Okay, here is the translation following your instructions: Matsuo Haruki and the Post-Virtuous Era

Author: Cen Langtian
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Every generation of thinkers, at some point in their lives, inevitably encounters nihilism once or even multiple times, leading to confusion. However, nihilism is soon turned into an ideology, appearing as an antagonist, and then our heroes or sages teach various methods to overcome and transcend it. Soon, and perhaps too quickly, we can stand up again and start anew. Could it be too easy? Could it be that we actually cover up the problem with the power of reason and will? In the texts of authors like Haruki Murakami, Nietzsche, Camus, Italo Calvino, and Thoreau, let us re-engage with nihilism, and once again, in the life situations of wanderers and shadows, give nihilism a fierce and profound kiss. Because we strive to live, earnestly, willing to be ordinary people.
Every generation of thinkers, at some point in their lives, inevitably encounters nihilism once or even multiple times, leading to confusion. However, nihilism is soon turned into an ideology, appearing as an antagonist, and then our heroes or sages teach various methods to overcome and transcend it. Soon, and perhaps too quickly, we can stand up again and start anew. Could it be too easy? Could it be that we actually cover up the problem with the power of reason and will? In the texts of authors like Haruki Murakami, Nietzsche, Camus, Italo Calvino, and Thoreau, let us re-engage with nihilism, and once again, in the life situations of wanderers and shadows, give nihilism a fierce and profound kiss. Because we strive to live, earnestly, willing to be ordinary people.
"Why must everyone insist on being so lonely?" Haruki Murakami's cry strikes the hearts of countless lonely souls in modern urban settings. His popularity is no coincidence. But what he writes about is not ordinary loneliness—not the kind where, lacking company at night, one goes to a bar to find someone to cuddle and relieve their boredom. Murakami's loneliness is not the absence of liveliness, not the opposite of the crowd. That loneliness is a void, an emptiness that cannot be filled, because even if it is temporarily stuffed, it soon returns to the starting point, or even becomes more empty. That loneliness is a way of being, a state of realizing that one no longer has relationships with the people and things around them. A lonely person could say: "I am lonely, therefore I exist. I feel this kind of loneliness, so I have this kind of way of being."