On February 8, Xu Zhang Run published another diatribe against the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party, “Xu Zhang Run’s Sixth Note / for Geng Xiaonan: to blame the officials and government officials – to the tyranny of the book again” was publicly released, the full text is as follows.
One
I am writing this letter not because I love you, nor because I hate you. The word “hate and love” does not apply to you. Rather, I love myself, and I love those whom I love; I hate the injustice of the world, I hate the wickedness of the government and the wickedness of the law that caused all this, and I sigh for all those who are subordinate to the executors. Therefore, I am afraid for you, but I am worried for ourselves and for all of us. This concern, born from the bottom of my heart and lingering in my mind, is long and persistent, spreading from myself to my friends and relatives, expanding to my compatriots, and flooding the world, while all the pains and itches under the sky are related to each other. Especially at that Time when the situation was critical, the tyranny was rampant, and all the people were hanging by a thread, your every move could add insult to injury or send charcoal in the snow, depending on the choice, a thought, so it was even more heart-wrenching.
Because, things are very complicated but the truth is very simple, you have the power in your hands, can say what we can not say, feasible for our people can not act. And once people have the power in their hands, if not subject to checks and balances, the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries have proved that repeatedly, that people almost immediately changed. When this occasion, to show off one’s own quick, seek one’s own private, and abuse of its power, wantonly carry out its will. As a result, the evil people out of the carry on, tyranny is born. Originally, shaking up, such as the corporal in “No War on the Western Front”, once the shoulder is sewn with a tattoo showing the military rank, it becomes a very different person, “as if swallowed concrete,” is not terrible, at most disgusting. What’s scary is the growth of ambition, the expansion of desire, the gradual loss of normal humanity, no longer taking the pain and sorrow of others seriously, as if the blood flowing from others does not hurt. And more importantly, the loss of the inner belief and impulse to distinguish between right and wrong and to act according to what they believe to be the right path is the good Life itself, and the good life is the source of all honor, and the life worth living. It is both the result of this loss and the process itself that one acts as a helper to the enemy, knowing the evil government, and that one disguises selfishness and self-interest as the public good. And the physical and mental pleasure thus obtained intensifies this evil, and in turn fuels this pleasure from the illusion of self-fulfillment caused by the intensification of evil.
So it is often the case, and commonly, that they are more evil than good, that they are more likely to be good, or even that they are never evil than good. It is often said that a good man is destroyed when he changes, when his heart is broken, when he no longer retains the normal human heart. He became a machine, part of this huge evil machine. As a matter of fact, “the cross of the black veil, soap and clerical customs”, as the ancients said, in order to invite merit, promotion, or even just in the grasp and exercise of power in the psychological satisfaction, the vanity, they often add layers, not only committed to the evil, but also actively evil. For this reason, the totalitarian tyranny of the left and right wings of the modern world has ravaged half of the world, with its arrogant power and brutal behavior, not only monopolizing wealth and power, but also dictating honor and truth, which is rare for thousands of years, and is the hardest lesson. And this shows that, in fact, the public power is a double-edged sword, from the collective human habitat had to be, once out of control, instantly make it invented human blood, may also be the head of the once in power. What’s more, once the meat grinder starts, rumble, clatter, except for that cloud of human gods, no one is spared. Even he, by drinking human blood to survive, in fact, is also sleep and Food, shivering all day to live in fear it.
Here, and precisely here, with technological wisdom and huge reproduction does not match, so far mankind in how to check the power, free from fear, still only partial success, and will fall back to the starting point if not careful. Power is not a human-only phenomenon, but a universal structural characteristic of all animals, but here humans, who claim to be the spirits of all things, have not outperformed other species and are equally enslaved to this creation of theirs. Thousands of years of birth and gathering, ten thousand years of lessons, are useful and yet useless here. This shows that time and progress have nothing to do with human nature, human nature is eternal, only the human heart has changed. The human nature is dark, the human heart is twisted, and there is never anything that can be done once and for all in the world, but we can only add fear and vigilance from time to time, and we are destined to need enlightenment from generation to generation. The so-called enlightenment is a baptism of the mind that every generation has to go through, a constant explanation and courageous sharpening of the brilliant belief that the implementation of human reason in public affairs will create a good life, a display of a bright mind that points to the inevitable future of mankind’s bright resistance to the darkness of human nature, and thus, moreover, an eternal compassionate warning to the community living model and its collective virtue that has to live in groups in order to survive. There may be hope, but there is no hope after all, but this must not lead to despair, rather, we must always hope, embrace and protect this desire with a longing. Without this belief and sharpening, the loss of resistance, trapped in hopelessness, the human nature of the malignant nature of the flood, the human heart tends to vile, already unbearable, only rely on the difficult resistance to live in the human world, will certainly decline, and I in the bottom of the Ho!
Therefore, at this time, for my own sake, for the sake of my Family and friends, and for the sake of the world, I have to repeat what the sages have already said again and again, without avoiding tediousness, without fear, and with renewed vigor, to repeat to you here the truth of making good use of power and not being evil. This is not only for the legislators and executors under bad governance, but also for them under good governance. The main discussion is how the legislators, especially the executors, under bad governance and bad law, should be brave enough to bear their own responsibility of discernment and judgment in the face of bad law, and only listen to the call of conscience – what, why and how.
Friends, let me tell you in turn.
