Good digression. Not good to pollute the planet, kill trees, etc.; but the serious pollution and species endangerment is carried out by a type of industrial organization that is dedicated, not to keeping the planet alive and nonpoisonous, but to making a buck.
Hard to get leverage on this, but necessary. Start with the chopsticks, if you like, but...
I found SEX AT DAWN to be a very readable, entertaining and often humorous presentation of very serious, well-documented research. Seriously recommend it to anyone who has chosen, or is planning to choose, monogamy. Not the last word on the subject, I'm sure, but the clear challenge to what have become standardized ideas about sexuality and human sociability are very much worth considering. The implications of the authors' research go far beyond the immediate subject matter, and are understood by the authors as well.
For me the most important generalization is a clear and welcome refutation of the quite idiotic point of view that one hears all the time, from people who look around at the world they live in - a matter of human-created CULTURE over a few millennia of class society, beginning with the invention of agriculture - that it can be reduced to a very simplistic formula: that 'human nature' is, at bottom, merely a matter of individualistic competition for 'the survival of the fittest', that the lives of humans before our recent wonderful creation can be reduced to Hobbes idea that it was all brutish and short, and that our inherent social nature, as inherently social beings, is in fact simply some kind of disguised war of all against all. This is dead wrong - if it were true, we wouldn't be here.
If all that sounds too heavy, read the book, there are lots of laughs mixed in with the scholarship, which is presented in a form anybody ought to be able to follow. - it's a good read, with lots of raunchy apes, including people!
The next meet will be at The Park on Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 6:30PM. We will have read Graham Greene's TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT.
The Kunming Book Club has a wechat group in which many regular attendees participate, but is open to all. Readings, locations and times of meets are chosen by attendees. New participants welcome.
@vicar: Where is it that people snatch handbags to get weed? And who told you that it is addictive?
I like to drink, but it's probably healthier to smoke weed than to drink, at least to drink to excess.
55 years seems to me to be a helluva long time for a foreign private(?) company from an economically and politically powerful country to run an airport in a weak one.
@dudeson: weed leads to addiction - I think not, though it may become habitual, but that is not the same thing. As for leading to hard drugs, alcohol - which, in fact, IS a harder drug - might also, but if weed statistically does so more often it's because both weed and certain harder drugs are all thrown into the same category: illegal. Then you have the naive kid told not to do 'drugs', one day he sneaks & does weed, no problems; his next experiment may well be with hard drugs.
That's why, above, I say the way 'drugs' are categorized - miscategorized, actually - is dangerous.
I think we agree, maybe I've just read you wrong.
The point is that using the term 'drugs' for anything that happens to be illegal is dangerous. Weed is closer to beer than it is to heroin.
Somebody define 'drugs', clearly. Should we outlaw tea?
Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者@vicar: Where is it that people snatch handbags to get weed? And who told you that it is addictive?
I like to drink, but it's probably healthier to smoke weed than to drink, at least to drink to excess.
Belt and Road pushing Yunnan companies international
发布者55 years seems to me to be a helluva long time for a foreign private(?) company from an economically and politically powerful country to run an airport in a weak one.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者@dudeson: weed leads to addiction - I think not, though it may become habitual, but that is not the same thing. As for leading to hard drugs, alcohol - which, in fact, IS a harder drug - might also, but if weed statistically does so more often it's because both weed and certain harder drugs are all thrown into the same category: illegal. Then you have the naive kid told not to do 'drugs', one day he sneaks & does weed, no problems; his next experiment may well be with hard drugs.
That's why, above, I say the way 'drugs' are categorized - miscategorized, actually - is dangerous.
I think we agree, maybe I've just read you wrong.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者Nobody snatches handbags to buy weed either.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者The point is that using the term 'drugs' for anything that happens to be illegal is dangerous. Weed is closer to beer than it is to heroin.
Somebody define 'drugs', clearly. Should we outlaw tea?