Roll up, see the oppressed masses
Monetier les Bains’ rose-tinted view of Tibet has always got on my tits, “free Tibet” flags and stickers are all over the shop and even the mayor’s office flies the “Tibetan” flag, which strikes me as just wrong, probably ill-informed and certainly not something a parochial village up a mountain (which admittedly has great skiing with 250k of pistes) should be sticking its beak into.
I’m not saying Beijing is the most tolerant of masters (or of dissent), but this Hollywood fed bollocks that somehow the Shangri-La of yore was peace-bread land is just plain wrong.
Well we’ve just had a “Hommage to the Tibetan People” lecture here, trotting out the same old guff.
Yes I can differentiate between the leaders of a place and the people, but anyone who thinks the serfs of ye olde Tibet were any better off they’re crazy, or ignorant of the truth.
In feudal Tibet serfs and slaves were regularly pared down by a ruling elite who had no qualms about lopping a limb off or gouging out an eye for any infractions of the “natural, karmic order”.
Don’t even get me started on the Dalai Lama, who has been on the CIA payroll since they whisked him over the mountains to India in 1959.
Interestingly it was Emporer Kublai Khan in the 13th century who invented the post we now know as the Dalai (Ocean) Lama. Kublai invented the Grand Lama to rule over all the little lamas, much like a pope.
Centuries later the Emporer of China sent an army to support the then Grand Lama, who then changed his title to Dalai, so China muscle made it all possible.
So that’s it, an admitted CIA asset – you can tell he’s working for the man, as everytime the west wants to annoy China they trot him out – trouble is this time serious conflict with a country like China will actually affect us, not like Iraq or Afghanistan.
I think this is the reason the bleeding hearts throng to the Tibetan cause, it’s because it allows them to pretend they care without actually having to get involved with issues such as the nigh on two million dead in those two countries.
Oddly enough two wars blamed on another “ex” CIA assest Osama bin Laden.
Here’s some extra reading on the subject:
- The Tibet Myth (please Digg this story as well reading it)
- Are Dalai Lama visits with US, UK, France a “provocation” for China’s staged role in WW3?
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I see, but what do you think of the skiing in Serre?
It’s not all about skiing you know!
He’s right,
there’s only so many ways you can say the skiing in Serre Che is great, 300 days of sunshine a year, 250k of piste, loads of off piste, charming villages coupled with it snowed yesterday, it’s snowing today, it didn’t snow today.
There’s so much more to Serre Che than the skiing, we’re also deep critical thinkers.
Ohm, er and out.