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How else do you judge a religion/philosophy/way of life except by the people, societies and actions it produces?

Seems fine to me. In fact, it seems way better than most docs. I don't get the issue you're having with this.

Bao (包子) is usually referencing a steamed bun, for those interested.

Yet the rapid spread and destruction is often from build up of undergrowth.

Taipei has an ugly beauty to it. Individually, the typical concrete, tiled covered buildings, are ugly, but cram them together, throw up some neon lights, a tiny park with a Daoist temple crammed in the mix, add a few street vendors and the bustle of people and its downright charming.

Cities in Japan are much better put together, but I prefer the chaotic, gritty feeling of Taipei, and Treasure Hill is an interesting segment of that.

There are no signs that intelligent people are not procreating. More affluent countries are not procreating, but that does not correlate with intelligence.

Maybe, but our lifestyles are not sustainable.

Given that we're quickly destroying the environment we need to survive and have enough nuclear weapons pointed at one another to annihilate civilization multiple times over, it seems that a lot of people thousands of years ago didn't raise their kids well enough.

Maybe instead of having more children as the OP notes, we can take care of the tens of millions of neglected ones we already have, or try to work towards providing a healthier environment for those who are already here. The idea that we need more, when we're currently screwing up the ones we have, is silly.

We have to give up a lot of our modern conveniences, diet, and way of life. It's not going to happen by choice.

That's pretty opposite of what most dictatorships do, though, right? Usually they want to seem to be more than they are. If it's originating from N. Korea it could be Chinese organized crime working through the country or it could be someone else entirely. It could be the CIA recouping loses from pot sales after legalization.

Many people prefer the long conversational walks with detours and such, as opposed to efficient consumption.

You can run the YT subtitles an LLM to get a summary if you don't have the time.

People behaving in non-predictable ways is a bug is such an odd notion considering so much is created by people doing just that.

Which is why I specified for older people who lived through the early scene. Kids today will create their own unique scenes while others will milk the nostalgia of past ones.

Some things do change for the worse, others for the better. Smaller, more tight knit communities, like raves were in the 80s and early 90s were, in my mind, better than the predominately business-oriented DJ-festishization parties of today. There are good parties still going on, but it's not the primary mover of the rave scene like it once was.

Kids these days may not need those scenes as much these days, since they're more open to people who are different. Much of the early rave scene was for people that didn't fit in, for whatever reason.

And if you can't find community, create one. Start a club and people will join. It might seem silly, but if you're doing something, get others to join. Lots of people are looking for something, anything, to feel connected.

For many older people it died in the 90s. When people stopped dancing and treated the DJ like it was a concert I felt it had changed into something else. I watch some of the old VHS I took and people are crowding the speakers and the floor is alive, while nowadays so much of what I see is people all facing a DJ lit up by a spotlight and just standing their bobbing their head.

I really like this translation for the feeling it gives. It leans more poetic, and is less accurate than other translations, but it's quite good.