Running Amok in Hong Kong: Mass Protests, Mass Hysteria and Mass Violence
By Terry Nettle
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This book is the story of radicalised youths and students on rampage. It is about why and how in 2019, Hong Kong came to be besieged and held hostage by a massive mob violence and mindless vandalism in the name of freedom and democracy.
It is the story of face-masked, respirator-fitted, head-helmeted and ninja-like blackclad youths and students who believe they have the right to be angry enough to start a "revolution". It is about why these protesters feel justified to vandalise and burn public and private properties to support their demands for freedom and democracy. It is about the power of irrational anger and hatred.
It is about the cynical use of violent mass protests and severe disruption of economic and social activities to force authorities to accept fantastical political demands. It is about threatening bloodshed and total chaos to paralyse and topple government.
It is also about the new urban warfare brought to everybody's living room by the ubiquitous TV cameras and photojournalists.
The book looks into the intriguing psychological basis of this crisis in Hong Kong and how it is likely to pan out.
On the global stage, the book noted that the world is entering a new period of violent history with frequent bloody mass protests and violence. The book discusses how only a global perspective of human survival and human conditions can prevent humankind from going from a calamitous self-centred obsession to a certain self-inflicted extinction.
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Running Amok in Hong Kong - Terry Nettle
Chapter 1 What is happening to Hong Kong?
Hong Kong in 2019 is burning from the arson and anarchy perpetrated by the large number of violent protesters. Armed with their mindless anger and firebombs, these protesters brought extreme violence to the streets. They have become hooligans and vandals with total disregard of the legitimate rights and peaceful needs of other citizens, graduating from violent virtual reality to real violence and destruction.
The dismal failure of the earlier umbrella movement in 2014 did not seem to have made them any wiser. These passengers of the great ship that is Hong Kong are now trying to scuttle and sink the ship just to vent their anger. They have now progressed from self-delusion to mass hysteria, graduated from umbrella occupiers to ninja destroyers, and metamorphosed from nymphs to cockroaches.
This is the Hong Kong Protest Madness Syndrome (HMS), presented as blind rage, closed mind, self injury and anarchy.
This is how a large section of Hong Kong is running amok with mass protests, mass hysteria and mass violence.
Chapter 2 Running Amok?
Interestingly, the word amok
originated from how the European colonialists described the way natives of the countries they colonised can become uncontrollably violent and crazy. The phrase run amok
was used by Captain James Cook in his book in 1772: To run amock is to get drunk with opium... to sally forth from the house, kill the person or persons supposed to have injured the Amock, and any other person that attempts to impede his passage... indiscriminately killing and maiming villagers and animals in a frenzied attack.
Chapter 3 The Right to be Angry and to Destroy
This book is the story of radicalised youth and students on rampage. It is about why and how Hong Kong come to be besieged and held hostage by an orgy of mob violence and mindless vandalism in the name of freedom and democracy. It is the story of face-masked, respirator-fitted, head-helmeted and ninja-like blackclad youths and students who believe they have the right to be so angry that they can start a revolution
. It is about why these protesters feel justified to vandalise and burn public and private properties at will to support their demands for freedom and democracy. It is about the power of irrational anger and hatred.
It is about the cynical use of violent protests and severe disruption of economic and social activities to force authorities to accept fantastical political demands of the protesters. It is about threatening bloodshed and total chaos to paralyse and topple government. It is about seizing political and governing power by force.
It is also about the new urban warfare brought to everybody's living room by the ubiquitous TV cameras