolj ongorson aash aranshing ni ter characteriin uuh tuuhtei holbon harin uuh tuuhiig ni daraa ni taniltsuulbal unshigchiddad iluuteegeer sonirholtoi boloh ba omno ni mania gol dur yund iim avir gargasniig uhaj oilgoh gej shimtej magadgui.]
p.253: In les Employes, he reproduces Gobseck’s signature for the readers’ benefit. It “should prove precious for those who like to search for people’s characters in the physiognomy of their signatures. If ever there awas a hieroglyphic image that truly expressed some animal, then assuredly it is this name in which the initial and the final letters depict the voracious maw of an insatiable shark, forever gaping, grasping and devouring everything.”
p.265: She never let herself be taken over by love. She always had other things to think about. That is the key to happiness in Balzac.
p.274: For Balzac, true love is not the sort of passion that grips hold of a man and shakes him ny the scruff of the neck, that ruins his sleep and makes him neglect his own interests or his vocation. On the contrary, true love should be yet another reason for a man to devote himself to his vocation, one more reason for writing his books or for becoming a peer of the realm. Instead of cutting him off from society, it should pluynge him deeper into it.
p.475: “I am rich enough,” Gobseck says, “to buy the consciences of those who control the country’s miniters, form their office boys up to their mistresses: is that not power? I can command possession of the most beautiful women and their most tender caresses: is that not pleasure? And are not power and pleasure the sum total of your social order? There are ten or so of us like that in Paris, so many anonymous and silent kings, that arbiters of your destinies” (id. P636) Where is the avarice there? It is the will to power.
p.478: … he marries her rather than allow her to ruin him. In short, he is the man who comes to terms with his passions. And in consequence, he triumphs.

The company of strangers by Seabright Paul.
p. 27: Two kinds of diposition have proved important to our evolution: a capacity for rational calculation of the costs and benefits of cooperation, and a tendency for what has been called reciprocity – the willingness to repay kindness with kindness and betrayal with revenge, even when this is not what rational calculation would recommend.
p.28: We frame rules for behaviour toward strangers that mimic the way we treat our family and our friends, and we reinforce these rules by explicit systems of incentives, as well as by eduction and traingin – an apprenticeship for social life that is designed to make opportunistic behaviour more uncomfortable for us.
p.46: Our emaitonal reaction to risk are still shaped by that hunter gatherer heritage. We treat those who suffer the hazards of life either as casualties of a blind chance that we may fear but cannot logically resent, or as victims – chosen sufferers of deliberate aggression to which the only emotional response is resentment and the only justifiable response, revenge.
51: It is well known that once a certain characteristic becomes a basis for sexual preference, such preferences can be self-reinforcing. This is a tendency that has been adduced to explain such runawayu evolutionary phenomena as the peacock’s tail and the large antlers of some species of deer. The fact that females in future generations will be attracted by some characteristic, even a wholly arbitrary one, increases the adaptive benefit to any female in the current genereation of seeking a mate that has that characteristic.
59: this led Cosmides and Tooby to conclude that our reasoning abilities are sensitive to context in ways that would have been beneficial for our ability to spot cheats during our evolutionary history.
61: At the same time that it disables people’s capacity for exercising trust wisely, alcohol is enabling people to inspire trust by stimulating an excellent signal of positive affect, namely laughter, that is not under direct voluntary control.
77: Balzac put in his novel Splenors and Miseries of the Courtesans: A girl with no income finds herself in the mud, as I was before I entered the convent. Men find her beautiful, they make her serve their pleasure without according her the smallest respect, they come for her in a carriage and then send her away on foot. If they never quite spit in her face, it is only her beauty that spares her this outrage. But let her inherit five, or six million, and she will be sought out by princes, saluted as she passes in her carriagel she can shoose form the most ancient coats of armas of France and Navarre. This world, which would have sneered at us [her and her impoverished lover] for being two handsome creatures, united an content, has constantly honoured Madame de Stael with her bohemian life, because she had an income of two hundred thousand livres. The world, which bows before Money and Glory has no wish to honour happiness and virtue.
p.100: in fact, the history of recent economic development suggests that the poor and the rich can have a mutual interest in exchange, but it’s important to remember that competitive markets are about exploring avenues of mutual interest, not about redressing pre-existing imbalances of power and wealth.
P212: the club that prehistoric man used to ward off attackers was the same club he used to attack others.
p.257: To manage the hazards imposed on us by the action s of strangers has required us to deploy a different skill bequeathed to us by evolution for quiote different purposes, the capacityfor abstract symbolic thought. Modern political institutions temper their appeals to the deep emotions, to family and clan loyalty, with just enough abstract reasoning to help Homo sapiens sapiens, they shy, murderous ape, emerge from his family bands in the savanna woodland in order to live and work in a world largely populated by strangers. This experiment is still young, and needs all the help it can get.

