Soul of Leviathan

Author: Ji Guoqing
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Publish Date: 2006-02-07
Features: Do you know why Chinese people are ugly? Do you know why Chinese people are despicable? Do you know why Chinese people are cruel? Do you know why Chinese people are numb? Do you know that Chinese culture is a culture of shame, yet a significant portion of the people are heartless, shameless, and ruthless? Do you know that when Chinese people truly reflect on themselves, they may develop a desire for suicide? When they actually attempt suicide, they may recall this culture of suicide and stop, choosing instead to kill this culture? How does this tension form? This book will definitely give you a simple, relevant, and systematic answer. A person who has self but no self. They have self because, in the habit of replication, they do not replicate their "I"; they lack self because, in the era of, they do not peddle old goods. The past facts are the killer of creation, and they have already left him; the future things are still in the cradle, and that is what he guards. What is this infant of tomorrow? Ji Guoqing does not tell us the answer but gives us more questions: Is the motherland lovable? Is the mother respectable? Is the tradition amiable? Are the ancestors worthy of imitation? Is China a land of etiquette? Are officials the parents of the people? In our ancient country, is the true life this relentless, grotesque, boneless Leviathan that kills without hesitation, or is it the individual person who breathes, walks, is numb, expresses without thinking? I want this book to achieve an effect: to understand it thoroughly, to grasp it, to love it and hate it to the extent that you feel a sense of intuition, consciousness, subliminal desire, and even a desire for suicide. However, when you think of suicide, you immediately realize that it is precisely because of this unique organizational principle of the Leviathan that makes us unable to live well and unable to die properly. Why die? If we don’t die, let that Leviathan that harms, kills, and persecutes others die first. Then we can build a thriving new collectivity. If you can oscillate between these two emotions, that is the highest realm this book seeks to achieve. The soul of the Leviathan refers to the structural information that organizes human society. It can be said with certainty that the structural information of Chinese society is a belief related to ethics, namely, historical equal opportunity. As long as the relevant information of historical equal opportunity is organized into a whole and system, and the Leviathan in its operational mechanisms is found, it becomes vividly alive. Therefore, this book is indeed a system completed based on the principle of simplicity.