By MIKOspace
What Hong
Kong Protests Taught Hong Kong, China and The World.
Democracy
is Not Easy.
It is
learnt only through failures and errors. The Lessons are perpetual with endless
emergence of newer Lessons.
After
nearly 5 weeks of “pro”-Democracy sit-downs, disruptions and infringements of
the natural “democratic” rights of other Hong Kongers, the protesting crowd
simply fizzled and dissolved as it depleted itself of non-existent political sustenance,
as well as the folding goodwill shelter of Democracy’s Umbrella.
It became blatantly
clear that in spite of increasing thousands of nightly cheering spectators and
bystanders, the
HK student protestors were UNABLE to establish a connection with the larger HK
Community to develop a critical collective identity for sustainable political action
to obtain the greatest good for the largest number.
In the end, the HK
Students and their political and financial supporters were exposed to be just
another noisy and mischievous rabble that were merely opinionated with deep
prejudices but no convictions; and that while they had energetic determination,
they did not possess any credible political will because they, albeit a tiny
group, had only wanted for themselves instead of incorporating the greater good
that the vast majority of other Hong Kongers may prefer.
Democracy is for the Whole and not just
for a few persons in Society, no matter how vocal and destructive the few may
demonstrate.
The Absence of a Collective Hong Kong Identity
further explained
the failure of HK student protestors to establish a connection through their
protests with the vast majority of other Hong Kongers. They occupied, stood and
sat ALONE on major public roads, property and space, becoming increasingly an
unnecessary nuisance to fellow Hong Kongers who rightfully demanded the
legitimate return of their shared “public space” so rudely expropriated weeks
earlier by the students for purposes which were never articulated in the
language and terms of the public good.
The
Protestors’ insensitivity to the growing economic plight of their fellow Hong
Kongers betrayed the fragile absence of the perequisite social norms of trust
and reciprocity necessary to promote civic co-operation in a Democracy. There were no shared bonds of affiliation and
trust between the Protestors and other members of Hong Kong society.
Hong Kong politics is
NOT about Beijing vs Democracy.
Hong Kongers, have to choose between its future as a prosperous Chinese city vs
being an unstable anti-China bastion.
Kopi Level - Yellow
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