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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Read!
7:15 PM

Finished: (69th in 2011, 439th in total since 2005)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea / 我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活
Barbara Demick (Author) / Publisher: Spiegel & Grau; Stated First Edition edition (December 29, 2009)

Yes, it is a brick, I need 5 days for it, but this is the best book I read so far. I truly hope the condition in NK is not as bad as described.

The title "Nothing to Envy" is not from NK citizen, but from the people who had read it. It is very glad that HK is so peaceful and prosper, but Nothing to Envy could remind you how everyone is taking it for granted now. Life could actually be very 1984 even in 2011!

I do not hate communism, it is the (personal) cult that I against.

I always wish to have a chance to visit NK, but going there become too heavy for me. Could I survive if it happens that I was left there? I do not want to be the one who could recite Tolstoy, but do not have even US$0.001 to buy corn (not porn!). Also, visiting a potemkin village is just a joke.

Heard from older generation, the situation is similar in China back in 60s, can't imagine how someone you know who could witness, endure and survive this all, even without any spiritual consolation. They must have a strong meaning of life.

Comments:

looking at places that poor, sucker then us remind us how good we are. However, there is no point to feel happy or glad we lived in a better place -- coz there is a even better place. imagine a place, that, people over there look at HK is like HK look at NK. The logic is, NK's people don't know hoe good the world can be, but they always can compare some places worse. Can they be happy? Should they feel good?? my point is, HK sucks!!! and the "look at NK and see how good HK is and should satisfy" is a truly brainwash.

another thing is, when looking at some disable people and we "should" glad that we have a "complete" body. That is so naive. the difficulties which faced by those disable people is obvious. However, a normal people also struggling from many things those disable people never have to face. that is , everyone has its own difficulties and we should not be happy that we don't have "others difficulties".

so, the idea "look! there is someone poor then us! lets feel glad!" is really simple, since it give us a chance to "escape" from the problem we have, that makes mankind be a "fallen angel" rather then, and it should be the "rising ape".
posted by Blogger Unknown @ Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 1:05:00 PM GMT+8
a last example is, look! there is an ape, compare to us, it is so poor. we should feel glad to be a human! then God feel glad it is god, when look at human. Oh, is it why he created human.
posted by Blogger Unknown @ Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 1:24:00 PM GMT+8

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