II
First of all, it must be reiterated, it must be constantly reiterated, that we are born as human beings, not as a part or an accessory, not as a tool or a machine. No, we are human beings, living, breathing flesh and blood. No matter how beautiful or ugly, no matter how virtuous or foolish, we are the end, not a means, not a tool, we are the subject of virtue supported by ethics, we sing and cry with our hearts as our sexual spirits. We are not means, we ourselves are the end, the end of everything itself. We are both the subject and the subject, the subject in the light of the subject, the subject that the subject gives birth to and protects. And under the sky, sages and villains, men of letters and white men, though there are differences between the wise and the foolish, between the rich and the poor, they are one, but their purpose is one. To be born as a human being means that we are a living people, born with a lively nature, endowed with two handles of mind and heart. We are the bearers of natural law, and we are the inescapable moral subjects, thus becoming the subject of natural law and moral law. In turn, man constitutes the essence of the gods. Thus, we are individuals who exist only once, and “are a self-contained universe”. The only way to break through the limitations of this finite human being is to bear and feel it with two handles, so that this short life can hope to achieve infinite transcendence, to penetrate heaven and earth, and to be united in eternity. This is the essence of human nature, the meaning of life, and the meaning of the human heart. From this comes the truths of truth and falsity, the truths of right and wrong, the truths of right and wrong, the truths of beauty and ugliness, and especially the truths of good and evil, which are materialized into real legal principles. They start from pure reason, multiply into practical reason, and are realized as one’s own judgment. From the finite to the infinite, they unite this shore and the other shore, connect the two ends of life and death, and intertwine between heaven and man, constituting and enriching us as human beings, and thus giving us individuality in this individual, so that earth can be human. In this way, human beings are what they are, and the world is what it is. In particular, compassion, kindness, mercy, and intolerance, which originate in our nature and are strengthened in our hearts, and which reach out to others with our hearts, and connect the hearts of the past with the hearts of the present, give dignity to human beings and imply an inescapable responsibility that cannot be dismissed under any pretext. In other words, to reveal the truth, to distinguish right from wrong, to clarify right from wrong, to judge beauty from ugliness, and especially to distinguish good from evil, so as to choose the good and follow it, to avoid and even to fight against all injustice and injustice as much as possible, is not only the endowment of human beings, but also the responsibility of human beings as human beings. Responsibility gives dignity to human beings, and it is a book of compassion, kindness, mercy and intolerance, especially the choice between righteousness and unrighteousness. In other words, righteousness and unrighteousness and the responsibility to judge them are always self-explanatory, laying the foundation for the human world and keeping the curved wood of human nature from becoming too arrogant; the inability to practice unrighteousness is always the bottom line and becomes a heavenly rule. –We may not be able to sacrifice ourselves for righteousness, but not to do injustice is always the rule of heaven and the bottom line, and we have and must have the ability to distinguish between righteousness and injustice, so that we can make the judgment and decision of where to go. We live today as if this world is still worth living in, thanks to this! On the contrary, as the poet John Owen said, “The greatest judgment of God on man in this world is the hardening of the heart. As quoted earlier, “as if it had swallowed concrete,” that’s the end of it. That is to say, if you lose your compassion, kindness, mercy and intolerance, if you lose your wisdom to judge righteousness and unrighteousness, and if you lose your ability to judge and decide between righteousness and evil, then you will not be able to exist and you will become a beast. At this point, if the hands have the power to do evil, it is more than a beast! In this case, we may say, “We are good people, we are victims,” but at the same time, we may have to continue to say, “We are bad people, we are perpetrators!
In this context, as sovereigns and legislators, they should strictly distinguish the good and bad of the government, and must carefully analyze the good and bad of the law, then strictly prevent the introduction of evil policies, and guard against evil laws that harm the world, and take the primary responsibility of careful analysis and strict judgment. Those who are in the executive and judicial positions also have the primary responsibility to analyze the goodness and weakness of the government and the law, and then decide whether to follow it or not. If you are unfortunate enough to be confronted with an evil government, you should not only resist or try to change the law, but also raise your gun at least one inch! If you act according to the rules, you should at least understand that you are in the system and that you are helping the enemy, and that this is the evil, the true evil, so you should be upset. Otherwise, as Arendt said, evil has no depth and no magic, “it could destroy the whole world, precisely because of its mediocrity”. In other words, you are born as a human being, as a legislator and a law enforcer, and you have the wisdom and mind to distinguish between true and false good and evil, but you have given up the responsibility of discerning and judging, so that you can do injustice in a state of complete inaction and follow the flow of the world, and even take the initiative to do evil, thus becoming a walking corpse with no spirit and no nature, but joining the evil network woven by this evil government and evil law with a name, and in the process of doing evil In the process of doing evil, you become a member of a huge system, occupy a position, take responsibility, and get paid and rewarded for it, and even rise to greatness. Thus, you can’t pretend to be a screw and escape from your guilt when you are lost in the system and benefit from it. –If you justify yourself by saying that you only work to earn money and support your family, then you must also know that you can work to earn money and support your family in another type of work. As a matter of fact, the “going to sea” and “hanging up the crown” and even “disobedience” that occur from time to time have been proved again and again. If you do not do this, it means that you are willing to be subservient and help the enemy to become evil!
