Terracotta guards
Keeping watch over these tombs:
A futile denial.
Today’s Reads VI – David Beckham and CREDs, the Bamboo Curtain, and Historical Preservation
- Credibility-enhancing displays (“CREDs”), and why David Beckham queueing up to pay his respect to the Queen is not all that different from Muslims fasting in Ramadan. A fascinating and intriguing read.
- I grew up in the age of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain. Will the Bamboo Curtain now fall in our lifetimes?
- An interesting, and counterfactual, argument against laws mandating historical preservation of buildings and landmarks. Not a problem in Malaysia, though. We just bulldoze through everything…