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spotlight

http://opinion.cw.com.tw/

現代政治學二維頻譜

現代政治學公認的分類方法，是把政治主張分為經濟政策和社會管理兩個獨立的方面。

社會方面，一個極端是權威主義，強調秩序、規則、嚴懲厚賞，另一個極端是自由主義，強調個人意志、權利、自由、寬容；

經濟方面則沿用“左右”之說，但提取法國大革命時期左右之分的經濟含意，右派主張自由競爭（叢林法則，弱肉強食，餓死活該），反對任何強制性財富再分配，左派反對貧富懸殊（富有就是不公平），主張照顧窮人（底層民眾）的權益。



左右的起源及變遷

左右成為政治上的分類概念，起源於法國大革命時期。在憲法大會上，因為偶然的原因形成了一種不成文的規矩，支持革命的坐在主席台左邊，反對革命的坐在右邊。按這種原始含意，“左”就是激進、主張變革，“右”就是保守、主張維護現有體制。 

但是，隨著這種“左右”的分類法被推廣到不同社會、不同時代，因為其相對於現狀的性質，而不同社會、不同時代的“現狀”不一樣，“左右”之說常常會引起諸多混淆。比如，按這種相對性含意，在法國大革命時期主張革命推翻帝制的是“左派”，那麼現在日本主張恢復天皇權力的也是“左派”。在中國主張搞私有制的是“左派”，在美國主張資產國有化的也是“左派”。全亂套了。 

大范圍的政治學研究，顯然需要絕對性比較強的分類標準，才能避免不必要的混亂和無休止地花時間澄清概念。至於相對性分類在特定范圍內的討論中提供的便利，“激進”和“保守”正好對上號。 


-- 多維周刊總第 62 期

Real ale

Real ale

Real ale is the name coined by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in 1973 for a type of beer defined as "beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide".^[2][3] The heart of the definition is the maturation requirements. If the beer is unfiltered, unpasteurised and still active on the yeast, it is a real ale; it is irrelevant whether the container is a cask or a bottle.

wikipedia

Reindustrialization

Reindustrialization是否代表反全球化的逆勢反撲? 過去2,30年，經濟學家不斷鼓吹開放市場，去除壟斷，才能把成本降到最低，效率提到最高。確實，不可否認，許多商品(尤其3C)都因為規模經濟而物美價廉，但事實證明了，光靠白領的金融、服務、電腦業，是撐不起一個國家的，畢竟不是每個人都有能力，或有意願整天坐在辦公室靠嘴吧和腦袋吃飯，以國家為單位的過度分工，忽略了國家的整體性，就像一個人不可能只用大腦四體不勤，也不可能只練肌肉頭腦簡單一樣，否則不是過勞死，就是笨死。

美再工業化 我接單受惠 | 經濟要聞 | 財經產業 | 聯合新聞網

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我對美國與東協六國接單在7月中止衰退，引起經濟部高度重視。官員分析說，美國近期推出「再工業化」，推升對我機械產品...

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Cotton Candy

http://skyistian.blogspot.tw/

防偷省電自行車燈

自行車燈

自行車燈這玩意頗哲學。不是不必要 (可以擾亂對向來車)，又不是很必要 (沒人罰你呀)；有點花錢 (最貴好幾千哪)，又不是太貴 (一張紅紙打死的也有)；裝了也不見得會打開 (白天幹嘛開啊)，開了又常常忘記關 (媽的又沒電了)；買了怕被偷 (等著瞧)，不買又好像很遜 (白光超閃的)。

就跟哈姆雷特一樣折騰人。

不過講真的，車燈的問題，說穿了，有三：

第一，價錢太貴。

第二，電池太耗。

第三，小偷太多。

通常不用裝電池的，都很貴。不貴的，都要裝很多電池。而貴的，又常被偷。

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Squirrel Sumo

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336397/Kung-Fu-squirrels-Moment-angry-reds-head-head-spectacular-fight-food.html

One with the Wave

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334774/Rolling-deep-Professional-surfers-appear-caught-spin-cycle-the-Pacific-Ocean.html

Mini Daredevils

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2327717/Dont-let-Adorable-baby-opossum-scrambles-safety-tumbling-branch.html

1901

To piggyback off the comment made by Frznfyer, the song does seem to merges Parisian history with that of a current, dwindling relationship: both are complicated. Both are weak, decadent. 

