horse of george

It strikes me as odd - now that China has announced 'flexibility' on its currency ahead of the G20 meetings, which the American press seems to be waxing all ruddy with optimism about even though this is just classic Chinese subterfuge - they avoid public disagreements and want to be seen as accommodating and pliable so as the better to advance objectives which are anything but accommodating and pliable - regardless, it strikes me as odd that Chinese dollars, all denominations, have pictures of Mao on them, a disturbed, megalomaniac mass murderer who championed oppression in order to subjugate beneath the weight of the all powerful, all mighty state individual rights - and American dollars have pictures of Washington and Lincoln and Franklin et al on them, heroes of a story and culture and belief system vastly different from that suggested and symbolized by that little fucking bastard Mao - it may be to make a trivial point, but it strikes me as odd that we in the West seem so willing to ignore this reality, rife with all the dark and dangerous forces of history, that arrogantly flashes its sneering, mocking, mischievous visage at us every time a Chinese citizen opens his wallet.