diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index b80c8fe0c0..b9b62c95e4 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -128,6 +128,35 @@ Finally, the political powers of each website decide what is allowed or not on t * <> * <> +<> has, of course, a beautiful reply to this at https://github.com/programthink/zhao/tree/e8eea46424549c11792dfe61cf9e7698bdbd7240#致反对此项目的墙内程序员[]: + +[[programthink-meant-to-be-used]] +____ +致“反对此项目的墙内程序员” + +本项目上线第二天，就收获 363 个 star 兼 88 个 fork，甚至还挤进 GitHub 的“当日 Trending”——俺很荣幸，也很高兴有这么多人给俺捧场。 + +但是在本项目的 issue 列表中也看到好几个反对此项目的程序员（应该都来自墙内），他们担心这个项目导致 GitHub 被 GFW 封杀。 + +这几年来，类似的言论俺已经看了不少。就好比强盗拿刀杀人，围观者不但没有谴责强盗，反而去谴责卖刀的店家——这就是传说中的“https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/斯德哥爾摩症候群[斯德哥尔摩综合症]”。 + +有兴趣的同学，可以看俺之前的博文——《link:https://program-think.blogspot.com/2012/06/stockholm-syndrome.html[天朝民众的心理分析：斯德哥尔摩综合症]》 +____ + +Translation: + +____ +In reply to: "Programmers behind the <> who are Against This Project" + +The second day after the project went online, I got 363 stars and 88 forks, and even squeezed into GitHub's "Trend of the Day". I am honored and I am so happy that so many people gave me their support. + +However, in the issue list of this project, I also saw several programmers who opposed this project (likely all from within the GFW), and they worried that this project would cause GitHub to be blocked by GFW. + +Over the past few years, I have read a lot of similar comments. A good comparison would be if a robber were killing someone with a knife, the onlookers not only did not condemn the robber, but instead condemned the shop that sold the knife. This is the legendary "link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome[Stockholm syndrome]". + +Interested people can read my previous blog post: https://program-think.blogspot.com/2012/06/stockholm-syndrome.html["Psychological Analysis of the People of the Heavenly Dynasty: Stockholm Syndrome"]. +____ + Infinite duplicate pool: * https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ameant-to-be-used+ @@ -177,9 +206,10 @@ There is infinite debate about this out there, some examples: For: * dictatorships are more likely to start <> or other <> like the <>, which completely destroy the economy in one go -* society becomes richer when people know that they can do their startups, get rich, and stay in the country without fear of being persecuted unfairly and losing everything instead of migrating to Canada. +* society becomes richer when people know that they can do their startups, get rich, and stay in the country without fear of being persecuted unfairly and losing everything instead of migrating to Canada, see also: <> +* it is much harder to fix problems if you can't talk about the. Any criticism of the government, even if constructive, <>, which makes the government and just becomes less efficient since there is less feedback. + -Any criticism of the government, even if constructive, is taken as menace to power, and more likely to be shut down, which makes the government and just becomes less efficient since there is less feedback. +This greatly increase the probability of dealing bad with situations. See e.g.: <. * governments are monopolies, and the more powerful they are, the worst it is for competition an efficiency in general. E.g.: the startup with better government ties wins, instead of the most efficient one. Against: @@ -191,7 +221,7 @@ Killing a million people will make us richer? No problem, let's do it. + That is great when they make good decisions, but it sucks when they make <> more likely. -I really like https://web.archive.org/web/20180923192824/https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/05/can-poor-countries-afford-democracy-becker.html[Posners'] way of putting it: +<> really likes https://web.archive.org/web/20180923192824/https://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/05/can-poor-countries-afford-democracy-becker.html[Posners'] way of putting it: ____ While average rate of growth do not appear to differ much between democracies and authoritarian regimes, the variability in performance does differ more among authoritarian governments. China has had remarkable growth since the 1980s, but the prolonged devastation and hardship produced by China's "<>" (when millions of farmers starved to death) and its Cultural Revolution would unlikely have occurred in a democratic country like say India. Nor is it likely that say Cuba and many African nations would have suffered so long with such terrible economic policies if they had reasonably democratic institutions. @@ -424,10 +454,21 @@ ____ ===== The Chinese masses are not interested in politics and therefore not ready to vote -But how would they be interested in politics or be able to discuss, if it is impossible to a different view without going to jail? +But how would they be interested in politics or be able to discuss it, if it is <>? What about the <> and the 70 million <> followers? Did they not care? +[[overlook-human-rights-for-profit]] +==== As long as China is developing economically, it is fine to violate the human rights of a few million people + +This argument can be made, but it is a risky way to live: <> and borderline <>. + +Do the <>? + +What is the point of having all that wealth, when you risk <>? + +<> argues that China would be even richer if it weren't for the CCP: <>, and that the CCP only violates people's human rights as a tool to stay in power: <>. + .