LEVELING THE PLAYING
FIELD IN THE WAR OF WORDS
After the last free-for-all slaughter that we civilly called
World
War II, each side has engaged in telling his story and insists that's
the history. The winners try to glorifying their noble deeds of
liberation, thus permitting them to
maneuver comfortably preying on the hatred and suspicion of the
losers. All the losers could do is to want to remember, but
realize they have to forgive and forget. As the West only sticks
to the what and how, while the East searches for the why and why me,
those nations
devastated
by the war always got the short
end of the stick. Many an opportunists from these war-torn
nations have
even
managed to take ass-kissing ego trips at the expenses of the
humiliation of the mass of their voiceless, impoverished fellow
countrymen.
After a half century of recuperation, the world is now again embarking
on a collision course.
Fortunately
in the lull before the storm, a narrow window for war of words has
openned up. Unlike the last lull before the storm, this time we
have learned each other's language and can do lightning fast,
guts-spilling exchanges on the Internet. But can our
minds meet? It would be a futile effort if the
Western winners continue to saturate the mass media with
their our-way-or-no-way propagandas. We need to level the
playing field.
The Westerners first need to understand that they are products of a
survival-of-the-fittiest environment. Words such as democracy, freedom,
God,
law,
human rights, and equality have been used in such predatory societies
to
keep the oppressed mass, here and abroad, in their
places. We Easterners
really dont
care how many trillions have been invested in their image
building. The
fact is they are still offensive to the ears and a threat to our
peaceful existence. They disrupt our
quiet appreciation of the harmonious atmosphere that we have cultivated
for
thousands of years.
Thus far, charging forward behind the shields of these offensive words,
the West
has
made the flow of propaganda a one way street. In
fact, one normally has the feeling that a Westerner or his stooge has
already brain packed and mouth stuffed with these verbal ammunitions
before launching their prefabricated lectures on the "backward"
Asians. Tempers flare before any sensible exchanges can take
place. The loss is the Westerner's chances to learn
something
that could free him from being a owner of a templated
brain.
Liberalism and conservatism have bounded the Western minds. But
to an Eastern culturalist, they are mumble and jumble. As to the
multi-party political system, they are but circus acts of court jesters
left over from the days of monarches. The scums
of liberalism would have stayed being repulsive until the bullying ways
of conservatism takes over the stage. In reality, a culturalist
would
go to war to root out the liberal scums, except for the overwhelming
conservatives' bullying
ways that forced him into playing terrorist first. Such is the
phenomena of our time. The West's ignorance of its external image
have thrown us all into a never ending whirlpool of
misunderstanding.
Admitted, by now, I might have inflamed a temper or two. But dont
take my words for it. Just look at how some
prominent Western leaders
have been getting away with murders with these words. Coming
to mind right off the bat are the caucasian black rice lady and the
compassionate muslim liberating bushame.
Upon self examination, China has also just about bored the world to
death
with her mystic "Chinese characteristics". Well,
being a late comer to this brain-spinning game of propaganda, what do
you
expect when confronted with the onslaught of the above mentioned,
military-backed Western characteristics.
So, from now on, could
we all just use
words
that we can all understand?
Ok, now the playing field is leveled and I got you on the run, let's
all go back to knock each
others' brains
out.