www.truth-light.org.hk 明光社 – Truth Lite or Truth Zero

The devil has many facets, most commonly in disguised are under "the name of God".

The story of devil @ work -

Government awarded the tender for the teaching of human rights course for the primary/ secondary school teachers to a group that –

Has a history of discriminating sexual minorities,
Against legal protection for sexual minorities,
Protest on public televisions for covering gay issues,
With no record of teaching of human rights in Hong Kong,
Declaring truth-light.org is not a religious group but claiming all things in Bible are historical fact.

Some kids are more fortunate in countries where concepts of liberty, human rights, freedom had been well defined by their founding fathers. Here kids are less fortunate where the nation was found on a pseudo all-in-one system, with the degree of one’s right being in pro-rata basis on amount of one’s work-done (i.e. pseudo socialism) and where their primary/secondary teachers will be fed by this 100% rubbish from the Truth Lite organization -

'… people only focus on individual rights and overlook responsibilities and duties to society.’
'…advocates of extreme liberal ideals often use human rights to challenge the traditional social system.’
'… help educators understand the true meaning of human rights.’

Instead of taking some pseudo courses organized by Hong Kong governmental bodies, here is good slave and some other fellow architects recommended sources for the Hong Kong teachers, wish that would be informative -

John Stuart mill - on liberty

Rousseau - social contract

Hegel - elements of the philosophy of right

Kant - critiques...

David Hume - treatise of human nature

John Locke - concerning human understanding

Hobbes - leviathan

Marx - capital

Rawls - theory of justice

Russell - authority and the individual
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Giorgio Agamben' - of the moment
Montesquieu on separation of powers
Thoreau on civil disobedience.
Descartes - meditations

Spinoza - ethics

Deleuze and Guattari - 1000 plateaus / anti-oedipus

Jean Baudrillard - forget Foucault

Zizek - against human rights
Auguste Blanqui
Montaigne – essays
Antisthenes

Diogenes of Sinope

Max Stirner

Wilhelm Reich

Ema Goldman

Bakunin

Kropotkin

Proudhon
Plato

Nietzsche

Leibniz

In some countries, a number of the major figures listed above are mandatory subject as part of the education to become an architect. Since Hong Kong education has been a breeding ground for future serving of the developer’s greed and with no question asked, then what will become later?

Architects designing concentration campus for the minorities?... and with the same excuse they use to defend themselves of designing poor buildings when confronted by the public –

"don’t blame me, blame the system, we are just following orders from the government/developer” … however, that very much sounded like any defense you hear in those convictions of war trails.

Good slave is sorry for making this post a bit long and boring, here are some images from where you find more "rights to display human" than human right itself.

In the mood for love

Outraging/unforgiving survey by Chinese University Students!
A survey on eroticism was conducted without any tipping to the general public on *desirable places for sex* except one - the campus which end up 4 out of 5 replies found it sexually not arousing... and this is very unforgiving for architects. (details here and here)

**technically speaking- 打野戰 or architecturally speaking- habitual de-territorization

一：你唔覺得做愛好悶既咩？

二：你唔覺得做愛好煩咩？最煩係d乜野？

三：你會唔會幻想過同阿爸阿媽兄弟姐妹做愛？（無論細個或而家都得！）

四：你有冇裝過佢地沖涼、換衫、自慰、做愛？

五：在街上什麼人（或動物／東西）最能挑起你的慾望？

六：你有冇幻想同朋友男朋友或女朋友做過愛？

七：如果有，你點樣處理你同你死黨同佢男或女朋友既幻想？

八：定係實現左幻想，咁你又點樣處理？

九：你自慰／打飛機時會諗住邊個？

十：你最想同咩動物做愛？

十一：你覺得一次過同幾多男幾多女做愛係最好（optimal／最理想）？

十二：你最想係中大邊度做愛？

答1：有適合gei地方咩，唔覺

答2：可以睇到吐露港景色又唔會有人望住的地方，大家有冇好介紹？

答3：對地方冇咩fetish總之室內有床o既私人空間咪得

答4：我係中大好多度地方都做過，無咩新地方好吸引好想再去，有去過既就…唔…都係無咩特別好吸引。如果有$都係去賓館好玩d，因為可以多d時間慢慢諗下睇下點做又可以傾下計又可以一齊食野做下食下又可以一齊沖涼…

答5：一路都想偷偷地走入lecture theatre攪，d 位又舒服，仲要攪到污糟晒果隻，等人唔知乜事坐上去

十三：你覺唔覺得宿舍唔俾男女過夜係歧視異性戀？十四：有冇因為性生活問題（又唔講出來）而影響愛情？


Eroticism is indexical to architecture since the primodial habitat appeared on this planet, the space of violence/desire/dissident and the object of desire evolve as oneness in eroticism*…

*The cave paintings (between 15,000 and 13,000 BC) > Greek classical order (decorations representing sexual organs)> the baroque (the chambers of secrets)> avante garde (the incestral & the uncanny space) > postmodern (the sex on display)> now anything but cybersex…

Then, how does architecture fade away from kids' sexual fantasy, of their imaginations to a mood that defines eroticism?

Has our education system been sterilized to an extent with no eroticism, no mood, just intercourse studies??
or
Has Hong Kong architecture been demoted to empty signs and devoid of erotic mood to the general public since long after the "big split" (architectural space<>object of desire) in our architectural education? ?

