Byline: how one nation destroyed another's
junks and then forced
junk on their
junkies.
Fast forward 150 years: Back to the future. The
junkies are now peddling their junk.
In 1841, the British Navy gang was cruising around East Asia looking for trading markets.
They wanted to trade with the large Chinese market, except the Chinese wanted no truck with the Limeys.
Mercantilists, like GB, rarely take 'no' for an answer.
They were at the
leading edge of international trade, backed by their military.
How's this for customer service:
The Chinese would get some of
Afghanistan's finest heroine,
whether they wanted the junk or not.
[The Brits and Gringos are still cornering the market.]
To make it stick, Team GB sent their newest metal battleship,
Nemesis to crush the rickety Chinese junks (trading boats).
[pic Nemesis junkin' some junks, nmm.ac.uk]
The market was forced open and China was awash with
stoned-out motherf^**^%kers.
The Chins were
wagging, and they were
not happy.
Then, the Brits took a foothold over there to have a permanent market,
Aloha, Hong Kong.
The locals have a long memory and they're nothing if not patient.
They went through more than a few revolutions,
a communist revolution,
a cultural revolution and then
a market revolution.
Now their political system is the international ideal.
Capitalism without democracy is a model that all Western countries are now trying to emulate.
The
junk that we are now overdosing on is cheap Chinese products. They've invaded our markets, and taken our manufacturing
jobs.
We've lost trading income and can only grow our economy by going further into
debt.
We're losing our jobs and houses and still we're hooked.
We just can't stop buying their
junk, day and night. We're addicted!
The Nemesis couldn't hold a bilge bucket to this
container ship.
"Hey, dude. You want some good stuff?"
Revenge of the Disposable Consumer Products!
-Costick67 (8^P
checkitout:
Empire of the Seas, on BBC
