Challenging Scientism

With the arrival of the shopping season (and what season isn’t for shopping these days), we welcome, with open arms and purses, and wide eyes, the million tons of plastic, electronic paraphernalia from China and East Asia.

Earlier this year, I spent a month in China, home of American goods and products. The experience left me a little wide-eyed. Or, more than a little.

I wrote about it a little bit, Here and Here, but haven’t quite had the heart to get back to it in full. Somewhere inside, there is a voice that says, “If you don’t have anything nice to say….”

But, nice or not, I can’t sit on these thoughts anymore.
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No, really. Bees and tomatoes!

Happy late summer….

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A few stills of the end of one season and the beginning of another, as autumn chill, wind and rain makes its presence felt, and summer fades…

Black-eyed
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On edit – I’m told that the cooling towers in the photos are coal, not nuclear. See comments, enjoy the pics.

Down Nuclear Boulevard

On The Road To Shanghai, from Hong Kong by Train

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It is almost three weeks since I left for China. I’d say, ‘since I’ve been in China’, but it took two weeks to get here. You see, for two weeks, I was in a never-never-land called Hong Kong. And China and Hong Kong, I have learned and been told, are two entirely different worlds.

There is no way, given the travel exhaustion that now lives and breathes where my mind used to be, that I can write so well or clearly as to tell what I have seen, experienced, smelled, tasted, breathed, consumed, excreted, swallowed, coughed, inhaled and drunk… but I can show you, until my words come back to me.

So, the next four, five, six, eight, ten or twelve blogs will be just that – pictures that tell the story, with brief explanations where they are easy for me and helpful for the reader…Pictures, Pictures, Pictures…

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