Thursday, May 21, 2026

Re: This might interest one of you.

For simplicity's sake, email me at roygg9@yahoo.com only. And if you do, you might want to alert by text at 512-924-3117–unless it’s a burdensome expense. 

Me and my family are relatively fine, though my stamina is down more than I would like. 

And, yes—as the great Marxist thinker Frederic Jameson has noted, story is actually one of the fundamental categories of human thought. 

Of late, I’m getting a sometime kick out a youtube channel called Lei’s Real Talk. She is a Beijingologist from the point of view of Falun Gong. Her analyses of what goes on the People’s Hall can be insightful if you filter out her hatred of the CCP and Xi Jinping. I can’t decide which she hates more. I rather hope she’s right about Xi Jinping. He’s trying to be a new emperor and he is upsetting the thrust of the CCP toward a rule-based order that otherwise could—maybe—become a rule of law. But per her, CCP and Xi are both headed toward collapse.

The damage Trump has done will take a mighty effort to undo, and a complete unwillingness to let bygones be bygones.

Good to hear from you. 

I hope you and yours are also doing well.

Roy

On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 4:30 AM Doug <doug1943@gmail.com> wrote:

Hope you and yours are getting on well, and also hope you're prepared for whatever  Mr Trump might 
summon up out of the darkness in these interesting times.

Doug

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