An Address to All Chinese People (With Two Fresh Regulated Verses: Typhoon / Drinking Song)
2008/6/26 19:15:08
The stock market is proceeding in orderly fashion — nothing to say about it — so let's leave the time and space for more important content.
The reason this post is addressed to all Chinese people is that every Chinese person should know where their country currently stands within the international economic order. One can say with certainty that almost no Chinese people truly understand this matter.
this ID’s post, to put it harshly, is to make all Chinese people deeply understand — so that even if they die under this economic order, they die with clear eyes.
In 2002, this ID suffered a devastating blow — a billion times more severe than the current one. This blow had nothing to do with economics or health, but as a human being, one probably cannot truly become a person without enduring such a blow. So the fact that this blow could strike this ID at least proves that this ID is still a person — and after experiencing such a blow, nothing in this world can ever strike this ID again.
Under this blow, this ID temporarily abandoned all external activities, including all economic activities. Every day — vegetarian meals, burning incense, chanting sutras. After a year, every Buddhist scripture that could be found had been chanted word-for-word again and again, not even sparing the massive Avataṃsaka Sūtra. During this period, of course, I wasn’t completely oblivious to worldly affairs — the international economic environment was already pressing. Seeing our countrymen still pleasuring themselves in the delusions of “Made in China” and “Created in China,” worldly concerns stirred again, and so came the initial “Sneeze Sneeze” posts, which were later collected by others into “Currency Wars and the RMB Strategy” and another actually more important collection, both circulating online.
From the end of 2003 to mid-2004, after the one-year period was over, I came out to handle some old matters and stopped being active online. Returning in mid-2004, I discovered that the old posts had been collected and circulated. On a childlike whim, what followed was a series of activities you are all probably quite familiar with. Later, starting in early 2005, economic activities resumed offline as well, bustling all the way until this illness struck.
Six years have passed, yet the world seems to be the same world. All the bad things this ID worried about and prophesied have come true like a crow’s curse. What should have been a precious muddleheadedness has instead continued to spread like a plague as always. After 2006, this ID had already prophesied with great indignation in these posts that America was going to win again — and to this day, the signs are so obvious that any human being, even the stupidest one, can see it with their toenails. This is probably no longer a prophecy.
this ID was certainly the earliest to fight back against the utterly idiotic theory of excess liquidity, yet this textbook moronic theory has been guiding the financial policy of this great nation for N years — if this isn’t a tragedy, what is? this ID is sometimes astonished by this fact: once people are brainwashed by a theory, do they really lose the most basic analytical ability so terrifyingly? All you uncles brainwashed by Western economics — didn’t your Western economic theories tell you the preconditions for those theories to hold? Do these preconditions hold in China’s current economic environment? Those tedious tricks of so-called macroeconomic regulation — interest rate hikes, reserve requirements, and the like — do the preconditions for their effectiveness exist in China’s current economic structure?
These things have been consistent from the very first time this ID started making waves online in 2002. Six years on, this ID’s theoretical thinking has needed no revision or change whatsoever. On the contrary, the development of reality still lags far behind this ID’s theory and thought, still being penetrated by this ID’s consistent thread.
In the past two days’ posts, this ID has been gradually revealing capitalism’s core secret — something actually first pointed out back in 2002. The following even more important proposition has also been repeated for six years; here it shall be stated once more in the most explicit language.
The inherent greed and expansionism of capitalism inevitably means that the mere compartmentalization of individuals into specialized parts can ultimately no longer satisfy its insatiable desires — the existence of a version 2.0 upgrade is a historical inevitability. And capital globalization is the real-world name of this new version.
The secret of capital globalization lies in the isomorphically upgraded international division of labor and the compartmentalization of nations into parts. What this means — after reading yesterday’s post, any human being can reach the corresponding conclusion with their toenails.
When our countrymen cheer the so-called “Made in China” and “Created in China,” what this ID feels is immeasurable grief and heartache. It’s like slaves who’ve been put in permanent shackles, yet collectively cheer: “We’ve been crowned with the garlands of Eden!”
Elated to have become slaves — heavens!
We have already become a severely manipulated link in this enormous globalized industrial chain — or to put it more bluntly, the food chain. When we cheer our enormous foreign exchange reserves, it’s exactly like a foolish diehard bull retail investor cheering his portfolio value at the 6,124-point peak. Look at it today — just as this ID prophesied the day before the 6,124 peak, those who can ever again reach that day’s portfolio value will not exceed 20%. In fact, this ID was being merciful at the time and didn’t want to state the more terrifying but more truthful number. Now, let all market participants calculate: what proportion can reach the portfolio value of that 6,124-point day? Certainly far below 20%.
So when one day we look back at our foreign exchange reserves, under that caliber of management, how many people are confident the number will still be as it is today?
What’s the countermeasure? this ID gave it six years ago: a Sinicized globalization. This world has never been limited to only one possible cycle — if America can create its own branded industrial food chain, China can create one just the same.
The highest thing in this world has never been those trivial matters like product brands, standards, and rules. If you want control, control the real food chain itself. Once you have the chain, decorating it with the fancy baubles of product brands, standards, and rules — isn’t that the simplest thing in the world?
Six years — how many wrong turns have we taken, how much time have we wasted? Looking back now at what this ID wrote in “The July 7th Incident of Currency Wars”: today China has embraced the world, but can the world still be embraced by China?
In a world that cannot be Sinicized, the best possible fate for China is the same as those currently being played by the capitalist game — ultimately sinking into numb, contented decline. And the worst fate? Ask your toenails.
Six years of time have passed, yet this ID is still not yet 40. this ID began sitting in meditation from the age of ten-something and set a long-range vision of “establishing oneself at 40.” It seems that was super far-sighted at the time — had the establishment come too early, this illness would not have yielded such results.
But the problems facing China’s economy may not be able to wait for the day this ID establishes himself at 40. this ID has already clearly pointed out the historical-cyclical significance of the years following 2008. When the time comes, will there be a Xū Zhú, Qiáo Fēng, or Duàn Yù? Or will it continue to be nothing but the likes of Dīng Chūnqiū and Mùróng Fù everywhere?
Toenails — can they speak?
Enough said — more would be superfluous. this ID has been on IV drips lately and always wants to write something. Today, two more regulated verses shall be appended to trouble your eyes. Actually, far more were written, but the rest are too off-topic for today’s subject — they’ll have to wait for the poetry collection.
Such is fate — thank you!
Typhoon
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán
Sea-clouds splash ink — earth and heaven sink
Ailing thunder, drunken lightning erode past and present
The blazing sun lost its way, trapping the egg of cosmos
Startling wind clears a path, rousing the dragon’s chant
In an instant the cosmos tilts — the Milky Way rages
Chaos congeals time — the black hole falls silent
The five-turbidity dust-world — who can cleanse it?
Suddenly comes the anguished wailing from ten thousand apertures
Drinking Song
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán
The flying dragon, once seen, returns to lurk
Lines shift, hidden pivots revolving fortune and misfortune
Swordsmen meeting must unsheathe their blades
Wandering clouds sit alone, concealing their edge
Where Old Yán summons, thunder and lightning blaze
When Xiǎo Yù calls, the amber glows rich
A different kind of coolness in the land of wolves and tigers
Battling in blood across heaven and earth, ever composed