Recently I met a new friend on Blip/Twitter that had a link to this really cool video about China & their Yangtz hydroelectric project there. UP THE YANGTZE. Watching it made me realize how many lives are effected by every decision people make.
I wanted to learn more about this country that was Asian but so different from my own.
I GOOGLED Yangtz & wiki to get to the Three Gorges Dam Wikipedia page I needed. After learning more about the project, I wanted to learn more about COMMUNISM & exactly why so may people hated it. Funny, I am still not completely sure. I think it’s more the failed attempts and bad role models that have really given it such a bad rap. *Plus not much fun it seems.
I did find one nugget of info I would have never found otherwise, “Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 28 June 1712 – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought.” from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
“His candid confession about his relationship with his father & their stolen moments together made me smile. The sentiment is timeless.“
“Every night, after supper, we read some part of a small collection of romances [i.e., adventure stories], which had been my mother’s.
My father’s design was only to improve me in reading, and he thought these entertaining works were calculated to give me a fondness for it; but we soon found ourselves so interested in the adventures they contained, that we alternately read whole nights together and could not bear to give over until at the conclusion of a volume.
Sometimes, in the morning, on hearing the swallows at our window, my father, quite ashamed of this weakness, would cry,
“Come, come, let us go to bed; I am more a child than thou art.”
—Confessions, Book 1 Jean-Jacques Rouseau
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