DOES HONG KONG HAVE A…DREAM?
- 3 days ago
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If there can be an American Dream, though this might be a bit fuzzy these days, why can’t there be a Hong Kong dream- or if there is one, what is it? To win the Mark Six lottery? To have all the money you’d ever need? And then what? Or are we Hongkongers scared to dream? Or don’t we know HOW to dream as a COMMUNITY?
Is our one dream actually individual dreams, and though there’s nothing wrong with this, wouldn’t a Hong Kong Dream that we could dream together be stronger?
Dr Martin Luther King Jr had a dream, and describing this became one of the most powerful speeches in the Civil Rights movement.
Who’s there in Hong Kong who can inspire and motivate the city? Actor Jackie Chan? Some billionaire Aussie jockey who has become what they are from feeding off the fat of the Hong Kong land?
If he were still with us, I might say that it could be Chef Anthony Bourdain, because he spent so much time in Hong Kong. But it’s strange to think that absolutely no one comes to mind.
Does this mean that Hong Kong was so busy with everything that had to do with the gravy train of Greed that it lost all sense of kindness, generosity and empathy?
Right now, Hong Kong has no voice. It barely has a music scene apart from the usual suspects and shows up a city sorely lacking in heroes.
Billionaires are hardly heroes and I never understood why Li Ka-shing was known in Hong Kong as “Superman”. Because he was and is The Richest Man In Hong Kong?
What will the generations to come learn from this or reading and watching the barking mad “leadership” of grifter Donald J Trump Jr?
I can’t save the world, and don’t want to, but I was thinking about those who are my heroes- one being Bob Dylan for the brilliance of his words that made me think. Really think.
George Martin and the Beatles because they made pop music an art form.
My cat Kitty and dog Nipper. After they were no longer here, the new found respect I have for my parents.
The Far Side cartoon world of learning through the humour of Gary Larson.
There’s the creative writing of Roald Dahl, Tennyson, Milton and Lewis Carroll and the opinions and rude awakenings of Christopher Hitchens.
There are the sentiments behind the songs “Imagine”, “All You Need Is Love” and “Here Comes The Sun”.
More recently, there has been the unbridled joy and love and inspiring creative energy of Jessie Buckley. She’s magical juju from seemingly another space in time and here to bring happiness into the lives of some of us our.
Hong Kong might have had it all, but it never had a soul, because we who could have shaped it might have always been remembering the piggy bank we had as kids and perhaps only now have started to think why these were always PIGGY banks.
If I had to make a personal inventory of those who matter to me today, there would be none. Maybe that’s sad, but the truth also tells you much about yourself and who and what have made you become who you are.
Yes, you come into this world alone and you leave alone and in the middle is stuff that is often as unsatisfying as a Carney’s hot dog.
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