Public Humiliation

Another article from the NYTimes about China and their ever-changing society.

For a long time, the Chinese government has been cracking down on gambling, prostitution, drugs, violence, etc. While this is a great effort to clean up the streets, China's not clean.

I say this with a fascination for the country, a curiosity about what the future will bring. China's festering with corrupt public officials, corrupt people with lots of money. Not everyone is "equal" in their Communist society, sadly. As a result, jobs are harder to find, money is hard to come by. That's not why we should support the gambling, prostitution, drug-dealing, but, it's not hard to see why those activities have been growing.

Of course, the public officials can just do what ever they please. Like, for instance, parade criminal suspects in front of crowds of Chinese.