A message from my hospital

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*I was not well last night.  My wife sent me to hospital.  It seems not a serious case.

I am now writing in my hospital bed.   I wish to say something.

All facts point to one single direction nowadays.

We must see the facts and abandon all illusions.

If you were sitting in the Senate or the House in  US, you will see it vividly.

Actually,  US has revealed all its mind to the world.

The facts are simple. 

All facts point to one single direction only.

(1) The first target is Russia.

They are keeping on to spend huge money to the Ukraine war field.

And it is vital for the US military economy. 

(2) Next target is China.

You can see how the US think easily.

They are not afraid to fight with China.

Because Chinese people will never land on the United States. (It seems to be so, but you cannot know what the future wise Chinese will do).

Now it could only be a war of air to air war heads. 

They are  willing to fight a surface war  as a second solution.

When people have this choices at hand,  they will try every other means without worry.

However, they will use their secret army first.

They will fight the unseen wars before everything.

However, the world is neglecting this unseen war.

It is extremely important, yet people are doing very not enough.

It needs to tell young people, what are the unseen war and how US people is the first victim. 

They are  ruining United States people before they send all the negative thoughts around the world.

Please stand up and send a positive signal to the world and save us all.

Taiwan is a worst place occupied by the same secret underground party.

It is extremely difficult if this problem is not solved.

Money and ecomony is not a big problem in front of the unseen war.

You can always fight back with the same unseen war.

If the Chinese  are not fighting back in the unseen wars, China will be the next target after the Russia.

Maybe it is not the United States winning, but the secret powers behind.  The United States President is always a puppet.

It is so simple, but it is difficult to observe under  huge ecomony pressure.

Friends should be united.

Friends should help each other.

Help your friends with all you can do.

Why It needs a thousand year to write this essay?

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The following article was  written in the year 1000  something.  It was 1000 years after the Six Kingdoms were destroyed by the Qin State.

The conclusion came 1000 years later.

Now situation is more or less the same.

United States has chosen Russia to be the first victim.

And everybody knows who is going to be the next. 

蘇洵   六國論

六國破滅，非兵不利，戰不善，弊在賂秦。賂秦而力虧，破滅之道也。或曰：「六國互喪，率賂秦耶？」曰：「不賂者以賂者喪，蓋失強援，不能獨完，故曰弊在賂秦也。」^[1]

秦以攻取之外，小則獲邑，大則得城，較秦之所得，與戰勝而得者，其實百倍；諸侯之所亡，與戰敗而亡者，其實亦百倍。則秦之所大欲，諸侯之所大患，固不在戰矣。^[2]思厥先祖父，暴霜露，斬荊棘，以有尺寸之地。子孫視之不甚惜，舉以予人，如棄草芥。今日割五城，明日割十城，然後得一夕安寢。起視四境，而秦兵又至矣。^[3]然則諸侯之地有限，暴秦之欲無厭，奉之彌繁，侵之愈急，故不戰而強弱勝負已判矣。至於顛覆，理固宜然。古人云：「以地事秦，猶抱薪救火，薪不盡，火不滅。」此言得之。^[4]

齊人未嘗賂秦，終繼五國遷滅，何哉？與嬴而不助五國也。五國既喪，齊亦不免矣。燕、趙之君，始有遠略，能守其土，義不賂秦。是故燕雖小國而後亡，斯用兵之效也。至丹以荊卿為計，始速禍焉。^[5]趙嘗五戰於秦，二敗而三勝。後秦擊趙者再，李牧連卻之。^[6]洎牧以讒誅，^[7]邯鄲為郡；^[8]惜其用武而不終也。

且燕、趙處秦革滅殆盡之際，可謂智力孤危，戰敗而亡，誠不得已。^[9]向使三國各愛其地，^[10]齊人勿附於秦，刺客不行，良將猶在，則勝負之數，存亡之理，當與秦相較，或未易量。^[11]

