like eccentric collectors. Why is it only fat cats who get to cooperate with one another? Can't the masses instead determine the greater good? I could be stepping out of line here but I forgot to imagine one, and so I'm tripping everywhere, and that's only light and not heavy (but weight is mental and this is still substantial and filling if food for thought). Think how big the oceans are, then imagine using water for good. That's actually using it for the greater good, for sure, and there's potentially a lot of weight for prospective leaders' words to carry. Greater good waters are in Greenland, but that's beside the point of leaders: they're never on top of this country.'
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References
1 The Economist, Chinese Students in America, The new red scare, https://www.economist.com/node/21777580?frsc=dg%7Ce
2 The Economist, Fires in Australia, The summer inferno, https://www.economist.com/node/21777549?frsc=dg%7Ce
3 The Economist, Intellectual Property, Laser Brain, https://www.economist.com/node/21777435?frsc=dg%7Ce
4 Australia's Burning: The Blame Game, https://youtu.be/17cxH9p-xps
5 SupChina, China recruits professional firefighters for the first time. 99.9% of them are required to be men, https://supchina.com/2019/02/20/china-recruits-professional-firefighters-for-the-first-time-99-9-of-them-are-required-to-be-men/
6 Hailee Steinfeld, BloodPop® - Capital Letters, https://youtu.be/pj6k-EFxqAI
7 ABC iView - Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell, https://iview.abc.net.au/show/shaun-micallef-s-mad-as-hell
Taxation With Representation
'My name is Gao,' Gao says. 'Don't get up. I don't want to sit on the sofa.'
Gao Yuan [1.] is squatting down in front of said sofa, her legs a figurative bow on her presence. No one can be certain about her identity because she's wearing a mouth mask, and - if we're nonetheless right - she's known for her pleasant and sincere smile [1.]. Her lips may as well be the labia majora and labia minora of a vulva given very little is known about them at present. Perhaps nerves will be fully tested if the mask is removed. Surely she has the sensation that she's being watched, but she could become such sensation, and the removal of the mask could cause another, so sensations become so common that air itself becomes orgasmic. In short, the nerves of the clitoris [2.] are sadly as overlooked as Gao's identity. It's like women drew short straws they can't find.
Matt and Sayuri are sitting on opposite ends of the sofa.
'I'm Sayu'li*,' Sayuri says, with a friendly wave.
'I'm Matt,' Matt says, also with a wave, but also with a smile that he hates is the most obvious one in the room. 'It's safe to breathe through my nose, right? I'm starting to wonder. Is this a gas chamber?' - he looks at Sayuri and then Gao.
Sayuri shakes her head, but with a smile coming out to play Go, and her sweet territory takes the atmosphere by storm.
'It's safe,' Gao says. 'But I can't let viewers figure out who I am.'
'So your name's not Gao then?' Matt asks.
'Call me Gao,' Gao says. 'And call me Chinese, and a strong woman.'
'In a weird way, you both remind me of women in Bondi,' Matt says. 'Noses are covered up [3.] like lips like vulvae, and no one wants their original noses to be seen, as special as they certainly are as they are. But so many women care for fake noses: plastic noses, minds, and money over a plastic medium that's simply words. However, to exercise your heart [4.] and lungs [4.] you need only take deep breaths through your original nose. You'll sleep [4.] and think [4.] better too.'
'You should move more when you talk and are somewhat sitting down,' Gao says, jigging about. 'Or you'll damage your spine [5.]. And there are no plastic spines to buy. Sorry.'
Matt smiles again: 'Smart.'
'Be careful talking to Matt, Gao,' Sayuri says. 'He likes vi'luses too much. Or going vi'lal at least.'
'You know, microbes - like viruses - can either get along with one another [6.] or compete with one another [6.], inside our very own bodies,' Matt states. 'There are so many viruses that are still undiscovered [6.], and the way they might interact with one another [6.] is obviously also unknown. Maybe we're all like viruses ourselves, getting to know one another in the body of a Big Brother house. Maybe cooperation is good [6.], but maybe competition is too [6.]. But think big, because tiny viruses die when it's hot [6.] anyway.'
'Exactly,' Gao says, nodding. 'I'm told I will speak to Uighurs here. Hence why I'm wearing a mask. I'm Han Chinese from the Xinjiang province, and we don't usually talk to these people the people in power deem outsiders, if not terrorists [7.]. But I know that the vast majority of them are just poor farmers [7.]. Journalists can't speak to them either [7.], so I guess you could call me a reporter emerging from a fire of a country to speak with underdogs underground in this secret location. Usually there is a vast desert [7.] separating us. Or maybe they're locked away in camps because they like their traditions [8.] and religion [8.] a little too much. So, you could say that they're the REAL hidden mouths. Mouth masks are the Chinese government.'
'They're probably like innocent civilians in El Salvador who happen to live on, rather than not, a gang's turf,' Matt says. 'They make far less money [10.], and certainly don't work for the big firms [10.]. Maybe the main - central if you will, speaking of the Americas - issue here is that money is collected by the wrong people [10.]. Money should flow to people in charge, but only should those people genuinely improve the living conditions for the normal people they should be caring for, otherwise ordinary citizens should be able to shop around for a better government. Also, very few government officials and company directors in Uganda pay personal income tax [9.]. But should they? If the government officials are breaking the rules anyway, then how can they be trusted to do the right thing with money from taxes they don't even believe in paying themselves, in practically paying themselves generously to do nothing by default.'
'That begs the question: who do we pay rent to?' Gao asks, rhetorically. 'All that a government invests in - like people watching themselves like they're expecting company (like pregnant guests and figures) to be assembled here, for instance - should be completely public. If the shares in whatever a government invests in decline in value over time, that means that the people are not happy with this particular investment. And if enough people are not happy and want to sell their shares, then they should be allowed to - which is actually democratic tax avoidance. Essentially, what this all means is that vulvas should be phenomenal like public figures. There should be less focus on pregnancy and more on pleasure worldwide. Taxes should be paid with and for pleasure to dampen consumer spending for good. Think about it. If the camps the Uighurs are held in are meant to be for empowerment then vulvae should be worshiped to the extent that women can easily describe what they have seen. Personal income tax should indeed be personal, with the whole body in mind. A personal income tax on good for good. It's personal for those in power, because they spend it on themselves, but this should be for educational purposes. Use of income tax that's personal should be monitored like Uighurs so that one day female Uighurs and Ugandans can get married and live a life seriously free from repression.'
'Wow,' Matt says. 'True. Totally. And who DO we pay rent to?' - Matt looks up at the glass ceiling.
'Right hands, hopefully, should be promoted, like we're in India, but not at the expense of left hands for writing [12.],' Gao says. 'Ships' right hands can sleep at night if money ends up in the right hands, like Chinese ships' right hands in Australia [11.]. Promotion
