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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Capitalist = devil in disguise of a god?

Watching Michael Moore's movie is more than just watching a movie, it is seeing through the anger and at the same time sincerity of a person i barely know.

Being born in a conservative Chinese family means money is the supreme value. It s the religion! It s the communal value! It is almost the presupposed norm. Questioning it is similar to a pagan questioning Christianity through science. It is a heresy. It is a sin. And a sin, as they promised or as prophesied, is punished severely.

Through this valley of shadow, I rebelled. I am frustrated, and hurt badly. I sense that something is wrong with it, but my whole limbs are cuffed. My community told me that money is almost the god. It is almost as I am being taught (or indoctrinated) that money is the god I must worship. Worshiping a god means I must obey non-conditionally to the end-purpose of being rich. Being rich means having the ability to devour fancy meals in fancy restaurants, to provide good (most of time excessive) prosperity to family members, to elevate social status and being respected, to become a successful individual, to be a well-rounded individual, to be the purpose of existing! and to stay in a comfort zone.

And since life is such a huge struggle, one must dare to sacrifice the others for him/herself. In a practical sense, it means employ people from the lowest caste (economic or social sense) and exploit them. Give them the hope that if you work really hard for me, you can be rich one days. It means (legally) steal from them by indirectly (provision of false hope) luring them to generate 100 for us and give them back 4 for their "salaries". It also means give them bigger hope but smaller reality for margin of self-improvement. We tell them that they can develop and improve themselves if they work/study hard. But we make sure their margin of development stays down, down there in such a way that they will never be anywhere around us to take over our business or profession. That s the way fucked up capitalists work!

That s the way big fat banks, lawfirms, financial consultants, corporations work! They enslave us under the false hope of prosperity.

Seriously, I know almost all the arguments for capitalists, efficiency, the fundamental essence of freedom, creativity, innovation, rights.. Blablabla. The idea is goddess, but severely abused in practice.

In a similar fashion, the idea and concept of most religions is good, but the goddess idea is severely abused and exploited by those in power for their pure evil greed!

I still retain a scintilla of hope for capitalism ideal. I believe there are some good left despite all the hemorrhage it suffers. But what I cannot stand is the capitalists! It s like an evil disguising itself in the form of a child. Using complete innocence for the most evil deed. It s like the most trusted father raping his own daughter. It s like the police who ought to "serve and protect" enslaving and torturing citizens.

Humans are the worst form of animals we may have ever witnessed. When someone does something immoral/socially deviant, we immediately associate him/her as an animal, with no conscience and barbaric.

You know what is worse than that animal? A fully functioning conscientious human performing more elaborate barbaric evil deeds!

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