The US-Chinese train has left the station long ago; We are only checking the roadmap and recalculating the schedule now.
back from the summit
yohaku-no-bi: beauty of extra white
The implicit magnificence makes you cry--for joy, or otherwise.
on the nature of work
Timothy Garton Ash, in a recent Der Spiegel interview implicitly talks about the nature of work in our society.
Garton Ash: [..]We must make the social market economy credible again as the central solution for the middle class.In fact, it was Albert Camus who spoke earlier (cca. 1951) about work's lacking meaning. Making a living has become comparatively much easier than ever before. But we lost something in the process, which, despite Mr. Garton Ash prescription, won't be easy to come by.
SPIEGEL: How?
Garton Ash: There are two major domestic policy challenges for the European Union. First: Creating meaningful work for the majority of society. And second: the integration of fellow citizens of non-European descent.