How are you a product of your environment? It goes down to the comment of "I think it's awesome that kids are taking to the streets. How will the powers that be deal with that? Certainly NOT with water cannon and tear gas." Are you that naive dude? Here's a twitter post named In Tseung Kwan O, another 12-year-old child was arrested Yeah... Another 12-year-old child was arrested! ANOTHER!!! He shouted "Free Hong Kong!"

Whilst the protests here are not directly aimed at saving humanity by preserving the current equilibrium of biological life, a deterioration in the physical environment here in Hong Kong is one issue that people want to sort out. They call for democracy as the current government has not really done anything, they just increase trade and thus more and more ships are making the water here really dirty... But I'll just put into perspective environmental protests in China, in July they had protests Wuhan due to air pollution, here's a video link showing some footage from it. And if you watch the end of the Wuhan video, you will see the police force that marched out on the streets! It completely ended that protest... But here's a picture from an earlier time that just needs to be shared!!! What? a 7-9 year old marching with a megaphone shouting: Give us back the blue skies! Give us back the clear water! Give us back the green mountains! (well maybe he didn't exactly shout that, but he did so with his soul!!!)

Well whilst I assume, and hope, children were not arrested/beaten in the climate Wuhan protests, they have been in Hong Kong!!! This is because the HK protests have been going on for much longer, but also the police here have to be much nicer due to the heavy presence of international journalists...

But yea, back to my original point: You are a product of your environment! Before I came to HK, and even after being here for 1 year (now I am here for 2.2 years), I would have completely agreed with Open in regards to "Certainly NOT with water cannon and tear gas". But now? You've probably guessed my reply: with batons and fists :/

Only interacting with English speaking people, you end up in this bubble of Englishness, there are many different views but you get stuck in it and you don't know how to get out of it! The flow of thoughts is limited by the syntax that you've learned to express. Even after learning a new language, you still end up speaking with the syntax of your old language for a while... But in other ways you get stuck with the philosophical thought of that language. But then of course there is this thoughtless "language" that the mind engages in, like when you are walking you don't think "walk" but there is a sort of thought like thingy that occurs in the mind. A feeling init haha. But I wonder if there are other languages in this "feeling" space of thoughtlessness just as there are many languages in intellectual thought?

Love & Peace

Rayko