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800 words for 3000 years
 
(29 Mar) Why can’t Chinese achieve the same scientific and democratic modernization as the West?
 
There are many reasons, I could go on for days. For starters, it is the nation’s obedience and deep-rooted depravity, as verified by Chinese writer Lu Xun. Secondly, it is the 2000-year system based on the dark emperor system of Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s legalism. Thirdly, Chinese pictographs are only suitable for the imagination, whereas English is based on Latin, pictographs cannot cultivate rational logical thinking.
 
Most importantly: Western civilization originated in Greece 3000 years ago, around the same period as China’s Spring and Autumn period. However, the original intention of Western Greek culture aimed to “seek truth” from the very beginning. Under the starry nights of Athens, Socrates and Plato would explore the logic and philosophy over a question. In contrast, Confucius, Mencius and their students wasted too much time on ‘benevolence’, the concept of kindness.
 
//the ‘benevolence’ in Confucian ethics was soon permanently suppressed by Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s legalist scholar Shang Yang’s cruel legalism.
 
//The ethical Chinese culture was once based on morality, and it slowly became something that scholar-officials recite. In reality, the scholar-officials were people who palace maidens and eunuchs kissed up and snitched to.
 
//In short, after 150 years, they still choose the way Lenin and Mao Zedong ruled, they still want an Emperor.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/800-words-for-3000-years-04-12

Source: Apple Daily

Further reading:
Why is this Apocalypse?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18146

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How reliable are Chinese statistics?

Chinese spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yuan Mu said thirty years ago: Nobody died in Tiannamen square.

Western politicians nowadays have seen 'Tienanmen statistics' when they were growing up. For those who still believes it are either naive and ignorant or eager for Chinese money, which both are the worst of humanity. Fortunately, these crowds are limited to Western politicians, scholars and bankers, who spent their honeymoon with China for the last 20 years. Folks in Germany and Switzerland are behaving as they are supposed to, yet they're still being tricked by their politicians.

Jacky Chan once said: TVs made in China explode. Masks made in China are now returned without exception. With the benefit of hindsight, Chan was indeed a true intellectual. With globalisation and the Chinese pandemic, countries began a quality race to the bottom. And this bat and mouse eating civilization dreaded by Lu Xun is way ahead the rest of the pack.

Excerpt: Apple Daily, (04-Apr)
https://bit.ly/2UZUj94

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Michelin of Bat and Rat at Paris

Editor's note: The following is written by columnist Chip Tsao on Apple Daily in response to a petition initiated by a person named Jon Soloman

"Jon Solomon, who is a left-leaning, sinologist of French origin working in Shanghai, pointed out that a Doctor in Hong Kong, Dr Yuen Kwok-Yung has committed 'colonial racism'. He then asked for the Head of Hong Kong University, who is originated from China, to dismiss Dr. Yuen.

//The “Inferiority of The Chinese” referred by Dr. Yuen, both Lu Xun and Albert Einstein

//While no university in Western dares to stop a “colonial racism”, Jewish Theory of relativity.

//If eating rats and bats were nothing wrong, the Chinese in Paris should respond to the left politicians by opening a specialty store at Avenue des Champs-Elysees and offering grilled rat and bat soup.

//Hong Kong complied with the rule set up by the British Emperor, who destroyed the Old Summer Palace, stopped the Chinese from killing cats and dogs for food. Such abhorrent examples of colonial racism have not yet been abolished by the British Remnant: Carrie Lam.

//not a single Hongkonger, not even our chief executive is a full-blooded Chinese.

//If humans stuck to the civilization of colonial racism, pandemics would not happen today."

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Michelin-of-Bat-and-Rat-at-Paris-04-20

Source: Apple Daily News #Mar26
https://bit.ly/2VmsHLq

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The five kept their distance from each other in compliance to the two-person gathering limit. However, police officers still ticketed them for violating the gathering ban.

Here is the poem, with translation below:

——紀念魯迅逝世十三周年有感
有的人活着,
他已經死了;
有的人死了,
他還活着。
有的人,
騎在人民頭上:「呵,我多偉大!」
有的人,
俯下身子給人民當牛馬。
有的人,
把名字刻入石頭,想「不朽」;
有的人,
情願做野草,等着地下的火燒。
有的人,
他活着別人就不能活;
有的人,
他活着為了多數人更好地活。
騎在人民頭上的,
人民把他摔垮;
給人民作牛馬的,
人民永遠記住他!
把名字刻入石頭的,
名字比屍首爛得更早;
只要春風吹到的地方,
到處是青青的野草。
他活着別人就不能活的人,
他的下場可以看到;
他活着為了多數人更好地活的人,
群眾把他抬舉得很高,很高。
——1949年11月1日於北京

In memory of Lu Xun, on the 30th anniversary of his passing:

Some people are alive,
But they are already dead;
Some people have died,
Yet they still live.

Some people
Step on the heads of the masses: "Oh, I'm so great!"
Some people
Stoop down and let the masses ride on his body.
Some people
Carve their names into stone, thinking of "Immortality";
Some people
Would rather be wild grass, waiting to be burned up.
Some people,
If they live, others cannot;
Some people,
They live, so that most people can live better.

He who step on the heads of the masses,
The masses smash him to the ground;
He who let the masses ride on him,
The masses shall remember him forever!
He who carved his name into stone,
His name waste away long before his corpse;
Wherever the spring wind blows,
The wild grass grows green everywhere.
He who, if he lives, others cannot,
All can see his downfall;
He who lived so that most people can live better,
The people lift him high, very high.

Written Nov 1, 1949 in Beijing

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