Books read between Sept 01, 05 to Nov 19, 05

2005-11-23T16:58:00.000-08:00

Brother Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
An autobiography by Ansel Adams
Siddartha by Hermund Hesse
American Photographs (enjoyed)
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs
The US the Soviet UNion and the third world
Politics, trade and development
Ernando de Soto: Mystery of Capital
Howard Zinn: People's history of the United States
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
The origin of Capitalism

Aborted: Homi Baba's Location of culture

BROTHER KARAMAZOV by DOSTOYEVSKY
p.38: No, not about Diderot. Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and litens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offence, isnt’ it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but hat he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill – he knows that himself, yet he will be the firt to take offence, nad will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness. But get up, sit down, I beg you. All this, too is deceitful posturing …

p.83: As he uttered the last word of his tirade, Miusov completely recovered his self-complacency, and all traces his former irritation disappeared. He fully and sincerely loved humanity again.

p.173: “that the science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred of old. But they have only analysed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvellous. Yet the whole still stands steadfast before their eyes, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Has it not lasted nineteen centuries, is it not still a living a moving power in the individual soul dand in the masses of people? It is still as strong and living even in the souls of atheists, who have destroyed everything!

p.238: Then you know what for. It is different for other people; but we in our green youth have to settle the eternal questions first of all. That’s what we care about. Young Russia is talking about nothing but the eternal questions now. Just when the old folks are all taken up with practical questions. Why have you been looking at me in expectation for the last three months? To ask me, 2What do you believe, or don’t you believe at all2? That’s what your eyes have been meaning for these three months, have not they?

p.331 (g) of prayer, of love, and of contact with other worlds:
Young man, be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. Remember too, every day and wherever you can, repeat to yourself:” Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee to-day” For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected, that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not.

p.333: OF the pride of Satan what I think is this: it is hard for us on eath to comprehend it, and therefore it is so easy to fall into error and to share it, even emagining that ewe are doing something grand and fine. Indeed many of the strongest feeling and moevements of our nature we cannot comprehend on earth. Let not htat be stunling-block, and think not that it may serve as a justification to you for anything. For the Eternal Judge asks of you what you can comprehend and not what you cannot. You will know that yourself hereafter, for you will behold all thing truly then and will not dispute them.

p.363: The great grief in his heart swallowed up every sensation that might have been aroused, and if only he could have thought clearly at that moment he would have realised that he had not the strongest armour to protect him from every lust and temptation. Yet in spite of the vague irresposiveness of his spiritual condition and the sorrow that overwhelmed him, he could not help wondering at a new and strange sensation in his heart.

p.579: Итгэлийн 500 гр наранцэцэгийн тос зарах гэж явах(өдрийн хоолны үеэр бусад элдвийн бараа таваар зардаг найз нартайгаа дайралдан хуушуур цохиж суухдаа санаа орж ирнэ. Ингээд бүгд бооцоо тавиад зарахаар хүмүүс дундуур орон алга болно. Хамгийн гол пойнт нь өөрийнхөө чадварт дэндүү итгэлтэйгээс үүдэх аж.)
And the owner wasnot looking, he was talking to someone, so I had nothing to do, the goose thrust its head in after the oats of itself, under the cart just under the wheel. I winked at the lad, he tugged at the bridle, and crack! The goose’s neck was broken in half. And as luch would have it, all the peasants saw us at that moemnet and they kicked up a shindy at once. ‘You did aht on purpose!’ “ No, not on purpose” ‘ Yes you did, on purpose! Ell, they shouted, ‘take him to the justice of the peace!’ Kolya is the guy who is very confident as well and lied under the train until it passed. That is the particular emphasis on his character. (pay attention in the character building as well)

