Writes Mark Sunwall: "I enjoyed your blog message 'Overheard in Tokyo'...and agree that yes, the Alamo approach to American history doesn't always go down well with people who have been nuked, as well it shouldn't. One of my small missions in life is to redress this imbalance to my Japanese students. For example, this morning I introduced the philosophy of American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick to my college juniors and transfer students. His themes:
1) False Realities
2) Human vs. Machine
3) Entropy
4) The Nature of God
5) Social Control
Now do we got culture or what? Well no, I haven't succeeded in setting up an active Mises Circle in Kobe yet, but I'll be damned if my students come out of their talks with me thinking that all Americans are gung ho warmongers on the pattern of 'killer Cain'!"