<> cartoon about a pig who does not care about politics because it cannot be eaten. 民主又不能当饭吃 https://twitter.com/remonwangxt/status/1131398147253710850[Source]. image::https://web.archive.org/web/20191220204455if_/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7OImmpWsAEYXEN.jpg[height=600] @@ -441,7 +482,7 @@ One of the key points of <> governments has been to que However, there is one much better solution to that: democracy and freedom of speech. -The reason is obvious: with censorship, corrupt politicians can <> anything bad that they did, and so it becomes much harder to destroy corruption. +The reason is obvious: with censorship, <> can <> anything bad that they did, and so it becomes much harder to destroy corruption. In George Bernard Shaw's "Maxims for Revolutionists" words: @@ -640,13 +681,6 @@ I don't like it, but I think it is worth it. If you just work to make money and have a good life, without any plans to improve the government, you are just making the economy of the dictatorship stronger, then when they start a <> or kill yet another minority, blood will also be on your hands. See also: <>. -[[overlook-human-rights-for-profit]] -==== As long as China is developping economically, it is fine to violate the human rights of a few million people - -This argument can be made, but it is a risky way to live: <> and borderline <>. Do the <>? - -<> argues that China would be even richer if it weren't for the CCP: <>, and that the CCP only violates people's human rights as a tool to stay in power: <>. - [[stability]] ==== If anyone disagrees with the government they must be punished to keep the stability of the country @@ -718,14 +752,16 @@ See also: * <> * <> -Duplicate pool: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Anot-chinese+ +Duplicate pool: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Ayou-are-not-chinese-argument [[brainwashed-by-usa]] ==== Non-Chinese people have been brainwashed by the USA know nothing about China Everyone is "brainwashed" by their environment. -Ciro Santilli doesn't doubt that Chinese people know more about China than him. +E.g. people in the West are brainwashed to believe in democracy, freedom of speech and human rights. + +<> doesn't doubt that Chinese people know more about China than him. Saying that "someone is not Chinese, he does not understand China", is just an useless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem[ad hominem] argument and closely related to <>. @@ -740,7 +776,11 @@ See also: <>. [[evil-west]] ==== The commies exaggerate the threat of the West to keep in power -This is a common strategy, but the West is not as evil as they say: +First, obviously, <>. + +However, the CCP greatly exaggerates how evil the West is, because making your people constantly afraid is a classic strategy used by dictators to stay in power. + +Or in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable[fable] form: ____ Once upon a time, there was a farmer with a farm. @@ -766,6 +806,35 @@ ____ TODO source. +This theme is also highlighted in many well known works/events. + +North Korea for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_North_Korea[China's good and trusty friend], is just a caricatural level of this, since it manages to be more a <> than even China itself! + +In fiction, <> is undoubtedly the most prominent example, in which the Party constantly switches from being at war with one country to the other in a never ending https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war[perpetual war] (exactly like North Korea vs South Korea, or China vs <>). + +One of the best related quotes comes in Part Two, Chapter 9 when Winston reads Emmanuel Goldstein's subversive text, one of the chapters contains (emphasis by Ciro): + +[[nineteen-eighty-four-war-is-peace]] +____ +The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. **War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair**. