tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post6434603476047519721..comments2023-04-16T23:43:11.235+08:00Comments on Mirror Signal Move: Order, Not ChaosMike Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-7722526023593640752011-02-18T03:28:09.585+08:002011-02-18T03:28:09.585+08:00Marcus: thank you; I try to do my best.
General b...Marcus: thank you; I try to do my best.<br /><br />General background information: I'm British, 31, and poor (but with designs on changing that last item of course). I'm in a now over three-year relationship with a <a href="http://mirrorsignalmove.blogspot.com/2010/07/she-will-have-her-way.html" rel="nofollow">Taiwanese girl</a>, I'm of average intelligence (despite frequent compliments to the contrary), and am perhaps 70%-80% ashamed of my background in the social sciences having once been a PhD student in Edinburgh - I've been trying to make up for this disgrace for the past five years.<br /><br /><i>"Sometimes, I can picture some of these expats with a maniacal glee in their eyes as they enter Taiwan..."</i><br /><br />I wouldn't go that far, and I don't hold other expats in contempt for ignorance or for mistakes, or for anything in their background - but only for deliberate stupidity or abandonment of intellectual integrity or some other monstrousness. So I don't know about you, but <i>I</i> insist on distinguishing between people with the intellectual virtue to listen and argue in kind <i>especially</i> when they don't agree with me (there are such people and I hold them in some esteem, despite any thoughts they may have to the contrary) - from people like <a href="http://mirrorsignalmove.blogspot.com/2011/02/comment-to-ben-goren.html" rel="nofollow">Patrick Cowsill</a> who simply will not do so. Also: I make it a point of principle to refuse such bastards as him the term "Liberal" because I will not be a willing party to their ongoing murder of this word. <br /><br />Any help?Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-10944143343349153182011-02-18T02:14:35.808+08:002011-02-18T02:14:35.808+08:00I happened to stumble onto this blog and would lik...I happened to stumble onto this blog and would like to say it is refreshing to see some conservative/libertarian ideals in an otherwise sea of liberal Expat-in-Taiwan blogs. Sometimes, I can picture some of these expats with a maniacal glee in their eyes as they enter Taiwan because they view Taiwan as some sort of fledgling democracy that they can somehow reengineer into their idea of a liberal utopia. <br /><br />Do you mind providing a some general background information on yourself? Your writing seems polished yet very technical.Marcus Chounoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-4554879765562005682011-02-18T00:41:56.567+08:002011-02-18T00:41:56.567+08:00Thanks Nathan - sorry I was a bit busy holding my ...Thanks Nathan - sorry I was a bit busy holding my own over on this <a href="http://mirrorsignalmove.blogspot.com/2011/02/comment-to-ben-goren.html" rel="nofollow">comment</a> thread. I'll have a look at the weekend if I get time.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-28248265275899222602011-02-17T08:39:51.702+08:002011-02-17T08:39:51.702+08:00This is all I've found so far: http://taiwanma...This is all I've found so far: http://taiwanmatters.blogspot.com/.Nathan W. Novak (李漢聲)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09142094539803664003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-21579758155907538782011-02-16T08:20:56.664+08:002011-02-16T08:20:56.664+08:00This struck me as an odd editorial as well. I'...This struck me as an odd editorial as well. I've been surveying both English and Chinese media, and have found very few such associations. This editorial gave me the idea that such debate was raging. It seems more to me like either a) possible reverse psychology (or what have you), or somehow stirring the pot by putting the idea out there or b) asking people not to make such associations if they have been. Both are odd reasons to write such an editorial (although I could have missed something in the Chinese media) unless the _TT_ has been getting many related letters which they've refused to publish. But to not publish such letters and to publish this instead is almost equally confusing. I didn't make this association. You didn't make this association. I haven't heard anyone around me make such associations. Perhaps the writer made an association and then _________. (You fill in the blank.) You're right: "weird."Nathan W. Novak (李漢聲)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09142094539803664003noreply@blogger.com