p.582: (Itgel’s one of the main characteristics will be the following)
“I am fagging away at Latin because I have to, because I promised my mother to pass my examination, and I think that whatever you do, it is worth doing it well. But in my soul I have a profound contempt for the classics and all that fraud…. You don’t agree, Karamazov?”
Why froud? Alyosha smiled again.
“Well, all the classical authors have been translated into all languages, so it was not for the sake of studying the calssics they introduced Latin, but solely as a police measure, to stupefy the intelligence. So what can one call it but a fraud?”
Why, who taught you all thi s, cird Alyosha, surprised at the last.
“In the first place I am capable of thinking for myself without being taught. Besides, what I said just now about the classics being trandlated our teacher Kolbasnikov has said to the whole of the third class.”

p.583: “I have long learned to respect you as a rare person,” Kolyoa muttered again, faltering and uncertain. “I have heard you are a mystic and have been in the monastery. I know you are mystic, but … that has not pu me off. Contact with real life will cure you. … It is always so with characters like yours.”
“What do you mean by mystic? Cure me of what?” ALyosha was rather astonished.
“Oh, God and all the rest of it.”
“What, don’t you believe in God?”
“Oh, I have nothing against God. OF course, Go di sonly a hypothesis, but … I admit athat He is needed … for the order of the universe and all that … and that if there were no God He would have to be invented, “ added Kolya, beginning to blush. (NOTICE the 3 dots in between to stimulate a pause in the conversation, but also connect the statements)

p.585: I think, too, that to leave one’s own country and fly to America is mean, worse than mean-silly. Why go to America when one may be of great service to humanity here? Now especially. There is a perfect mass of fruitful activity open to us. That’s what I answered.

p.721: “I was once indebted to him for assistance in money for more than three thousand, and I took it, although I could not at that time foresee that I should ever be in a position to repay my debt.” There was a note of defiance in her voice. It was then Fetyukovitch began his cross-examination.

p.740: “For my part I wish the excellent and gifted young man every success; I trust that his youthful idealism and impulse towards the ideas of the people may never degenerate, as often happens, on the moral side into gloomy mysticism, and on the political into blind Chauvinism- two elements which are even a greater menace to Russia than the premature decay, due to misunderstanding and gratiotous adoption of European ideas, from which his elder brother is suffering.” […]
“But to return to the elsest son,” Ippolit Kirillovitch went on. “He is the prisoner before us. We have his life and his actions, too, before us; the fatal day has come and all has been brought to the surface. While his brothers seem to stand for ‘Europeanism’ and the ‘principles of the people’, he seems to represent Russia as she is. Oh not all Russia, not all! God preserve us, if it were! Yet, here we have her, our mother Russia, the very scent and sound of her. Oh, he is spontaneous, he is a marvellous mingling of good and evil, he is a lover of culture and Schiller, yet he brawls in taverns and plucks out the beards of his boon companions. Oh he, too, can be good and noble ideas, but only if they come of themselves, if they fall from heaven for him, if they …
[TYPICAL MONGOLIAN ATTITUDE should be presented through the assistant character]

Ansel Adams' letter to his friend Cedric

Dear Cedric,

A strange thing happened to me today. I saw a big thundercloud move down over Half Dome, and it was so big and clear and brilliant that it made me see many things that were drifting around inside of me; things that related to those who are loved and those who are real ftiends.
For the first time I know what love is; what ftiends are; and what art should be.
Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Children are not only of flesh and blood - children may be ideas, thoughts, emotions. The person of the one who is loved is a form composed of a myriad mirrors reflecting and illuminating the powers and thoughts and the emotions that are within you, and flashing another kind of light from within. No words or deeds may encompass it.
Friendship is another form of love - more passive perhaps) but full of the transmitting and acceptances of things like thunderclouds and grass and the clean reality of granite.
Art is both love and ftiendship and understanding: the desire to give.
It is not charity, which is the giving of things. It is more than kindness) which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men) and of all the interrelations of these.
Ansel

THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST
He who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what he believed was Truth
When he talks about it in the fields at home,
He is often accused of lying

For the obdurate people will not believe
What they do not see and distincly feel
Inexperience, I believe
Will give little credence to my song!