Three
Secondly, therefore, you have the right to commit injustice, but you do not have the right to commit injustice. On the contrary, you have the responsibility and obligation not to do injustice in the sense of negative freedom, but the responsibility and obligation to resist injustice and advocate justice in the sense of positive freedom. This is a political duty, which becomes a moral obligation, and the highest law of natural law, which constitutes the highest mission of life, and what is realized is the highest value of humanity. Here, it is your power that indicates that you have such a duty and responsibility, and presupposes that you have the ability to do so, while depriving you of the right to do injustice means, in particular, that you have both the duty and the obligation not to do injustice. Otherwise, you would be disobeying the sovereign’s authorized intent and would be openly confronting the sovereign’s will, which would constitute a betrayal of power. Sovereignty and the sovereign are the source of all power and its legitimacy, and the sovereignty of a republic is manifested in the regime and its government, which are the cause and result of justice. In the modern world, there is no greater justice than defending the freedom and human rights of individuals, protecting them from the encroachment and intimidation of power, and maintaining the peaceful political coexistence of all citizens. Otherwise, what is the purpose of each individual’s sovereign freedom? Why should sovereignty and the sovereign authorize administration and law enforcement? The birth and survival of Leviathan is a necessity, a necessity, a necessity, and nothing else. My friend, the purpose of the sovereign is to use the sovereign to govern the regime, to make the power subordinate to the sovereign, and to protect the sovereign’s own freedom and human rights, which is why you have the institutional arrangement of having a certain amount of power in your hands, which is why you have your salary and your duties. The sovereign must respond by first depriving you of your right to do evil, and by counteracting your right to do evil, and by punishing you with political, legal, and moral sanctions, and by preventing you from doing so afterwards. The deeper reason is that the moral realm is an autonomous kingdom, where each person is his or her own king, and where there is no simple obedience that abandons the burden of discernment and judgment. To obey is to submit to the conscience of God, to one’s own conscience, to the call of the heart. The integrity of human nature must not allow you to use disobedience as a legitimate excuse for seeking legal and political exemptions. Otherwise, the morality of law and the legitimacy of politics, which is the foundation of all human norms, is completely dismantled. When this happens, it means that the sovereign is banished, that the so-called state becomes a cave and a cave, that earth ceases to be earthly, and that all existence loses its existence.
Therefore, connected with the aforementioned responsibility to never give up the analysis and judgment, you must be extremely cautious about the power itself and its exercise, and you must be highly alert to the consequences of your actions. The day-to-day administration and the flow of law enforcement procedures will dull the sharpness of your mind and cast a dark shadow on your heart, but it does not mean that you can indulge in evil deeds, and it does not mean that you can find excuses for evil deeds. The hierarchy of power is not eliminated, but on the contrary, it strengthens the responsibility of the executor in the execution of the prudent analysis and resolute judgment, and more importantly, the decision to take the righteousness and remove the evil immediately afterwards. It is precisely because no legislation can exhaust all the specific facts that it is necessary for the enforcer to fulfill the duty of discernment and judgment, and thus to make his own choice in a specific situation, to make changes, adaptations, or even to disobey. Therefore, if you are under a good government and a good law, the system itself is set up in such a way that each executor’s discernment and judgment is the guarantee for the system to achieve its intended goal smoothly, and you are required to exercise your own conscience and conscience; if you are unfortunately under a system of tyranny and bad law, you are called upon to exercise your conscience and conscience, and you are also required to listen to the revelation of the Divine Principle on the scale of truth, reason, emotion and law, and to exercise careful discernment and judgment on right and wrong and righteousness and unrighteousness. You must be careful to discern and judge between right and wrong, righteousness and unrighteousness, and strive to remove evil and to do good, otherwise you are failing in your duty and doing evil. In fact, to behave in this way is not only to avoid harm but also, and above all, to prevent misfortune and disaster to the innocent. In other words, a prudence based on the concept of responsibility, a fear of evil, and the fear of punishment that comes with evil, so that the world may not be so colorful, so that life is more hesitant, but also to prevent humanity from slipping into the dark night. This may save the life of an innocent person, his or her entire existence on this shore, or even prevent a war. The point is that it manifests justice and keeps the flame of righteousness alive. And justice and righteousness is the foundation of this world, and is also the so-called human different from the beast of a few also. At least, it allows you not to be ambitious and greedy to have a little power in the hands of human crime, thus, to reduce the suffering and evil in the world, to do their own negative inaction, and thus save their own human personality and conscience, in fact, at least, while reducing their own moral risk from doing evil. This is negative freedom, but also positive freedom, which shows the beauty of virtue, and the virtue of goodness. It is this slightest fear, a kind of intolerance and compassion for our own lives and the lives of others, a deep concern for our words and actions, especially for the potential of the exercise of power to change the fate of others, rather than complacency and indifference, that not only keeps us from doing evil, but also keeps us human. Probably, it also allows us to sleep comfortably, eat comfortably, not to be frightened by the autumn night thunder rolling across the sky, and not to regret because of the death. –Friend, a light stab or scrape, our bodies will bleed ah. If you do not even admit this, no sympathy, thick skin, then I have to say – Sichuan dialect – hammer, day you a fairy board!
Therefore, at this moment, this quote from the above-mentioned great Writer to all of you, may it make you compassionate, in more care for yourself and your family at the same time, must not be indifferent to the pain and itch of the unfortunate person under your power at the moment, think of his and her unhappiness and misfortune, sympathy for his and her helplessness and innocence. You work hard and make your way up the ladder, so that you can easily rule the academy or mix into the system of sharing the spoils, a day of the capital, this success intoxicates you and may catalyze you to hallucinate, so you will persecute the strong straight voice professor in good conscience and stain the top with blood. You did so, the fact is that you all did so, but you should know that what you pay is your conscience is eaten by dogs this price, committed to evil, dedicated to the devil, possessed by the ghost, and it tumbles cause and effect, there is always fermentation on earth when the consequences are borne by all of us, may also include your loved ones. Those who carry the sword will die by the sword. You must be extremely cautious, and all accusations must be based on evidence, so that there is no room for error, not to mention the orders of the top, regardless of the right or wrong, or the person will lose his freedom or even his life, and the livelihood of the whole family will be destroyed. If you are a judge, you may truly understand that the law is often powerless, higher than the law, but also to maintain the meaningful survival of the world’s supreme value is compassion, kindness, mercy and intolerance. You must understand that evil laws are illegal, and that all real laws must not be disobedient to the Divine Principle, or else they are illegal and therefore not valid at all. As a law enforcement officer, you have to respect the law of the goodness of God, how to base on the basic norms and fundamental legal principles, through legal reasoning and legal interpretation, while not contradicting the existing legislation, to make the righteousness on earth, so that justice can be done without hindrance, and not to let the evil law harm the world, not to let the evil man arrogant. In addition, if you are a prison guard, please do not humiliate, kick and abuse the prisoner, who may have been a police officer or a judge, who, in a certain year or month, was also so rude and arrogant that he did not take other people’s worries and fears seriously. Facing the green hills, you should think of the woman inside the walls who used to live in the foothills, like you, overlooking the clouds and listening to the rain, the flowers and tears, and now she is unjustly behind bars, you should not destroy the flowers with an iron hand, adding to the misery. A cup in hand, you have to think of that end of the plastic rice bowl standing in the corner of the cell low bar bar drinking water black-faced man, in the past than you are much broader than you, more than your official children, but also more than you fierce, but the wind blowing clouds, autumn and winter, is not still today this kind of light. In the next custody of the prison, every time you see the prison guards, including the medical examination of the prison, fierce and fierce, always stern voice and loud reprimand, no about each other is also a human being, but people have the basic dignity needs of recognition and acknowledgement, they feel regret and pity for them to be so humble, and lament that although human beings have evolved over tens of thousands of years, and the vile nature is not always easy, at the first opportunity will come on, as a last resort! Being a member of them, we feel helpless and sad.
IV
Once again, if you do injustice, you will bear the guilt. You are the decision maker, of course, you can not escape the guilt. You are the executor, and you can’t use the excuse of carrying out an order to get off the hook. If you know that this is a bad policy and bad law, but you still carry it out, you are clearly responsible. If you do not know that it is an evil law, but only carry it out as if you were carrying out your daily duties, it only means that you have not only abandoned the responsibility of discernment and judgment that public authority requires of you, but you have also failed to carry out the fundamental norms and supreme laws of injustice that follow, and in turn, you are directly carrying out injustice. Thus, you cannot escape, hide from culpability, or justify yourself by what Arendt once articulated as “collective guilt” and “collective culpability” because of your screwed-up existence in a system of power. Arendt points out that “when the chain of evil is long enough, so long that it is impossible to see the whole picture, then each link in the chain of evil has a reason to feel innocent. But it is precisely here that the chain is restored, the role of each perpetrator is clarified, and the he and she, with their names and positions of authority, and their hierarchical positioning from section officer to head of state, are completely destroyed, and their – each specific individual – culpability is exposed in the light of day. s culpability to the light of day. It is funny that on the one hand, they are so vocal, claiming to be the truth, sitting on top of the power and making a big deal out of it, but on the other hand, they try not to leave any traces of their words, keep their victims silent, prevent the disclosure of specific “conversations”, and do not even dare to give their real names, which means that they know they are doing evil, they are panicking, they are weak, they want to cover it up, and they are making arrangements to escape their guilt And they have. But, as Joseph Brodsky’s youthful chant goes, “In the final analysis, to kill is to kill. Man’s duty is to fight the devil. Not only have you not fought the devil, but you have conspired with the devil to kill, how can you get away with it! Thus, here, precisely here, the so-called “collective guilt” never existed, and what is visible, traceable, and accountable is the input of specific individuals, who, each on his own, each responsible for his own, linked together to cause this heinous evil, and each constituting his own different guilt derived from the division of labor. Yes, specific culpability, not some big “collective culpability”, so that they have nowhere to hide. For the truth may be complicated, but the reason is simple: you have joined the dictatorial army that persecutes the righteous and the virtuous, and you are like that evil tribe that “treats its widows and orphans mercilessly, its old people mercilessly, and steals a crust of bread from a child’s hand”, of which you are a member, and you participate in the crime, and you are also sinning, and therefore you must bear the responsibility and accept the punishment of justice. Heaven and earth are the greatest, but there is no escape for you. Here, it is not unhelpful and necessary to trace the cultural and historical origins of evil, just as it is necessary to extend the investigation of the causes of Nazi tyranny to the entire Christian and Germanic peoples in a civilizational sense, and even to Hegel and Plato, and to trace the cultural origins of modern tyranny and totalitarianism in our country in the authoritarian and harsh mind of the merchants and the secular subservience of Confucianism. -But it does not in any way mean that Culture should be used as a substitute for tyranny, that the past should be scolded for the present, or that a seemingly heavy but in fact light concept of “collective guilt” should be used to erase the specific guilt of all individuals. Of course, it is not the same as using the innate defects of civilization and the darkness of national nature to dilute the sins in a big way, or even disappear into nothing. In this regard, as Arendt said, to accuse all people of sin is to excuse all people; where all people are guilty, no one is guilty. The fact is that the crime is committed by a specific individual, and the guilt must be borne by a specific individual. The excellence of the Magnitsky Act is that it puts this into practice for him or her by name, so that he or she can no longer use the so-called “collective crime” and “collective guilt” as a shield! –You, you are not the “harmless citizen”, you are not just an “obedient murderer” either. Rather, you are the active villain, you are the executioner, you are the accomplice to the execution, you are the villain who is thus rewarded, and you, you, you can’t easily get away with it!
Sadly, in his account of Argentina in the 1970s, the Nobel Prize winner and distinguished storyteller Mr. Naipaul wrote: “It is as if the power of the regime is now used only to sustain it, and law and order itself becomes an end in itself: this is part of the barrenness and barrenness of Argentina. The people are very brave; they torture and they are tortured; they die. Here, it is worth replacing Argentina with the country’s dynasty at this moment, which is generally apt. Yes, the expenses are enormous, and the expenditure on internal stability actually exceeds that of the military, all for the sake of monopolizing power in order to monopolize profit, and nothing to do with that bright and shiny idea they openly proclaim, which is why “at any cost”, or even “at all costs”. China’s modern transformation, which has lasted nearly two hundred years, has not yet been completed and has yet to be broken through, and this is where the impasse comes from. The great republican idea is that the state can and must be committed to the peaceful political coexistence of all citizens, to the abandonment of the totalitarian system of dictatorship and its law of the jungle, and to the realization of transitional justice in peace. As the White Russian writer and Nobel laureate Ms. Alekseyevich said, “Go, before it is too late, before you lead the people into a terrible abyss, into the abyss of civil war. No one wants blood, only you want power, and it is your thirst for power that requires blood! ……
It is a pity, but the people of this place, especially its gentry group that should have been the spiritual sky thunder and lightning, after centuries of tyranny, especially the late Red Dynasty tyranny, has long been weak, humble and filthy, under the double attack of totalitarian pressure and commercial temptation, the result of each and every ghostly cleverness, is completely insulated from the great wisdom and courage, indicating that the civilization of faith in the emptiness of the end without the accumulation of virtue, so no strength, only The civilization that believes in emptiness has no virtuous accumulation, so it has no strength and can only bend down and become a slave. Even if there is wealth, but also see the prosperity, not the spirit, a maggot-like lingering.
V
To sum up, the establishment and exercise of public power cannot avoid the responsibility of analyzing and judging the true and false, good and evil, public and unpublic, righteous and unrighteous, as well as the action to be decided based on this. This is the endowment of human rationality and the conscience of human beings, and it is also the legal and moral responsibility that all those who assume public power must fulfill, which cannot be shirked or evaded. In addition, this is a political obligation, but also a moral responsibility, and about the difference between human beings and birds, involving the bottom line of being human. In this case, you are under the evil government and the evil law, a part of the meat grinder, there is no choice but to raise the gun an inch, both to help others, but also to save yourself. In the end, doing evil means doing sin, and also for the crime, and the sin is all in, must bear the responsibility for the crime, the same can not escape the full range of political, legal and moral prosecution!
If you escape the law, you will not escape the political sentence; if you escape the political sentence, you will not escape the moral condemnation; if you are indifferent to the moral condemnation, what awaits you will be the pillar of shame of history. And history, it is history, the human narrative of the flood and the fable of life and death, is the existence of these human beings as history, which means that in the face of evil, will investigate the cause of evil, and there is no escape! Moreover, there is a god at three feet, or, ha, as the netizens flirt, there are Drones.
Six
Friends, the world is made up of uprooted people, as Rilke thought, “Human beings are not people in the world at Home. The world itself means that it is a strange mixture of warm homes and uprooted people, the opposite of each other, so that the homes we inhabit are and are only stations in a long journey of uprootedness. Human beings are destined to be rooted in the earth and cannot move at all, but they can only keep moving, line after line, destined to make life itself a tragedy of running in a hurry between life and death. –In fact, we are all vagabonds and exiles, campers on the ruins called history, long and short distance, wind and water, breeding sacrifices, all the way down; we are all prisoners of the flesh and captives of our nature, all our lives, our hearts are higher than the sky, we eat, drink and shit, but we can only sit in a city of worries, whispering and whistling in sacrifice to the reincarnation. At the end of the day, hurry up and turn back to death, find the right way, raise the scripture fluttering, with a good bronze sacrificial vessels, the sprinkler hurried to also. This is not a secret, let alone a curse, but rather, the naked cruelty of our lives here, and the tragic nature of the world. This is the fate of heaven and earth, you small sample of foxes and tigers, beat the table and bench, spittle flying, in the end in vain. Moreover, as the poet said, the best evidence of the existence of the Almighty God is that we never know when we will die, and the totalitarian, the tyrant with no pants, the most humane of his qualities is that he will surely die. — and he’s bound to die, sometimes worse! That is, there is a force that does not yield to our chronology, nor to our morality, nor to bullshit ideology and gangster partisanship. Thus, it is here that the eternal tragedy of this existence is confronted rather than ignored, looked at rather than ignored, and attempts are made to mitigate its cruelty, which is why there is a distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness, and thus the heavy responsibility of not, cannot, and must not practice unrighteousness. At the entrance of the world, the unbearable weight of life is here! On the contrary, to be subservient to the machine parts style of existence, to give up moral torture as the only human endowment that gives dignity to human beings, to be wanton in ideological hysteria, and even to be willing to act as a thugs of the evil government, shows that the foundation of human nature is empty, treats the mental ulcer as a flower of thought, and pushes the tragedy of existence and the cruelty of life one step further, making the already miserable world worse, and proves It is the corrosive nature of evil in life, which pushes individual human nature to complete uselessness, and also the complete decay of individual life and the ultimate collapse of life. The misery of the human world is endless, and the root cause is here, but not only here. The ignorant mind, the broken heart, here is not only in the malicious use of that cruelty, but also for the world’s complete humiliation, the essence is the spirit of hysteria, and the ultimate denial of the existence of all existence, including you and me, life is like a dog pig. –You and I, you and we, all of us, can we bear to see this tragedy played out, repeated and repeated?
