Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spencer, Beautiful shot. The Karakoram is a very difficult place, it is actually a high altitude desert. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> wrote: > Hi George, > > I am not a historian. To me, if I look at recent history, it is rare for > democracy to be successfully imposed externally. Even when it has been > successfully imposed (Japan, post-WWII), democracy was transformed. > Democracy is very malleable and can be instantiated in many different > forms which some people may not classify as democracy. :) > > Nathan, > > Walls never work. The Great Wall didn't work. The Maginot Line didn't > either. We are dealing with a global clash of cultures and religions. My > opinions only of course. :) > > But we are drifting way off topic so this is my last comment on this topic > here. > > To get back to Leica photography, this > (need-to-be-rescanned-now-that-I-have-IT8-target) picture (K64/M4P/35 > pre-asph Sumicron) near Passu on the Karakoram Highway in the far northern > part of Pakistan. The peaks across the valley are quite high, probably > around 6000-7000M high. The road you see curving around the bottom is the > KKH, the main, and only, road to China built at a cost of approximately > one life per kilometre. It is, at best, a 2-lane road. > > <http://www.aotera.org/tmp/Scan-070514-0057.jpg> > > Regards, > Spencer > > On Jan 3, 2010, at 13:36, George Lottermoser wrote: > >> Thank you for your thoughtful and real observations Spencer. >> >> Do you think it realistic >> for outside cultures (British, Russian, now U.S.) >> to arrive uninvited >> and attempt to deliver democracy (or any other form of governance) to >> these areas >> (with guns in hand)? >> especially when you point out the previous failures. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >