Destiny in the Flood Waters
“Be moved! But more than that, move the sewers!”
Beijing’s floods are emblematic of government mismanagement. Chinese netizens are quick to make social critiques of disasters both great and small, and this most recent one has drawn out some dark, incisive jokes:
IMD__: There was a shooting in the U.S. What did the editor-in-chief say? “It should go without saying. Report on it as much as possible!” Now there is flooding in Beijing. What does the editor-in-chief say? “It should go without saying. Report on the U.S. shooting even more!”
IMD__：“美國出事了，槍擊，總編什麽指示？”“這還用我說？全力報導！”“北京出事了，暴雨，總編什麽指示？”“這還用我說？加大美國槍擊的報導！”
chuzhaoxin: There’s a city that poured huge sums of money into the Olympics, a nation’s capital. When it rained in this city, the streets flooded. People drowned in their cars. A policeman died of electric shock. This city is called Beijing. The country has sunk to this level. When the people can’t make decisions and the city officials have no shame, what can you do? The spontaneous rescue efforts of the people have thoroughly discredited those whose reputations were already bankrupt. This country’s hope lies not in a bureaucrat or an organization, but in every single individual.
褚 朝新：一個投巨資辦過奧運會的城市，一個國家的首都，下場雨，居然有人在市中心的馬路上開車時被淹死，有警察觸電死。這個城市，叫北京。國家沉淪至此，民 不能做主，治理城市的官員毫無羞恥感，奈何？來自民間自發的各種相互救助，讓信譽破產者徹底破產。這個國家的希望，不在某官某團體而在每個普通人身上。
WuyueSanren: Several events stand out from yesterday’s storm and its aftermath: The first is that the early warning system didn’t actually warn anyone early; the second, that the emergency response was slow to start; the third, that people who drove on the airport highway to pick up stranded passengers were charged tolls; the fourth, that neither the government nor public facilities opened their doors to those in need; the fifth, that drivers stuck in the middle of the road were fined for parking illegally. The only thing that functioned properly last night were the people of Beijing.
五嶽散人：昨日暴雨以及今日善後有幾個地方不能釋懷：一是預警機製沒真的預警；二是應急機製啟動緩慢；三是機場高速對自發接滯留旅客的車收費；四是政府機 構、公共建築沒有開門為被困者提供庇護；五是很多被主人暫時停在路邊的車被貼上了違章停車的罰款單。昨晚唯一合格的，是北京市民。
FinanceGossipGirl: In my brief existence, a once-in-a-century solar eclipse has happened twice, a once-in-five-hundred-year flood has happened ten times, and a once-in-a-milleniumearthquake has happened twice. The only thing that hasn’t happened is the once-every-five-year general election. Repost if you feel me~~
金融八卦女：在我這短短的一生中，百年一遇的日全食遇到了兩次，五百年一遇的洪水遇到十次，千年一遇的地震遇到兩次，唯獨五年一次的人民大選還沒遇到。有同感的轉~~
pufei: According to reports, the Beijing Sea and the Chengdu Sea are China’s only undisputed maritime territories. Fisherman, please go to work at ease. No need to worry about foreign warships giving you trouble.
pufei：據悉，北京海與成都海是我國領海中唯一沒有與外國有海權糾紛的海域，請各位漁民放心捕魚，無需擔心外國軍艦騷擾。
pufei: In the Celestial Empire, every natural disaster is a prelude to an award ceremony.*
pufei：在天朝，每一場天災都是一次表彰大會的序曲。
* Implies the Party will have a public back-patting for its flood relief efforts.
hnjhj: Under a once-in-forever government, be it a once-in-a-millenium earthquake or a once-in-a-century storm, the Chinese people can face it with grace.
hnjhj：麵對萬年一遇的政府，無論是千年一遇的地震，還是百年一遇的暴雨，中國人都能坦然麵對了。
mynamexu: Superficially, what the storm brought to light was the problems of the Beijing sewer system. But we need only hold this question up to related issues to discover that the “sewer” is a metaphor for the unraveling of the China rising myth. Should a social storm hit, this regime, which cares so much about saving face and nothing about saving its ass, will drown in a puddle of its own making.
mynamexu： 從表麵上看，大暴雨揭穿的是被陽光給包裹起來的北京城市建設下水道問題，但是，隻要把此一問題再與其它相關問題普遍聯係起來觀照，我們就會發現，“下水 道”應是中國崛起之神話麵臨破產的隱喻。倘有一場大的社會暴風雨來臨，這個顧臉不顧腚的政權最終必淹死於自己親手製造的水坑之中。
Via CDT Chinese.
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