Day 1,902: delusional, void, fray, nerves, candid, mouth

The government is widely believed to be massaging data, suppressing sensitive facts and sometimes offering delusional prescriptions for the economy. This void feeds on itself: the more fragile the economy is, the more knowledge is suppressed and the more nerves fray.

Officials are warier of candid debate with outsiders. Scholars fear they are watched and business people mouth Communist Party slogans.

The real problem with China’s economy

Artwork of the day 
The Void
Noguchi_Isamu
Date: 1970
Style: Minimalism
Genre: sculpture

Word of the day 
delusional: believing things that are not true:
void: a feeling of unhappiness because someone or something is missing:
fray: to become or to cause the threads in cloth or rope to become slightly separated, formingloose threads at the edge or end:
nerves: worry or anxiety:
candid: honest and telling the truth, especially about something difficult or painful:
mouth: to form words with the lips without making any sound: to say something in a way that is not sincere:

Quote of the day
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.

You feel it, don't you?”

― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi