Yunfei Ran
( edited by UPI Asia)
Taking the lead from Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi party leader, the reports by People’s Daily of China concerning National People's Congress are stunning.
It can often feel as if the rhetoric of the Chinese governments at all levels is so repetitive, so insipid and so ceaselessly fake, that it has become intuitive for us to know this. And this intuition is right, since what we often hear and see is always the same voice with an unchanging accent.
Nowadays, the number of government employees has rapidly exploded—in 2005 proportion between officials and civilians was 26:1, some 305 times higher than during West Han Dynasty, 35 times higher than during the late Qing Dynasty, and still much higher than 67:1 during the initial stage of reform and 40:1 in 1995 (the trend of which continues unstoppably)—so that even small county officials have secretaries. What the sectaries draft for their officials' lecture is all unoriginal, a mixture of fakeness, hollowness, and worthlessness.
Chinese officials’ rhetoric covers a covers “prosperity and joy everywhere” and “a bright situation” to “having accomplished many a remarkable achievements” and“great victories”, followed by naked self-praisse and gooseflesh-raising complements. The speakers portray themselves as saviors of the taxpayers, confuses right and wrong to an extent that maks one bristle with anger. Offcials, however, continue to speak with equanimity and grace, without any ashamedness or self-reflection that one should have had; in contrast, they treat wrong as right, and pursue their own interests in this turbid society.
Drawing on falsehood and asymmetry of information to break the truth down into fabricated lies, to enormously impair the people’s interests without compensation or responsibility, in order to plunder the people’s interests by force or trickeries; these are the government's achievements via propaganda. Someone with basic logic could break through the traps of lies set by the government.
When they exalt the superiority of the socialist system, for instance, one could thus easily ask, if that is so why we could not be informed of how the state revenue is used; if that is so, why we as taxpayers have no right to know how the money is used; if that is so, why is the truth always kept from us through government control of the media; if that was so, why we as taxpayers pay for the operation of the media whose reporting focuses on self-praising and confusing right and wrong, why is the free flow of information not allowed, and why don't we let the truth emergy through a debate of different ideas; if that is so, why does the land belonging to peasants get confiscated by force and why do the polices come to help suppress the people; if that is so, why does China still feel indignant when we have so many “superiorities” and when these unbearable “superiorities” are keep multiplying with greater momentum?
People are so discontent with the nonsense said by Chinese officials who are paid with taxpayers’ money that the complaints can be heard everywhere. But there is little sign that they are about to change, so the speeches that reflcect truth and of humanity are still as rare as the air above Mount Qomolangma. This is because our system of institutions is one that keeps depriving of the people’s rights and indignity dominant, one whose rule takes the form of lies and forces. Lies keep the people from the truth and also the fact that their interests are impaired; act of force makes the people too afraidto stand up and defend their own rights. Both lies and force, upheld by the dictatorial system, support the maximization of interests in favor of the officials in power.
As for the average person, he is undoubtedly incapable of analyzing qualitatively and quantitatively to inform the society of how the government lies. Besides, due to the lack of institutes or people supporting those, in order to dig out the truth, are investigating in the tools that the government uses to propagandize, any antipathy against the government’s fake propaganda stays at the level of intuition, far from convincing. Fortunately because of growth of internet that the awakened people are able to look at the assorted lies from different angles, making it easier to identify the ugliness and falsehood in governmental propaganda.
For example, there has been a recent prevalence of comments online that the front-page of People’s Daily on the two National People's Congresses in the last 6 years seem almost identical; this shows directly that the government is waving the red banner of what Goebbels said: lies repeated a thousand times becomes a truth. The similarity between communism and fascism, both as freaks of human history, is really easy to find out! Let us see how the government will improvise and make its greatness, and let us await to see the tune that our leaders are composing will be!
March 19, 2009
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