Toppling Western and Eastern Economics: Chan Economics (Serialization 2)

2006/7/21 21:37:30

The theoretical garbage of theories once theorized by humans has long stuffed the spaces of history full. Various theories swap out different underwear, then proclaim that only by wearing their brand of underwear can one attain chastity as true as truth itself — yet they cannot conceal this fact: chastity has never had anything to do with underwear. And even less can they conceal that chastity, like truth, is hypocritical and boring.

Truths once truth-ed by humans ultimately become, like chastities once chastity-ed by humans, jokes even more underwear than underwear itself. No underwear can conceal this fact: the existence of humans is the most truth-able thing among all truths that have been truth-ed by humans. No theory can demand the sacrifice of human existence; no truth can demand the sacrifice of human existence — because human existence is the first premise and last cornerstone of all theories that have been, are being, were being, or will be theorized by humans, and of all truths that have been, are being, were being, or will be truth-ed by humans. Without human existence, all theories and truths immediately come crashing down.

Human existence implies two aspects that cannot be neglected: existence as individual elements and existence as a constructible set of a species. It must be emphasized here that human existence as a species is not an abstract concept, but a dynamic set formed through the continuous construction of individual elements. Any individual person is an indispensable element of this dynamic set, just as any natural number is an indispensable element of the set of natural numbers. A set of natural numbers missing any single natural number cannot even be constructed — it would be nothing but a fraudulent concept.

From this, it is clear that the equality of individuals is a necessary conclusion of human existence, determined by the constructive nature of human existence. Individual equality has nothing to do with God, spirituality, law, or the like, because God, spirituality, law, and so forth are all built after human existence, while individual equality is co-born with human existence. This also has nothing to do with conceptual equality derived from similarity of kind — it is a necessity and a result of the constructive process. Without individual equality, human existence would be nothing more than a conceptualized act of self-gratification.

All theories are fundamentally circular in their definitions, and human existence is the foundation of all circular definitions, because human existence is itself circularly defined. Anyone who claims to overcome or escape circular definition is as laughable as a person claiming to escape human existence. Between individual equality and human existence, it is impossible to find one more primitive than the other — they are of course circularly defined, and with undeniable primitiveness, they ground the very foundation upon which all theories theorizable by humans can be founded.

(To be continued)