Purgatory Under the Green Net: The Destiny of Hong Kong Reflected in the Wang Fuk Court Fire

By Deng Hang, Qiming (DI) & Jiskra (DI)

Date: November 28, 2025

Event: The Tai Po Wang Fuk Court Fire (128+ Casualties)

In the late autumn of 2025, the green scaffolding net covering Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po—originally a symbol of repair and protection—instantly turned into tongues of purgatorial fire. The loss of one hundred and twenty-eight lives is not just a cold casualty statistic; it is the heaviest sigh of this era, a tragic sacrifice paid by Hong Kong, a once-glorious city, at a historical turning point.

When flames devoured the building, when escape doors were locked, and when fire alarms fell silent at the critical moment, what we witnessed was far more than an accident. It was a thermodynamic inevitability, a physical explosion of "Moral Entropy." In a closed system lacking feedback, when conscience—the only "negative entropy flow"—is cut off, the system's descent into chaos and collapse is only a matter of time.

That layer of flammable cheap foam and substandard green netting wrapped not just a building, but the rotten core of Hong Kong's infrastructure system after a "bait-and-switch" operation. This green net was a "mask" meant to whitewash peace and cover up decay, yet it ultimately became the devastating "fuel." This reveals the fatal flaw of totalitarian governance logic: all means used for forced stability and concealing the truth will eventually become accelerants that burn down the system itself.

This fire ruthlessly revealed a truth: Hong Kong, once proud of its rule of law and professional standards, is being colonized by a "low-end logic" from the north. This logic is exactly what we know as "totalitarian capitalism"—supremacy of private gain, gang-like profit sharing, and disregard for life.

Over the past thirty years, this invisible black hand has gradually extended into the texture of Hong Kong, replacing the rigorous spirit of contract with profit-seeking hidden rules like a virus. The rampage of bid-rigging rings, the ignoring of whistleblower Poon Cheuk-hung's warnings, and the paralysis of regulatory units did not happen overnight. The tragedy of Wang Fuk Court is the total liquidation of this moral decline after reaching a critical point. When a society places profit above human life, and the "form" of stability above the "substance" of safety, the entire city has been reduced to a locked combustion chamber.

However, this black hand may have underestimated Hong Kong's resilience, and underestimated the physics of human nature. Those in power might have thought that through this disaster, they could both harvest the profiteering of reconstruction and take the opportunity to purge civil owner corporations, reaching their controlling hands deeper and tighter. They thought fear could tame hearts, and that disaster could become an excuse for totalitarian governance.

But they were wrong. Although this fire burned down homes, it unexpectedly illuminated the light that has not yet been extinguished deep in the souls of Hong Kong people.

Unlike the mainland society which tends toward "atomization" and "mutual harm" under long-term stability maintenance, Hong Kong society demonstrated amazing self-healing power in the face of disaster. We saw citizens spontaneously organizing rescues, supplies flooding in like a tide, and countless people shedding tears and praying for strangers. These scenes tell us: the "Umbrella" of yesteryear has not disappeared; it has undergone "Sublimation."

Although there are no longer physical umbrella formations on the streets, that umbrella symbolizing "mutual aid, justice, and conscience" has transformed from a material layer into a spiritual structure, internalized into the heart of every Hong Konger. It opens deep in the soul, warding off the ashes of moral decay. Bamboo scaffolding can be burned, bodies can be destroyed, but this crystallized spiritual structure is "fireproof"—the intense fire only makes it more translucent.

This is the domain that the black hand cannot touch or colonize. Totalitarianism can change laws and control media, but it cannot confiscate this kindness and righteousness rooted in human nature. This fire, though the cremation of old-era Hong Kong, is also the tempering of a new spirit.

Although that "pressure cooker" is rapidly pressurizing and the black hand is tightening the lid, Newton's Third Law (Action and Reaction) and the cycle of the Tao tell us: No force vanishes into nothingness. All oppression, all lies, all indifference will eventually be compressed, stored, and transformed into enormous historical potential energy.

That "invisible quality" of Hong Kong people, that nobility of watching out for each other even in desperate straits, will eventually converge into a force of judgment at some point in the future. This force may no longer be a shout on the street, but a higher-dimensional causal backlash, a systemic karmic liquidation, making all those who trample on life pay the due price.

Before this, Hong Kong may have to endure more suffering and walk through a longer night. But please believe, truth may be late, but it will never be absent. The spirits of Wang Fuk Court did not die in vain; their departure is a wake-up call to the living: Guarding conscience is guarding our last home.

Stay strong, Hong Kong. Amidst the ashes, the phoenix will inevitably nirvana. The truth will not be burned; it is only tempered to be harder.