
the reason for the radio silence over the past couple of days is quite a frustrating one frankly. as of tuesday night, around 7.43 pm CCT, facebook no longer works.
i usually have a substantially high level of tolerance for all things ludicrous. in secondary school, a bloke who sat next to me shat himself on his pants. i kid you not. and i merely laughed it off. once on a 16 hour flight to chicago, the girl to my right vomited continuously from the instant the aircraft took off till the moment it landed. and i'm not exaggerating. i might have thrown up a little in my mouth, but that's about it. you get my point.
i must profess that i have no qualms with sensible government censorship. we all need something to tickle our funny bone, and if a little censorship makes the government feel all warm and fuzzy inside, i'm all for it. after all, every dictatorship needs a certain amount of paranoia to justify themselves as a totalitarian regime, no?
just the other day, i was reading a certain online synopsis of the transformers movie that had just come out, and i realized that the government had inevitably taken out an entire hunk of potentially mind-blowing action. and as you could imagine, i was furious. then i realized why they did it: it involved an expose and had that scene remained, millions of little children would have grown up with the warped idea that every specimen of the female species possesses the perfect pair of uh... you know what i mean. and 20 years from now, the unfathomable disappointment on such a massive scale might just spark off a plundering birth rate that would be unprecedented. there, the government: 1, hollywood pervs: not.
okay i made that up. but that's besides the point. first there was no youtube, no blogger. i can live without youtube for a couple of months and there's always other ways to blog, like for example email. and then over the last week twitter stopped working. and i was puzzled. maybe it was a network glitch, because i haven't exactly had the best experiences with my internet provider. then on tuesday, it was facebook. that was the moment i realized how naive i had been.
yes, the chairman himself or the "president" as we now call him has never done anything to annoy me. in fact, so far as i can tell, he has never done anything at all. and yes, we no longer use "long live chairman mao" as our official greetings, yet this is still the same regime it was 20 years ago. nothing has changed.
who are the busybodies who say that we can’t upload ugly mugshots of ourselves for our imaginary friends to see or twitt to the world every time we take a dump? the nitwits who say that we should, i quote, "achieve the four modernizations"? where do we begin? how about you stop meddling with our internet?
a question. it’s addressed to all the self righteous, politically correct, back room, conservatives who advise the government: “i am chinese. why is that a good thing?” i bet they don’t have an answer. and until they can come up with one, chances are we’ll never win at anything other than table tennis again.
call me unpatriotic if you like, and don't blame me if i have no sympathy for the nincompoops running this country. a little truth wouldn't have hurt.
now excuse me while i'm off to conquer the sofa.
+listening to: just give me some truth by eddie vedder
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