嗚呼！以賂秦之地，封天下之謀臣；以事秦之心，禮天下之奇才；併力西向，則吾恐秦人食之不得下咽也。^[12]悲夫！有如此之勢，而為秦人積威之所劫，日削月割，以趨於亡，為國者無使為積威之所劫哉！^[13] 

夫六國與秦皆諸侯，^[14]其勢弱於秦，^[15]而猶有可以不賂而勝之之勢；茍以天下之大，而從六國破亡之故事，^[16]是又在六國下矣！^[17

萬里澄清萬里開

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poems

11/15/2023

晨起讀詩

一從大地起風雷，便有精生白骨堆。

僧是愚氓猶可訓，妖為鬼蜮必成災。

金猴奮起千鈞棒，玉宇澄清萬里埃。

今日歡呼孫大聖，只緣妖霧又重來。

          金猴不怕鬼

          怕鬼不金猴

          吆聲暴一喝

          玉宇萬里開

又一首

夜夢不寧覓蒿萊

心驚肉跳有悲哀

龍飛鳳舞一枝棒

萬里澄清萬里開

          20240422

I am dreaming in the weeds

my heart shaking in the bleeds

iron rod in hand I jump

all is clear by the beat

Why Superstition in Technology is a negative taboo?

 9591

(為何迷信科技是大忌?)

It was a very bad taboo since the Nehru* days in India.

Nehru believed that science and technology is the only means to save the economy of India.

Now people in Hong Kong is doing more or less the same.

And they are working hard.

People believed Economy  is like cooking,   you only need to stir more often in the wok, then the dish will be fine.(像炒菜那樣炒多幾下, 經濟自然向上昇.)

And the most important thing is science.

Someone believed in Science buildings.  They would build science gardens to accomodate more scientists and experts,  big money would come naturally.

Maybe it is true. Economy is just like cooking.

You need to have different ingredients,  or conditions.

You need to have a culture that loves its people.

The culture needs to know their need.

What do the old people and young people want?

What is the most urgent things for their livelihood?

And  the culture needs to know how to think.

The culture needs to know how to ask why.

The culture needs to be interested in the universe.

The culture needs to have imaginations.

And most important of all, please do not kick away people with imaginations.

They can help you not harm you.

Now, Hong Kong is falling.

And falling is due to lying.

Hong kong is still in the hands of the secret underground party.  None of them are touched. They want the ruin of Hong Kong.

Please refer to the huge walls in Youth Square.

 

note

 *Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

What is the hint from the Iran-Israel conflict?

 9590

The Israelis had selected important Iranian officers to kill. It is not important if they were military officers or nuclear scientists.

Important is the precision.

It was before the invention of AI.   How can they pinpoint so sharply to send out bullets?

The last killing was controlled by maybe satellites.  A round of  11  bullets  hit directly at the forehead of a scientist.

It happened four years ago before AI was invented.

They must have been using a set of complicated and sophisticated computer system  comparable or better than the Artificial Intelligence people are now using.

They can locate and find everyone through the images from the satellite  with the help of the mobile networks.

By that time, the satellite networks like the Star Link was not in use.

Yet they had done all the necessary procedures  to locate objects.

How can they do that?

It could be another chapter for the Art of War.

That there must be unknown factors you cannot ignore.

The factors are more than images from the satellites  plus data from the mobile networks.

There must be something more for them to pinpoint the objects.

Wise people  have given up using mobile phones long ago.

And unknown science  applications can still locate  everyone of them.

They knew every detail in your life.

The first hint is that you have to include the unknown factor into your own calculation.

A group of  Iranian military officers held a meeting in a Syria ambassy.  And suddenly came a missile killing them all.

They did not know that they were being watched after so many killings happened before.

The question is, are we still free?

There are no personal secrets in this modern world.

Everyone is being monitored.   People are input  into a huge computer. They knew more than individuals.  All of your country were in detail calculations.

Are we still free?

