Taiwan: Does it just need more Hi-Tech, or Something Else?

I wrote an article a few days ago on India, as that is a country that just intrigues me with the sheer number of very able people as compared with the extreme poverty and disorganization most of the country suffers from. It’s something that fully seems like an ideal candidate for Mr. Hubbard’s management technology, as detailed by Mr. David Miscavige in his This is Scientology presentation, or in his presentation at the grand opening of the Church of Scientology of Africa. It’s something that with a little application of basic organizational technology, and a few ideal Churches of Scientology in the area, an immense change in the scene could be effected.

However, change gears to a location like Kaohsiung in Taiwan, and you get a fully different scene than that in India. Taiwan is the product of a strong-willed, exceptionally productive people not wanting to live under communist rule, and as such living under constant suppression from threats of military action or the simple suppression that comes about through countries not even willing to recognize you as a sovereign state.

Despite this, however, you have a place like Kaohsiung, which is now the 3rd-largest seaport in the world, and has some of the tallest buildings and beautiful downtown areas of anywhere in Asia. So, what are they missing in terms of technology? In this case, I would be hard-pressed to say it has anything to do with their ability to build tall buildings or printed circuit boards.

I would submit that it’s instead things like the technology of overcoming suppression - which individuals in that country need just as much as the country as a whole. It’s things like the technology of dealing with a seemingly dangerous environment, and how to stay sane and causative in a world that the media makes seem dangerous. It’s also what inspired me to write this on Taiwan — the technology of how to stop drug abuse before it starts — education.

With items like that to help the individual, I would have to say Taiwan could be made a better place to live.

What sort of technology does India really need?

India is a rather perplexing country to some, myself included.

Here is a country which suffers from extreme poverty in some cases, has some unreal third-world conditions (or at least unreal to a boy from New England) for a large majority of its population, and is a country stuffed with over a billion people. See photos of their most major cities, and with the exception of a few, they pale in aesthetics and engineering to many other world cities like Hong Kong and New York City.

However, in and amongst all that are millions upon millions of some of the most brilliant people on earth. Here is a country filled with absurd amounts of talent and thinking men & women -- and not just in the area of computer, network, civil and electrical engineering either. These are luminary philosophers, brilliant movie makers and writers, etc.

With all that, what technology does India then need to move it forward? In some countries one could argue that it's cell phones, or perhaps automobiles. Perhaps it's a better flu medication or a better way to fix a broken leg, or maybe it's how to build massive public transportation infrastructures that can alleviate the quality of living & working in crowded cities like Mumbai or Kolkata.

However, it's not just a random engineer that's going to hand someone a Nokia or a Toyota Prius hybrid and solve the whole thing. It's individual Indians being made more able so they can then lead others, and make their own individual lives better for whatever they need to improve in their lives.

In some cases, what's missing is effective education. As Mr. David Miscavige pointed out in his Grand Opening speech at the Church of Scientology of New York, it's the technology of education itself that is many times missing, and is what is provided by the study technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard.

Other times, it's the exact technology of how to get someone off drugs, and even keep them from taking them in the first place. Again, articulated in his This is Scientology presentation at the Celebrity Centre Gala, one thing that Scientology is known for is the fact that Scientologists do have the beat down on how to get people off drugs, routinely and effectively - quite in addition to having the largest drug-prevention campaign in the world.

When you've got something you just hope works, or that you plead with the nearest divine entity to make work, or that works every so often but you don't know why, that's not technology - that's luck. However, anything that can have an exact technique, and exact procedures by which you go about something which then produces an intended result, that's where you get actual technology - and in this case the technologies of Scientology in the realm of education, drug prevention, and the simple technologies the Scientology Volunteer Ministers use to be able to bring calm to an area hit by disaster -- these are technologies which I would submit that India needs - as that helps the people themselves, who will then go on to bring change and improvements to the country.

Digg this? Does it work on BetaBlogger?

I'm having an impossible time getting my BlogThis working on this damned blog. This is one of the reasons I use my other Wordpress blog so much, as it is so blasted easy to blog about stuff I find on the net using a digg blogthis type thign. Still doesn't work on this one. Anyone know if you have to do something special on this?

First Shot

This is my first shot on this new beta blogger blog. I had FPM running on Eponym before (fastpagemode.eponym.com), but unfortunately the free blogs on eponym have a 100MB/month limit. A few good posts on digg, and all of the sudden I found my popularity overstepping itself, and found my blog always being shut down for the latter half of the month. So, I'm trying out one of these beta blogs on Blogger. We'll see how it goes!