Castrate the Pseudo-Comprehensiveness!

2006/4/17 16:55:57

Whether in history or reality, those poisoned by so-called dialectics have been — both historically and in reality — comprehensively playing or being played by the trick of pseudo-comprehensiveness. This trick of pseudo-comprehensiveness is comprehensive purely for the sake of being comprehensive. But just as the center of a sphere does not lie on its surface, no matter how comprehensively one spins around on that surface, one can never touch the truly critical center!

The finishing touch on a painted dragon; the single lethal strike of Little Li's Flying Dagger; "to shoot the man, first shoot his horse; to capture the bandits, first capture their king"; cutting grass must mean removing the roots, otherwise it simply grows back in the spring breeze; even the ancient practice of castrating men to make eunuchs — aren't these all examples of "attack the one critical point, disregarding the rest"? Yet all pseudo-comprehensiveness ultimately just uses the banner of being comprehensive to deliberately or inadvertently cover up the one truly critical point. Without "attacking that one critical point, disregarding the rest," what good is flourishing fancy moves? Just as the world is nothing but a linguistic fraud, no matter how one flails about — worldly and therefore linguistically — within this linguistic fraud of the world, it is all futile flailing.

So then, besides castrated men, who else is most afraid of "attack the one critical point, disregarding the rest"? The answer is, "attacking the one critical point" simply: it is always and only those who manufacture linguistic and therefore worldly frauds. These fraud manufacturers are — "attacking the one critical point" — also the vested beneficiaries of linguistic frauds and therefore worldly frauds. What they fear most is that child who, "attacking the one critical point, disregarding the rest," shouts out: "He's not wearing anything at all!"

Whether or not one holds the tools for castrating men, one can say — "attacking the one critical point, disregarding the rest": Truth has always been incomplete. Truth can never be comprehensively confronted head-on at the surface level. Every trick of comprehensiveness has always been nothing but a trick. And in the face of the world's cruelty, no nation or culture can become strong through tricks.