Should countries surrender to foreign countries?

The answer is no.

No one can take away your internal freedom.

Internal freedom is always stronger than the external scientific measures.

Many people would ask you how.

How are you to stand up and fight with them?

.............

But the important question is not "how".

Important is "why".

You need to ask many times of why.

People forget to ask why since the early ages of their culture.

And the culture of "why" can produce a solution for your questions of "how".

Science is starting from "why".

Isaac Newton did not ask: "How am I to make "big money" from the falling apple?"

He asked why.

However, the popular question is "how".

It could be the setback of many more people in the near future.

You will have no science without asking why.

 

Why should young people be scared in Youth Square Hong Kong？?

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Please examine carefully in these two huge murals in Youth Square.

Does it show something here?

What is the meaning of "FHK" and "64" and "肉" ?

I don't know how the Government of Hong Kong cares about the mental health of  young people when they are looking at the "devils" here.

They are huge wall to wall drawings. You cannot excape seeing them.

Here are the details:  

The chinese word 肉 on the forehead of the devil who wears a short with stars was swearing something people would know the meaning perhaps.

(Isn't it strange for this huge showup in Hong Kong?)

 note:

The Hong Kong Education authorities had a title for young people this year:

  DSE examination essay topic:  

 "...some people think that giving up promise is responsible behavior"

(第三題：向華：「遵守諾言是具誠信的表現。」幼羚：「我卻認為，有時候，放棄諾言也是負責任的行為。」試寫作文章一篇，談談你對以上兩個觀點的看法。)

*

the joke for youth is:

DSE考試對聯

放棄承諾才是負責任的行為

放棄責任才是最重要的承諾

Why a glass was broken on top of my head?

 9587 

It happened only a while ago at 3.40pm, April 14, 2024 at the back street of the Youth Square in Chai Wan, Hong Kong.

I was sitting there writing.  Someone told me a glass was broken on 12th floor.   It was exactly on top of my head.

People have been trying to kill me many times.

Cars were running at me twice a few years ago.

They drove into a hawker area in the evening trying to run me down.

Some people throw a living snake at me in the back hills of the University of Hong Kong.

Someone put a snake beneath my car at Po Shan Road. A passerby  shouted to me not to open my car door as a snake was there waiting for my foot.

Po Shan Road was the favourite spot for me parking my car. I used to park here and work in the University Library, just to save some parking fee. People were angry with me why the police had never given me a ticket.

And then the snakes were coming.

They have been silent for several years.  I thought I am safe. 

At this time is a new attempt.

 i was sitting here

Why is it a great great opportunity for now?

 9585

It is a great time for  human beings to see clearly about how we as human being, or at least the Western part of  human beings were and are living under a big spell and now is the time to break up the spell.

You need to know how to break the spell, but I cannot help you as it is your own job.

The spell is like this:

That you need only to obey.

Obedience is above everything,  you need to kill your own son if you are ordered to do so.

There is a reward for the obedience.

The reward is not in heaven,  The reward is materialistic.

The reward is land and money.

The spell came from the ancient Old-Testament.

And it has been dominating human behaviors since then.

Jesus was the first one to challenge this spell.   He said love is more important than sacrifice.

You don't need to sacrifice your own son to obey.

And you are not obeying god.

God will not issue an order like this.

It's the priests who is badly in need of obedience, not the creator.

It is for the convenience to rule.

Ancient priests found the more vivid the story,  the more effective the spell.

So they had created a complete story.

And seldom could anyone to expect such a spell can last for thousands of years until this moment.

And now humans are witnessing their fellow humans being killed in a new case.

It is a good chance for humans to wake up from the spell.

That material rewards should not suppass love.

We need to act in love not in  rewards of money.

It is a chance to wake up for all.

If we neglect this chance,  we shall be  witnessing  the failure of ourself.

The most terrible thing is the inner-evil,   it is in the involved  countries and many other passersby countries.

