Allow me to eloborate...
The last post spoke of some issues that I have been having over the course of my journey here in China. I want to take a moment and discuss it with perhaps a little broader detail as I have gotten some email about it.
I understand that all there are going to be some people in this world who have more than others -- and I dont have a problem with that. Its the reality that our society and the rest of the world is still driven by the vicious machine and greed. That's fine. What I find so strinkingly different about China is the same thing that you see in Africian nations--that the powerful have no problem showing off their status and that the impoverished simply accept it. It makes you wonder who to be more angry at.
Yes, it is true that all of that will fade away when I leave this place--that the people who have touched my heart will remain there and these other scoundrels will just melt into one big dark ball in the back of my thinking, but at the moment I wrote that post, it was those people that were driving my scorn. Therefore, in order to give you, the reader the most unfiltered experience I can, I give you both sides--so that you can also appreciate the wonderful side of my life along with the food poisioning, the embarrassing toilet stories, the spitting, hauking of flem from places I didnt know produced flem and such....
Regardless, all is good.
And no, the government is not going to kick me out--and if they do.. Ill just be back sooner.
Beijing in two days.