At the end, I would like to say, my friend, if you at least adhere to the bottom line, and did not help the enemy, I thank you, everyone will thank you, and first of all, you should be grateful to yourself, that you at least adhere to the responsibility of discernment and judgment, not in vain. If you not only do so, but also raise your gun an inch, and even save people from danger, like the East German soldier who fired an empty gun over the woman who went over the Berlin Wall, like the KGB agent who let the poet roar in the wiretap room, then, in addition to thanking you, I would like to bless you, bless you for keeping your humanity, for overcoming that extinct party spirit with your humanity, you are a man. May the blessing turn into good fortune and bless you with a lifetime of peace and prosperity in your life. For no other reason than that what you did was right, and you only decided that what you did was right, so you chose to follow the good. Here, “You do not know that people have already forgiven you ……”. Although I know that virtue is self-sufficient and complete, she rejoices in herself for herself and does not need to be rewarded by others at all, nor does it matter if she is praised. If, on the other hand, you do not take the bottom line, and if you do not want to be a good person, then I do not want to threaten you with the “clichés” of immediate retribution and future punishment, because you and I both know that the current reality, and even the historical situation, is that good people are not rewarded and bad people are blessed, and they seem to be unconvincing. I know that such a “cliché” will be laughed at and dismissed as naive and naive, and therefore pale in comparison to the “thoroughgoing materialism” here, that is, the lack of belief in a higher existence than human beings, in something more eternal than this world, in a soul or spirit beyond the physical body. Yes, the only thing I can apply, and the only thing I have, is the old saying, the “cliché” that you may scoff at, that is, you touch your own chest and ask if you can live up to your conscience, if you have one. What kind of example have you set for your children’s offspring, if you still have the same care and responsibility for your children’s offspring? You replied, “Fuck conscience, don’t talk to me about conscience, I’ll say, friend, may you sleep well, I can only reiterate to you the “cliché” of “justice will come”. On the contrary, in case you are unfortunate enough to be ostracized by your peers, to have your career stranded or even to be blackmailed because of your cleanliness or, furthermore, to stand up for justice, then I will stand side by side with you, calling for you and serving you food, even if my voice is weak against the storm of the evil government.
You may still say, “How pale your words are, and what is the meaning of your promised action? Well, I admit that we have always been losers, not only having been deprived of our freedom by the powerful, but often having our heads taken off by the powerful. This is the suffering that the pursuit of freedom necessarily entails, the suffering that is the connotation of the evil of the world that freedom confronts and releases. This is what my departed spiritual brother, the poet Changyao, chanted
The Divine Principle is arranged in numbers, long and short, horizontal and horizontal.
The round top of the skull of the thinker chases away the carriage of nothingness.
It is because of this commitment to suffering that the suffering of the world has been reduced, especially because we still have hope for our own family nature and the historical thoughts about the future of mankind, so that it is possible to fulfill our promises in the repetition of good promises, so that the evil of the world can be curbed a little. Although there is no end to the sea of suffering, fortunately, the sky is always there, the earth is always there, the heavenly way is there, the heavenly justice is there, between heaven and earth, not for the Jie to exist, not for the Yao to die, the word good and evil is written in capital letters, hanging nine suns of compassion, kindness, mercy and intolerance. And it is not just a political code about the self, rather, it is a moral judgment about the world. If it exists, the world exists. If it does not exist, the world does not exist, and neither you nor I are there.
VII
Perhaps, this is the light in which we all have to live, the light that is indispensable for your survival and life, and for the survival and life of your Parents and children. It is from this that the experience of self-esteem and the sense of its loss, and the fear of self-disdain emerge. So that future generations, looking at the present as the present looks at the past, do not stand on the ruins of the prison and look at our remains as the Native Americans once did three hundred and fifty years later when they displayed the Tudor blouse, a new garment from the old days, received by their ancestors, and lament “the relics of a long-ago disappointment.
Speaking of which, my friend, you can take a break from the government service, take off the skin, turn around and go out, and we will look up at the sky together, we will look down at the earth together, we will listen to the sigh of the mountain wind together, we will touch the vastness of the beating pulse together, and we will let our moods fly in the endlessness as the autumn leaves fall. This world, at this moment, as the beginning of everything, is the beginning of everything, and we are the old children, but also born old. Then, a little break, each step leisurely path, a sip of water, silently, and then think back to a year, a month, a day, a moment in their lives, had a bewildered, that moment of blushing, a glimpse of the head of the sunset building. Perhaps, at that time, we were mixed with sadness and happiness, our hearts were tightened, and we were unaware of the tears overflowing our eyes ……
After all, my fellow countrymen, in this world, the victim and the sufferer, the humiliated and the humiliated, the harmed and the harmed, we are all brothers and sisters, are all the people of God, are all suffering people, tossed around to live on earth, a lifetime of humiliation, in the end, all over the body, and finally can only return to the dust. God, please have mercy on this glorious and unfortunate world, on the indistinguishability between good and evil, on all our flesh and blood, on the sadness, the helplessness, the helplessness, the helplessness, and the desperation, and put your palms together and cry. May this cry awaken the cold heart, let the tears of repentance and gratitude become a flood, washing away all the filth on earth, and awakening the inexhaustible heavenly conscience that we all treasure in our hearts! –For, you and I likewise still know that, in fact, in addition to calling upon the heavenly conscience, the heavenly gods, they have swords and guns, while we, like you, have bare hands.
Yea, “Love, which drives the stars and the heavenly bodies.
At that time of the year, there was rain on the lake, the valley was windy, perhaps, we were mixed with sadness and happiness, our hearts were tightened, and once again unknowingly tears overflowed both eyes ……
Xu Zhang Run
Gengzi August 22, Christmas 2000 October 8, the first draft, October 22, revised in the old river road, the sunset building head, the sound of broken Hong.
