Within the scope of the issues below, talk about your views on equality and classical liberalism. No less than 500 words.
- In Liquid Modernity, Zygmunt Bauman talks about the commodification of such institutions as well-fare, family, individuation, and identity. In Happy Times, happiness is being redefined in this gilded age. How do you like Old Zhao and Wu Yin being marginalized and modernized or democratized out of existence ?
- Feng Xiaogang’s film story takes place in Tibet, the pure land of Buddhism. Do you favor a well-fare system for people such as Root who is used to a primitive egalitarianism, or are you in favor of an unbridled individualism for the fittest like Wang Bo and Uncle Li who can survive in a Darwinian jungle? Why?
- What is the level of disparity between the rich and poor that you can accept as the reasonable cost of economic prosperity? Planning economy and market econoy, which system is more just for the under-represented and under-privileged? Why？