Stuart Wolfendale

Thoughts for the Day

August 24th, 2007

Universities, when I went to one, were, by their very name, bound up with giving young undergraduates a whole and rounding experience.

Indeed, as I recall them, you really should not be admitted to a university unless you are capable of several options which include talking nonsense about politics, philosophy and religion until dawn, falling hopelessly in love till dawn, getting smashed and smoking pot till dawn and staging sit-ins round the clock to protest some self evident absurdity about to be inflicted on the proletariat by callous and corrupt government. There was a lot of sleeping-in at university, I remember.

Anyhow, I wonder how many of these options are open to a 14 year old girl and a 9 year old boy. The Chinese University clearly thinks the 14 year old is ready for heavy bouts of late night world turning and the Baptist College doesn’t seem to consider that puberty counts for anything at all. Do the Baptists actually know about puberty?

I also recall that at the age of 12, I was ready and eager to join the Government. I was just told to shut up and get on with being a teenager.

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The Chief Secretary came out of a meeting with the Heung Yee Kuk falling over his own words. He was near speechless at how close the Kuk could be to government and business’s own views on the progress of universal suffrage and yet say it out loud as well.

That atavistic clutch of choi sum chompers up in the NT had just said that they didnâ€™t think there should be any more progress towards democracy here till 2024. Consider the near curdling stagnancy of that. It means that Hong Kong would putrefy politically for 16 years. I would be 72 before Hong Kong people might be allowed to do what people in India have been able to do since four years before I was born.

But, that’s the Kuk for you. They would actually like to revert to the status quo ante of 1898, just before the British annexation. They will be protecting the rights of indigenous NT people long after not one can be traced and Shenzhen and Kowloon have been rendered indistinguishable by broad bands of concrete.

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