Why I Am Doing This

I started a Facebook account about 2009, when friends and family asked me to do so. I was going to be living and working in China for some few years, and they indicated an interest in knowing what I did, and what happened to me. Unfortunately, I obliged them. Their interest lasted perhaps six months, and after that I was pretty much talking to myself. I may be talking to myself here, as well. In the end, I grew disgusted with Facebook and the use I was making of it. I decided that posting on a blog would probably be a more considered action, and that I might actually say or do some interesting or useful things rather than simply posting links and clicking like/no-like. Thus, this blog comes into being. We'll see how it goes. Because of my experiences with living in China for three years, and now in Taiwan for eight, and seeing the changes in China's behaviour since the rise of Xi Jin Ping, I have gone from having a very favourable opinion of China to being absolutely opposed to their continued success in the world, at least until they become more civilized. I was charmed by the people of China, most of whom are wonderful, but today's China, in the form of its ruling class (primarily the Chinese Communist Party) is characterized by arrogance, overweening pride, and a clear ambition to destroy the current world model and replace it with another, with China at the head, and all other nations and people as supplicants. I'm not exaggerating. They truly believe that they are the rightful rulers of the world and have been humiliated by the rest of the world, for which imaginary event they want revenge. They are, in fact, the most racist nation in the world, so far as I can see. The only people for whom they have any real regard are the Han Chinese, i.e., themselves. Which is why they try to destroy the other cultures within the areas they control, notably the Uighurs, Tibetans, and the Mongolians. As a non-Chinese, it is not possible for you to become a citizen of China, no matter how long you live there, nor can you have a business without having a Chinese partner, or own property. In fact, you are without any actual rights in China. Chinese, on the other hand, can own property and have businesses in other countries, and become citizens of other countries. This they do, and they often game the system they find in place, which was done to Canada, costing the Canadian government and citizens a great deal. Typically, a well-to-do Chinese would come to Canada, obtain Canadian citizenship, then return to China to do business and accumulate wealth, return to Canada to retire, and receive all the social benefits of a retired person in Canada, all without ever having contributed a dime to the Canadian society or economy. The Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party, is entirely without scruples or what we would call morals. Western civilization is a culture based on trust. Chinese culture is based on face and fortune, and they find our trusting natures to be foolish. Stealing intellectual property means absolutely nothing to them, and they will use any tool that becomes available to them to try to destroy the Western model of civilization. There will probably be many posts about Chinas misbehaviour. India is another culture which I am very interested in. More so than Chinese. The Chinese like to brag that they have the oldest civilization or culture. It is not true. India's culture and civilization is at least as long and, as near as I can tell from my studies so far, it's a good deal older, so you'll see me posting about India as well. Moreover, India is a democracy, with values much more like those of the Western world, and they have no desire to replace the functioning world order with one of their own making, solely to advantage themselves. As for me. I have an M.A degree in English Literature, which was a ridiculous thing for me to do, but at the time it appeared that I would be bound to a wheelchair for the remainder of my life by a really aggressive rheumatoid arthritis that was quickly destroying my joints. This occurred at age 50. My 4 year degrees are English (again) and Natural Science (a course meant for K through 12 science teachers). I probably could have made better use of that degree than I did. In my 20s, I worked in the book world, first at a public library, following a work injury, then a few different bookstores. After that my work started tending toward the technical fields. I started a career in the civil engineering field as a rodman on a survey crew, became an instrument man, and then a party chief. Subsequently, and rather accidentally, I joined the U.S. Forest Service as an engineering technician and survey party chief. I became both an Engineering Representative and a Contracting Officer's Representative (they are different lines of funding for projects), as well as spending 2 years as an electronics technician working on the Coeur d'Alene National Forest. I started writing engineering programs when the first programmable computers came out, and by doing so made it impossible for me to continue simply doing engineering work. At that time, there were so few people who could deal with, especially, the personal computers, that any available talent was quickly pressed into that service. When I tired of the U.S. Forest Service, I and two others started our own engineering company, but when they found out it was real work to start a company like that, they both got jobs with private companies. I then started a company that provided computer hardware and services to small enterprises, medical offices, lawyers offices, and such. Basically, I became a contract system administrator and network engineer for those who could not afford, or did not need, a full time person in that specialty. This I continued until my health failed, whereupon I returned to university with the result I've spoken of. Since then, I spent six years in Canada, working with immigrants and teaching English to immigrants, then to Chinese professionals and university students in China. I've continued the teaching since coming to Taiwan. These days, I stay busy upgrading my skills in system administration, network engineering, cybersecurity, teaching, writing, and editing. Sometimes I even get paid for it.