The evils had taken away their wisdom.

It is a good opportunity now to do something and it is very likely possible and successful.

Why the gods are not taking action to save the Gaza people?

 9584

Miracles are true.  There are lots of miracles in human history.  There are lots of miracles in different religions. But miracles are not sure to happen. And miracles are rare cases in history.

No one can understand fully how the gods are handling all these problems.

Maybe there is a plan.

And I am almost certain that there is a  pre-meditated thought for the universe.

And I cannot say it is exactly like a “Plan”.

Maybe it is only a "Try",  or an  "Experiment".

The gods will like to see us humans.  The gods will see how we react to this kind of   tragedies  when most of the people do not really stand up to fight against the evils.

Yes, at least I can make a speech,  just to call all the people be united against evil.

Don't be a friend with the evil.

You can refuse to be a friend with the evil.

You can ask all your friends be united to cut away ties with the evil.

The gods in the heavens are waiting.

That's all I want to say for the moment.

Why can't a ghost scratch your itch?

 9583

"The itchy spot is not down there,  why do you insist to scratch down ?"

"The itchy spot is not up there,  why do you insist to scratch up?"

"You are in the external side, how can you know my itchy spot of pain?"

To scratch the wrong place of itch（搔不著癢處） is a literature term in Chinese.  Missing the target is always the regret of many.

Why can't a ghost scratch your itch?

It is because they are not human,  they are ghosts.

Do not employ a ghost to work for your masterpiece.

【齊白石畫:  鬼搔背】不在下偏搔下，不在上偏搔上。汝在皮毛外，焉能知我痛癢。書丙寅詩題鍾馗搔背圖第五回也。

 

 

Why you should never leave your parents into solitude?

 9582

Why you should never leave your parents into solitude?

Because it is not your own personal problem.  It is a problem of culture.  And our culture is being declined.

There will be no love if people can abandon their fathers and mothers.

How can they love anyone if they cannot love their parents?

How can they stand up and say they are human and face all hardships if they  do not love?

It is popular to abandon parents nowadays.

People are leaving Hong Kong to England.  Leaving their single mothers and single old men alone in Hong Kong.

And it is not one or two,  it is in huge numbers.

This is an action of the underground party to encourage secret members to leave Hong Kong and work aboard as cheap labours.

What do they bring?

They brought money.  They sold their houses in Hong Kong.

This is one of the reasons why the Hong Kong economy is down.

The strange Hong Kong education system is behind all this.

Sooner or later,  the so-called "international schools",  will replace ordinary schools. 

Parents will save every dollar for their children to enter  international schools just hoping their children can have a better chance to further study and to be abandoned by them.

The purpose of some or most education in Hong Kong is for material success only.

They are not forgetting love.

They are willfully deleting love in minds of the children.

Children will support their parents no more.  They just keep their earnings for themselves.  They are told that there is no need to surport  parents.  And the worse case is that some of them even not giving food subsidies for their parents.

It is contradictory it seems.

The underground party is Confucius minded, yet they encourage abandonment.

They are manipulating  culture.

The younger generation is not a hope.

This is the most urgent and serious case in Hong Kong.

It was said that they are fighting for economy with all their might.

 

But they are closing their eyes on future generations.

They are taking away love from them.

Young people are just given rock music and pleasure seeking minds.

Can they earn "big money" for Hong Kong?

All abandoned parents will doubt that.

廁所中的花園

           左空氣花不能澆水

           中赤硬花根部沾水

           右蘭花在底木濕水

           哈哈不知對與不對
 

               厠所中的花園

               難堪中的美好

               宇宙中的一角

               也就在我的家

                        2024.4.4.

What is the problem of rich countries?

 9580

Manipulating powers are for a few only.

Most people in the rich countries do not enjoy the comfort in manipulating. 

Power are concentrated into a small group of people.

Most people were redundant.

Only the really rich people have a choice.

And most of them do not choose.

