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[A.K.A.T.D.N.]

How many think you're in favor of Taiwan here? I think I've found it too cutthroat here, confusing. Without laws to really protect yourself, I think that many are just kind of kidding themselves about the better aspects of Taiwan verses the money. But I don't want to talk about this.

I'd like to say that Taipei made me feel a little uplifted. I liked the few sweltering summer months with airconditioned restaurants, transit systems. But there's something about the place that makes me a little concerned.

This is the thought that laws exist here but which aren't really laws. Perhaps it's the country's need to survive. Survival matters most, despite laws. I see this as benign but also dangerous.

I say it's dangerous because anyone can use an excuse for survival to cheat and defraud their fellow man. That's why we called the American frontier 'The Wild West', and gangsters, "gangsters." Criminals and white collor workers can then use this as a leverage to stake their claim and make abuses, much to the angst of the long arm of the law, to accomplish their own ends.

Since most Chinese have seen survival, and money, as the ultimate of ends, I can't really feel the more benign aspects of their culture they so want me to obey by signing every jot and tittle.

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