This is a great diary, Bruce, an original, revealing slice through the pie. I've been thinking more and more lately that we need to move forward with concrete proposals/projects, and that these must concern local development (in rich or poor regions) in sustainable agriculture and industry. This can be seen in contrast with the financial capitalism hoax-fest; in this diary, you succeed in opposing it to "whatever it is" that makes the US establish precinct stations around the globe and tell Europe they need to help fight for them.
Just one thing: when I gogole "arc of the sun" I don't find much beyond a link back here or to DK. Er, this may be semantic quibbling, but can you explain arc of the sun a bit for dummies?
And, indeed, if looking for where to generate a positive cycle of growth between the two, the interaction between the countryside and market town is a good place to look for the bootstrap. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
Metaphorically, if you lay out a conventional Eurocentric map with the Atlantic Ocean in one piece and the Pacific Ocean split into two pieces at opposite ends, and you take the low-income and middle-income nations that lie wholly or partly inside the tropics, you get a big sweep of countries from China in the upper right through Southeast Asia and the ASEAN Archipelago through India and Southwest Asia and Africa and South America and the Caribbean and parts of North America and if you step back and squint, and especially if at its tallest stretch as it passes through Africa you kind of focus on Central Africa, its kinda like an arc. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
