Business is war, and war is business. — Sean Connery as Captain John Connor, Rising Sun (1993) In the early 1990s, Rising Sun captured an America unsettled by Japan’s economic ascent. Beneath its murder mystery plot lay a parable about national confidence; the fear that Japan’s discipline and precision might eclipse Western improvisation and ingenuity.Continue reading “China is the Paper Tiger”
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MINING THE MOON
Amid the Covid-caterwauling, the media failed to take proper notice when Mr Trump signed an executive order encouraging our mining the moon on April 6, 2020. Mining the moon and its exploitation was the premise for Robert Heinlein‘s, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In Heinlein’s vision, the lunar colony is exploited by EarthContinue reading “MINING THE MOON”