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three super-states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed for ever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This--although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense--is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE. +____ + +This is also the first line of the party slogan, which perfectly resonates with the CCP: + +____ +WAR IS PEACE + +FREEDOM IS SLAVERY + +IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH +____ + +or in Part One, Chapter 3: + +____ +Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. +____ + +The theme is also mentioned in <>, where a <> is used by governments to increase their power over the people. + Duplicate pool: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues?q=label%3Aevil-west+ [[henri-meyer]] @@ -1037,14 +1106,14 @@ video::zndzntIDLFE[youtube,height=400,width=600] .Westerner: "How is life in China?" Chinese: "Oh, we can't complain." Westerner: "That's awesome." Chinese: "No, seriously... we can't." is a word play between the more common "we can't complain because everything is great" and "we can't complain because <> will <>". https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3933168[Source] image::https://web.archive.org/web/20200514071323im_/https://tnimage.s3.hicloud.net.tw/photos/2020/05/13/1589352986-5ebb9a1ad0a98.jpg[height=600] -=== There are bad things happening all over the world, why don't you fight for those causes as well / instead? +=== There are bad things happening all over the world, why doesn't Ciro Santilli fight for those causes as well/instead? We have to choose the one we think is the worst, and focus on it. -What is worse is a subjective choice. For me: +What is worse is a subjective choice. For <>: -* I love China and my <>, see also: <> -* I hate dictatorships, and China is the largest one by population / GDP / link:https://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report[nuclear stockpile] +* he <>, see also: <>, and doesn't want it to get fucked further by the CCP +* he hates dictatorships, and China is the largest one by population/GDP/link:https://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report[nuclear stockpile], and therefore <> My <> and <> are not infinite. @@ -1057,7 +1126,7 @@ That is definitely true. Nothing is perfect in this world. -Ciro just believes that they are way better than a <> like China. +<> just believes that they are way better than a <> like China, and that the Chinese government <>. As link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority[Churchill] once brilliantly link:https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government[put it]: @@ -1067,7 +1136,15 @@ ____ However, this is all obviously subjective, and believing that dictatorship is a better form of government is also a valid belief. -If you find an event on a Western democracy that you would like to highlight, send a pull request. We will not however include events that are not currently censored. Every country did fucked-up things in the past, the question is if they currently allow discussion about it or not. +If you find an event on a Western democracy that you would like to highlight, send a pull request. + +We will not however include events that are not currently censored. + +Every country did fucked-up things in the past, the question is if they currently allow discussion about it or not. + +Posts that only mention <> non-censored events without adding anything to the discussion will be marked as <> and treated as such, since spamming those is the primary <> technique to stop intelligent discussion. + +The reason why "Evil China" posts are not shitposts in general on the other hand, is that they have one specific purpose: <>. This "Western censorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copypasta[copypasta] string" https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/gct0ox/all_moderation_services_suspended_for_the_next_24/fpeends/[was posted automatically] by a bot during <> purge day: @@ -1132,6 +1209,8 @@ Some quick replies to the idiotic things wumaos like to post: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd[George Floyd] https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/乔治·弗洛伊德之死[乔治·弗洛伊德之死]: the murder video went viral and was not taken down (would have been in China), all four officers were charged, and the event sparked nation wide protests + +And the Chinese are also obviously at least as racist, if not more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/25/coronavirus-exposed-china-history-racism-africans-guangzhou ++ Wumao example: https://web.archive.org/web/20200618071130/https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/112#issuecomment-645716105 See also: @@ -1160,13 +1239,21 @@ See also: ===== Western democracies also censor subjects such as child porn and hate speech -First, if you don't think child porn should be banned, I don't think there is much point in arguing with you anymore. +First, if you don't think child porn should be banned, there isn't much point in arguing with you. But of course, there is censorship in Western democracies, and there is a gray area between what should be censored or not. -The only thing that matters is that political speech must never be censored. This way, the majority can always discuss and vote to change what can be censored or not. +<> only argues that there is on type of speech that must never be <>: political speech. + +This way, the majority can always discuss and vote to change what can be censored or