How To Control Your Soul's Desire for Freedom (Part 2)
A happy update from an uncle who has escaped from Shanghai and calling out silence of the human rights NGOs
Comrades: In early 2022, I interviewed an uncle who was enduring tyrannical lockdowns in China. I am happy to share that after many years of waiting in legal limbo, he has received a green card to move to America. He and his wife will be able to live our their days with their daughter and grandchildren in a free country. They are ecstatic to leave and, like my grandparents, don’t plan to ever return.
Let us be grateful for the relative freedoms we still have in America and remain vigilant against those who seek to take them from us. Human rights GONGOs like Amnesty International have failed. They remained silent about COVID lockdowns and vax mandates, the biggest human rights violations of a generation. Amnesty even took Trudeau’s side against the truckers. Despite all the virtue signaling, they covered up several employee suicides due to its toxic work environment.
I know that Amnesty’s NPC PMC leaders embrace vax mandates and Uighur slave labor manufacturing solar panels because it’s good for ESG. Unelected GONGOs like Amnesty only care about GAE neocolonialism and open borders, making it impossible to deport any illegal immigrants even if they commit heinous crimes. GONGOs are fully demoralized and do not deserve any respect or funds. If you see any of their naive evangelists on the street soliciting donations, share this article with them.
Below is my full piece and interview with the same uncle from the dark days of early 2022:
The CCP has killed more people than any regime and seems hell bent on increasing that number.
2 years into COVID hysteria, Shanghai has been in continuous lockdown for 2 months with no end in sight. CCP COVID Zero hard lockdowns mean tens of millions of people are not allowed to leave their homes. We have all seen harrowing images and stories: desperate people jumping out of windows, children separated from families, pets being put down, all while while drones hover in the skies saying “Control your soul’s desire for freedom”. Our bootlicking media won’t cover this because they’d love to do the same to us.
Lockdowns and mandates are the most flagrant human rights violations in our lifetimes. The silence from NGOs who are ostensibly dedicated to protecting them is deafening. Like many other rotted institutions, they have abandoned their principles to serve globalist agendas and The Current Thing. The ACLU is pro vax and mask mandates, while the SPLC was the OG grifter before BLM came around.
Amnesty International has also fallen. A few years ago, an investigation revealed that its toxic work culture led to several employee suicides (details here). It recently took the side of Castro Jr. against the Freedom Convoy, who they smeared as Nazis. If you scroll through its social media, Amnesty’s highest priorities are The Current Things.
I know one of Amnesty’s board members who has overseen its decline. As you’d suspect, while they may have good intentions most people join these boards for the virtue signaling, ego circle jerk, and LinkedIn flexing. Another board member I met boasted that he used the prestige to seduce young women at Amnesty’s conferences. The presidents of these NGOs also make high six figure salaries. These pathetic organizations are only alive because their dark money oligarch and government benefactors use them for social engineering. They no longer deserve our respect or money.
The White Rose is the paragon of low-cost, high-impact decentralized activism. Wikipedia smeared them so you know they’re onto something. Let us continue to fight and give a voice to those who have silenced, like Shanghai Cig Man.
I have several relatives in China and one of them bravely agreed to be interviewed. My uncle gave short answers because he is terrified of being discovered. Self censorship has become ingrained in everyone there. Sadly, we came to the realization that we may never see each other again and there is nothing we can do about it because these NGOs are useless.
It is with a heavy heart that I present his terse but powerful words below. All new paid subscriptions will go to him and his family in Shanghai.
How is life in Shanghai right now?
Very difficult. In 60 years of living here, we have never experienced anything like this before.
What are the COVID rules everyone has to obey?
Do not leave your home without permission. Wear a mask even if you are outside. Get tested routinely.
What happens if you don't obey the rules?
Big trouble. So many bad things could happen, like being taken away to a camp. You can’t even imagine.
How does the social credit system work?
The government has all the power. They can throw you in jail and shut down your phone apps and payments anytime they want.
Are you and others aware that most of the world is living normally without any COVID restrictions?
Yes. Many of us know.
Are people more scared of COVID or the government?
Both are scary.
How do people relieve stress if they can't leave their apartment building or neighborhood?
Watch TV. Pray. Persevere.
Do you think life will ever go back to normal?
Never. Shanghai is changed forever.
In past wars battlefields were littered with the broken bodies of the young. In today's underhand Chinese-Marxist war against the West, our streets, schools and cities are littered with the broken minds of young people.
I live in Canada and cannot tell you how insane our government and culture are.
Both of my parents come from wealthy families that are a part of the white establishment, and neither of them has ever had to lift a finger. My siblings and I never had to, either. I can tell you it has done nothing but corrode the family’s values and relationships. My mother is a crystal-worshipping hippie who divorced my father because she was bored. She believes that she will single-handedly change the world with empathy and meditation. When she’s not practising downward-dog, she shops at Gucci with her alimony cheque. She also says absurdities like, “I wish I never had children, but the patriarchy made me do it” (in absolute seriousness).
My dad is re-married to a horrible woman, for whom it is her fourth marriage. Outside of their jobs, they sit on their phones all day. They order Uber Eats for dinner every night because neither knows how to cook. They always riff about how spoiled millennials are, yet they never think for a minute that their generation had any hand in it.
Both of my parents would define themselves as liberal. My mother is very woke, although she doesn’t know what that is. She thinks voting for the most progressive policies possible is the moral thing to do. To her, Trudeau is amazing…bring in all the refugees, defund the police, give sex changes to children, add the carbon tax, keep draconian COVID mandates etc. My dad thinks some of the wokeness is insane but is sympathetic to most of it. I can tell you neither possess critical thinking skills nor can they form independent thoughts. They believe that whatever the (government-owned) news spews must be correct and that things like equality of outcome are great ideas.
I am an adult now and struggle to be self-reliant. I grew up with so much material wealth but so much poverty in every other sense – my parents never instilled any values in us as children or provided any structure or attention. I always felt jealous of children with wise parents and strong values. However, I realize now how exceptionally rare that is. It seems that apart from those with extremely strict, non-Western parents, everyone in this society takes things for granted. Whether they had much wealth or very little, people I know who grew up in Canada seem unfathomably ungrateful, entitled and self-obsessed. They don’t see why self-dignity and boundaries matter; they think all traditions are backward (except for FGM and honour killings), as are the people who disagree with their ‘progressive’ ideas (unless in the name of religion by minorities). No one has any appreciation for high culture or any knowledge of history. Everything just seems so dumbed-down, gaslit and meaningless.
Sometimes I look back on the West when it still had values, beauty and sanity, and I feel devastated at what seems irrecoverably lost. I feel so much anger and disbelief at how we let this happen. But then I realize that this era is only the result of absolute decadence; excessive wealth and comfort inevitably lead to decay and collapse. I look at my family and see the perfect microcosm of our demoralized society…and then I have to look at myself and try to be different.
It’s good to know some people out there feel the same way as me, I just wish I could meet some in real life.