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Feeling Inspired on the night of 4 June, 2020 in Hong Kong

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(4 Jun) Today, Fellow saw a bunch of posts condemning the hypocrisy of Hong Kong celebrities by showing their old photos, especially those in The Concert for Democracy in China, as well as when people like Leung Chun-ying (Third Chief Executive of Hong Kong) and Priscilla Leung Mei-fun (Hong Kong barrister and legislative conciliator) supported the Tiananmen Square protests in 4 June 1989 and condemning Chinese Communist Party.

Maybe we’ll consider them disgraceful and laughable, but when we think about it, on the path of a revolution, both you and me are bound to be tempted by the enemy at all times.

Recently, Fellow rewatched the Sci-fi movie, The Matrix, which was a favourite during my school days. The most classic scene in the movie is one where the protagonist Neo (Keanu Reeves) had to choose between the “Red Pill” or “Blue Pill”, aka “to awake” or “to indulge”.

1. Choosing the “Blue Pill”—to be comfortable with the status quo
Stay in the past, where truth and justice are not the purposes of life; As long as life is good and stable, everything else can be ignored, and it does not matter even if life is virtual.

2. Choosing the “Red Pill”—to pursue the truth
Leave the comfort zone to face the unacceptable truth, and live a life that others may not understand, and even have his own safety threatened.

In the movie, Neo chose the Red Pill. He woke up to see himself (and all of mankind) always being the slaves to the Matrix, where the past was just a virtual dream created to cultivate humanity as a source of energy. Afterwards, Neo embarked on a harrowing adventure to defy the Matrix while being hunted. Indeed, one year ago, many Hongkongers chose the Red Pill to protest, few million people once took to the street against the demonic Extradition Bill. But we can reverse our original choice at any time.

In the movie, there’s an antagonist called Cypher, who had the Red Pill before Neo and joined the Anti-Matrix revolutionary army. But as time went on, Cypher started to get tired of being in the real world, even more so of having to eat monotonous food that tasted bad every day. Thus, seduced by the Matrix, he decided to betray his comrades in arms and told Agent Smith (the lobbyist the Matrix sent to seduce him), “You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, it's the Matrix telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss. I don't want to remember nothing. NOTHING! You understand? (Give me the Blue Pill again) And I wanna be rich. You know, someone important, like an actor.” The Matrix answered his demands on the condition that he kills the other anti-Matrix revolutionaries.

Of course, in the end, Cypher's devious plan failed and he became one of the most hated characters in the movie.
In reality, 31 years ago there were 1.5 million Hongkongers who took to the street for democracy; But today, how many of them have become useless elderly and blue ribbon (pro-government people)? From going against the CCP to flattering it? Every one of them has taken the Blue Pill like Cypher.

After one year of protest, have you become numb and jaded (about the sadness and unfairness in our daily life)? Will you choose to go back to the false life and continue with the status quo? I hope today's portrait of the hypocrites will serve as a reminder for us in the future.

I also declares once again that as long as tyranny is not extinguished, we will continue to fight even if it is our last breath.

Never jaded, never forget.

#LiberateHongKong
#RevolutionOfOurTime

Source: Finance Fellow’s Facebook

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