Mart-deBlog

If there is one thing that truly identifies China and Hong Kong it is the mass of people. Ask a random person what is the biggest problem of China and likely the answer will be "there too many people." I don't agree. The biggest problem here, is that the mass is a unified determining force of character. Identifying with the mass, thats the people's vice. Here, it is all about involving yourself in the masses, complying to the masses and agreeing with the masses; "they" are all caught up in the masses. Now, there is some socio-historical background as always, and naturally the communistic background and nationalistic present supposedly play their parts. There is just frustratingly little resistance. It is the sole reason why I couldn't live here.
For example, in my courses there is such a lack of voiced opinion, everyone must write essays on the same topics, my floormates dislike me because I don't participate in hall cheering (everyone sings and claps the same tunes) and formal dinners (everyone wears same black suit), there are practically no punkers, alternatives, gothics, or any other groups of adolescent rebels, there is just so little appreciation of differences, of the odd, the expression of anomaly. All these rules and all this willfully dancing to the rules.
Of course, I don't like to have a negative attitude. I think, well its not "their" fault, really it is only because the government smacks down opposing flies, or even swarms of them if necessary. There is literally no room for individuation while living in these recursive apartments. There is no time for individuation, surviving requires the "go with the flow." Differences are relative to culture, I don't recognize their differences. Every country has its swamps. They are just as individual as I am, they just express it less. I try hard, kicking my mind under his negative butt. But in the end, why do they make the mass even bigger, stronger, why do they themselves suppress the alternative, why is popularity equal to participation, why complain about the masses if they create it themselves and fiercefully join in?
For the sake of my own exclusion, I judge the mass.