Cold Reflections Amid the Fever for Commemorating Great Figures -- No One Is Worth Expending Resources to Commemorate

Since the dawn of humanity, there has been this energy-consuming activity called commemoration. Of course, all human activities consume energy, including the activity of producing energy, which first requires energy consumption. But basically no activity's consumption comes closer to useless work than commemoration.

The most famous, most tedious, most frequent commemorative activity is probably each weekly church service. In the fog, for the sake of an imagined non-human entity, humans become mud and water. In this world of mud and water, flowers have no seeds. Yet seeds need no flowers either. In this deferred succession of similar-continuing seeds, commemoration constitutes the wellspring of ignorance within.

Actually, who is worth expending resources to commemorate? "Worth" has always been self-derived. Even if God truly existed, how would God be worth commemorating? God is commemoration itself. Any commemoration of God is merely tedious tautology -- not to mention non-divine existences.

God disappeared, and great figures appeared. Because a kneeling crowd exists, there arose God and great figures. Both God and great figures are created by humans. Having humans commemorate their own creations? Then commemoration is nothing but narcissism and masochism.

If a real commemorative object is truly needed, then seek it on that famous stone monument in Beijing. For the land this monument overlooks, the people and heroes have already become mud and water composing the land itself. If God truly exists, God can only be this land. If great figures truly exist, they are merely the mud and water upon this land.

If there truly exists a commemoration that is not useless work, then stand upon this land of mud and water. This land's mountains, forests, rivers, and valleys narrate commemoration itself at every moment.

Commemoration needs no commemoration!