“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Ah, High Speed Rail


Edward Hsu, a graduate student at Chung-Hsing University, very kindly fetched me from the airport yesterday night. One of the greatest fun things in life for me is riding on trains so imagine my delight to ride on this, which goes at 280mph (450kph). It made the journey from Taipei to Taichung take about half an hour, not two and a half hours as a regular train would've done.

Shame on America for not getting this together yet. And shame on the Congress for axing the budget items that would've brought America into the late twentieth century.

1 comment:

Moses said...

ahhh you're killing me here. I'm in Wisconsin where our governor rejected the funds for the high speed rail line that would've connected Chicago to Minneapolis by way of Milwaukee and Madison.