not. + +In China, trying to discuss such changes in laws <>, so bad laws cannot be changed. -In China, trying to discuss of changes laws puts you in jail, so bad laws cannot be changed. +Otherwise, this leads to extremely serious problems: + +* <>: politicians can <> anything bad that they did to stay in power +* <>: if the CCP leaders decide that a war must be made, everyone who opposes it will go to jail, and the war will be made +* <>: if the CCP decides that <> is <>, this minority gets fucked See also: <>. @@ -1506,7 +1593,7 @@ But all must play a careful political game, and sometimes betray their own belie China's problem is not its politicians. -It's the current shitty political organization, which allows/convinces those politicians to do really bad things: <>, <>. +It's the current shitty political organization, which allows/convinces those politicians to do really bad things: <>, <> and <>. ==== Is Chinese politician X evil? @@ -2006,6 +2093,7 @@ Q: If they do, what do you think will happen [the people protest against their G A: What usually happens when people without guns stand up to people with guns. ____ +[[v-for-vendetta]] .https://youtube.com/watch?v=TcoBv6ibh8M V for Vendetta (2005) "What you think will happen" scene. video::TcoBv6ibh8M[youtube,height=400,width=600] @@ -2674,7 +2762,7 @@ Some news: ** 2020-04-17 only after more than 10 thousand people died in the country during <> did the brits finally change their minds: https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/uk-moves-to-drop-huawei-as-5g-vendor-citing-china-coronavirus-transparency/ "UK moves to drop Huawei as 5G vendor, citing China coronavirus transparency" * 2018-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meng_Wanzhou[Meng Wanzhou] (孟晚舟), daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei (任正非) and Huawei CFO as of 2018, was arrested in Canada because the US accused her of breaking Iran sanctions ** https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-michael-kovrig-michael-spavor-canadian-detainees-china-explainer/ "Why are Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor still detained in China?" in apparent retaliation, under accusation of espionage. -** 2020-05-27 https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/ "https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/" +** 2020-05-27 https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/ "link:https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/canada-court-finds-against-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-on-double-criminality-extradition-trial-to-continue/[]" * 2019-11 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/29/has-huaweis-darkest-secret-just-been-exposed-by-this-new-report/#7896db9d4061 "Has Huawei’s Darkest Secret Just Been Exposed By This New Surveillance Report?" Xinjiang Papers reveal the extent of Huawei's involvement in <> ."When you send a good joke from your Huawei phone", <> is also listening and laughing with you, girls. https://i.redd.it/nodgcqmwtcg31.jpg[Source]. @@ -2703,10 +2791,11 @@ image::https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0XHAnBWkAIP8nj?format=jpg&name=small[height= News: +* 2020-07 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/warning-apple-suddenly-catches-tiktok-secretly-spying-on-millions-of-iphone-users/#5265c8d734ef "pple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users" by reading from the clipboard * 2020-06 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53225720 India bans TikTok after Ladakh border tensions * 2020-05 <> * 2019-11 https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/11/25/20976964/chinese-americans-censorship-wechat-hong-kong-elections-tiktok -* https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/fug8i1/the_chinese_tiktok_just_began_an_uninterrupted/ "The Chinese Tik-Tok just began an uninterrupted propaganda stream." +* 2020-03 https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/fug8i1/the_chinese_tiktok_just_began_an_uninterrupted/ "The Chinese Tik-Tok just began an uninterrupted propaganda stream." during <> Reports: @@ -4286,7 +4375,7 @@ The communist party, which has had continuous power since 1949, killed millions But the CCP has changed so much since those days, I hear you say. -I agree. And <>. +I agree. And <>. See also: "thoughtcrime" from <>. @@ -5352,7 +5441,7 @@ For example, Cui Jian (崔健) <> @@ -5414,6 +5503,11 @@ The full project name is: 太子党关系网络 (network of relations of https:/ The project is also known as "zhao" which is another slang reference to "太子党": "赵家人" (zhaojiaren == zhao family): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_family | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/趙家人zh, which is in turn a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_(state) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Zhao[]. * https://twitter.com/programthink * DW coverage (Chinese): https://www.dw.com/zh/2013德国之声国际博客大赛中文提名博客揭晓/a-16716065 (https://web.archive.org/web/20191202233838/https://www.dw.com/zh/2013%E5%BE%B7%E5%9B%BD%E4%B9%8B%E5%A3%B0%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E5%8D%9A%E5%AE%A2%E5%A4%A7%E8%B5%9B%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%8F%90%E5%90%8D%E5%8D%9A%E5%AE%A2%E6%8F%AD%E6%99%93/a-16716065[archive]) +* Programthink has also shown interest in <> as mentioned in that section. + +Mentions in other sections: + +* <> .Programthink uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker[Rodin's The Thinker sculpture] as its avatar, to encourage people to think for themselves rather than <>. https://github.com/programthink/[Source]. image::https://web.archive.org/web/20191218082236if_/https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/4027957?s=400&v=4[height=400] @@ -6152,12 +6246,18 @@ Either banned, or relevant. For other censored material types, see: <>. [[nineteen-eighty-four]] -=== Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (AKA "1984") 一九八四 (1949) +=== Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (AKA "1984") 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四 (1949) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four * https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一九八四 -Read for free from Project Gutenberg: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt (https://web.archive.org/web/20200413105623/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt[archive]) +Read for free from Project Gutenberg: + +* http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20200109210711/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html[archive]) +* http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt (https://web.archive.org/web/20200413105623/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt[archive]) +* https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxDAqt617IxNRkpfOXpXcmtmdjA/edit (http://web.archive.org/web/20200715084328/https://doc-0c-a0-apps-viewer.googleusercontent.com/viewer/secure/pdf/3nb9bdfcv3e2h2k1cmql0ee9cvc5lole/jo8piqd0g6c4k97rk020d06ubd0uk3r6/1594802550000/drive/%2A/ACFrOgACt_p0vdGu83jon_QtAZsTfO86kyCbwfwH6Az3aMe9tdepGK8RBSxiPA8HGVE1G-rjR0g_CtLQrXmabzqPVW-19nZOxF05Uk6jMf-cyi7vBR2EflQV_y2mdESkWbJ-FiMJURaye4TrSHB5?print=true[archive]) Chinese translation, text says by <>. It also has some images added (many from the John Hurt mentioned below), which is cool. ++ +Programthink also has a literary critique article about it: https://program-think.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-review-1984.html "书评：《一九八四》——反乌托邦的代表作" (Book commentary: "1984". A representative work about dystopia.) by <> This book is very fun to read, and it is not very long. @@ -6166,13 +6266,17 @@ This book is very fun to read, and it is not very long. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime[Thourhgcrime], see also: <> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak[Newspeak], see also "Cult-speak" from <> -Chapter 3, O'Brien explains the system to Winston: +Quotes present in other sections: + +* <> + +In Part Three, Chapter 3, O'Brien explains the end goal of their evil government system to Winston: ____ In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy--everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always--do not forget this, Winston--always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.' ____ -On Chapter 5, Winston explains the erasing of the past to Julia: +On Part Two, Chapter 5, Winston explains the <> to Julia: ____ Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don't know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories. @@ -6181,13 +6285,13 @@ ____ See also: * <> -* <> +* <> With the advent of the Internet and <>, this has become a bit harder though :-) There is also a decent movie made released in the year, you guessed, 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(1984_film) starring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hurt[John Hurt]. -On Chapter 4, The Law of Gravity quote perfectly illustrates the CCPs approach to lying: +On Part Three, Chapter 4, The Law of Gravity quote perfectly illustrates the CCPs approach to lying: ____ Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had said, 'I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.' Winston worked it out. 'If he THINKS he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously THINK I see him do it, then the thing happens.' Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens. @@ -6196,6 +6300,10 @@ ____ .https://youtube.com/watch?v=flhggnpCeHw Gravity scene from the 1984 movie. video::flhggnpCeHw[youtube,height=400,width=600] +Related: + +* https://ibisbill.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/nineteen-eighty-four-in-chinese/ asks how much George Orwell thought about China at the time + [[brave-new-world]] === Brave New World 美丽新世界 (1932) @@ -6227,6 +6335,8 @@ ____ [[censorship]] === Censorship 审查 +Related: <>. + .