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Kinesics is the study of nonverbal communication through body movements—gestures, facial expressions, and the body as a whole. Now that we're armed with this fantastic term, let’s apply kinesics to the picture above. In the picture, we see that the smaller person’s face and posture scream of obsequiousness, servility, and sycophancy. Meanwhile, the taller man radiates superiority, condescension, and a bit of disgust (incidentally, from a kinesics perspective, this image isn’t much different from, say, the image of Biden meeting Scholz). We know the taller person is the Prime Minister of Canada—the guy who likes Nazis and invites them to visit the Canadian Parliament. He is not particularly well-liked, even by his own people. But the smaller person, the expired president of Ukraine, worships the taller person anyway. Why? Simply because the taller person is Canadian, and the smaller one isn’t. This is how the smaller person was raised by his parents—to feel inferior to Westerners, who can do no wrong. That’s precisely why he was installed as Ukraine’s president. And until Ukrainians understand this, they’ll keep dying in large numbers for the benefit of this taller person and a few others. Maybe someone should give Ukrainians a kinesics lesson... @B_Thinker @InfoDefense

This graph is revealing for three reasons: 1) the most obvious is that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has so much fluff built in it that it is never a good gauge of the economic reality it is meant to measure. Energy demand is a much better measure, at least within consistent technological paradigms. 2) it shows that China's economy in recent years has leaped far ahead of all Western economies in what actually matters: the production of tangible, usable goods and services that contribute to global humanity's well being and progress 3) it points up that Western economies have been stagnant in reality, clearly demonstrated by the fact that the current generation of Americans, Europeans and Japanese et. al. are worse off economically and cultural than their parents' generation.