Power and Laughter
Tristan, you have forgotten to laugh. What is the point of all the high flying philosophy if at the end of the day nobody laughs with you? Then you will be the pathetic one. Where is the lesson Lord Byron taught you with his own life?
posted by Tristan at 6:53 p.m.
11 Comments:
I laughed at that stuff about getting into girls' pants!
We should do it again sometime!
Aristotelian virtue-ethics, eh? You should have a lot to say about that considering you helped someone else write a paper on that last year... LOL.
All this stuff about Persp reminded me of something...
Check this out --
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%84%A4%E9%9D%92
Here's the English translation --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenqing
The English translation used to be pretty bad, so I roughly re-translated the Chinese myself back in the day (my re-translation was done 6 months ago, and I'm sure that both the Chinese and English entries have been modified considerably since that time). Would be interesting to see to what extent we're "angry youth." Why don't you assess yourself according to the criteria listed to see how much of an "angry youth" you are... and I'll post my own assessment of how much I'm an "angry youth" myself?
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Fenqing is a romanization of the Chinese "憤青," which is an abbreviation of "憤怒青年" ("angry youth"). The term first appeared in Hong Kong in the 1970s, when it referred to youth who were dissatisfied with existing conditions in society and demanded rapid social changes. Today, the term has become a special internet slang in the Chinese community.
The phenomenon of fenqing emerged amidst China's rapid economic development in the information age. In contrast to the American liberalism-inspired "hippies" of the "sexual liberation" era, fenqing are usually distinguished by the following attributes:
* They are usually males under the age of 30 with access to the internet. Economically, they are often middle-lower class city-dwellers. Most of them are students, usually university undergraduates.
* They are highly nationalistic and patriotic and especially concerned with politics. They hold unusually strong opinions with regard to issues surruounding Japan, Taiwan and the US. Their attitudes toward Japan are mostly negative, and they advocate a hardline approach in dealing with Japan. They believe that Japan has never adequately apologized and paid reparations for the damage they caused in China during WWII. They conclude that Japan is still seeking militaristic expansion based on the attitude with which the postwar Japanese government has reflected on WWII, annual visits by Japanese officials to the Yasukuni Shrine (which enshrines numerous Class A war criminals from WWII), textbook revisionism and occupation of the disputed Diaoyu Islands. Moderate fenqing think that Mainland China should use its growing political and economic influence to contain Japan and force it into the Chinese sphere of influence, but many extremists expect to use military force to resolve problems, even to the extent of hoping for the destruction of the Japanese race and its territory. The negative attitudes of fenqing toward Japan are directed not only at its government and military, but in many cases also target the Japanese economy as well as Japanese ethnicity and culture. For example, many of them discriminate culturally and ethnically against the Japanese people and economically advocate boycotts of Japanese products.
* In terms of the Taiwan Situation, they feel that Taiwan is a part of the People's Republic of China, and that Taiwanese Independence should be prevented at all costs. As with their stance on the Japan situation, moderates believe in a peaceful solution and that force should only be used as a last resort, while extremists give more consideration to military force, suggesting solutions such as "nuclear reunification."
* In terms of Sino-American relations, the majority views the US as a competitor and believes that Mainland China needs to learn from the US in areas such as government, law, economics, technology and education, while some others think it unnecessary for China to emulate the US. Moderates believe that the two countries will reach a state of equilibrium through peaceful progress, with each country having its own sphere of influence and cooperating while at the same time competing with one another. Extremists, on the other hand, think that the two countries will eventually go to war with each other (probably over the Taiwan issue), and some of them even hope to vanquish the US through extraordinary means.
* They feel a sense of political duty, but usually do not have the opportunities to actually get involved with politics. Fenqing are generally positive about Western science, and most of them believe in democracy, but they are unusually resistant to the value-system of Western freedoms and democracy and the Western constitutional tradition, as well as philosophical trends other than that of Marxism. Among fenqing there is also much disagreement on the precise definition of democracy and on the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party. As for traditional Chinese culture, the majority of fenqing are unenthused by Confucianism and similar schools of thought, religious faith, Traditional Chinese and the like. In general, fenqing hold a negative view of religion.
* They are concerned about society and deeply pained by social injustices and corruption in government.
* They usually view Lu Xun and his contemporaries as role models. Some even think of Lu Xun as China's first fenqing.
* In terms of their behaviour and attitudes toward their fellow countrymen, they like to advocate boycotting Japanese products and are annoyed by Japanophiles and Koreaphiles. Extremists tend to use terms like "sellout" and "traitor" to describe those Chinese who enjoy Japanese or Korean goods or sympathize with the US or Japan.
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Maybe you should relax a little ...
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. " - Albert Camus
I don't agree with Camus. Happiness encompasses a subjective but clear view of life, and the meaning of life is to be discovered and assured before happiness's existence. I dare one to have great courage to explore the dark before the light, as this is the necessity to understand the equilibrium point between discovering and living life actually.
Haha. I think only Jenn in here will understand what I'm trying to say.
Kenneth
I think maybe what Camus meant (by my own speculation; I could, of course, be wrong) was to avoid becoming completely fixated on the search.
Searching for meaning = waiting for Godot?
LOL
thus equilibrium point between discovering and living life actually.
Kenneth
btw, names should be tagged along each comment. fundamental respect, in my opinion.
Kenneth
how is attaching a name to a comment "fundamental respect"?
haahahahaha stfu bitch
whoa.. be nice people =)
I'll laugh w/ u, Tristan XD
Or rather, you'll laugh at me instead.... ah well~~~
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