Kai Chen’s
thoughts on Ferguson’s riot:
Real Answer
Must Come from Right Questions
只有真实的询问才会有真实的答案
By Kai Chen 陈凯 11/25/2014
“Only Truth shall set us free.”
Even though
I am an “anti-communist” crusader, most anti-communists in the Chinese
community both in China and overseas don’t like the questions I ask in my
effort to pursue truth. Most
anti-communists in the Chinese community want only to get rid of the communist
regime/government. They blame everything
on Mao and the regime’s tyranny and corruption.
But my questions make them very uncomfortable:
What causes
the never-ending Chinese despotic dynastic-cycle? Why do the Chinese always yearn for a savior
in their life to solve their pain and suffering? Who have enabled Mao and the communists to
usurp power and maintain the murderous regime for so long? If the Chinese culture is so great, why does
it fail to prevent tyranny from happening and curb evil tyrants every
time? Why is the Chinese society today
still mired in a hopelessness and helplessness?
Does everyone of us bear any responsibility in this gigantic human
tragedy called China?
During Mao’s
Cultural Revolution, I was a teenager who was forced/pushed into the murderous
torrent: For fear of my own safety, I
joined my fellow students in struggling my teachers. One of them died as a result of the torture
and torment. I still have painful recollections
and a deep sense of remorse from time to time: I do and I should bear my responsibility as an
individual, as a fearful being, as a guilty enabler of evil in this gigantic
human tragedy and atrocity – Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Back to
Ferguson’s tragedy and riots: What are
the right questions to ask? Is it
always, as the so-called black “civil rights” leaders forever framed, the issue
of “white establishment oppressing the blacks and making their lives miserable
and hopeless? Why does this question’s
premise (one’s misery and suffering is always because of circumstances, history
and others’ evil intention) go nowhere and become nothing but a nihilistic
pursuit?
Maybe the
true questions should be:
Where does a
family culture of violence and taking advantage of each other come from? Why does a man-eating cycle of victim-villain
last in the black community? Is the
victim also a villain in the Michael Brown case? If the truth is affirmative of this fact,
then what causes MB to have become such a bully/robber that led to his own
irrational confrontation with the police and eventually his own death?
Maybe a more
salient question should be:
Does the
ubiquitous “Political Correctness” prevent American society which is
established on seeking truth with individual liberty from asking these relevant
and essential questions?
In my own
personal experience with tyranny and a culture/a mindset of slaves in China, I
often see a parallel in the cycle of victim-villain in the black community in
America: People, due to their being
brainwashed by their own political elite, their own fear of truth, their
ignorance of their own true history, fail to ask the right questions. Therefore, their misery and plight is nothing
but a never-ending cycle of their own making – a failure of individual
responsibility, in another word, a failure to take control of their own
individual lives and prevent themselves from become the part of man-eating
cycle. In their eagerness to blame
others, to blame circumstances, to blame history, people forget the truth that
they are free beings with freedom of choices:
Today, at this
moment, you can choose not to be controlled by others, no matter how powerful
they are. Today, at this moment, you can
choose to recover the original meaning of life endowed upon you by God. Today, at this moment, you can make the
painful but hopeful choice of moving forward on the path of freedom with a
moral compass from your conscience, with a powerful tool of reason and
logic. Today, at this moment, you can
bid farewell to your own man-eating societal and family culture of despair and
start a new life of individual with integrity and responsibility. Today, at this moment, you can be just like
me – a person born into despotic tyranny, raised by communist brainwashing
propaganda and the paralyzing Chinese nihilistic family culture of slavery -
make your own choice to break the shackle in your mind/soul, to shout on top of
your lungs:
I am a free
being! I can’t take this nonsense anymore!
If I can be free, can have dignity, can find true happiness,
you can as well.
Link to
"My Way - Journey toward Freedom":
http://www.interbasket.net/forums/showthread.php?13004-Chen-Kai-From-basketball-star-to-staunch-anti-CCP-activist
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