LAI Wai-leung / 自由要塞的淪陷。並不偶然。What did it take to lose freedom?

A city’s history may seem to be in recurrent spells of dark curses, but historical understanding illumines the fabric of actions – often premised on the determination to dominate and control. Textbook history tends to box our existence into a chain of causes and consequences, but what about the place of the irrational mind at work in history? … HK’s loss of freedom may have been doomed from the very beginning, but it is surely not fate, nor destiny. Lai Wai-leung grabs the facts and the acts to trace how we got caught. 歷史教科書或許過於強調了因果理性。實存的歷史軌跡顯示了理解「非理性」的運作和果效不容忽略。看來，數算事實、實作是一個探究「非理性」的歷史探究的重要入門。黎偉亮在這裡數算著...。