Thea Alexander wrote a book called 2150 AD, originally published in 1976. She describes a fascinating world that includes two parts consisting of Macro World and Micro World.
In the Macro world there was harmony, cooperation, and everyone respected each other and did their best to be good and kind to each other. In contrast, the microworld was smaller and isolated from the macroworld. It was ruled by oppression, mind control tactics and keeping the public in the dark about current events.
Nothing in our modern world fully resembles the macro world, but it is easy to see how the Chinese Communist Party and other repressive regimes are accurate reflections of the rulers of the micro world.
In China, the news is censored and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. To make sure that everything and everyone stays in line, there is an extensive system of ‘forced re-education through labor’ camps. One might wonder how one is ‘reeducated’ through forced labour.
Such a phrase would seem the height of oxymoronic prose.
Perhaps a more appropriate term would be “mind control through forced labor.” It is interesting to note that a person can be sent to a labor camp for up to three years without a conviction or court order in China. Not that it matters much, the judiciary in China is dictated by the Chinese Communist Party. In such a system, justice is in short supply.
Like the Micro world in Thea Alexander’s book, if you were to ask the average Chinese person if they live in a repressive society, they would most likely say “no”. Some might say this because they fully believe in the CCP’s propaganda that is spread everywhere. Most might say it out of sheer fear. To say anything against the Chinese Communist Party is to risk arrest, torture, forced labor, and possibly death.
That’s similar to how Micro’s world leaders kept absolute control in Thea’s book. This is how the Chinese Communist Party does it in the real world, today. There are many groups and individuals persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. A recent web search for “China persecution” returned 2,150,000 results.
The Clearwisdom website does a good job of documenting the Chinese Communist Party’s abuses against Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong practitioners are peaceful and non-violent. They simply wish to meditate and believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. However, the irrational need to control what people think in the confines of their own minds seems to have always been a priority for the Chinese Communist Party.
The Macro world was a world of beauty, harmony, peace and cooperation. The Micro world was a world of control and oppression with inhabitants who did not realize, tried to forget or did not dare to tell the truth for fear of their lives and worse. What kind of world would you rather live in and support?
