| Sundae |
08-18-2008 06:07 AM |
A bit more from The Silent Witness:
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Letter from Beijing
Project 119
The crowds are cheering, the lights are flashing all across Beijing; the Chinese people are following the Games as the rebirth of the Nation, in line with what the Regime hoped and meticulously planned for the past 10 years. Even the applause and the cheering are controlled, directed by a “crowd leader” not quite like the festive American version, cheerleader , but a well-rehearsed patriotic mass wave being transmitted in the airwaves, through radio, TV and the net to every region, and individual in China. Winners are immediately paraded on national TV with the political Leaders.The general population have little idea which nations the athletes are from, and for that matter not much interest or understanding of sports, except for ping pong and badminton. Yet they all cheer ; China is number one, number one - Fight for the Motherland.
From a distance, watching this heavily handed State sponsored spectacle, it feels very little just like
a sport event but a far greater national endeavour. Officially, this is known as Project 119, a State controlled and financed project to win medals in Beijing 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/sp...hp&oref=slogin ( NYT ) . A monumental socio-political, economical, and cultural national effort, which easily could be construed as a social mass engineering scheme on levels unseen by human kind. One far reaching, long term process of alienation, exploitation, and manipulation of the people that I suspect will make Hayek, Marx and Orwell shiver in their graves. No doubt, this will be the subject matter of research in mass control and social engineering for many years to come; a colossal paradigm as means to perpetuate a political farce to the masses. As Hayek wrote, “Social engineering is the road to serfdom and tyranny”. Sadly, these two dire concepts are already very well established in the New China.
This late designed transfiguration of China, by the followers of Deng, supported by the transnationals and the West has created an Orwellian society of extremes. Yesterday, papers published that winners of gold medals, will receive each more then 3 000 000 rimimbi per medal,or
£ 220 000 pounds sterling, from the Regime. The equivalent to what a worker would earn during 355 years. One athlete who won three gold medals will make in one day what a worker would in 1000 years. Not a bad day’s work, in a so-called communist nation.
The worrying question is; how many more mass social engineering projects are underway? For what purpose and more importantly who is in control ? in a nation with one fifth of the world’s population. The answer to this question we may never know, but one thing is certain, Beijing 2008 is not about the Olympic Spirit or sportsmanship, translated in the words of Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympic movement in 1894, explaining that the joy of effort to compete is more important than the thrill of victory.
The cheering, cameras and flashes will continue for another week. Yet we must remember that; the same bright light that shines and flashes across the steel and glass structures also serves to blind our vision and understanding of a far greater reality. Once the Games are over, what will be left for the common people excluded from the gold and celebrations? In many ways, they are indeed the ultimate losers in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the so called, Project 119.
Silent Witness
August 17, 2008
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