The Burrow: 人血饅頭，歡欣shopping，開心打卡

Monday, June 22, 2020

人血饅頭，歡欣shopping，開心打卡

商場不准商戶擺放政治意味的裝潢，那種自我審查固然可恨，但亦非全無道理。

更可恨的，是商戶竟厚顏地將自己的快樂建築在別人的痛苦身上，亦有小市民來到神像前開心打卡。

為甚麼會有人做得出這種行為？他們到底是甚麼心態？

圖騰是信仰，古已有之，要破除亦非易事，更非必要。不過，將代表圖騰的悲痛與童裝的天真放在一起，心裡真的一點痛楚也沒有嗎？

世界上有一種事情叫「搭配」。衣著講求顏色款式搭配，學外語要學懂詞彙用法搭配，煮食要拿捏材料味道搭配。一身質料上盛的運動衫褲、一對閃閃生輝的施華洛水晶耳環、一個沉實的LV手袋，三件可以是靚貨，但同時穿戴上身就是噁心。「罷工」的英文是「to go on a strike」或「to call a strike」，沒有人會說「to do a strike」或「to stop work」。豆豉蒸鯪魚可以是一道佳餚，但豆豉蒸新奇士橙只會令人反胃。

對比起財閥的自私自利與投鼠忌器，號稱並肩同行的人的差劣品味更令人介懷。

除了難受，只有難受。

It is of course depressing to see a shopping mall banning its merchant store from erecting political decorations, but their self-censorship doesn't come entirely unreasonable.

What's more agonising is to see how a business chain store can blatantly build its own profits on others' trauma and how people can gleefully treat the spot as a tourist site where they can take a good picture for God-knows-what reasons.

How can someone possibly do that?

Yes, totems have been a necessity in many civilisations since ancient times. It is not easy, and not necessary, to absolutely do away with it. But does it really not hurt at all when you put the grief of the totem and the children's pure happiness together?

If there is anything I know in life, it is called "matching". You need to match the colours and the styles of different pieces of clothing you put on. You need to learn the collocations of different words and their usuage when you learn a new language. You need to match the tastes of the ingredients to make a good dish. You can have well designed sportswear made with perfect materials; you can also have a pair of shining Swaroski earrings and a delicately manufactured LV bag. But if you put on all these together, it becomes gross. You say "to go on a strike" or "to call a strike", but you do not say "to do a strike" or "to stop work" because it makes you sound like an idiot. You can steam a fish with shallots but you do not steam an orange with shallots even if you are a fan of both the orange and the shallot.

I don't mind businessmen being selfish and self-protective, but I do mind people who are allegedly fighting with me being self-complacent and ignorant.

There is nothing but agony here.