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港產中央指令式政治

港產中央指令式政治 財技高手暨中央政策組非全職顧問劉夢熊登全版廣告,力數梁家傑的四宗罪,指若由反對派當上特首,香港則會成為一個獨立的政治實體。有保守派會如此認真對待梁家傑參選,對泛民來說,實在是最好不過的抬舉。 可惜,劉君雖自稱代表商界主流意見,但是只見他參選資訊科技界選委,落得鍛羽而回的下場,又只得他孤身吶喊批家傑;似乎真正的主流精英早已認定,這場小圈子選舉,台前台後都各自各精彩,台下廣大的觀眾,就連評頭品足的份兒。擠不進那八百人的門檻,那怕嗓門子再粗,也只得像劉君般在場外喧嚷,要是精英們肯將噪音聽在耳?,那是恩典。 劉君既是這場小圈子選舉遊戲的輸家,何不放開成見,擁抱自由開放平等的普選?在普選的遊戲規則下,劉君至少可以透過投票在表達自己的意願,不用花錢刊登廣告博取注意,又或者劉君要身體力行愛黨愛國的精神,自組一個凡是派,跟反對派分庭抗禮,也無不可。除非劉君深知,他所持的一套政治理念太多犯爻漏洞,或者他對自己的說服力全無信心,否則他根本不用害怕普選,更不用抗拒梁家傑參加小圈子選舉。 說到底,無論是這位忽然高調的劉夢熊,抑或是其他堅決拒絕香港可以即時落實普選的官方代表,這群自詡為特區精英的最大心理障礙,是他們根本不信任廣大市民的理性選舉;說白一點,在精英心目中,賤民刁民選出來的就是爛泥扶不上壁。劉君那句「與最基本的特首條件相差十萬八千里的反對派政客」,點出了這種思維的癥結。 既然精英不信任群眾會理性選擇,那就只好搞出一套沒有競爭先有結局的遊戲規則。在經濟範疇,這種玩意叫做中央指令式經濟;在政治範疇,這種概念太過前衛,學界暫時未有為這種政制訂下一個專有名詞,姑且讓我們稱之為「中央指令式政治」吧! 中央指令式經濟的盲點,在於天真地以為高高在上的精英,憑著過人的情操和智慧,可以為千千萬萬賤民的生計作出決定。可是到決定有誤的時候,精英又放不下個人尊嚴承認錯誤,甚至連那?出了錯也不知,以致資源的錯配和浪費,而且因中央指令式經濟滋生的官僚權力不斷擴張,令中央指令式經濟成為了一個不斷往下沉的循環。 中央指令式政治跟中央指令式經濟,不但心態上同出一轍,就是發展軌跡也非常相似。遠的不說了,從八萬五開始,董建華就已經不是理想的特首人選,要不是計劃政治的遊戲規則,精英又為何會一錯再錯,讓他在02年讓他連任?最終就算要換人試試,也是那種要先知道結果的欽點遊戲,提名選舉只不過是儀式,就像有競...

In Hoc Anno Domini

In Hoc Anno Domini When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar. Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there was stability, in government and in society, for the centurions saw that it was so. But everywhere there was something else, too. There was oppression -- for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar. There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people. There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses. There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed. What was a man for but to serve Caesar? There was the persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There...