The True Meaning of a Harmonious World

2007/11/21 23:00:35

Dizzy—from this afternoon until now, I've met with three groups of people. This ID is actually starting to enjoy negotiating with newly acquainted people. This ID has discovered that, from a 419 perspective, among all the people I've met with during this period, not a single one has been able to raise the brightness before my eyes even slightly. Are all people in business the crooked-melon-cracked-date type?

Enough nonsense—let's talk about harmony. (The red text has nothing to do with stocks; it's just to differentiate from the color of the article below. Don't be so neurotic. The world isn't just stocks. A life with nothing but stocks is too boring; a brain with nothing but stocks turns to mush sloshing around at the sight of money.)

What is a "harmonious world"? If "harmonious" is an adjective or a noun, then this "harmonious world" is a bullshit world. Behind an adjective or noun lies nothing but something rigid and dead.

Throughout history, examples of killing with adjectives and nouns are too many to count. Democracy can kill. Revolution can kill. Freedom can equally kill. Only a primitive cave-ape like Lu the Male Ape-Man would childishly shriek that Chinese history can be summed up in two words: cannibalism. May I ask the zombie of Lu the Male Ape-Man: has there ever been a world that didn't kill or devour people?

Some say that once all people are dead, nations and ethnic groups and so forth will certainly be dead too. But why has this ID rarely seen a true human being? A true human being stands tall between heaven and earth. May I ask: how many such human beings remain now? Furthermore, even when all people are dead, there are still zombie nations, walking-dead ethnic groups—is that really so unimaginable?

Harmony should be a verb. A "harmonious world" means that the so-called world becomes a world precisely because of the verb "to harmonize." Every person has their own component force of so-called harmony. People, put plainly, all exert their component force upon the world through their own views and actions, all hoping to exert their component force upon the world according to their own standards. And this component force is in fact the verb "to harmonize" itself.

Of course, under the swindling of various nouns and adjectives, this component force can partially or entirely acquire a common direction. For example, in zombie nations, among walking-dead ethnic groups, within the globalized prison ruled by capital, in the garbage heaps of advanced nations swindled by democracy—nouns and adjectives have conquered the verb.

A harmonious world is, of course, not wrong. But harmony is a verb; harmony comes from every person's component force. "和" (hé)—a verb, meaning to converge; "谐" (xié)—a verb, meaning to negotiate. The world is the result of a resultant force, and "harmony" (和谐) is the convergence of all component forces followed by negotiation—that is, the resultant force. The world, this resultant force, is the result of all component forces converging and negotiating. The world forever worlds within the verbal dynamism of this convergence and negotiation.

To harmonize and thus to world, to world and thus to harmonize—this is true harmony. Every single person must be converged, must be negotiated—this is the true world, true harmony. Let every component force exert its force, converge, negotiate—this is true harmony, the true world.

And this harmony is an eternal verb: at every moment, there is new convergence, new negotiation, new creation, new worlding.

Let the adjective-noun version of harmony go swindle bullshit. This adjective-noun harmonious swindling is also one component force among the convergence and negotiation of harmony, but it is not the resultant force itself, not the world itself.

A harmonious world: let every person freely extend according to all their potential, let all component forces bloom without constraint. The world is present in the convergence and negotiation of every single one. The world harmonizes.