Know your enemy.

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Of late, China has asserted its strength for world domination. Asian side of the hemisphere, the South Seas need no demarcation. In my own Metropolis, sigh, I am beginning to believe I am the alien one. Gosh, now I know why Americans are adamant to rid off the immigrants. They feel insulted they can't understand, let alone speak another language. The English seems to lack aptitude in linguistics. Sorry. Oh well, the situation requires concern but the aging me tends to dismiss this, too, shall pass. After all, I am amused at the Chinese, how they try to act normal as they walk across the Ped Xing, with not a clue why the 4 by 4's are not stopping. Realizing the road rules, they pretend to know and avoid gazing at the locals. The Chinese will be Chinese, as Confucius was, and confused the world. Nah. I like Confucius. And maybe the trader Li Ma Hong, too. They just wanedt to live lives, as we do. Yesterday, I watched The Wolf Totem, the story of a Han student compelled by Mao Tse Tung's Cultural Revolution of '67 to live and learn in the land of the Mongols. Nope, the Mongols were not the enemies, The enemies were vicious - the wolves. This Han student was beheld by the land and the terrains of Mongolia, for the panoramic calm the horizon bestowed in one's soul, despite the terror the wolf pack threatened on the peasants' lives. Without a thought, this Han cared for a wolf cub, much against the belief and the way of life of the Mongols. When caught, he justified his action by the Chairman Mao's edict: Know your enemy. If you know the ways of the wolf, you could subdue the terror the pack brings. As it happened, strange occurrences befell the land, lives lost, and the sheep endangered. Eventually, the Han had to let go of his Little Wolf, now fully grown and a warrior in need of a Wolf's honor. Eventually, the Han had to go back and resume his studies. Not without engraving the wolf's totem in his being. What is the point in all this? Oh that - know your enemy. When you do, you will let go. The enemy is just as hungry for a life. Like you and me.