Unnecessary chaos
East meets west never on the same clock – I think back to E.M. Forster’s Passage to India, where the priest dances wearing socks with clocks near a sign that reads GOD SI LOVE [syc] in an antithesis to Western linear time – I read Jeremy Rifkin’s Time Wars around the same time and understand now, here in China, that there is no synergy between East and West and never will be. When West meets East, confusion follows.