It is a pity, but the people of this place, especially its gentry group that should have been the spiritual sky thunder and lightning, after centuries of tyranny, especially the late Red Dynasty tyranny, has long been weak, humble and filthy, under the double attack of totalitarian pressure and commercial temptation, the result of each and every ghostly cleverness, is completely insulated from the great wisdom and courage, indicating that the civilization of faith in the emptiness of the end without the accumulation of virtue, so no strength, only The civilization that believes in emptiness has no virtuous accumulation, so it has no strength and can only bend down and become a slave. Even if there is wealth, but also see the prosperity, not the spirit, a maggot-like lingering.
V
To sum up, the establishment and exercise of public power cannot avoid the responsibility of analyzing and judging the true and false, good and evil, public and unpublic, righteous and unrighteous, as well as the action to be decided based on this. This is the endowment of human rationality and the conscience of human beings, and it is also the legal and moral responsibility that all those who assume public power must fulfill, which cannot be shirked or evaded. In addition, this is a political obligation, but also a moral responsibility, and about the difference between human beings and birds, involving the bottom line of being human. In this case, you are under the evil government and the evil law, a part of the meat grinder, there is no choice but to raise the gun an inch, both to help others, but also to save yourself. In the end, doing evil means doing sin, and also for the crime, and the sin is all in, must bear the responsibility for the crime, the same can not escape the full range of political, legal and moral prosecution!
If you escape the law, you will not escape the political sentence; if you escape the political sentence, you will not escape the moral condemnation; if you are indifferent to the moral condemnation, what awaits you will be the pillar of shame of history. And history, it is history, the human narrative of the flood and the fable of life and death, is the existence of these human beings as history, which means that in the face of evil, will investigate the cause of evil, and there is no escape! Moreover, there is a god at three feet, or, ha, as the netizens flirt, there are drones.
Six
Friends, the world is made up of uprooted people, as Rilke thought, “Human beings are not people in the world at home. The world itself means that it is a strange mixture of warm homes and uprooted people, the opposite of each other, so that the homes we inhabit are and are only stations in a long journey of uprootedness. Human beings are destined to be rooted in the earth and cannot move at all, but they can only keep moving, line after line, destined to make life itself a tragedy of running in a hurry between life and death. –In fact, we are all vagabonds and exiles, campers on the ruins called history, long and short distance, wind and water, breeding sacrifices, all the way down; we are all prisoners of the flesh and captives of our nature, all our lives, our hearts are higher than the sky, we eat, drink and shit, but we can only sit in a city of worries, whispering and whistling in sacrifice to the reincarnation. At the end of the day, hurry up and turn back to death, find the right way, raise the scripture fluttering, with a good bronze sacrificial vessels, the sprinkler hurried to also. This is not a secret, let alone a curse, but rather, the naked cruelty of our lives here, and the tragic nature of the world. This is the fate of heaven and earth, you small sample of foxes and tigers, beat the table and bench, spittle flying, in the end in vain. Moreover, as the poet said, the best evidence of the existence of the Almighty God is that we never know when we will die, and the totalitarian, the tyrant with no pants, the most humane of his qualities is that he will surely die. — and he’s bound to die, sometimes worse! That is, there is a force that does not yield to our chronology, nor to our morality, nor to bullshit ideology and gangster partisanship. Thus, it is here that the eternal tragedy of this existence is confronted rather than ignored, looked at rather than ignored, and attempts are made to mitigate its cruelty, which is why there is a distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness, and thus the heavy responsibility of not, cannot, and must not practice unrighteousness. At the entrance of the world, the unbearable weight of life is here! On the contrary, to be subservient to the machine parts style of existence, to give up moral torture as the only human endowment that gives dignity to human beings, to be wanton in ideological hysteria, and even to be willing to act as a thugs of the evil government, shows that the foundation of human nature is empty, treats the mental ulcer as a flower of thought, and pushes the tragedy of existence and the cruelty of life one step further, making the already miserable world worse, and proves It is the corrosive nature of evil in life, which pushes individual human nature to complete uselessness, and also the complete decay of individual life and the ultimate collapse of life. The misery of the human world is endless, and the root cause is here, but not only here. The ignorant mind, the broken heart, here is not only in the malicious use of that cruelty, but also for the world’s complete humiliation, the essence is the spirit of hysteria, and the ultimate denial of the existence of all existence, including you and me, life is like a dog pig. –You and I, you and we, all of us, can we bear to see this tragedy played out, repeated and repeated?
At the end, I would like to say, my friend, if you at least adhere to the bottom line, and did not help the enemy, I thank you, everyone will thank you, and first of all, you should be grateful to yourself, that you at least adhere to the responsibility of discernment and judgment, not in vain. If you not only do so, but also raise your gun an inch, and even save people from danger, like the East German soldier who fired an empty gun over the woman who went over the Berlin Wall, like the KGB agent who let the poet roar in the wiretap room, then, in addition to thanking you, I would like to bless you, bless you for keeping your humanity, for overcoming that extinct party spirit with your humanity, you are a man. May the blessing turn into good fortune and bless you with a lifetime of peace and prosperity in your life. For no other reason than that what you did was right, and you only decided that what you did was right, so you chose to follow the good. Here, “You do not know that people have already forgiven you ……”. Although I know that virtue is self-sufficient and complete, she rejoices in herself for herself and does not need to be rewarded by others at all, nor does it matter if she is praised. If, on the other hand, you do not take the bottom line, and if you do not want to be a good person, then I do not want to threaten you with the “clichés” of immediate retribution and future punishment, because you and I both know that the current reality, and even the historical situation, is that good people are not rewarded and bad people are blessed, and they seem to be unconvincing. I know that such a “cliché” will be laughed at and dismissed as naive and naive, and therefore pale in comparison to the “thoroughgoing materialism” here, that is, the lack of belief in a higher existence than human beings, in something more eternal than this world, in a soul or spirit beyond the physical body. Yes, the only thing I can apply, and the only thing I have, is the old saying, the “cliché” that you may scoff at, that is, you touch your own chest and ask if you can live up to your conscience, if you have one. What kind of example have you set for your children’s offspring, if you still have the same care and responsibility for your children’s offspring? You replied, “Fuck conscience, don’t talk to me about conscience, I’ll say, friend, may you sleep well, I can only reiterate to you the “cliché” of “justice will come”. On the contrary, in case you are unfortunate enough to be ostracized by your peers, to have your career stranded or even to be blackmailed because of your cleanliness or, furthermore, to stand up for justice, then I will stand side by side with you, calling for you and serving you food, even if my voice is weak against the storm of the evil government.
