Essays on freedom and personal fulfilment by Chris Barclay
As an American with a type-A personality that can border on crusading, I have sometimes found living in Asia frustrating. 18 years in China, with its stultifying bureaucracy and a cultural aversion to decision making, taught me a lot about the power of persistence, as opposed to being forceful. In Northern Thailand, where everything seems […]
Continue Reading“If you are rich and are worth your salt, you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to […]
Continue Reading“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” This is one of my all time favorite quotes from writer Ambrose Redmoon. When I first saw it I thought, “This would make a great epitaph.” It truly deserves to be carved into stone in somewhere […]
Continue ReadingWhen I first heard about AQ, it was in China, and I thought it was somehow related to the story of Ah-Q, by the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun. In “The Real Story of Ah Q”, the title character is a coward and petty thief, who is frequently getting beat up by everyone […]
Continue Reading英文 作为社交动物、人们通常对禁闭反应不良。这就是为什么禁闭成为惩戒方式的一种。 实际上对人类来讲、这却是对其不良行为的最佳节制手段。相比鞭刑、当众羞辱和上交规学习班、没有什么比被羁押的威胁更让人三思而行。你也就理解为何人们对当前在家隔离的禁令如此恐惧了。 感觉很像坐牢。
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