No! No! Not soccer, thank goodness. An absolutely fascinating account by someone who took two vacations off the beaten track – one in the Scottish Highlands, and the other in eastern Tibet.
Maybe not surprisingly, there is much to be said for Tibet.
“While the service providers in China operate in a more competitive marketplace and on a much thinner margin, consumers are spoiled with choices, convenience, and low costs.”
Technologically, Tibet seems to be ahead – if access to the internet is a measure of civilization.
“While in the Highlands, there were hours in a day where no mobile signal was available. For example, in Glen Etive and Isle of Skye, mobile blind spots were widespread. In contrast, we had consistent 5G signals everywhere we went in Tibet, including in the Sigunian Mountain valleys where only horse tracks and foot paths exist.”
And if EVs are the future, eastern China is already there.
“It turned out you can drive an EV for the entire 1,998 km Chengdu to Lhasa trip without worrying about charging, something I doubt any other country can match.”
The two trips are an interesting snapshot of a world in transition – and a Western Establishment which still does not realize that it has already lost the lead. Let’s hope the game has a second half.
You can’t get much more Highlander than having a gene selected for hemoglobin at high altitudes.
I’m speaking of Scots there is Alan Wallace who led a turn the millennium retreat in Maui on Tibetan dream yoga sponsored by the Lucidity Institute. Staying overnight in a San Francisco hotel to catch an early flight there, what should appear on the TV but Eyes Wide Shut. I’ll just say that I had had a fairly mysterious dream a couple of nights before that when I saw that movie pretty well spooked me.
And although I would have liked to talk to Alan Wallace one on one, not just because he was the dalai lama’s official English translator for his books, when I had a chance to do so during a group outing to the beach what should happen but there was this guy who latched on to him like Nosferatu
I mean really latched on to him the entire time we were out there. I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
I would say the fact that this guy was in Israeli may have just been a coincidence but for the experiences, some spooky as well as involving human degradation, I’ve had and those close to me have had with Israelis in the US…
Do some house cleaning folks.
PS: and I met a woman there who got me to go to see the rakes progress with her in San Francisco and then later attempted to pull some kind of black magic on me quite obviously to kill me.