Some of them do have a choice.   They choose  expansion.

The British  Colonialism  was an obvious type of expansion.

And now the American expansionism is in place.

Maybe one day,   expansion will be coming to an end.   

They can expand no more.

People can re-examine  their  choice by that time.

It is different to have an aim or to have a choice.

You still have a choice if you do not have an aim.

You can choose doing nothing except grabing money.

And a personal aim is different from a national aim.

And a national aim is different from a world aim, or a goal for humans.

Although we cannot define the goal of humans,  but still everyone has got a dream. 

 There must be some unknown good places for us human beings.  This is faith.  It is important. 

There will be a big problem if national aim is missing.

People will not have a motive if they do not have an aim.

A national aim or a general aim is important for most people as most people do not have the mental power to have a noble personal aim.  And the wrong type of personal aim is harmful if achieved.

Most people will feel redundant.

They are useless if robots can replace them.

That is the root  cause of depression from the aspect of civilization.

You can find very few people in poor countries to have depression problems.   It happened in rich countries more.

When people are suffering from poverty and do not have enough to eat,  they have a real aim to solve these problems.

Rich countries will be losing their national aim if they are not really philosophical minded.

There are no  influential  philosophers nowadays.

You can find only scholars or experts.

United States is not the only place with depression problems.   There are lots of depressed young people in Hong Kong too.

Depression could be a real threat for rich places in the near future.

We need to think deeply like Socrate in Greek or Zhuang-zi in China.

A voice for the missing.....

9579

  A voice for the missing.....

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUbFj0BIc4&si=z2NMg2S2JbK7AF_N

The boxer 　

　Simon & Garfunkel

I am just a poor boy

Though my story's seldom told

I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles

Such are promises all lies and jest

Still, a man hears what he wants to hear

And disregards the rest

When I left my home and my families

I was no more than a boy

In the company of strangers

In the quiet of the railway station

Running scared

Laying low

Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go

Looking for the places only they would know

Lie-la-lie.....

Asking only workman's wages, I come looking for a job

But I get no offers

Just a come-on from the whore on Seventh Avenue

I do declare

There were times when I was so lonesome

I took some comfort there

Then I'm laying out my winter clothes

And wishing I was gone, going home

Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me

Leading me, going home

In the clearing stands a boxer

And a fighter by his trade

And he carries the reminders

Of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out

In his anger and his shame

"I am leaving, I am leaving"

But the fighter still remains

* 

A Note from Leechard -

There is no scenery in the Boxing ring.  People are too busy fighting.

What if 30% of American youth were disappeared?

 9578

What if 30% of American youths were disappeared?

A total of 2 million people or 30% of the young people aged between 14 to 44 were counted as cases related to psychotic episodes,  according to a data-analytic company, LexisNexis Risk Solutions,  quoted by the Wall Street Journal in 2024.3.25.

They are not disappeared,  they are sick.  But from the eyes of society,   they are a group of neglected people.  It seems they are disappeared.

Some of them can be found living in shelters, cars, vacant lots, freeway underpasses or jails.  They cannot think and they are homeless.

30% is a huge figure.   It never happened in history before.  It happened only now.

And the meaning of this phenomenon is not to be neglected.

It means the society  is really sick.  Maybe United States is the first country suffering most.   It is sure other countries or even China will follow.

 

Cancer is eating away 30% of some part of the body.

No one knows what will happen tomorrow.

United States is a rich country.   It is absurd to have such things happen.  And some people just doesn't care.

People do not know the meaning of life, and have no good motivation to live on.  Because a bad motivation or a selfish motivation  can lead people to nowhere except  mental sickness.

Even people with a good motivation cannot survive sometimes.  Individual power can seldom fight against social powers.  People would find life meaningless if they fail.  Successful people are always a limited few.

To support a healthy society,  it needs to have a general motivation, or a Group- Motivation from the whole country.  For example, youths can be easily motivated to fight against the enemy during war years.

