The value of human life in China (3 Viewers)
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China has 1.2 billion people. That's more people than Moratti's got anal warts. And when you have 1.2 billion people, you've got a million of everything -- just like the human race is, just as we are individually. There's good, there's bad. There's caring and there's careless. There's evil and there's clueless.
Not that this makes this video any less tragic, but that this is a huge phenomenon is almost a distinctly Chinese phenomenon. It fits the current narrative for a country going through massive economic and social changes. When America has a YouTube phenomenon, it's a cat at a keyboard or someone blowing Coke and Mentos out of his rectum. In China, all the viral internet phenomena seem to be around this theme.
Let's not go crazy here. I've lost count at the number of times American media coverage fawns over some missing 6-year-old blonde white girl tragedy and yet beaten, molested, and tortured black girls of the same age are virtually anonymous. We've got no reason to throw stones in glass houses.
Not that this makes this video any less tragic, but that this is a huge phenomenon is almost a distinctly Chinese phenomenon. It fits the current narrative for a country going through massive economic and social changes. When America has a YouTube phenomenon, it's a cat at a keyboard or someone blowing Coke and Mentos out of his rectum. In China, all the viral internet phenomena seem to be around this theme.
Let's not go crazy here. I've lost count at the number of times American media coverage fawns over some missing 6-year-old blonde white girl tragedy and yet beaten, molested, and tortured black girls of the same age are virtually anonymous. We've got no reason to throw stones in glass houses.
The West has its own problems but I doubt you'd see such an event occur there.
The title was encompassing for shock value, I'll admit
The title was encompassing for shock value, I'll admit
In any case, China stereotypically fits a pattern I've noticed in the West:
1. Insert new technology or cultural phenomenon
2. Let the media hype it up as revolutionary and the greatest thing since the printing press
3. Have a growing grassroots concern about the safety and impact of said new technology or cultural phenomenon
4. Start insinuating ill effects to children -- "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" -- and maybe the old days before it weren't so bad after all
This pattern has happened with everything from video games, to cable/satellite TV, to mobile phones, to Internet use, to social networking, etc. WITHOUT FAIL. Watch it the next time -- you can bet money on how it will play out. Human behavior is very predictable sometimes.
Don't take the bait.
But Kyle does bring up a nice counterpoint to what Ze T posted a page back: a sort of "what do you expect from a godless country" jibe. Except China is far from godless. Maybe at an official state level maybe, but certainly not its people. So that's a red herring argument.
But Kyle does bring up a nice counterpoint to what Ze T posted a page back: a sort of "what do you expect from a godless country" jibe. Except China is far from godless. Maybe at an official state level maybe, but certainly not its people. So that's a red herring argument.
in all honesty its not a matter of it happening in china or not, the thing is its every where now. i saw a video of two thugs ( out laws ) getting revenge on another fellow outlaw in the middle of the street. not just any street but a street in alexandria and apart from the gore that i was witnessing it caught my eye how not a single by passer stopped or called the police or even tried to scream to gather attention!!! the cars were passing by as if there was'nt a murder taking place right in front of there eyes. i dont care if they are outlaws, thiefs, etc etc at the end of the day thats a human life lost with out a worry in the world. so this video does'nt surprise me at all and i refuse to stick it to just china or any religion in particular bec its simply every where with varying degrees.
its actually the same as people not giving any care in the world when kids this age are killed on daily basis in other parts of the world like palestine, iraq, combodia, srilanka, etc etc the list goes on and on or kids like in somalia who are just skin and bones and die bec they dont have the basic needs a human needs. its hypocritical to be honest but i'm afriad we r all guilty of being like the by passers in this video some way or the other.
its actually the same as people not giving any care in the world when kids this age are killed on daily basis in other parts of the world like palestine, iraq, combodia, srilanka, etc etc the list goes on and on or kids like in somalia who are just skin and bones and die bec they dont have the basic needs a human needs. its hypocritical to be honest but i'm afriad we r all guilty of being like the by passers in this video some way or the other.