You may still say, “How pale your words are, and what is the meaning of your promised action? Well, I admit that we have always been losers, not only having been deprived of our freedom by the powerful, but often having our heads taken off by the powerful. This is the suffering that the pursuit of freedom necessarily entails, the suffering that is the connotation of the evil of the world that freedom confronts and releases. This is what my departed spiritual brother, the poet Changyao, chanted
The Divine Principle is arranged in numbers, long and short, horizontal and horizontal.
The round top of the skull of the thinker chases away the carriage of nothingness.
It is because of this commitment to suffering that the suffering of the world has been reduced, especially because we still have hope for our own family nature and the historical thoughts about the future of mankind, so that it is possible to fulfill our promises in the repetition of good promises, so that the evil of the world can be curbed a little. Although there is no end to the sea of suffering, fortunately, the sky is always there, the earth is always there, the heavenly way is there, the heavenly justice is there, between heaven and earth, not for the Jie to exist, not for the Yao to die, the word good and evil is written in capital letters, hanging nine suns of compassion, kindness, mercy and intolerance. And it is not just a political code about the self, rather, it is a moral judgment about the world. If it exists, the world exists. If it does not exist, the world does not exist, and neither you nor I are there.
VII
Perhaps, this is the light in which we all have to live, the light that is indispensable for your survival and life, and for the survival and life of your parents and children. It is from this that the experience of self-esteem and the sense of its loss, and the fear of self-disdain emerge. So that future generations, looking at the present as the present looks at the past, do not stand on the ruins of the prison and look at our remains as the Native Americans once did three hundred and fifty years later when they displayed the Tudor blouse, a new garment from the old days, received by their ancestors, and lament “the relics of a long-ago disappointment.
Speaking of which, my friend, you can take a break from the government service, take off the skin, turn around and go out, and we will look up at the sky together, we will look down at the earth together, we will listen to the sigh of the mountain wind together, we will touch the vastness of the beating pulse together, and we will let our moods fly in the endlessness as the autumn leaves fall. This world, at this moment, as the beginning of everything, is the beginning of everything, and we are the old children, but also born old. Then, a little break, each step leisurely path, a sip of water, silently, and then think back to a year, a month, a day, a moment in their lives, had a bewildered, that moment of blushing, a glimpse of the head of the sunset building. Perhaps, at that time, we were mixed with sadness and happiness, our hearts were tightened, and we were unaware of the tears overflowing our eyes ……
After all, my fellow countrymen, in this world, the victim and the sufferer, the humiliated and the humiliated, the harmed and the harmed, we are all brothers and sisters, are all the people of God, are all suffering people, tossed around to live on earth, a lifetime of humiliation, in the end, all over the body, and finally can only return to the dust. God, please have mercy on this glorious and unfortunate world, on the indistinguishability between good and evil, on all our flesh and blood, on the sadness, the helplessness, the helplessness, the helplessness, and the desperation, and put your palms together and cry. May this cry awaken the cold heart, let the tears of repentance and gratitude become a flood, washing away all the filth on earth, and awakening the inexhaustible heavenly conscience that we all treasure in our hearts! –For, you and I likewise still know that, in fact, in addition to calling upon the heavenly conscience, the heavenly gods, they have swords and guns, while we, like you, have bare hands.
Yea, “Love, which drives the stars and the heavenly bodies.
At that time of the year, there was rain on the lake, the valley was windy, perhaps, we were mixed with sadness and happiness, our hearts were tightened, and once again unknowingly tears overflowed both eyes ……
Xu Zhang Run
Gengzi August 22, Christmas 2000 October 8, the first draft, October 22, revised in the old river road, the sunset building head, the sound of broken Hong.
Xu Zhangrun, a former law professor at Tsinghua University, was detained by Beijing police and suspended from the university last July for publishing an article critical of the Communist Party and its top leader Xi Jinping.
In July 2018, Xu Zhangrun published an article, “Our Present Fears and Expectations,” which raised several concerns and suggestions and triggered a huge echo. in March 2019, Xu was suspended from Tsinghua University. on May 21, 2020, he published an article, “China’s Lonely Boat on the Ocean of World Civilization – The New Crown Epidemic in the Context of the Global System s political outlook and civilizational theory,” analyzing the various problems exposed by China under the epidemic and calling for systemic reform. 2020 On July 6, he was taken away from his Beijing home by the police.
Geng Xiaonan, female, publisher, chairman of Legendary Tianhui (Beijing) Film Co., Ltd. and director of the Gonghe Foundation of the China Social Work Development Foundation. Geng Xiaonan, 46, came forward last year in solidarity with Professor Xu Zhangrun and has come under increasing scrutiny. Geng Xiaonan’s supporters say she will stand trial in Beijing on Tuesday (Feb. 9).
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