It means you need to have an individual motivation plus a general motivation from the country for a healthy mind.

A motivation should be positive, not negative.

What is the point?

 It is a warning.

When the country is in a wrong direction,  no one will care about the issue, though it is serious.

*

It could be a bad nightmare if people feel that they are redundant.

Let us cherish each and every one of the treasured creatures on our planet.

We are all brothers and sisters. 

No one is forgotten.

*

a remark:

My account in Google is hacked. I dont know what is happening next.

Some people wishes me disappear.

Do you think Picasso is really beautiful ?

 

note:

I hope someone is brave enough to say that Picasso is ugly  when they are wasting big money promoting new  ugliness.

And it's easy to make new idols by pushing up the selling prices of new ugly paintings.

Idols are easy to make with a little money.

Negative values are easy to prepare to harm the minds in Hong Kong.

5/19/2017

Do you think Picasso is really beautiful ?

Forgive me for asking in such a rude way. Because it is really many people who do not think Picasso is beautiful yet they selfdom deny it. 

Many were frightened by the very high selling price or the very high prestige he has got and never dare to declare that he is ugly. 

It is not only the problem of a single painter but also the total problem of our time. The Ugly had dominated modern culture. 

We can see ugliness from the following different fields: Music, Painting, Novel, Drama, and Dance.

It is very difficult to find beauty in those areas. 

And those are leading areas. All other areas, from every day dress to human behavior are affected if not misled.

Yes Picasso is ugly. And many others are ugly also. We cannot hide into the "nostalgic old songs" or "classics" to stay away from the frightening ugly domination. 

We must use our action to declare that ugliness is not welcomed in our world. We refuse to buy to see to enjoy or to accompany others to stay in front of the ugly and waste time and money to say ok for them. 

Ugliness came from greediness. 

Greediness is the worst form of materialism.

And that is the major threat in our modern world. 

When people lack the courage to standup against  ugliness, they choose to be with them.

It is not talent they are lacking. Talent is a simple matter. Talent is courage. Whenever you have courage you have talent. 

So be brave. Stand up. We need you.  

Lets move the planet a bid. Lets bring back beauty, to ourselves and to our children.

What is the difference?

                     AI  photo by Leechard, 2024
 

The Chinese junk has got bones in the large sail.   They are folded up.  They are not rolled up.  It is the difference.

I thought the bones were made from bamboo.

I observed this when I was a child with my father in the Macao harbour many, many years ago.  It was the fifties.

There were lots of junks in  Macao harbour.

How did the fishermen manage to fold up the sails with their arm strength?

It must be a very good tourist attraction  if it is a real one in  Victoria  harbour.

People just like to see real things.

 

How I wish to see the real one?

                     AI photo by Leechard, 2024
 

 It could only be a dream to see this old Chinese sailing junks reappear in Victoria harbour.  I wish to see a real one.  I wish to see how fishermen raise the giant sail on the ship. It would show to the world how old fishermen had built Hong Kong with their sweat and tears. 

為何德國無法超越美國 (舊文新改)

 

8943 為何德國無法超越美國 ？  20160722-20240318

從經濟角度看，德國的確比美國落後。德國科技雖然優秀，但無法超越美國。不過，要觀察一種文化，單看數字是不夠的。美國先進，並不只是顯示在數字上。只看數字，就等於自殺，因為，表面上的數字有掩蔽性。必須全面觀察，才可能看到真正形勢。

德國經濟比不上美國，不是只看國民產值就夠的。

美國經濟是全面優越的。而這種形勢，從愛迪生時代就已經顯現。幾乎是生活中的一切產品，都是美國人發明的。從前是電燈留聲機，今日則是電動汽車和電腦。德國科技是先進的，但無法和美國相比。德國人的汽車，佔據世界市場已經不少時日，但是，美國人的電動車，還有即將出現的無人駕駛汽車，將會取代所有地球上的舊式汽車。至於其他電腦和電話之類，就更不必說了。就連你腳下的運動鞋，也是美國的。所有其他的國家，似乎是連鞋子也無法造得好。老實說，德國皮鞋其實是相當先進的。一雙名牌子的德國皮鞋，可以使你腳下舒服整天。但是，德國鞋子卻總是不能和美國競爭。

