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Subject: Some thoughts inspired by Ng's article (5)

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Mujahida

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Date Posted: 13:44:47 09/24/04 Fri

On one side, wealthy family's children board on the plane to learn kicking football in England, learn speaking Mandarin in Beijing, poor family's children cannot even afford a decent desks and have to do their homework on paper box. Birth rate has been dropped to new low in Hong Kong. Not because Hong Kong Daddies have not been able to receive paid leave for assisting mommies' child-birth issues but it's more because couples who have been struggling for three meals dare not to make children because they feel ashamed to have nothing to provide.
"Living in a consumer society does not necessarily make people educated. It is amazing, sometimes, how superficial and simplistic their knowledge can be. Many people in the world not only lack freedom of thought but also the capacity to think, because it has been destroyed. Billion of human beings, including a large percentage of those living in developed societies, are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year, a trillion dollars is spent on advertising. This rain pours on the masses that are deprived of the necessary elements of judgment to formulate opinions. This has never happened before in the history of humanity. Jose Marti said, ?To be educated in order to be free.?We would have to add a dictum: Freedom is impossible without culture. < War, Racism and Economic Justice >- by Fidel Castro-
When the mainstream culture is money-oriented: "hating those who are rich and disgusting those who are poor", I see no room for "people-oriented" politics no matter how many government officers will be "pulled down the horses" in a "people-eating-people, dogs-eating-dogs" society.

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