I don’t know if the United Kingdom is a conservative country. I have never been to the United Kingdom, but I have lived in the party country for more than 20 years. After watching the full monty, I only have one feeling that we are a country that has no imagination and rejects imagination. What's worse, we are a nation without a sense of humor.
Poetry should interfere with politics until politics ceases to interfere with poetry (like Brodsky said). I think this is why our composition for the college entrance examination is the only reason why we are not allowed to write poetry. Because "poetry is a shortcut to anything imaginable" (Brodsky). With imagination and sense of humor, we will become a "mob" that cannot be ruled and cannot be defeated. Our grace and tenacity and our wisdom will make those old B scared.
Stifling imagination is a long-term and arduous task, and the party-state has done it successfully. But it cannot succeed forever. Because the yearning for freedom is human nature, as if they were born naked.
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