Please Don't Bury Me John Prine

China is always in the Negative News ever since Trump destroyed the trade agreements etc. There was never anything much about the Uighurs or the Hong Kongers etc, or Chinese control of the Whole Universe until Trump had problems because he couldn't fuck them up...because he isnt as smart as they are. Ever since he's had this problem, the Western media and some western Governments...the USA, the UK, and Tiny Australia, have been beating the shit out of China, and China has been very respectful in its ongoing reaffirmation of itself, its identity and its system. We immediately stopped beating up North Korea, and Saudi Arabia. I expect as soon as the USA and China find a new trade deal, and Trump's re-election campaign gets serious, then the negative news will instantly stop. That's the way that the world goes round.

A Hong Kong University Student who destroys a train station must come to the realisation that they won't be able to catch a train to Uni. The station won't be fixed up for quite some time. There will be no money for that. This is not politics. This is consequence.

Bonkers in Hongkers:Hopefully the run of 'self harm' protest activities in Hong Kong will settle down now. The Chinese government certainly won't interfere in problems that are the making of Hong Kong folk. That's what living in an autonomous province of China is really all about. Expecting the world to save you from having a good life is an odd and self-destructive wish indeed. The human condition is like this sometimes.

HONKERS:I guess my level of understanding of the situation in Hong Kong is that a lot, but not most people there, especially the young, are going through what we would call the phenomenon of "Self Harm" perhaps because of bizarre goal driven parenting and a sense of lack of personal esteem, and a feeling of unworthiness of the self. That would explain the protests pretty well. In the long term, and it will be very long term, the government should really invest more in mental health services and in the well being of its young folk facing the same changes young folk everywhere face these days. Its getting a bit "Lord of the Flies" there just now.

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