Self-awareness in failure

Author: Guo Yuangbao
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Avant-garde Criticism Series
The rational movement of thought always affirms its connection with something that transcends itself by negating its own limitations, whereas the rational movement of morality achieves the negation of an objective existence by affirming and even beautifying its own limitations. Thought always rashly points beyond itself, while morality always tenderly closes itself within, repeatedly comforting itself. The closer we get to danger, the brighter the path to salvation begins to shine, and we become increasingly in need of questioning. Because questioning is the piety of thought. To trace the roots of atheism and disbelief, to unveil the mask of morality, to reveal the essence of chaotic thought, to state the consequences of literary decline, to untangle the threads of linguistic desolation, to consciously descend into the abyss of fundamental failure, and to beg for the experience of shame after loss and regain.