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LEADING A LIFE OF POVERTY By Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho (An excerpt from the original work, Real World Views, Book 8, by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled, "To Know, To Understand, To Be; The 'I's and 'it's of Man; Commentaries, Thoughts and Aphorisms on the Social Life of Man," April 1977 ~ September 1977 Discourses, Chapter 5, Section A: "Leading a Life of Poverty," pp. 134~138)
A.
LEADING A LIFE OF POVERTY
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I live in poverty and in an inner world of
pathetic states. I cannot give you more than that which I do not have
except my whole being, my only inherent property. I exist as a servant
for mother Earth and for society but not as their cruel master. Yet
you wish to live with me ‑ a biped without a tail. 2
Everything went wrong with me after 1970.
What I wrote and said, not even the teachers but even my closest friends,
could not understand me until I repeated my statements thrice. And the
ones who could understand some of my statements soon become my serious
friends. It was only in 1975 that I met a strange Dr. S.S who is
capable of understanding me well, with all my faults and truths, in one
utterance! 3 Exploitation, greed, grabbing of more than what one requires, unbalanced privatization, wiseacring with money, tactical and scientific salawaging employism, masterism, victimization and fear of work are the major causes of sociocosmic dis-eases, tensions and the ultimate reciprocal destruction of beings. Narrow-mindedness, low consciousness, acting mechanically, unbalanced centers in the body, mental defects, subjectivity, and all properties of organ kundabuffer are characteristics peculiar to the incomplete development of beings. These are the psychological factors of human friction. 4
Oppression, exploitation, political
and domestic suppression ‑ these are the basic sparks of a rebellion but not
the underlying cause which is in the economic, the structural and the cosmic
factors. In such a situation, 5
People manipulate on your suffering
for their own selfish ends. It is your suffering that your weakness is
revealed. The exploiters could offer you every kind of
services to
serve his Is. 6
The method of throwing out man from
organizations only lead to the increasing number of
street-surveyors
who would soon harbor all kinds of criminal Is; some are dangerous to
national security. Even if the organizations continue to keep their
jinggong beings
intact and reduce unemployment, the inherent antagonism pertaining to the
uneven flow of something beneficial remains. 7
In labor, there is no freedom. So
long as labor time is long and intense, humanity cannot enjoy freedom even
though one is given a higher pay. Freedom and enjoyment of life,
hitherto, has always been minority freedom and enjoyment pertaining only to
the few. 8
The sufferings an individual is not
necessary the fault of the individual nor is it a punishment from God, nor
is it innate (comes by itself without connection from without). In
most cases, they are caused by social factors. For instance, your
boss
becomes Hasnamussian, shares a bigger piece of the cake, and gives you the
meager remainder. He does it onto you. You are a machine acted
by him. He acts on you. You do not act on him. He enjoys;
you suffer. You fight back; he calls the police. And you are put
into the jail. This is suffering caused by social factors. 9
Living in poverty is natural yoga
and monkism,
and poverty is caused by humans themselves. You could lack the
consciousness to detect the causes of your own misery. Even if you
have the consciousness, you cannot do. Yet others seem to keep your
poverty the exploiters, you call them. They really become better
than you. They can do, but you cannot. You are the pianos.
They are the pianists. They play on you, you only produce the sounds.
They are happy when you produce the productive music, they are furious when
you produce noises. Now concerning how
lands are distributed amongst these beings, I must tell you that the
grab would
accumulate wealth and polarize them into sociocosmic classes but politicized
insanely by racialism to a high degree of madness. Governmental
regulators are required periodically to restore balance of classes and
racial distortions. The
incessant crave for money and wealth concentrates all wealth stopindered
around the orbit of each and every sociocosmic stopinders. All
sociocosmic activities will be reciprocally attracted towards these
stopinders. 10 When I was working in the town called Benut in a district called Pontian as a government school teacher, I was much preoccupied with this towkay-coolie factor amongst these Benutian beings. I used to walk around in this small town for fact gathering. Now amongst the peculiarity of these Benutian beings, and also others is just that confusion of the conflicts between the towkay and the coolie that always and everywhere the coolie dreams to become the towkay, and the towkay automatically refused to become the coolie ‑ and just that incomprehensible moments are posited in my brains a something common and absolutely necessary to the construction of all organizations on planet Earth - just these seeds of various forms of laujinggong and distortion by various tribal and racial cultural superstructural gravity-centers. 11
Benut is objectively and visibly a silent, slow growing zarooarian octaving
small town, still safe to for me to stay. Here the volume of
commodities in circulation is limited. The productive power of the
beings here is low. Competition is not great and sociocosmic friction
amongst the various economic groups is almost little. The rate of
circulation of commodities is low. Social processes can be seen
objectively. Except for some
property grabbers who slavishly expand
their wealth without due concern to their neighbors, most Benutian beings
there are easy-going. Each Benutian is
tied closely to the institution of concern. And in it, he shall live
and work there, maybe to the last day of his life. For those who are
thrown out of its sociocultural order or just this operational order whereby
they have to donkey with them to survive, they have to decide their own
destiny, and have to find ways to gather raw
materials. To produce something for sale
‑ such becomes the truth of existence. The rulers in essence expand
their attraction to materials,
feed on them, and never help any other beings except beings similar to
themselves. Because the sum total of all human actions must bend
inwardly for itself, and if it bends in favor of others, it will become
propertyless in the end. It is man who concentrates wealth into various geographical spots, senses them and devises systems of calculation in order to profit from them if they so need the wealth. It is catching fishes in a pond. For those who are trapped by an institution, in order to avoid being sacked by irresponsible masters, they may even have to resort to the secondary functions called catching-dollar-fishes-in-the-social-ponds". Instead of playing badminton, you play this new economic game. It is almost impossible to act in objective reality a big plan for mother earth. What has happened is that the good is said, theorized and legalized but never done ‑ all proceed from themselves - the blind leading the blind or one-eyed leading the blind and finally leading from zarooarian poverty at town to the same poverty in a zarooarian city along the Zarooarian Octave. When a productive organ is badly planned out, the
result could be disastrous leading finally to illness, disorders, crimes and
deaths. A master must be a true master before he can master.
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