A glass I got from Chickeeduck with an image that helps ensure
My blog entry from nine years ago today. And seven years ago today. And six years ago today. And four years ago today. And three years ago today. And two years ago today. Suffice to say that I've not forgotten the (start of) the Umbrella Movement. And that remembering it is something that is part of ensuring that Hong Kong will not be a part of the People's Republic of Amnesia (which, for me, is not only about forgetting what happened in Mainland China on June 4th, 1989, but, also, what's happened to Hong Kong since its Handover by the British to China).
In the words of Milan Kundera (which, of course, was quoted in the recently banned short story Our Time): 'The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting". And for the record, this is what preceded those lines: "The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy
its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,
manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that
nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was..."
So, remember, remember... not just the 5th of November and 4th of June but also the 28th of September, the 9th, 12th and 16th of June, the 21st of July, the 31st of August, etc. And, also, remember that "Resistance is not futile" (and even the Borg can be, and were, defeated)!.
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