📰 Source: upgoat.net | Upgoat
✍️ Original author: GNR_Radio
⬆️ score: 12
v/ScienceFiction · by u/GNR_Radio
📝 Original content:
https://clevelandmarkblakemore.substack.com/p/why-asia-will-never-have-nice-things
It is beyond political ideology, legislation and policy. It will never be a high trust society.
“THE FLYING MACHINE”
- A short story by Ray Bradbury (1953)
In the year A.D. 400, the Emperor Yuan held his throne by the Great Wall of China, and the land was green with rain, readying itself toward the harvest, at peace, the people in his dominion neither too happy nor too sad.
Early on the morning of the first day of the first week of the second month of the new year, the Emperor Yuan was sipping tea and fanning himself against a warm breeze when a servant ran across the scarlet and blue garden tiles, calling, “Oh, Emperor, Emperor, a miracle!”
“Yes,” said the Emperor, “the air is sweet this morning.”
“No, no, a miracle!” said the servant, bowing quickly.
“And this tea is good in my mouth, surely that is a miracle.”
“No, no, Your Excellency.”
“Let me guess then—the sun has risen and a new day is upon us. Or the sea is blue. That now is the finest of all miracles.”
“Excellency, a man is flying!”
“What?” The Emperor stopped his fan.
Full article here: https://clevelandmarkblakemore.substack.com/p/why-asia-will-never-have-nice-things
This post was automatically imported by OratioRepostBot.