Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Feeling bad

I don't know if this has anything to do with anything, but I got very sick this time. Head spinning, coughing with enormous pain, every body part aches, waves of chills.

And I cry whenever I see what's happening in the world. Sometimes for China, sometimes for Gaza. Sometimes random things in the world.

Leena said if she had to choose a side, she would choose Isreal.

I can't. I can't choose a side. I'm only on the side of normal people who got killed, homes destroyed, family and lives shattered. I don't care what are their religions or how could they get a government or dictator like that. People are powerless, in most places in the world. Majority of people. And that's on top of people being selfish, shortsighted and stupid. 

But I still feel sad for them. 

Friday, October 20, 2023

Jiabiangou Ditch 夹边沟


所有由制度、习俗、技术、权力……阴谋或阳谋倡导的人类生存,都值得精神个体当仁不让地拒绝。

中心的生活、主流的方式、时髦的日子、因循的境地,都是可怀疑的,可抛弃的。

 -- 余世存评王兵电影《夹边沟》


Translated by Google:

All human existence promoted by institutions, customs, technology, power...conspiracies or plots deserve to be rejected without hesitation by spiritual individuals. 

The life in the center, the mainstream way, the fashionable life, and the conventional situation are all questionable and disposable.

[Commentary on Movie "The Ditch"(Jiabiangou Farm) by Wang Bing]


维基百科:

夾邊溝農場,是曾經位於中華人民共和國甘肅省酒泉市境內巴丹吉林沙漠邊緣的一個農場,距離酒泉市區東北約30公里。最初為1954年建立的一個勞改農場,1957年轉為勞教農場,1961年10月撤銷,原址現為夾邊溝林場。1957年至1960年間,前後有來自甘肅省各地的三千多名「右派」被送到夾邊溝農場勞動教養。由於恰逢大饑荒等原因,大多數在該農場勞教的右派因飢餓而死亡,這一事件又被稱為「夾邊溝事件」或「夾邊溝慘案」。

Google Translate: [Wikipedia] Jiabiangou Farm is a farm once located on the edge of the Badain Jaran Desert in Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China, about 30 kilometers northeast of Jiuquan City. Originally established as a labor camp farm in 1954, it was converted into a labor camp in 1957 and abolished in October 1961. Between 1957 and 1960, more than 3,000 rightists from all over Gansu Province were sent to Jiabiangou Farm for labor re-education. Due to the Great Famine and other reasons, most of the rightists who worked on the farm died of starvation, an event also known as the Jiabiangou Incident or the Jiabiangou Massacre.