DJANGO UNCHAINED

This isn’t “Cocoon”, no one can reverse the aging process and those in, let’s say, their fifties aren’t exactly stepping up because either they don’t have the leadership skills to turn things around or there’s some kind of old girls and old boys clubs hoarding who does what, meaning that very possibly some very good talent with ideas are shut out.

Also shut out is the Hong Kong I love and remember when it was positioned as “Asia’s World City” and really did attract the world to these shores.

Sure, there were the flim flam people becoming overnight “celebrity chefs” and “celebrity hairstylists” etc and those with bogus plans for exclusive clubs and fashion television companies seemingly storming ahead on nothing much except for Bolivian marching powder.

Having said this, for every scam, there were legitimate businesses run by sharp suited business people who understood that what was needed was balance to succeed and the need for highly individual thinkers.

Never would Hong Kong have allowed itself to be conned by someone who said he was a sheikh and related to the Maktoum family with promises to setup a multi billion dollar company in the city and turned out to be a wannabe singer with a different name in the Philippines.

Some of Hong Kong’s biggest players were played and this huckster from the Middle East quickly disappeared- too quickly and with many questions left unanswered with the supposed CEO of this supposed sheikh’s company also making like Caspar the friendly ghost.

Even if forgetting all this, the question is what’s the next move for Hong Kong other than giving it more of what it already has and the usual “tourist attractions” when actually many of these light shows, the monthly exhibitions etc have no sustainability and barely cause a ripple in Hong Kong?

It’s just more money going down the drain by very possibly two generations seemingly not the least bit interested in investing in the next few generations.

Their way of looking at everything is something like this: “We’ll be gone, so why should we care about anyone else? What have they done for us?”

And here starts the Blame Game and the return of Greed Is Good thinking.

Gone, or probably never here has been empathy.

Believing that many, especially in businesses in Hong Kong, have lost their moral compass and are not contributing to a future for the city- but pretending that they are- I still hold out hope for Hong Kong.

All we need is ONE home run to put our home back on the map again for all the right reasons and for it to be endorsed by international names with real clout and know how to bend the rules to get things done.

Let’s stop this stupidity of having well paid mediocrity keep carrying coals to Newcastle. It’s bloody boring and muchos embarrassing.

Let’s ramp up the standard of English that’s needed to be seen as being international.

Enough, too, of the one trick ponies and listening to the Neanderthal reasoning of really really stupid people with no idea of reality and Hong Kong becoming the backdrop for the next Batman and Joker movie directed by M Night Shyamalan.

From being a barren rock to what Hong Kong worked itself up to be a city that was the envy of the world, it’s unfair for those who worked so hard to make it to this point to suddenly go into reverse and become a tinpot fishing village with its main attraction being something that comes with a warning sign.

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