M.I.N.E.

Why do humans love to lose control?  listening to Future Chaos from Bomb the Bass a 1980′s electronic DJ/VJ it seems that society in the West promotes the progression of humans whereas the East considers a holistic view of the progression of society.  I read recently The Geography of Thought: How Culture Colours the Way We Think. by Richard Nisbett. In his book he investigates hw westerners and east asians describe scenes and photographs in different ways. The conclusion to his book,” Westerners are more analytic, paying attention primarily to the object and the categories to which it belongs and using rules, including formal logic, to explain and predict its behavior.”  This probably shows how Western thinking is all system based, about the processes involved in society and culture, however I still believe that the human is not a robot, for example, look at contemporary medicine in the west, treat the symptom, whereas in the east the cause of medical symptons are treated and steps are made to prevent it.

If the hospital acts as a business the entire medical profession could be in doubt, actually they just want you nearly dead because that would make them more money right?

This leads me onto the whole issue of alcohol, possibly the greatest invention of mankind for initiating the act of creativity, drunks doing their job at weekends serve the police a greater source of monetary income and hospitals benefit financially from all the stomach pumping action that goes on at weekends. On October 17, 1814 A brewery vat containing over 610,000 litres of beer collapsed causing other smaller beer vats to explode in the same building on Tottenham Court Road.

over 1,470,000 litres of beer created a wave of beer foam and alcohol into the streets of London killing 8 people. One person died of alcohol poisoning the next day. The site of this brewery was the Doinion Theatre and in a twist of fate its probably the only time alcohol has ever killed someone without getting them drunk!

Beer in Korea is fairly watered down many of my gyopo friends comment, it seems since the Egyptians developed the technique to control fermentation and make booze beer making has turned into a serious craft.

All thats next is Soju and Beer in Korea and to talk about the wonderful whiskey in Scotland!