Angels and Demons

To be sure, the Chinese finds the WASP World full of Angels and Demons and I guess to a certain extent vice versa. But, there is one huge difference. The opportunities for these encounters are very much at the initiations of the WASP with the Chinese in a passive reacting role, by and large. Partly to do with the inscrutability and other dysfunctional traits, I am sorry to say, that I will talk about in this blog.

Wasp (I have for the ease of reference reduced the description to a simple word from now on) idealisms have galvanized a global crusading class of self-anointed do-gooders and world-improvers. This is a noble development except for the limitations which are the limitations of our human brains' functional capabilities.

For its easy and efficient functioning, our brains have not come very far away from our hunting and foraging days. Our brains prefer to generalize, find easy and convenient connections and are riddled with prejudices and other preconditionings, in its default and cruising mode. This is good enough to survive and procreate in the hunting and foraging environment that we had been used to for ages.

Our brains along with everything else that follow an evolutionary path, evolve in bursts and long unexplained stoppages. I guess we have been in this long stoppage spell for some time and our brain functioning is not quite in sync with our present global social millieu, giving rise to a great deal of cross-cultural frictions and pain.

Especially between the two mammoth Cultural Blocks, the Chinese and the Wasp, G2. Despite our brains' shortcomings as described, the Beauty and Greatness found in the interactions of these two Cultural Blocks are the avenues they have delibrately forged (overcoming the default and cruise option) to seek and nurture cooperation and collaboration which I had talked about in my last posting on this blog, The Tango.

I find that the do-gooders and world-improvers who focus on specific situations and are patiently committed and compassionate to their beliefs tend to do a good job and produce timeless results on which even much better things in future are capable of being built.

On the other hand, the do-gooders and world-improvers who have general universal ideals and expect their glory-gifts to the world to be achieved in one quick fell swoop, whatever differing local pre-existing conditions present, tend to come off as menancing hypocrites, however good their intentions.

This scenario has given me a real understanding of the maxim "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". I leave you to imagine what it is like the road to hell the Chinese are made to take everytime this second category of Wasps rain good intentions on them.

The first category of Wasp as mentioned would pose as the Angels and the second the Demons to the Chinese Civillization and to other Civillizations too, I reckon.