關於 information is power essay ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

*Exhales*
All my recent projects are finally over yay! The past couple of months have been my BUSIEST days yet (and I’m not complaining!!). However with lack of sleep and all the travelling really took a toll on my skin. I mean really REALLY took a toll...

* Tired and dehydrated skin - Check!
* Clogged pores - Check!
* White + Black heads - Check!
* Acne - Check! And I’m not just talking about one or two.. That shit is all over my face!!! It’s really really bad and gross 😭

(You may think “wtf is she talking about her skin looks fine here” Oooh but trust me, the power of make up is no joke) Honestly I’m frustrated and even feeling very self conscious. It’s days like these that I’m glad I have a trusted facial clinic to go to for help.

To all my friends, SW1 (@sw1clinic) has a very interesting concept with facials where you can mix and match and choose your own “facial cocktail”. If you have acne prone skin like me, I really recommend doing the same cocktail selections that I did with them. (I’ll put in the screenshots of the treatments for you to scroll and read through instead of me writing a whole essay. I know I’m very 長氣囉嗦)

I’m on my second day after my treatment and the acne on my right side of the face has cleared up only leaving only some redness which will heal very soon. My left side is more severe but it’s definitely healing too! (I hope you all forgive me for not being confident enough to show you the before & after) Thank you SW1, I honestly am grateful. I might not be blessed in having amazing flawless skin, but I am definitely blessed in having you guys! ♥️

For more information you can go to SW1’s website for full details!

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WARNING: Now it's official! It has been published in the media. Don't say I didn't warn you. Facebook has just entered an agreement with the anti-Christ, after the red moon eclipse on Sunday night. If you paste this message on your page, you will be saved from harm. If you fail to heed this warning, the dragon, the beast from the sea and the beast from the earth will come after you and show your naked singing in the shower on Youtube. Your video will go viral, and you’ll live the rest of your life out in shame. Better to be safe than be sorry, right? Channel 666 News was just talking about this change in Facebook's alliances. I have verified it through my dream last night when I fought Nero with my kung fu. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook. It is strictly forbidden to find my friends and me in order to put electronic chips into our bodies as a tracking device for the anti-Christ. The content of this profile is private & confidential information. This is legit. If you don’t repost by cut and paste, the three-eyed man with the red horns named Jim Bob sent by the dragon will knock on your door. By then, it’ll be too late. Copy and paste now, and be freed from the power of the Big Brother, aka Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook’s sinister alliances are yet one more reason why the aliens won’t talk to us. In other epic news, a book about the Umbrella Movement containing my essay will come out in English. The contract is signed. Another book in Chinese on HK political situation and the book of Revelation will be going into the printer very soon also. I just saw the book cover today. My new English book has just hit Amazon today also. Check it out. http://www.amazon.com/Right-Parables-Wrong-Pe…/…/ref=sr_1_3… How can there be so much bad and so much good in one day? Hmmm ... Remember to copy and paste this as well to tell all your friends.

明天的港台荚文信Happy Mother’s Day

It is hilarious that mothers began to enter into the recent political reform debate on the question "pocket or not pocket". Executive Councilor Bernard Chan was asked by a yum cha lady during his turn to go for street campaign: "If your wife was chosen by the Central Government, what would you do?" Chan answered by saying this is the same as my Mother choosing for me!!! This reminded me of the time of the Cultural Revolution when Chinese were told Mao Sze Dong was dearer to you than your Mother. Bernard Chan without thinking became Red Guards that waved the red little book at his Mother. Legislative Councillor Ng Leung-Sing representing the banking sector went further and said that over thousands of years in China Mothers had chosen the wives for their children. This is the Banker legislator who wanted to return Hong Kong to the feudal days of China that practiced blind marriage and think this is acceptable.

It was funny but also very sad that educated people in Hong Kong can bend so low as to refer the Communist Party as their Mother and is willing to give up the right to choose one's own wife. This led me to think of a more philosophical reason for not pocketing the political reform package imposed on us by the Chinese Communist Party. Hong Kong People should not degrade oneself to accept lies. This is the struggle of living in truth against living in lies and this is the struggle of life and death for the survival of Hong Kong and our value system of speaking out for truth. Living in truth is the central theme of the famous essay "Power to the Powerless" by Havel, the playwright dissident turned President of the first Democratic Czechoslovakia. Rereading this essay make us understand what the fight over true democracy is all about. This is how Havel described the Communist System:

“Government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his or her ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary use of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.”

Isn't this happening in Hong Kong today?It is here that Vaclav Havel makes one of his most compelling points about living within the Communist system:

Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, ARE the system.”

If we accepted the lies of the Government that passing the proposed political reform package with the 1200 so called elected representatives controlling the nomination process is a step forward and is a fulfillment of the promise of universal suffrage, we as the individuals are confirming the system and are the system. Also to quote Havel: a regime can lull its underlings at worst and convert them at best to “the cause”. And what, is “the cause”? Power… indisputably and unflinchingly secure in the hands of the regime. This is what exactly the Hong Kong Government is doing, to convert all of us to the Cause of securing power for the Regime.

To “live within the truth” is to defy the unreality – in big ways, or in small. Havel’s example of a green-grocer organizing an underground group, or simply not putting a propaganda poster in his window is excellent. There is no shortage of fear (or brutal consequence) under these regimes and Havel admits this with sympathy. At the same time, he reinforces that fissures in the edifice of lies can come in big forms or small – and no small act of “living within the truth” is without its impact on the oppressive regime. Havel reinforces the threat of “living within the truth”:
“By breaking the rules of the game, [the citizen living within the truth] has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken through the exalted facade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor is in fact naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the greengrocer has addressed the world. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it IS possible to live within the truth.

It is our choice: truth or lies. We are already the fortunate one to be living under communist rule with a makeshift shelter of one country two system. We must defend this shelter by starting to live in truth and not accepting blind marriage by mothers.

Mothers have no desire but the goods for their children and comparing mothers to the Central Government is nauseating. Let us live in truth and believe in our mothers.

Lee Cheuk Yan