The Chinese dont know that there is an America Threat. When the spy plane incident over the Taiwan strait was dissolved by the 911 pre-preemptive strike, their chance to find it out dissolved too. But at least the Americans finally find out how much they dont know they are hated.
We walk, so we know how to walk. Not so. Our problem is that we dont even know that we dont know how to walk. The Japanese found this out the hard way when they were hit with the 64-billion bill for their walking robot.
We dont really have much control over our bodies. And we dont know that.
Nothing demonstrates this point more vividly than the whimpy little game of pingpong. Calling it whimpy, this game that is capable of measuring the very humanity in us, already testifies to how hopeless we are.
Pingpong's role in opening the bamboo curtain is only a diplomatic ploy. What it really did is free America from the Vietnam quagmire and transformed the butcher of Cambodia into a Nobel peace prize winner. But most of all, the little white ball sneaked past the nuclear fence of America and bring America, though reluctantly, into the adult community of the world.
We are able to evade the issue of walking with instincts gained through evolution. But not so with pingpong. Here we need to prove ourselves. The old saying: prove you'r a man, now doesn't exclude women. Many have found an easy way out by leaching onto macho sports or financially exclusive wannabe athletics. But pingpong will take the challenge headon.
As pingpong can serve as a miniature rehearsel of life, pongwu will test the limit of our evolution potentials. How far can we extend beyond our instincts.
That, in a way, measures difference between man and animal.
After the Pingpong Diplomacy, Mao Tse Tung remarked to his top diplomats that Tzung Tse Tung, the person initiated the contact with an American player, was his best diplomat. So, pingpong is a diplomatic tool. And pongfu is designed to beat the guy on the other side of the table. But pongwu's agenda is to beat the guy on this side.
Wu in Chinese means dance. So pongwu is going to pick up where pingpong, kungfu, pongfu and pongfool left off. And in this particular case, left off means dead end.
Borrowing from the already-paid-for experience of robotics, the left-off, dead end is all about control the uncontrollable. The proactive approach of the predecessor pongfu is causing a quagmire(how does he do it while most of us dont even know how to spell the word?) among the body parts. The brain considers all else are insurgents, and vice versa. But when the little cute white ball is coming, everybody runs for cover.
So, should we dance? And ask it with music. That's pongwu. Thus far, pongwu has only been tried out on the computer. A daring attempt to doing it on an live female almost caused her to cry rape. So, give me a little time to prepare for some preemptying.
Just as pongfu has been used to lay a foundation for pingpong, pongwu takes one more step back and is an attempt to put pongfu on a deeper foundation. In fact it is so foundamental that it could well become the universal exercise that modern man has been seeking as a way of life, away from a fatty existence.
Pingpong's most unique quality is in its ability to stop aging. But dancing beats pingpong to that. With a tune in the head, it's hard to stop dancing. Drilling hard enough, pongfu may become the ultimate life-prolonging gimmick where one could conceivably dance right out of his own grave.
Before our runaway imagination chips away all our propaganda's credibility, let's get specific. Pongwu is really the hire gun to blast away the problem with the free arm in pongfu. In dancing, one partner's free arm would be guided by the other's hitting arm. But this naturally turns into a wrestling match. So, the basic problem remains: how to control that damn free arm?
This brings us to the purpose of action. We must give the free arm a purpose if we wish to control it anyway at all. In actuality, we must go through the same regiment of drills for the free arm as for that of the hitting arm. These includes shadowing, virtual player, playback, ball machine and table. We must give the same purpose to the free arm as the hitting arm -- to play as best as he can.
Unlike in pingpong and pongfu, this time the free arm may not rebel since it's only a sociable act of dancing.
This all may sound simple and straight forward. But it's not. In particular, we would be working on reducing our chance of preventing the eventual paralyzing stroke of the neglected side of our body. In general, we would be realizing the most important, yet mostly unknown, goal in life. That is to be the master of our body.