1 Oct 2014

Leader

The success of the OCLP so far is largely because no one is listening to the so-called leaders. When Joshua Wong was arrested, citizens flooded into the streets with their own will and passion. Towns occupied and government terrified.

But it will be also a possible failure for the campaign to not build up their commending board. Now the event is apparently organized in a sense that there has been no violent event and target is quite unified: to demand for the genuine universal suffrage and the step down of CY Leung. But at the same time, nobody has any clues on what to do next. How to step up the gear when the government refuse to talk? And to make it complete, how to strip down the event magnitude to make it a persistent fight when occupied all the major towns seems unlikely?

It is not easy to drive the citizens who have great autonomy (which results in their own devotion to the campaign) to do whatever the leaders want to do. After all, the citizens have enough of what the OCLP leaders did at the prologue of the event: looked weak and powerless in not began the OCLP right after the students started their protests. At the same time, the students may look confident before the cameras and the reporters, there are still questions that if they have the charisma to lead the event.

Hong Kong actually a person like a Julius Caesar. Of course, A Caesar to fight for democracy and not totalitarianism.  

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