... His suffering became too great, and you know that as soon as suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward. Borther H. was led to despair in his test, and despair is hte result of each earnest attempt to understand and to fulfill their requirements.

SIDDHARTHA
Siddhartha does nothing; he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he goes through th eaffairs of the world like the stone through water, without doing anything, without bestirring himself; he is drawn and lets himself fall. He is drawn by his goal, for he does not allow anything to enter his mind which opposes his goal. That is what Siddhartha learnt from the Samanas. It is what fools call magic and what they think is caused by demons. Nothing is caused by demons; there are no demons. Everyone can perform fast.

... 'Maybe' said Siddhartha wearily. 'I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practise love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret'

... Siddhartha himself acquired some of the characteristics of the ordinary people, some of their childishness adn some of their anxiety. And yet he envied them; the more he became like them, the more he envied them. He envied them them hte one thing that he lacked and that htey had: the sense of importance with which they lived hteir lives, the depth of their pleasures and sorrows, the anxious but sweet happiness of their continual power to love.

... When someone is seeking, said Siddhartha, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anythin g, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of hte thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

... Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Books read between Sept.04 to June 7, 05

2005-11-19T09:14:00.000-08:00

Quote: At the center, human-kind struggles with collective powers for its freedom; the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. "Saul Bellow"

Books read:
The Wretched of the Earth -by Franz Canon (excerpts are in my diary)
Economic Development: history of an idea by Arndt (Prof. Kozel's favorite)
The economic transformation of Eastern Europe: the case of Poland by Jeffrey Sachs
Globalization and its discontents by Joseph Stiglitz (for International finance class)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -by Douglas Adams
The camera by Ansel Adams (for photographers)
Mind Over Water : Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (for rowers) Textbook of Oarsmanship : A Classic of Rowing Technical Literature by Gilbert C. Bourne (for rowers)
Thomas Eakins : The Rowing Pictures by Helen Cooper (for rowers)
Made in USA by professor Hybel
Orientalism + Culture and imperialism by Edward Said
Political economy Journal of Development studies (articals of corruption theories)
Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald
Holy war by Lincoln Unholy war by Esposito (recommended)
Globalization and its discontents by Stephen McBride and John Wiseman
International monetary system
Samuel Huntington: Clash of civilizations
Unholy war by Esposito
From third world to First by Lee Kuan Yew
Inside Al-Queda
Clash of Civilizations by Huntington
Keynes biography
The miracle of midfulness by Thich nhat hanh
Apocalypse in Oklahoma city by Hamm
Brave New World by Adolf Haxley
Terror in the mind of God by Juergensmeyer
Killin for life: Religious Voilence in contemporary Japan Ian Reader
The Shadow economy by Schneider and EnsteBooks
Thinking strategically : the competitive edge in business, politics, and everyday
Patriot by Yukio MIshima
Forbidden Colors by Yukio MIshima
Thirst for love by Yukio MIshima
The castle by Kafka
The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers
Inside Nietzsche by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung
History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell: History of Western Philosophy
The conceptions of life and the world which we call “philosophical” are a product of two factors: one, inherited religious and ethical conceptions; the other, the sort of investigation which may be called “scientific”, using this word in its broadest sense.
All definite knowledge – so I should contend – belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definiete knowledge belongs to theology. But between thoelofy and science there is NO Man’s Land, expose d to attack from both sidesl this NO Man’s Land is philosophy.
There is here a reciprocal causation: the circumstances of men’s lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.
In the protestant theory, there should be no earthly intermediary between the soul and God. The effects of this change were momentous. Truth was no longer to be ascertained by consulting authority, but by inward meditation.

Every community is exposed to two opposite dangers: ossification through too much discipline and reverence for tradition , on the one hand; on the other hand, dissolution, or subjection to foreign conquest, through the growth of an individualism and personal independence that makes co-operation impossible.

To the man or woman who , by compulsion, is more civilized in behavious than in feeling, rationality is irksome and virtue is felt as a burden and a slavery. This leads to a reaction in thought , in feeling and in conduct.

True forethought only arises when a man does something towards which no impulse urges him, because his reason tells him that he will profit by it at some future date.
Whe an intelleigent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came to seem true.

