Read this in an taiwanese article today about the recent SARS incident. The situation in taiwan is basically tat ppl dun trust politicians. They are sick about anything political but somehow, everything in taiwan tat we see abt the govt is politicalised. So, in the recent SARS incident, medical experts were called in to explain to the ppl wat exactly is going on. The ppl are sick of govt officials trying to cover up their ass and lie to them. So these experts from the medical fields were pulled in to explain. And the ppl liked them!! they trust those experts because they are not political. However, these experts were soon crucified in public for one reasons or another. WHY? Oso for the fact tat they are not political. They can't survive coz they do not noe how to tackle the political side of the issue and they became the scapegoats of politicians when the country ran into problems in combating SARS. Very sad...
We, as the common average ppl, think politicans are crooks. They do things to serve their political benefits. They spend millions of dollars to get into their seat so tat they can earn back billions. Well, those politicians ain't helping themselves with scandals after scandals exploding out in the news and getting associated with all those. So we grew to hate politicans and think of them as evils. Everything tat has got to do with politics is bad, they are evil. And somehow we came to believe that everything NON-POLITICAL is good. They are just, they are fair, they are good and did i mention tat they are NON POLITICAL? ya get the idea? and do you see the major flaw/problem here?
I believe in necessary evils. There are things tat the public need to know and they dun need to noe. There are two ways of looking at things as always. Ok... let's say something major screwed up (like there is a major chemical leak in a govt owned factory)and the govt covered it up. So wat is the public gonna look at it when they found out abt it later after it was cleaned up? Was it to save the ass of a couple of officials or was it an attempt to keep everything under control so tat the govt can proceed with the clean up without those media frenzy and social instability? Well, we can always say it would depend on how the govt actually tackled the situation and how they are able to strike tat "balance". But the truth is, whichever way you do it, some expert will go on some talkshow and give their opinion on it and slap the govt left and right, no matter how the govt handle the situation. NO MATTER HOW YOU DO IT, YA CAN'T PLEASE ANYONE!!! why? coz the ppl basically think the govt is screw up! with such kind of pre-assumption, no matter wat the govt did, the public is gonna scrutinise and find fault with ya!!! isn't it ridiculous?
Still, it is just the way ppl work!! you have your opinion about something/someone (how ya come to tat conclusion is not important... the point is tat you have a conclusion and i am SURE you looked at it from all perspective and you CANNOT be wrong...) and no matter wat happened, you go around finding reasons to reinforce that belief of yours. Alrite the govt is a dick, so when they give pension to old age folks near election time, they are bribing ppl (Neva mind the fact that it took a hell long of a time to pass tat budget n stuff). Alrite that guy is antisocial, so when he sit there alone and with tat long face, he is just doing this antisocial stuff coz he think he is too good for others (Neva mind the fact tat he maybe having a bad stomach or he doesn't noe ANYONE?!) Alrite tat girl is a biarch, so when she smiles at you, she is flirting and trying to be a slut (nvm the fact tat she is trying to be nice or tat you are a GIRL...)
get wat i mean? this kind of thinking is really horrible. When it is small scale, you hurt someone's feeling or you just go on your life as an ignorant dick with your silly beliefs. but if it some large scale thing, you topple countries and a goodman's life. Sad isn't it? Everyone of us is prone to such ignorance and definitely have those crazy beliefs with us. We laugh at others ignorance and neva notice how ignorant we ourselves are. How shameful is tat? nonon... being ignorant is not shameful. the fact tat WE are laughing at other ppl's ignorance while WE ourselves are ignorant in our own way is VERY VERY shameful and stupid.
So this reminds me of yet another story. A very famous ad in taiwan for a shaver company. Basically it was a conversation between two army officials in the shower room. a rookie officer was bitching to a more senior advisor who was shaving his beard about how he will kick the ass of his out of line recruits n shave them clean n stuff like tat. The senior guy, after shaving, looked at the junior officer and say "Remember, make sure you are shaved clean before you go shave others." Get it?!?!
posted by David at 7/09/2003 02:16:00 AM