Eight Honours, Eight Disgraces
The leader of the global economy, China’s Hu Jintao, has just posted “eight honours, eight disgraces” for the hoi polloi:
1) Love, do not harm the motherland.
2)Serve, don’t disserve the people.
3)Uphold science; don’t be ignorant & unenlightened.
4)Work hard; don’t be lazy and hate work.
5)Be united and help each other; don’t gain benefits at the expense of others.
6)Be honest and trustworthy, not profit-mongering at the expense of your values.
7)Be disciplined and law-abiding instead of chaotic and lawless.
8)Know plain living and hard struggle, do not wallow in luxuries and pleasures.
I know. It sucks so bad to wallow in pleasures.