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a car crash - it's an interesting thing watching people gravitate towards a wholly unattractive situation - knowingly - and derive a certain pleasure from it all. what that pleasure stems from is beyond me, but a plethora of reasons are certainly attributable to this elation. over dinner, i eavesdropped on a conversation concerning taiwan. the individuals spoke glowingly of how china will reclaim taiwan without much resistance - how america will do little about it, that there is nothing taiwan can do about it. this, as such, is an inevitablity. the mainland is strong, powerful, cunning and clever - they've positioned america out of ever doing anything for taiwan but spouting rhetoric. these individuals then began speculating on weapons technology of the chinese - which must be quite incredible if they can engage in all this space exploration they conjectured. the content of the conversation wasn't that interesting - an opinion shared by many i suspect; but the sheer joy, pride, arrogance of it all was interesting. deconstruction is not applied - it is not a method of critique - it is always happening in and of itself. deconstruction is. and that conversation deconstructed itself. besides the points of joyful demise of "those" taiwanese, inscribed within those talking points was an acknowledgement of the corrupted mainlanders - "backwards" people. inscribed within those talking points a general disdain for the mainland, an acknowledgement of wanting to be under the british still. perhaps they hated mainlanders, but merely hated the taiwanese more? or perhaps the excitement came from being "part of" what seems to be a growing force internationally; or maybe it's more of a pan-chinese pride at what they deemed as outdoing america - the whites. the reasons are multitudinous - but this general excitement and willingness to engage in armed conflict is that kind of rubber-necking you see on the highway. wait for the crash and behold...the herd stands amazed, until a fender bender in a moment distracted in rapture.
human, all too human.
human, all too human.