儘管德國人的文化水平是極高的。有三件事，使人不得不對德國另眼相看。

第一件：二次大戰後，德國人能夠真正反省。這是極不容易做到的。戰後的德國，走上和納粹完全不同的道路。德國人變得更有人性，智慧好像忽然提升了一個層次。和日本人相比，日本人就是無法翻身。日本人眼看就要再闖禍多一次。

第二件：東西德復合。兩種完全不同的政治心態，竟能在包容和維護之下完美結合。西德政府和民眾付出的，絕不只是金錢。柏林圍牆拆除的一刻，德國人演奏貝多芬第九交響曲慶祝。就是這一種有深厚潛力的文化，使德國人擺脫了西方文化只從外在處理事情的思維方式。他們完全不覺得貧窮的東德是一種負擔，或者甚麼「負累」。這一種情懷，使人激賞。從巴赫到貝多芬，德國先輩智者的努力，並無白費。

第三件：其實這是更加重要得多的。他們竟然可以開放門戶，放進了一百多萬難民（李察按：前作十一萬是错的。谨此致歉。至於德國有無能力消化這百萬人，是另一個大問題。）。

而這不止是愛心，更是智慧，是能夠從內在觀察形勢的智慧。恐怖主義，來自仇恨。此刻，德國人想用無比的愛心去接納不同種族的人。不明白的人，會覺得他們是太天真。收容一群完全不同文化的外人，想用「教育」去幫助他們？肯定這是天下間最困難的事情。登陸火星可能尚要容易一些。但德國人仍是義無反顧地去做了。這是英雄行為，值得全世界喝采。

相比之下，美國只會用無人機去對付恐怖主義，是外在化思考，是一點用都沒有的。美國人向來只會從外在的數目字看問題。國內發生嚴重的警民衝突，但很多人只看統計數字，說歷年來的開鎗數字並未急劇增加，以為事情仍然是和過去一樣。他們看不到， 仇恨的怒火，已在劇烈燃燒。激進勢力的根苗，正在迅速滋長。這是統計學不會告訴他們的。

雖然，全世界的人亦能夠看見，美國文化的潛在力量，正在漸漸抬頭。總是會有另外的總統，能夠更敏感地注意到形勢的。

但奇怪的是，如此優秀的德國文化，竟然無法支持德國經濟，全面落後於美國。何解？這是一個十分重要的問題。雖然迄今為止，仍是無法解釋。

暫時的解釋可能是：德國是西方文化的優秀成份，但是在本質上，仍然是外在的文化。德國雖然比較地能夠接納新教， 並未躺在舊約的陰影裡太久， 換句話說， 就是愛的精神，較好地得到了落實和體現。這是希臘文化和希伯來文化的優勢結合。本來，希臘文化是外在文化，而希伯來文化是有嚴重缺點的文化。舊約的仇殺精神， 迄今仍是以色列和激進回教勢力的動力。德國文化處在這樣的夾縫裡， 幸運是有一批智慧的文化先輩， 才得以有今天的成就。

而我們可以相信，未來的西方文化，一定是要內外全面發展，才有希望的。德國總理默克爾說， 恐怖主義的問題，要在源頭處加以解決才是根本之道。她的意思是要在中東敘利亞等地方消除了戰火，就不會有難民了。或者她亦已經知道，源頭是還有源頭的。其實源頭的源頭，同樣都是來自同一部舊約聖經。以色列和激進回教的思想根源是一樣的。而最不幸是耶穌的新約並未能夠影響他們。

