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Back in Jiangyin.

Saturday was busy.  We took the taxi and then the S1 Line to the Hui Shan apartment.  We drove to the Livat Mall where we had some Burger King and then saw a Russian restaurant which we would like to try. We went to the IKEA food store.  We got the car serviced.  We drove past a campus of a school Tony had been to before just recently.  We stopped by a Tim Horton’s in downtown Wuxi. We went to Hui Shan Wanda.  We went to the old Hui Shan apartment to pick up some baseball equipment.  We then walked to the Yanqiao metro station with a lot of stuff as we S1ed it and taxied back to the Jiangyin apartment.

I heard about a writer named Jacques Ellul on the Chronicles podcast.  He had some interesting things to say about technology and how in its striving to make the world more efficient, it has robbed people of their humanity. The technology society could only be done away with if it was torn completely to the ground, and somehow not be restored, but ultimately it is impossible as the allure of technology is too much for humans to eschew.  It would seem to me that we can only adopt a NGD reactionary attitude to the conundrum of the technical managerial society:

‘The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills.’

Always hunt for the sacred, the love of God,..