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Drooker[Eric Drooker]'s "Censorship" (TODO year) has become one of the most recognizable censorship symbols as of 2020. https://www.drooker.com/illustrations[Source]. image::https://web.archive.org/web/20200313090742if_/https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b6ef88a3360c8cda5f4ec5/1455664972210-ZH3TLGYYZ2ACRHT3SG32/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kPC_zjTA3UYFvUlg9ipOEJx7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1URB8do3-7hcAcpn6rB6iKr1pTef0AlszvevyZwBc1CWewPPt5b224fdRayPxZIHRuA/censorship.jpg?format=1500w[height=400] @@ -6694,7 +6804,7 @@ ____ It is impossible to distinguish wumaos, idiots and <> people. So we just call all of them wumaos. ____ -It has been pointed out however that there is a funny slang name for brainwashed CCP supporters who are not necessarily paid professional wumaos: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小粉紅[小粉紅]" (little pinks) +It has been pointed out however that there is a funny slang name for brainwashed CCP supporters who are not necessarily paid professional wumaos: "link:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/小粉紅[小粉紅]" (little pinks) To a large extent, wumao's goals are to dilute useful conversation with shit, normally <> and <>. @@ -6991,7 +7101,7 @@ For Zhihu backlinks, see: <>. * 2019-10 https://github.com/kon9chunkit/GitHub-Chinese-Top-Charts/blob/7131e2c1158a806f41c8f55308977048b02d2959/README-Part2.md Automatically generated list of repos with Chinese characters in their descriptions with the most upvotes per programming language. TODO why is this repo on their README-Part2 only? Has more stars than some stuff on main README. * 2019-10-12: https://hacpai.com/article/1570686552645 Login required, cowards. Post title: "更新 GitHub 官方 Repo 的人，竟然是个反华分子". Manual page dump after my replies with links to this FAQ: https://ia801505.us.archive.org/27/items/cirosantilli/hacpai_1570686552645.html OP then deleted my comments because they don't speak English "HacPai 是个文明的社区，不会发生辱骂的现象，你有你的观点，我们有我们的观点。但抱歉，我们的水平有限，没有阅读英文的能力，还请发送有效回复，否则只能折叠处理". It is some developper website: https://hacpai.com/article/1440573175609 (https://web.archive.org/web/20190811205230/https://hacpai.com/article/1440573175609[archive]) linked to https://github.com/b3log/solo[]. OP then made an useless post here: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/70 As of 2019-10-12, I can't login there anymore, either because the website is shitty, or I was blocked. GitHub login just fails silently, cannot reset password. If blocked, cowards. This led me to update: <> with the canned reply. * 2019-09: https://admin.github.com Someone from GitHub has been thinking about us. s2 to you. -* "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts-github-going-china-kevin-xu/" https://twitter.com/sang_what/status/1172692888766959619 (https://archive.is/taPpH[archive]) https://t.co/qag5ekL12F +* "link:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts-github-going-china-kevin-xu/[]" https://twitter.com/sang_what/status/1172692888766959619 (https://archive.is/taPpH[archive]) https://t.co/qag5ekL12F * 2019-06: https://gking.harvard.edu/ interesting. OK, likely due to: https://gking.harvard.edu/category/research-interests/applications/information-control-by-authoritarian-governments but no direct links found though. * 2019-05: someone used the FAQ to answer a question: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bt1mth/if_i_disappear_chinese_students_make_farewell/eou5a5q/ | https://web.archive.org/web/20190527072431/https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bt1mth/if_i_disappear_chinese_students_make_farewell/eou5a5q/ "‘If I disappear’: Chinese students make farewell messages amid crackdowns over labor activism" * 2019-04-10: https://twitter.com/jnzst/status/1115824398961913857 gGTYgFulPg @@ -7060,7 +7170,7 @@ Website openly anti-CCP, e.g. the signup page has <> jokes. Very sim Backlinks to this page: * 2020-06-03 https://www.mohu.rocks/article/2227 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200606065812/https://www.mohu.rocks/article/2227[archive]) "专门开一个帖子，以后会把从各处搜刮来的六四学潮的视频、历史、文章之类放在这" (I'm creating this post to collect all the videos, history, articles, etc. that can be found anywhere about the <>) -** Then one of the replies by "习羊羊与灰战狼" was "https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship "提供一个很全的链接，几乎可以算是反共手册。里面的4.7是谈六四的" (Here is one very complete link, it could almost be considered an anti-CCP manual. Section 4.7 of that page is about Tiananmen.) Ciro liked the sound of that very much :-) +** Then one of the replies by "习羊羊与灰战狼" was "link:https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship[] "提供一个很全的链接，几乎可以算是反共手册。里面的4.7是谈六四的" (Here is one very complete link, it could almost be considered an anti-CCP manual. Section 4.7 of that page is about Tiananmen.) Ciro liked the sound of that very much :-) https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship 提供一个很全的链接，几乎可以算是反共手册。里面的4.7是谈六四的。