I survived the stroke (1996-2003) by the devoted service of my wife S-K- but the stroke life can be summarized by one word that is I the conflict of two pole I free will and vegetative (=unfree) nerve system. That is how to obtain enlightenment though resignation. That means. How to be satisfied with 75% or 69% or 23% etc. cat 1963.

Laotze said the gist of Taoism is to know your feet. In other words, to learn and exercise the know how of how to stretch you foot = to be satisfied. This indicated why Asian economy is doing better than U.S. or EU economy.

Sorry about Margaret Mead’s kind of free life. However, the Protestant ethics or Greek’s Faustian/Promethensia ethics is not far from Confuscian or /Buddistic docrine. Global ethics means we have the gradual continuum of grey zones. It is a Veg sign. It gives the hope for the third Millennium, which can be better than the past 2,000 years. It gives new hope for the post Iraq war. From history we can draw some positive aspects from the current situation.