juxtaposition
is
when the first piece of news is:
on how the expert panel rules that the faulty construction at Hung Hom Station is (still) safe
even safer than how it's supposed to be built; and
the second,
how the husband of the Secretary of Justice, being an engineer and former president of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, gets defended for his unauthorizedly built swimming pool
"so it would be lawful if it was built for keeping fish"
"the pool does not have any safety impact on its surrounding buildings - it's like putting a water bag with gold fish on the 'gold fish street'"
and of course the wife has been involved in a few other unauthorized building cases too
#brokenhongkongseries #1
unfortunately a lot precedes this and a lot will follow
this is 2019, 22 years after the handover
seven years into Xi's rule
the funny thing is i don't really know if it matters, what's happening across the border
i mean of course it does, what happens across the border affects us immensely
but this case of the above juxtapositioning:
how is this not more about rotting from the inside than crumbling from the outside
christ.
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on the bright side... (how can i still be on the bright side really lol)
hong kong was really corrupted until the ICAC came to be - and it was just some 50 years ago??
hopefully
time changes
hopefully
time heals
until it hurts again
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