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Perspective on issues in Asia. Mostly this is to write about China. I do not know what to write yet. The government is so insecure and hypocritical that they would be funny if they were not so cruel. More to come. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
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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Friday, April 9, 2010
2:30 PM
This is not a uniquely American trait. We face major threats here at home from traitors who want to seize power, but this groundswell of democracy in Asia should remind them that the people can regain control of their government at any time. In the light of the Word, no number of guns can keep the people down.
In Thailand, the government will not allow free speech and independent media, saying that they will not allow the independent station to broadcast "until it agrees to tell the truth." But no small group of people in power can possibly know the full extent of "the truth." It is impossible. The people of Thailand know this, and they won't be denied.
However, there is a danger in Thailand, especially considering the adoption of the color red by the protest movement. Let us hope they also know that communist China is not everything it pretends to be, that its government does not allow dissent any more than the corporate media moguls running Thailand, and is not any more a government of free people than the fascists on the other "side" of the false dilemma of authoritarian politics.
In Kyrgyzstan, the news couldn't be better. The people spoke, and threw out a corrupt group of a small number of people who raided the government until it went broke.
The U.S. Congress should take these lessons to heart. If U.S.A. goes broke, everything good thing our country has ever done will be in jeopardy. The people may revolt, but the fascists will be in position to manipulate their anger as they are doing in the Tea Party, tricking people into a cause against their own best interests.
How does this differ from Honduras? Checks and balances form a stable government. In the case of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya was a single person looking to consolidate power for himself, with a group of vocal protestors who were nonetheless still a minority - very much like the Tea Party. The Honduran Congress, when they impeached Mr. Zelaya, was the body of more distributed democratic power, and therefore they won. The Honduran people were not forgotten; they simply did not all agree that Zelaya's personal power was worth the risk to their ongoing safety and prosperity. They are still very able to control their own Congress through participation and new elections. When they all agree and realize their own power, everything will change for the better all at once, as it did just now for the people of Kyrgyzstan.
However, handing that power to one person or a small number of people will always fail, just as it did for Zelaya, just as it did for Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Kyrgyzstan, just as it appears to be failing for Abhisit Vejjajiva in Thailand, whose party lost the 2007 elections yet remains in power.
In Thailand, let's pray that most people agree, shedding blood to maintain the personal power of a few people in opposition to the will of the people is not worth it. The only way forward - for all of Asia - is freedom and democracy.
democratic revolution in Kyrgyzstan and Thailand
This is an exciting time - intelligent people begin to realize they can work together to figure out the best ways to govern their own countries. People are starting to see that mass participation in civil society does not mean chaos because it interrupts control of power, but just the opposite - by involving everyone fairly, any nation can prosper in freedom.This is not a uniquely American trait. We face major threats here at home from traitors who want to seize power, but this groundswell of democracy in Asia should remind them that the people can regain control of their government at any time. In the light of the Word, no number of guns can keep the people down.
In Thailand, the government will not allow free speech and independent media, saying that they will not allow the independent station to broadcast "until it agrees to tell the truth." But no small group of people in power can possibly know the full extent of "the truth." It is impossible. The people of Thailand know this, and they won't be denied.
However, there is a danger in Thailand, especially considering the adoption of the color red by the protest movement. Let us hope they also know that communist China is not everything it pretends to be, that its government does not allow dissent any more than the corporate media moguls running Thailand, and is not any more a government of free people than the fascists on the other "side" of the false dilemma of authoritarian politics.
In Kyrgyzstan, the news couldn't be better. The people spoke, and threw out a corrupt group of a small number of people who raided the government until it went broke.
The U.S. Congress should take these lessons to heart. If U.S.A. goes broke, everything good thing our country has ever done will be in jeopardy. The people may revolt, but the fascists will be in position to manipulate their anger as they are doing in the Tea Party, tricking people into a cause against their own best interests.
How does this differ from Honduras? Checks and balances form a stable government. In the case of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya was a single person looking to consolidate power for himself, with a group of vocal protestors who were nonetheless still a minority - very much like the Tea Party. The Honduran Congress, when they impeached Mr. Zelaya, was the body of more distributed democratic power, and therefore they won. The Honduran people were not forgotten; they simply did not all agree that Zelaya's personal power was worth the risk to their ongoing safety and prosperity. They are still very able to control their own Congress through participation and new elections. When they all agree and realize their own power, everything will change for the better all at once, as it did just now for the people of Kyrgyzstan.
However, handing that power to one person or a small number of people will always fail, just as it did for Zelaya, just as it did for Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Kyrgyzstan, just as it appears to be failing for Abhisit Vejjajiva in Thailand, whose party lost the 2007 elections yet remains in power.
In Thailand, let's pray that most people agree, shedding blood to maintain the personal power of a few people in opposition to the will of the people is not worth it. The only way forward - for all of Asia - is freedom and democracy.
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