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City of Darkness: The most densely populated place on Earth

I had no problem understanding the author's intent. Sometimes correcting another's errors are just being rude.

Why bother with language, when we can just make up whatever we want. All those years of English -- what a waste of time. Math too. 2+2 = 7, because I said so.

The internet is full of average people.

as he / she / it has no life other than to go on and on and on showing everyone else's errors to make himself / herself / itself look intelligent. Time to give it a rest GP as this angle is now old and dead. Remember that an intelligent mind is a flexible mind.

I also found the article interesting. Maybe not perfectly polished but interesting. Tuan may not have a full grasp of English but I'm sure that it will improve. Maybe he was tap typing on an iPAD. LOL.

This is not a technical topic with facts and figures so some small mistakes are forgiven.

It's almost a shame they tore it down. It was a sociologist's dream.

Everywhere to go...

As a libertarian, I like the approach Mr. Nguyen took in writing this article. He describes how most of mankind likes to live in peace and solve their problems ingeniously even under the most horrible conditions. What was missing was a limited government to enforce contracts, protect property rights, and punish those who used force, deception or fraud against others.

I very much enjoyed reading this article.

B.

Absolutely fascinating. From Wikipedia:
"It was a very complex place, difficult to generalise about, a place that seemed frightening but where most people continued to lead normal lives. A place just like the rest of Hong Kong. ???Leung Ping Kwan, City of Darkness, p. 120



Over time, both the British and the Chinese governments found the City to be increasingly intolerable, despite the low reported crime rate. The quality of life in the City???sanitary conditions in particular???was far behind the rest of Hong Kong.

I kind of want to move there myself. The reliable corruption yet social freedom of living under the Chinese criminal gangs would in some ways be preferable to the arbitrary justice/regulation/taxation being practiced by modern governments.

Looks like a peak into the global future populations - where we're headed as long as the food (fertilizer/NPK) holds out.

an amusing mistake !

Despite these efforts, Hong Kong officials decided in 1987 to demonish [sic!!!] the city, athough many residents resisted the forced evictions.


demonise ?

I'm feeling pretty demonish myself.

It looks like a cancerous mole, or a Borg settlement.