nang2
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Don't be alarmed by the word "death". No, I am not talking about the possibility of someone dying during the protest. I am just going to compare the reaction among people in Hong Kong during the latest protest and the one in 2014 with how human beings react to the inevitability of death.
Vast majority of people know they are going to die eventually, save those insane fellows. But also vast majority of people live as if it is never going to happen, especially when they are young. As they grow older, they get more and more glimpse of death, mostly from other people. When people get seriously ill, it would be the first time the death reveals its full potentiality and people start to kick and scream and complain why life is so unfair. The same thing just happened to the people in Hong Kong.
For anyone who is reasonably familiar with the process of Hong Kong sovereignty transfer back to China, he will understand that the promise of maintaining the existing social fabrics will expire in 50 years. He also likely knows that the social structures of Hong Kong and mainland China are incompatible with each other. Just like death, the conflict between the two is bound to happen. But unlike death, such a conflict can be worked on. With heroic effort, it could even be avoided.
But the people in Hong Kong react to this near inevitability like they react to the inevitability of death. They live as if it is never going to happen. Do you see them to urge their representatives to work with Beijing to find common ground or innovative rearrangement? No! All you have seen is how they lambast at Beijing with full steam of moral superiority, like those who laugh at death without knowing that death will surely visit them. But what is inevitable is bound to happen. Like death, it comes with its own pace and often eases its way into the finale with series of illnesses.
The recent conflict, which sparks the protest, is like such an illnesses. A serious one. How did the people in Hong Kong react? They react like everyone else who just sees the inevitable. They kick and scream and complain life is so unfair.
Vast majority of people know they are going to die eventually, save those insane fellows. But also vast majority of people live as if it is never going to happen, especially when they are young. As they grow older, they get more and more glimpse of death, mostly from other people. When people get seriously ill, it would be the first time the death reveals its full potentiality and people start to kick and scream and complain why life is so unfair. The same thing just happened to the people in Hong Kong.
For anyone who is reasonably familiar with the process of Hong Kong sovereignty transfer back to China, he will understand that the promise of maintaining the existing social fabrics will expire in 50 years. He also likely knows that the social structures of Hong Kong and mainland China are incompatible with each other. Just like death, the conflict between the two is bound to happen. But unlike death, such a conflict can be worked on. With heroic effort, it could even be avoided.
But the people in Hong Kong react to this near inevitability like they react to the inevitability of death. They live as if it is never going to happen. Do you see them to urge their representatives to work with Beijing to find common ground or innovative rearrangement? No! All you have seen is how they lambast at Beijing with full steam of moral superiority, like those who laugh at death without knowing that death will surely visit them. But what is inevitable is bound to happen. Like death, it comes with its own pace and often eases its way into the finale with series of illnesses.
The recent conflict, which sparks the protest, is like such an illnesses. A serious one. How did the people in Hong Kong react? They react like everyone else who just sees the inevitable. They kick and scream and complain life is so unfair.
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