01.11.05 e-postcard from china
From Gord:
The new China: 80 story super-highrises, monorails, 8 lane super-highways, and of course who uses these super-highways? Well, ox-drawn carts carrying hay, of course. Yes, be careful when you race out of Shanghai, or Wuhan, or Xi’an, or any other 10 million-person metropolis. As you drive your Audi A8 or your Beamer 7 series (yes, that’s what some drive there, ain’t communism grand?), you’ll be swerving to and fro to avoid the mule & ox-drawn vehicles of past millenia. And don’t think they are afraid of your 2 tons of steel rocketing by at Mach 0.2, no they know who owns the road and it ain’t those encased in chrome & black leather, blasting the AC. No the farmers and laborers slowly meander along the ribbons of concrete as if they were one of the ancient emperors of lost dynasties. They know who rules the road…
Welcome back buddy.

