Saturday, November 11, 2006

common sense thoughts that i never wrote down







For those of you who have heard We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel..i wonder what he was thinking when he wrote it. but hey hey..heres one brought to you by hossan leong..and we certainly know what hes thinking about. heh i know im quite slow in viewing it..but for all you who are equally slow...heres a good laugh. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myqyKZsknmw

It is interesting kind of humor a centrally managed state gives rise to, considering that such a sentiment has become a big laughing point in local performances. what then caught my attention was how such a surpressive personality echoes heavily with the clamping down on blogs, protest venues, election periods, yet seem completely absent from the arts scene.

i mean thats a great thing, but theres got to be an explanation for it. the first time i attended a performance and heard these political jokes i had a good time but was rather surprised. it seemed that the lack of allowance that we subject ourselves to in the working/education world was inconsistent with that in the theatre. I guess its because you've got to give a certain degree of allowance in the unimportant areas while clamping down in more important areas which grant you a greater depth of control.Also, if we we'rent allowed to make political jokes in the arts scene people would just shrivel up and die from a severe severe inability to express. small avenues aid in the veil of acceptance. perhaps even let the system be laughed at to keep your slightly apathetic upper stratum audience satisfied. This group knows the surpression exists, but is probably self reliant and successful enough to not care. the collective identity of making money also keeps them satisfied and detached from political affairs, so as long as those needs are met, noone complains loud enough.

Central command can then be worked out efficiently, bringing the state to prosperity and stability.i dont think those seemingly positive effects can be denied...and after all, that is the ultimately vision. nice strategy eh..but whats lost in exchange? a people's culture. we have a top down directive, but we have no culture belonging to the citizen. the liberty to speak ones mind, the attitude of the bold outspoken creative, unconventional citizen is never created. and so top down initiatives are what our culture shall be.

the question then is, is this exchange a worth while one? the philosophy of progression and prosperity through central command versus the freedom of people's beings through the pluralistic liberalism of state control. the bargain, the trade off. this is probably the core difference in ideology, which manifests itself in complaints of why our government disallows so many practices. so the trade off, is it worth while?

central command may not be that bad...
after all, i have believed in being a bolshevik since sec 3....and based on personal ideology....i honestly found lenin's politburo exciting...but to have someone else do it on u...now thats different...but i guess now..its still more than livable.



1 Comments:

At 6:06 AM , Blogger gneh-snah said...

hihi

thanks xin,why are u strangely called nose on a stick? ^ ^

 

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