Change

Faced with social injustice, young people want to change, but the young people in Hong Kong are vastly different from those in the West: Hong Kong has undergone tremendous social changes and what they want to change is to go back to the past; the young people in the West are led by the ideology of pursuing absolute equality and perfection to new inequalities.

More than 50 years ago, during the Cultural Revolution in China, it coincided with the height of the anti-Vietnam War and anti-establishment student movement in the United States. At that Time, a Chinese-American scholar told me that he made three demands of his son, who was about to go to college: one, no matter how many years you study, you must finish your credits; two, no matter how much you screw up, don’t bring back babies for us to raise; and three, don’t become addicted to drugs.

His son was not an exception to the rule, which was the norm in the fiery red years.

The Western student mindset at that time was divided into Liberal and Radical, and no one claimed to be a conservative because conservative meant no good. Radicals advocated a radical opposition to the Western system, while liberals advocated a peaceful pursuit of an egalitarian society. Conservatives were seen as guardians of the old system of inequality, unmotivated and unchanging. At that time, there were many followers of Maoism in the West because Western intellectuals shared Mao’s socialist ideal of continuing the revolution in pursuit of equality for all.

Then the Cultural Revolution self-destructed, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and China were economically depressed, and Reagan’s conservative, small government, liberal economic development policies achieved impressive results, so conservatism was only brought up again. The West is no longer a distinction between liberals and radicals, but between liberals and conservatives.

But the two most important things that have kept liberal thinking alive for more than 50 years and continue to ferment in Western colleges, media, and intellectuals are the expectation and pursuit of social progress, and the acceptance of pluralism, respect for people regardless of their race, identity, or beliefs, and the rejection of differences.

The reality is bad and must be changed. The problem is that some of the bad realities cannot be changed, such as the reality that everyone will die, which cannot be changed, but only adapted to, the pursuit of immortality Medicine change, the result is likely to be a quick death; natural differences, such as differences between men and women, racial differences, differences in body size and intelligence caused by the reality of inequality, forced to change will produce reverse discrimination. The pursuit of absolute equality is as dangerous as swallowing the elixir of immortality. The liberal pursuit of equality and progress has turned out to be anti-freedom. Many idioms are considered to have discriminatory elements, some classic literary works are accused of racism and have to be taken down because of their background, historical facts have to be accommodated to political correctness, and anti-discrimination has kidnapped freedom of speech.

Obama came to power with the slogan Change (change), and Biden‘s coming to power means the continuation of Obama’s policy. He declared an Amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants after taking office, and in the past two days there have been a large number of Honduran “refugees” marching to the U.S. border, and the burden on illegal immigrants is unfair to long-time tax-paying residents. North Korea also announced the resumption of its nuclear program, calling the United States an enemy of North Korea and apparently trying to extract a price from the new U.S. president. Xi Jinping said, “Time and momentum are on our side,” apparently “old friends are back,” as Zhai Dongsheng said earlier. The American establishment, under the banner of liberalism, obeys the rule that “there is nothing the dollar can’t fix”.

American conservatism believes that what is more important than change is adherence to tradition, custom, inherent morality, concern for diversity and recognition of differences. The only true equality is before God’s final judgment and a just court; all other attempts to achieve equality inevitably lead to social stagnation. If natural and customary differences are destroyed in the pursuit of equality for all, it will not take long for tyrants or despicable oligarchs to create new inequalities.

Again seeking change, the courage and resulting wisdom of Hong Kong’s young people in their quest to return to tradition has amazed the world, while America’s young people, imbued with a politically correct school-valve Education, are seeking change that abandons tradition and creates new inequalities, vaguely giving us some glimpses of the Cultural Revolution.