(Hello Tokyo)The World Where No Changes Are Respected
It is not England, since it was once colonized by the Roman Empire.
It is a memory of an era for individuals.
By the way, today, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (C) reads a letter from U.S. President Barack Obama, which was handed by U.S. Cherry Blossom Queen Margot Pfefferle from Appleton, Wisconsin...
http://www.rr.com/news/topicdl/photogallery/dlt/06lF7Psg5T6IV
Two days ago, P.M. Mr. Hatoyama said in Okinawa, "I have realized importance of presence of U.S. Marines in Okinawa in linkage with other U.S. forces as I am learning security issues more and more..."
Did the Vietnam War have any influence on Mr. Hatoyama?
SECTION I: Industry of the Roman Empire
Pompeii is miracle ruins.
Without Pompeii, an ancient city in southern Italy buried and preserved for 1900 years by Volcanic ash in A.D. 79, we cannot easily or vividly imagine how Roman citizens lived in the first century.
It looks like that the God exercised His act on Pompeii to give warning to the Roman Empire that executed Jesus Christ, destroyed Jerusalem, and persecuted early Christians in the first century.
Only for this miracle of Pompeii, you should believe in the God and Jesus Christ.
Now, 2000 years ago, slaves accounted for one third of the population in cities around the the Mediterranean. In the Italian Peninsula and Rome, they accounted for 80 to 90%, since children of slaves were also slaves.
The Roman Empire consisted of two classes of people: the honorable citizens and the poor. However, among the 55 million population in the Roman Empire, the honorable citizens accounted for just 1%, namely 550,000. However, the Empire could maintain 300,000 regular soldiers and mobilize maximum one million soldiers, though slaves cannot be a soldier like in ancient Greek.
An honorable citizen, however, needs money to be a senator, one million sestertia ($35 million).
An honorable citizen, however, needs money to be an knight, one 0.4 million sestertia ($14 million).
An honorable citizen, however, needs money to be a councilman of a city, one 0.1 million sestertia ($3.5 million).
The largest fortune recorded in ancient Rome was 400 million sestertia ($14 billion) a senator left as his legacy. Yet, a certain enfranchised slave in the Empire had 4000 slaves and 60 million sestertia ($15 million).
The engine of the Roman Empire was a complex of military, slavery, and coins.
A city like Pompeii needed many coins and salves to build it and military to keep order.
But, that looks like having been all. Nothing else, only military, slavery, and coins to build and maintain a comfortable city.
Accordingly, consumption became the major industry of the Roman Empire, partly like today's America or America before the Lehman Shock.
Anyway, it is a big surprise that 1900 or 2000 years ago, there was a kind of America around Rome. Jesus Christ was really needed in any context.
SECTION II: Socialism's Boss Is Illiberalism
There is a great misunderstanding in the world about socialism.
Those who promote the term socialism as their principle do not ultimately aim at realization of society of economic justice. They aim at realization of illiberalism.
In this world, there is no socialist country where illiberalism does not prevail.
They say that illiberalism is necessary to realize and maintain socialist economy where everybody gets money and happiness. But, the underlying truth is that socialism is necessary to realize illiberalism where elites make a monopoly of money and happiness.
The term socialism belongs to the domain of politics but not economy. Socialism is nothing but the first step to illiberalism, like in the case of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and North Korea.
The underlying passion of socialism is hate for successful people in free economy. Enjoying freedom, lucky guys, strong guys, rich guys, and blessed guys, in addition to smart guys, become elites in society to further enjoy services from the poor.
So, "the poor should hate the rich. Let the poor hate the rich."
"Support them with theory of socialism."
"After the poor have won, let us be elites in a new society, introducing illiberalism." This is the truth of well-educated leaders of socialism movement.
So, sound politicians should not blame socialism but illiberalism. "That party is guided by hatred of illiberalism but not by an economic ideal of socialism." This is what they shout to voters, especially, in Japan today.
The agenda of the poor and the rich must be addressed in the framework of freedom, not by applying incomplete socialism inevitably subject to illiberalism, under the sanction of the God.
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I saw a frying pan in a plastic bag on the edge of a roadway as if being left and dropping down from a waste-collection point on the sidewalk. Cars were running just a foot aside. Bicycles were expected to come soon along the lane edge onto the evil frying pan half hidden in the white fragile bag. So, I picked it up and put it safely on the waste-collection point beside a concrete power pole.
I wondered why the sky is so faintly blue nowadays. The sky was more bluer, like in a cartoon, even in Tokyo once...
("Time":
http://web.agria.hu/kepenu/pinkfloy/darkside/time.mid
Source: http://web.agria.hu/kepenu/pinkfloy.htm
It is said there are $100 billion in pockets of Greek citizens as they did not report some incomes to the government over many years. Indeed, an economic solution is always in pockets of citizens.
In addition, the number of those killed in traffic accidents in this Golden Holiday Season in Japan over the past eight days are 111, up 20 or so from the last year's. Life is more important than time, money, and leisure around Times Square or in Pakistan.)
Mar 5:5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Mar 5:6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
Mar 5:7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
Mar 5:8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
Mar 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.