MeisterEckhart wrote on May 16
th, 2022 at 8:55pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on May 16
th, 2022 at 7:09pm:
So we have two contrasting systems:
One in which government is by consensus arrived at by engagement of the entire population, from the local up to the national level; the other by election achieved with 50% + 1.
Of course free-thinking is possible in either system, but awareness of self-interested individuals working against collective well-being is another matter.
Meanwhile the level of education in either system is critical; Murdoch's control of political thought in the US and Oz is disastrous.
The Chinese people have no choice in who governs them; and to become a CCP official requires bribery and connections.
The Chinese people are free to think (only because private thoughts cannot be scrutinised by the state). The Chinese people are not free to express criticism of the CCP without the risk of arrest, jail, disappearance or murder.
The Chinese people are as capable of self-interest as any other people, with corruption protected from exposure and scrutiny by prohibiting free media reporting.
The last time the Chinese people protested was in 1989 and not just in Tiananmen Square - that was only what the rest of the world witnessed due to foreign media present in Beijing. Brutal oppression occurred simultaneously across cities throughout China; the true murder-toll will never be known.
Danish artist Jens Galschiot (L) works in front of the Danish Parliament Folketinget at Christiansborg Palace Square in Copenhagen, where he erected an 8-meter-high Pillar of Shame in solidarity with the protesters in Hong Kong on January 23, 2020.
“It’s not possible to kill a symbol. You can only make it stronger,” Galschiot said when unveiling a full-sized replica of the Pillar of Shame at the University of Oslo in Norway.
Another, smaller copy already stands in Budapest and a copy in Prague is almost ready to debut. Galschiot said he wants to put one in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C.
A group called Lady Liberty Hong Kong used photos of the original statue to create a 3D model that can be downloaded to create real or virtual replicas.
“The Pillar of Shame is a symbol of the freedom of speech that we had growing up in Hong Kong, and to remove it is a manifestation of what Hong Kong is becoming,” said one of the digital artists who created the 3D model.
A roughly half-sized Pillar of Shame will be unveiled in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei on Saturday at a vigil marking the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. The statue was funded by the New School for Democracy (NSD), an organization founded during the Tiananmen Square anniversary in 2011 to promote democracy in Chinese societies.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2022/06/04/pillar-of-shame-tiananmen-memorial-rises-around-the-world-after-hong-kong-communists-tear-it-down/
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