Poisonous mushrooms 毒菇

Around the Potala Palace in Lhasa, one of the most stunning scene is that one can find many of these artificial mushrooms all over the places. At first glance, they seem to be implanted there for decoration purpose except that these decorations are in fact functional. Under the lovely appearance of a benign mushroom, two loud speakers are installed inside in order to boardcast popular Chinese music songs, as if the Potala Palace is one gigantic karaoke park for the hitest songs in town. China has indeed moved on, instead of broadcasting Communist Party doctrins, we seem to find that the Pop culture of the capitalistic life a much more powerful weapon to convince.


在布達拉宮的旁邊, 人們可以發現周圍都是這些看似是用來裝飾的蘑菇, 每十來米就有一個。看上去是蠻可愛的, 只可惜, 他們的真正作用卻並不是裝飾這麼單純, 藏在蘑菇之內, 其實是兩隻擴音器, 用來不停並十分大聲地播放在電視上都可以聽到的中文流行曲。彷彿神聖的布達拉宮就是一座巨型的卡拉ok公園似的, 將代表西藏最高權力的聖殿給變成了一個庸俗無比的娛樂場所。