It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power in number in pride in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
Age is not all decay it is the ripening the swelling of the fresh life within that withers and bursts the husk.
But I believe in fair trade and I will tell you I have many many friends heading up corporations and people that do just business in China they say it's virtually impossible. It's very very hard to come into China. And yet we welcome them with open arms.