Religions seeks permanence in two forms, God and immortality. IN God is no varialeness neither shadow of turningl the life after death is eternal and unchanging.

Atomists unlike Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purspose or final cause.

A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into somehitn g that he can understand.
Dialectic, that is to say, the method of seeking knowledge by question and answer, was not invented by Socrates.
Not only criminals, but women, slavesw, and inferrionrs generally ought not to be imitated by superior men

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Page 80: This period of my life was filled with conflicting thoughs Schopenhayer and Christianity would not square with one another, for one thing; and for another, No. 1 wanted to free himself from the pressure or melancholy of No.2 It was not No.2 who was depressed, but No. 1 when he remembered No. 2.

Page 88: Now I knew that No. 1 was the bearer of the light and that NO.2 followed him like a shadow. My task was to shield the light and not look back at the vita peracta; this was evidently a forbidden realm of light of a different sort. I must go forward against the storm, which sought to thrust me back into the immeasurable darkness of a world where one is aware of nothing except the surfaces of the thing in the background. In the role of No. 1, had to go forward – into study, moneymaking, responsibilities, entanglements, confusions, errors, submissions, defeats. The storm pushing against me was time, ceaselessly flowing into the past, which just as ceaselessly dogs our heels. It exerts a mighty suction which greadily draws everything living into itself; we can only escape from it – for a while – by pressing forward. TH past is teeribly real and present, and it cathches everyone who cannot save his skin with a satisfactory answer.

Page 108: The director was locked up in the same institution with his patients, and the institution was equally cut off, isolated on the outskirts ofhte city like an ancient lazaret with its lepers. No one like looking in that direction. The dortors knew almost as little as the layman and therefore shared his feelings.

Page142: What this patient needed was a masculine reaction. In this case it would have been entirely wrong to “go along.” That would have been worse than useless. She had a compulsion neurosis because she could not impose moral restraint upon herself. Such people must then have some other form of restraint – and along come the compulsive symptoms to serve the purpose.

Page 160: The ground floor stood for the first level of the unconscious. The deeper I went, the more alien and darler the scene became. IN the case, I discovered remains of a primitive culture, that is, the world of the primitive man within myself – a world which can scarcely be reached or illuminated by consciousness. The primithive psycje of man borders on the life of the animal soul, just as the caves of prehistoric times were usually inhabited by animals before men laid claim to them.

Page 168: “archaic vestiges”; It is a widespread error to imagine that I do not see the value of sexuality. ON the contrary it plays a large part in my psychology as an essential – though not the sole – expression of psychic wholeness. […] Sexuality is of the greatest importance as the expression ofhte chthonic spirit. That spirit question of the chthonic spirit has occupied me ever since I began to delve into the world of alchemy.

Page 183: He said I treated thoughts as isf I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, “If you should see people in a room, you would not thing that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.” It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought.

Page 187: The essential thing is to differentiate oneself from these unconscious contents by personifying them, and at the same time to bring them into relationship with consciousness. That is th etechnique for stripping them of their power. It is not too difficult to personify them, as they always posses a certain degree of autonomy, a separate identity of their own. Their autonomy is a most uncomfortable thing to reconcile oneself to, and yet the very fact aht thte unconscious presents itself in that way give us the best means of handling it. […] As soon as image was there, the unrest or the sense of oppression vanished. The whole energy of these emotions was transformed into interet in and curiosity about the image.

Page 192: It is equally a grave mistake to think that it is enough to gain some understanding of the images and htat knowledge can here make a halt. Insight into them must be converted into an ethical obligation. Not to do so is to fall prey to the power principle, and this produces dangerous effects which are destructive not only to others by even to the knower. The image of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking ofethical responisibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers
Resentment is the msot precious flower of poverty. "The heart is lonely hunter"Again from Carson McCullers"And when they werre even babies he would tell them of the yoke they must thrust from their shoulders - the yoke of submission and slothfulness. ANd when they were a little older he would impress upon them that there was no God, but that their lives were holy and for each one of them there was this real true purpose. He would tell it to them over and over, and they would sit together far away from him and look with their big Negro-children eyes at their mother. And Daisy would sit without listening, gentle and stubborn. ... Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. this room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.