civilisationReview

  IN a cockleshell, i do not like Chinese New Year.  I wish i could, but i can't. It is predicated on sociopolitical apathy and social alienation that leads to people having little else to value other than money and making it, and thus learning to see all as an opportunity, not a sentient part of humanity. It arose out of top-down oppression becoming the norm back in 220 b.c. with total subjugation of the population by the psychotic Qin Shih Huang Ti (Qin dynasty).  All books of alternative thought were burnt and their scholars were buried alive.  Thereafter, it was impressed upon the chinese population that all opposition to government was evil due to the consequences rained down on them from the top being the epitome of evil.  One emperor, for instance, who suspected an official of plotting against him, killed him, his family, his relatives, all who knew them, etc, etc, with the death toll amounting to more than a 100,000.  That is how the Chinese were ba...

The reason why i do not like the 'chinese new year'. The cny is more of a 'coping and apathy-reinforcing mechanism' that enables the people to put up with, and perpetuate, the oppressive circumstances that gave birth to it. P utting it simply, when there is enough top-down oppression that has been left unquestioned - as is the case in chinese history for more than 2000 years - a culture results that enables one to survive within it. It defines the idea of 'success', plots the trajectory of a people's aspirations as an individual and collective; defines the source of motivation; determines how people view and treat one another; determines the degree to which difference is discriminated against; and basically forms the paradigm and prism through which reality is made sense of. Here is a simple equation illustrating this - top-down exploitative and oppressive circumstances > increases financial pressures and reduces thought > increases and entrenches mutu...