the dacaying of China

Almost every month some grieving news would be highlighted on newspapers and Internet forums. Death toll caused by weak security measures in some mines, poisonous foods are common cases. Sometimes I have became dumb about the bleak society of China. I think many Chinese have the same idea as me. We have developed a cynical distrust of it. In name of people, government have done a lot of things against people. It's a society lack of trust and basic social morals. Government try to hide truth which may aggravate the fury of the people. Government destroy the basic rights of living of people at its will. Companies and businessmen try hard to make money by as many means as they can even some of them are harmful or deadly to people. Many doctors, who are always called the white angels, stoop to receive bribery, become oblivious of diseases and pains of people, just act with disregard of human life. It's a decayed society.

Every Chinese may ask a question: why are we here? I think the basic reasoning is that it is too hard to live in China. People had gone through several couples of years of poverty after the foundation of China. Thereafter, as soon as one had a chance to make money, they will make the best of it. They became into the most selfish economic animals. Although traditional family ties are still strong, conventional ethics and morals are shattered. In the end, the convention are given up but new belief had not been found. It seems that money becomes the only idol of most Chinese after 20 years of economic reforms. Another reason is that the fears brought about by those revolutionary movements and political prosecutions are still lingering in many people's minds. Fears give rise to distrust. People are always alert against each other.

Then another question is, what can we do to stop it? For one thing, we should reexamine our traditional culture. We can't totally abandon it without any reason. Instead, we can try to blend the merits of tradition culture with western ideas. Only fusion can rebuild the values of Chinese people. Neoconfucianism is such an effort. For another, government should take responsibility of making a just evaluation for any prosecuted in movements. However, based on popular distrust against government, we can't expect too much from it. The hope lies in each people and their children, lies in the awareness of the sad situation and the will to fight against it. Even most of us are brainwashed by the education system imposed on us by the government, I think most of us will realize the situation in the end.

Sometimes I begin to think that, the government is naturally antihuman. Maybe in the beginning when the government is set up, it represent most of the people. But afterward, it changes to only represent some special interest groups. According to a poll, even in the US, only 17% of voters say the federal government represent the will of American people，and 67% of them believe that federal government had became a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interest. Those advocates of the democracy of the US should be aware of this fact. It is not reasonable to oppose one system of government and support another. It is not kind of either-yes-or-no logic. I think there is no perfect government. However, people should struggle to make it better as possible.

dystopia books

Recently I read something about politics, including those famous but deported poets and writers in Russia, documentaries about demonstrations in China, and also some films of dystopia.

Many renowned poets and writers were deported in Soviet Union. They are considered as dissenters at the time of Soviet Union. Deport of dissent artists is an unique feature in the history of arts of Russia. Most of their writing are fierce critics of autocracy of Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn, the conscience of the Russian people, is one of them in the 20th century. The Gulag Archipelago is a elaborate writing about labor camp in Soviet Union. I have to say, if I have time to read this great novel, I can debunk the mystery of its equivalents in China. I think this kind of device is very common in eastern autocratic countries. Actually, I know some Chinese books are forbidden in mainland. I can't say these books are all the truth, but they definitely include some kind of facts which government don't want citizens to know.

What's the most ironical thing is that, as a persistent defender of democracy and human rights, the United States became notorious for its oversea prison and all kinds of atrocity against so-called terrorist whom they alleged. A documentary "The Road to Guantanamo" revealed the illegal detention and brutal mistreatment imposed on three British muslin who was going to Afghanistan to provide humanistic help for refugees. It is obvious that those claimed themselves human rights defenders adopted double standard on behalf of themselves. Maybe their thinking is: all people are equal, but we are more equal than others. I don't mean to justify similar issues in China by scorning other countries. All those kind of issues are equally unreasonable and should be abolished.

I recommend some books which are often called political fables to everyone who want to understand politics in depth.

I gave video links of the three books here:
1. Fahrenheit 451
2. 1984
3. Animal farm