The ambition, or some may argue gall, of the Eiffel Tower, reaching high toward the heavens, was a symbol of not just human reason and technical expertise, but of "unlimited" and "unchecked" human abilities (per the Age of Enlightenment). In short, it is hubris. This mindset is not all unlike the Tower of Babel in the biblical account. When this ambition or hubris takes place, past and present becomes meaningless and the future is all that matters; building ourselves a determined, cozy fate is all that matters. History wishes to control and guarantee future outcomes... Sound familiar??? 

Likewise, his girlfriend wishes understand all the complex parts of a relationship and build an edifice of it, so to guarantee it stands in the future. But, really, continued diligence and maintenance is the key to any relationship, as it is a dynamic thing in nature. You can't hold and see and feel "love." The narrator gets this. "It's not a miracle we needed." He tries to remind her of the simpler things, like making love and laying down to have sex --- literally, being horizontal with the earth rather than trying to transcend the heavens in vertical fashion, you might say. 

-- But what really struck me about this song is the honesty of the narrator in the first stanza, where he almost falls for this elaborate blueprint of his girlfriend: "For a minute thought I couldn't tell how to fall out." I know in past relationships, I was willing to believe anything my gf said because you want to be one with your significant other --- hell, I even began to believe in the claims she made that I was cheating on her (when I wasn't in reality). 

Being in a relationship is by definition a sort of weakness because we suddenly need to give up our sheer independence and become co-dependent with the other. In other words, we need to build something but it need not be so big and complex. Like an arch. If you have a cornerstone to hold it together, like "joy" or "love" or whatever, then it can be stronger than isolated, individual blocks. It also needs to have a function. 

The trick, I guess, is building something strong enough to weather all the storms that WILL ensue.. Tricky formula that is. But in the end, returning to the earth, laying flat with another is a good way to start..

 -- Comments made by "TheWhereon", regarding the meaning of the song "1901" by the band Phoenix

To Infinity!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321431/Its-super-squirrel-Fearless-flying-rodent-does-superman-impression-takes-skies.html

Why do I get the feeling that someone is at my back?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313377/Owl-Breathtaking-photographs-moment-owl-captures-tiny-mouse-eats-dinner.html

Meerkats

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309986/Theyll-short-love-Adorable-meerkat-pups-helping-hand-life.html

Nothing's Gonna Change My World

Words are flowing out like 
Endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
Are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me.

Jai Guru Deva. Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light, which 
Dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on across the universe.
Thoughts meander like a 
Restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.

Jai Guru Deva. Om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter, shades of life
Are ringing through my opened ears 
Inciting and inviting me.
Limitless undying love, which
Shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai Guru Deva.
Jai Guru Deva.
Jai Guru Deva.
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Jai guru deva om

"Across the Universe" is a song recorded by the Beatles. It was written by John Lennon, and credited toLennon–McCartney. The song first appeared on the various artists charity compilation album No One's Gonna Change Our World in December 1969, and later, in different form, on Let It Be, the group's final released album.

One night in 1967, the phrase "words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup" came to Lennon after hearing his ex-wife Cynthia, according to Lennon, "going on and on about something." Later, after "she'd gone to sleep—and I kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream," Lennon went downstairs and turned it into a song. He began to write the rest of the lyrics and when he was done, he went to bed and forgot about them.

“

I was lying next to my first wife in bed, you know, and I was irritated. and I was thinking. She must have been going on and on about something and she'd gone to sleep and I kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream. I went downstairs and it turned into a sort of cosmic song rather than an irritated song, rather than a "Why are you always mouthing off at me?"[1]... [The words] were purely inspirational and were given to me as boom!. I don't own it you know; it came through like that.[2]

”

The flavour of the song was heavily influenced by Lennon's and the Beatles' interest in Transcendental Meditation in late 1967 – early 1968, when the song was composed. Based on this he added the mantra "Jaiguru deva om" (Sanskrit: जय गुरुदेव ॐ) to the piece, which became the link to the chorus. The Sanskritphrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings. Literally it approximates as "glory to the shining remover of darkness,"^[3] and can be paraphrased as "Victory to God divine", "Hail to the divine guru", or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in referring to his spiritual teacher "All Glory to Guru Dev."^[4]

 -- wikipedia

You Don't See Me

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295847/Owl-Earth-did-fit-Cunning-bird-prey-camouflages-squeezing-entire-body-tiny-hole-tree.html

Koala vs. Rambo

Koala vs. Predator

  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293725/Wake-wrong-bed-Dozy-koala-looks-far-thrilled-woken-soaking-garden-sprinkler.html

Kung Fu Panda

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293727/Fast-lightning-The-real-life-Kung-Fu-pandas-snow.html

Blehhhh.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287413/Tiger-Temple-Tourists-play-tigers-Thai-sanctuary-run-Buddhist-monks.html