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Friday, April 30, 2010
10:59 PM
However, that does not control anything or anyone. It's a much deeper problem than that. Most people in China are smart enough to see that, which makes the propagandist response all the more stupid.
Mao wrote that all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. What he failed to realize is, there are too many people in China to intimidate with guns. The propaganda is such a wild stretch of the imagination that few Chinese people familiar with the way that political system operates will believe it, nor should they. They are free to question what's really going on.
So, similarly, should we feel free in the USA to ask what really happened on 9/11/2001 - and without immediately jumping to a conclusion that our own government was responsible. Everyone must keep asking questions. The questions are the important part. The prevalent attitude in the USA that free people are not entitled to seek answers to unanswered questions about 9/11, and the carefully constructed "alternative" theory that the U.S. government was responsible, are used to box thinking people into the label "truthers," furthering the propagandist agenda to make the masses believe that people who seek truth are nuts. The parallel is clear.
It's all so trite, and my heart, for one, has broken in two for the USA, which used to be going places. Instead, Americans of limited brainpower are given unlimited credit, fast cars, big houses and the illusion of power and told to keep the best of us down, to beat us down if possible, and to kill us. Then they throw silver to an army of Judas Iscariots to turn the "counter-culture" into a bunch of irrational, drugged out morons, feeding them disunionist lies, preying on the downtrodden instead of lifting them up. All those inexpensive electronics like 3-D televisions are just strings of shiny beads like the Dutch used to swindle Manhattan from the natives.
It's obvious who benefits from our own refusal to admit the possibilities.
In China, the disconnect between government and reality is far more grave. These children are dead. If the Chinese government set up these copycat school attacks, or they were done by independent ideological loyalists, they have still died for nothing. The communist government cannot stop the Chinese people from looking into their own souls to understand how such a thing could happen, and how to stop it. The answer is something much more than censorship or other government power. Neither dead philosophers nor dead soldiers can heal the sorrow of the living.
We must do the same here, as killings of children, and suicides, are more frequent because of things so stupid as worry over money and fear of the unknown future. Faith is absolutely necessary to human survival. We cannot know the future, but we are drawn toward it without any control. If we fight the inexorable tide of time for control, we do ourselves harm. If we have faith that future is there, and is good, then we will find ourselves in it. That is an essential part of the deeper spiritual miracle of human existence.
Violent revolution is not the answer in China, because the "revolutionary government" has a monopoly. The answer is simple: love. It will come in fits and starts, here and there, a kind word, a simple glance, a hug, a flower. Then it will flood China all at once, and the next day will break a beautiful dawn. Love is the only thing that can heal their hearts. No empire can stand in the way of love any more than it can stand in the way of history. If they embrace love, God will heal them.
school attacks in china used to promote state control of media
Chinese propaganda officials have been saying that "copycat" attacks are because someone saw the trial of a school killer a year ago and "got an idea" to do the same thing. Now they have silenced the media, saying they are doing so to control the problem.However, that does not control anything or anyone. It's a much deeper problem than that. Most people in China are smart enough to see that, which makes the propagandist response all the more stupid.
Mao wrote that all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. What he failed to realize is, there are too many people in China to intimidate with guns. The propaganda is such a wild stretch of the imagination that few Chinese people familiar with the way that political system operates will believe it, nor should they. They are free to question what's really going on.
So, similarly, should we feel free in the USA to ask what really happened on 9/11/2001 - and without immediately jumping to a conclusion that our own government was responsible. Everyone must keep asking questions. The questions are the important part. The prevalent attitude in the USA that free people are not entitled to seek answers to unanswered questions about 9/11, and the carefully constructed "alternative" theory that the U.S. government was responsible, are used to box thinking people into the label "truthers," furthering the propagandist agenda to make the masses believe that people who seek truth are nuts. The parallel is clear.
It's all so trite, and my heart, for one, has broken in two for the USA, which used to be going places. Instead, Americans of limited brainpower are given unlimited credit, fast cars, big houses and the illusion of power and told to keep the best of us down, to beat us down if possible, and to kill us. Then they throw silver to an army of Judas Iscariots to turn the "counter-culture" into a bunch of irrational, drugged out morons, feeding them disunionist lies, preying on the downtrodden instead of lifting them up. All those inexpensive electronics like 3-D televisions are just strings of shiny beads like the Dutch used to swindle Manhattan from the natives.
It's obvious who benefits from our own refusal to admit the possibilities.
In China, the disconnect between government and reality is far more grave. These children are dead. If the Chinese government set up these copycat school attacks, or they were done by independent ideological loyalists, they have still died for nothing. The communist government cannot stop the Chinese people from looking into their own souls to understand how such a thing could happen, and how to stop it. The answer is something much more than censorship or other government power. Neither dead philosophers nor dead soldiers can heal the sorrow of the living.
We must do the same here, as killings of children, and suicides, are more frequent because of things so stupid as worry over money and fear of the unknown future. Faith is absolutely necessary to human survival. We cannot know the future, but we are drawn toward it without any control. If we fight the inexorable tide of time for control, we do ourselves harm. If we have faith that future is there, and is good, then we will find ourselves in it. That is an essential part of the deeper spiritual miracle of human existence.
Violent revolution is not the answer in China, because the "revolutionary government" has a monopoly. The answer is simple: love. It will come in fits and starts, here and there, a kind word, a simple glance, a hug, a flower. Then it will flood China all at once, and the next day will break a beautiful dawn. Love is the only thing that can heal their hearts. No empire can stand in the way of love any more than it can stand in the way of history. If they embrace love, God will heal them.
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