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Note on the Diseased...
Note on the Diseased City
The most serious urban disease in the 21st century is mental illness. Nearly 20 years of development of China and the massive expansion of cities have taken place midst two dominant struggles: One is the conflict between the civilian capitalists’ gains and the state interest. The government encourages people to get rich, thus greatly prompting the people’s desperate pursuit of material wealth. But the country has turned the wealth created by the civilian capitalists into the state interest through complete policies, and by sacrificing the wealth creators who are charged with “original sins”. The second is the conflict between the local government and the central government in terms of interest. The local government and central government share the taxes, this practice is rare in the world. The local governments thus have the desire of crazy development which has generated “original sins”. Once there is any conflict between the local government and the central one in terms of interest, the representative of the local interest will be sacrificed with “original sin” for the overall development of other places. China has finished the road within 20 years, which the western world used 200 years to complete. During process of these two conflicts, our cities have gained unprecedented development with massive change. While the development has changed the cities physically, it has also brought about mental diseases: such as lack of moral bottom line, cops and thieves forming the interest groups, seeking development in the cost of dignity of men and women, environmental pollution, indifference and estrangement of human relations, deviation from traditional virtue and decorum etc. These are the “urban diseases”, which the artists could do nothing about. The only thing they can do is to express their criticism and reflection on these problems with their image works.