Here is good slave recommend reading list for our educator to revisit and to save our children's imaginations-

Colomina Beatrix writings on gender spaces.
A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick.
Stud, Architecture of Masculinity, edit by Joel Sanders
The Metastases of Enjoyment by Slavoj Zizek
Read my Desire, Lacan against the Historicists, by Joan Copjec
Encyclopaedia Acephalica by George Bataille
La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini

Ulysses by James Joyce

Henry James

Edgar Allan Poe
紅樓夢
花樣年華 - 黃家衛

傾城之戀, 張愛玲
愈快樂愈墮落 - 關錦鵬

and many many more…

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If you love somebody, set them free

Hong Kong has been noisy again on the issue of queen’s pier (noise here, here and here). This round more unnecessary sound bites added in support of HKIA’s stance on the issue (The Hong Kong Institute of Architects, details here) –
Its stance to the “In-situ Preservation” of Queen's Pier

What does “In-situ Preservation” preserve in the process of mummifying a piece of architecture? For preservation of collective memory, axial alignment, “sense of place" as highly praised in the midst of sound bites?

Sense of place -
A pier being mummified with concrete-shoe (in mafia’s term) is deemed to end its “being” of a pier along with its atmospheric conditions (i.e. sense of place) whether it is in-situ or not.
In Heidegger’s notion of “Building Dwelling Thinking” -

The dam forces the river to be what we want. It "enframes" it, makes it into something that is useful to us on our terms. The dam makes the river into hydro-electric power, and makes it into "standing reserve", or an abstraction ("energy") which is there for our use.

Thing-in-itself evolves with building, dwelling and thinking, mummification is a representation of “being” and not preserve the “being” in itself of any previous notion of a pier or any sense of place.

Axial alignment –
The spine that holds the queen’s pier complex together is the line of voids (a more appropriate architectural term for classical ideals, detail please refer to Palladio’s work) starts from Statue Square> Edinburgh Place > Star Ferry Pier > ad infinitum (i.e. water front), once the vanishing point of this line of voids been broken/blocked by future developments (i.e. luxurious residential towers, commercial skyscrapers), the remaining parts of the subsidiary axis (city hall>queen’s pier> Edinburgh Place etc) serves no meaning of its origin whether they align with any higher form of terrestrial/celestial objects.

Collective memory -
Architecture evokes memories with many aspects – replacement/displacement, disappearance/appearance, transparencies/opaque, dislodgement/cohabitate… The belief “to in-situ in order to preserve” is rather wishful thinking or being least imaginative to mummify a building while the surroundings being eradicated drastically by greed and thoughtless authorities.

Examples of imaginative "preservations" here, documentaries soon appear on CNN and BBC.

逆光 against the light

孫燕姿 我懷念的

我問為什麼那女孩傳簡訊給我 而你為什麼 不解釋低著頭沉默 我該相信你很愛我 不願意敷衍我 還是明白你已不想挽回什麼 想問為什麼 我不再是你的快樂 可是為什麼 卻苦笑說我都懂了 自尊常常將人拖著 把愛都走曲折 假裝了解是怕 真相太赤裸裸 狼狽比失去難受 我懷念的 是無話不說 我懷念的 是一起作夢 我懷念的 是爭吵以後還是想要愛你的衝動 我記得那年生日 也記得那一首歌 記得那片星空 最緊的右手 最暖的胸口 誰 記得 誰 忘了 想問為什麼 我不再是你的快樂 可是為什麼 卻苦笑說我都懂了 自尊常常將人拖著 把愛都走曲折 假裝了解是怕 真相太赤裸裸 狼狽比失去難受 我懷念的 是無話不說 我懷念的 是一起作夢 我懷念的 是爭吵以後還是想要愛你的衝動 我記得那年生日 也記得那一首歌 記得那片星空 最緊的右手 最暖的胸口 誰 忘了 我懷念的 是無言感動 我懷念的 是絕對炙熱 我懷念的 是你很激動求我原諒抱得我都痛 我記得你在背後 也記得我顫抖著 記得感覺洶湧 最美的煙火 最長的相擁 誰愛的太自由 誰過頭太遠了 誰要走我的心 誰忘了 那就是承諾 誰自顧自地走 誰忘了看著我 誰讓愛變沉重 誰忘了要給你溫柔 Woo Oh~~我懷念的是爭吵以後還是想要愛你的衝動 我記得那年生日 也記得那一首歌 記得那片星空 最緊的右手 最暖的胸口 我放手 我讓座 假灑脫 誰懂我多麼不捨得 太愛了 所以我 沒有哭 沒有說

The format of the lyrics reminds me the making of ancient Chinese scripture – In ancient time, man made the sentences and his maid* inserted punctuations in between for completion. In the other words, the maid was his quasi-muse and her task was to read the master-mind.
*The maid being a domestic virgin serving the writer was also believed to be the origin of Chinese prostitution.

Since good slave is only slave to passion not love, I suppose this may also applies to love relations where men sporadically make the scenes and women add “: - . , ? !” to the relations to create her own loving logic. In architecture, the structure of “sentences vs. punctuations” has later been theorized as “functional space vs. residual space*”, and the origin of prostitution vs. the origin of architecture intermingle in the making of history.

*some calls it feminin space, but I like residual better

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