On bags

Do you know how many people in this world has a colonial hung up? Many. It is only 50 years ago that the word "colonial" was a dirty word. Hongkong was only handed back to China less than 20 years ago and Macau even more recently.

What are you going to do about it? Make everyone in this world learn martial arts and be like Bruce Lee and Ip Man. Just for your information, Bruce Lee studied philosophy in Washington. Don't try to do something that you are not capable of changing. Even if you try to prove the superiority of something, history will always come back and haunt you. Don't even try to deny it, at least you wasn't there in the first place, hence it is not your fault that your grandfathers and great-grandfathers were not so enlightened.

I studied sociology and history and I can tell you that history will repeat itself almost unfailingly. if you attempt to deny the existence or even cowered to it, you are simply being no different from your grandfather who even attempt to concoct the idea of "guns and swords cannot penetrate the body" like the boxer rebellion, just by wearing yellow. It is utter waste of human life.

I can safely tell you that I don't give a damn whether you come from Mars or come from the heaven: even Deng Xiaoping said: " he doesn't care whether you black or white cat, and if you can catch rats, you are a good cat."

Quite frankly, I really don't give a flying damn about whether there are more of us, or they are more intelligent than you or more good looking or taller or more technically gifted than you- if the person is, good for me, I can learn from him. I don't need to prove that I am a black cat just because I am a lousy cat- I think it is tautological. It is running in circles- like a cat chasing after his own tail.

If Deng Xiaoping can say that, I don't see why any proper leader in this modern world cannot embrace that- he haven't even heard of the Internet yet. No one slows down for the sake of slowing down, there must be a reason for everything.

I don't even believe in that anyone is better than anyone by any proper measure. I don't even believe that I am better than anyone for any measure. I might be better in some, somehow I would be worse in others, and the point is not to prove that I am better in those that I am not, but rather find out the reason for it. There is nothing I should be proving- I don't even owe anyone any explanation.

But of course, this colonial hung up is so prevalent that I am not going to pretend that people don't believe it. I think it would be foolish. But well, since people do not believe in themselves for the sake of their eye colour, there is nothing I can do about it, other than allowing them to be so.

You see certain things are self-reinforcing- when people tell you often enough, you tend to believe your own superiority however untrue it can be. You might not be that person, you might be the other person. This means that it is self-biased- and that you begin to believe you are actually better than what you really are. This means it is the same, I just don't need to concur with the same self-reinforcing belief that's all. This means that if other's can believe what they want to believe it is their business, but it is not problem to agree with them- I just need to show sufficient social decency that's all, like how I would do to anyone, with or without prejudice.

And it is just my prerogative to do the same how I would treat anyone should I be face with same situation. The onus is on themselves to correct their own self-perception and also on other's whom have an unhealthy self-reinforcing belief. I am not a priest and neither am I Martin Luther King. I don't need to prove my moral superiority, I just need to know that what Deng Xiaoping said: it doesn't matter where you come from, just so long as you are useful.

Hence whatever that people want to over-compensate for myself, I really don't see a need to. I just treat it like they have bought an expensive bag that they don't need- it's their choice. If I really need an expensive bag, I would get it when I can afford it. Meanwhile, I just stick with my haversack that's all.