Thursday, October 29, 2009

Adults in China Anyone?

I have been thinking whether there are actually any adult in China in the government's eyes these days.

The government had been censoring the internet, movies, TV shows, books and everything it could get its hand on in the name of providing 'a better environment for the growth of our youths'. How about the adults? They are supposed to have the responsibility for the adult rated materials and the like yet they are not provided access to those materials. No erotic magazines, no porn sites, does that really mean China is a paradise free of any sort of indecency? Quite the opposite. In some parts of China thrives one of the world's most prosperous prostitution industry.

People could still get access to porn somehow if they really wanted to, not all the porn sites are blocked and there would be new ones every day that was yet to be identified, P2P networks could still be used, there are plenty of street vendors out there that sell pirated DVDs.

What is the censoring targeting then? The second largest category of censored websites and other publications is so-called the 'intentions to overthrow the government' or 'splittest voice' etc., i.e. different political views from the government i.i.e. the call for democracy.

It might be laughable to raise this questione 'is there any adults in China?', however, with that 'do as you're told' government having so many followers in reality and on the internet even from outside of China (see comments/discussion of youtube and wikipedia on some controversial pages, which are currently blocked by the Chinese government, there are still plenty of pro-Communist Party voices), it is doubtful that whether people do have their own thoughts at all besides the ones they were told by the government. All they ever know besides the education they had been through is scheming against each other among the closest work fellows and families for their own benefit, the non-existence of everything besides money, corruption and bribery. Total lost of beliefs, total lost of justice, total lost of basic human rights, total lost of morals, total lost of voice of people and dysfunction of media, frenzy destruction of the environment and ecology, lack of sense of security as a result of insufficient medical, housing, employment and retirement assurance, continual decrease of quality of life of people despite booming economics... The problems of China is countless and incurable.

What did I see from the March of the 60th anniversary of governing of the Communist Party? Absolute regularity of steps, absolute emptiness of streets of Beijing, war-time security level of the city.

The beauty of Fascism.

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