今時今日， 最大的希望其實不是宗教，而是包含了宗教的哲學。當智慧被愈來愈多的人掌握， 世界才是有希望的。而我們亦可能相信， 德國人對十一萬難民所提供的「教育」， 是真正蘊含智慧的教育，而不是今日西方的向下潮流教育。

話說回來，美國的情況，又應該作何解釋呢？ 他們完全就像古老的羅馬人一樣：經濟愈來愈發展，但智慧愈來愈落後。當希臘文化被完全掌握， 發展是迅速而且驚人的。因為，我們的世界是複雜的世界， 單單只是外在的研究， 千萬年亦未必可能完全。更說不上內在研究了。所以， 美國的外在科技， 仍有接近於無限的發展空間。

而且，美國的形勢不是單一的，而是複雜的。隨時可能有另外觀點的領袖人物出現，改換美國的方向。此刻， 一個完全不同的新領袖已經出現。他就是特朗普。全世界都可以看到，他是不同的。

他有點好像歷史上的拿破侖。他充滿魅力，完全不受傳統思想影響， 有機會開創新局。在美國的華人讀者，肯定都會注意到這一點。

雖然仍有人會有顧慮。拿破侖不錯是偉大的領袖，但當他犯錯的時候， 錯誤同樣是極大的。

但世人同樣不會忘記：當美國錯誤進攻越南和伊拉克，造成激進勢力坐大的局面， 同樣是大錯， 而大錯是被毫無魅力的庸人推出來的。

而世界是需要有拿破侖的。如果特朗普今次不能當選，美國就會再多落後八年。

2024年後記：

八年之前，無法看到，原来在美國總统的背后，是另外有一個秘密组織在操縱的。所谓民主選舉，只是選擇一件外衣。無論那是黑色還是白色，内裡的結構是不變的。權力永遠都在秘密组織手上。所謂總統，只是一件小小工具。另外還有更大的工具: 整個的思潮，都在秘密組織手上。報章電影電台，都不是自由的。個别意見可以亂説，但不能影响大思潮。

但問题是美國科技因何如此先進？超卓人物，此起彼伏。從爱迪生到現在的科技领袖，都是從哪裏来的？

大約這是一種文化的性格。是一種不管一切的自由。這一種性格造就了若干卓越的科技人物，但也是政治上胡作非爲的原因。所以他們可以贩運非洲黑奴而不自以爲恥，自私自利而不自知。國家愈富，社會危機愈重。位高勢危，未來的危機就是今天創造的。

他們會聆聽外面人的意見嗎？秘密幫派能夠反省自己嗎？

這一種秘密力量，是有誠意的嗎？

相比之下，德國文化是拘謹得多，也理性得多。

而且德國文化並無掠奪全世界的企圖，力量有限。跟美國的擴張性質，完全不同。

美國的擴張性質，造就了科技上和經濟上的飛速發展。這是他的本質，是不能改變的。大約他們都自己相信，收縮擴張，就等於自我毁滅，所以是停不下來的。

如果特朗普再上台，就好比在一碟辣椒上再加胡椒。味道稍微不同而已。特朗普已經證明了自己，全世界都清楚的。

Why internal understanding is so difficult?

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It is difficult for Western people to see things internally. 

People are looking into things from outside more than inside.

They will be alerted seeing external facts more than internal finding.

They love details.  As calculations are more useful than intuition.

They will study genes or cells more than inner relations in  human body.

That's why Western medical experts can rarely understand Chinese medicine.

How to combine Chinese medicine and Western into one unit? 

It seems to be easy.........

The newspaper clipping here shows an early plan to use Chinese medicine in Western hospitals in Hong Kong.

From the plan, you can see that they are lacking  internal feeling, though they are working hard.

They cannot know how to manage Western and Chinese approach.

Chinese medicine seems to be a tool to help release the pain in palliative care more than curing.

You cannot expect more with this Western-Chinese medicine approach to turn into a huge project helping to setup a new economic structure in Hong Kong.