All Those Sausages Who Bash PKU — How They've All Gone Limp!
2006/10/6 18:18:55
Mid-Autumn Festival — not a day meant for cursing, but not a day when cursing is forbidden either. Who knows when bashing PKU became a standard internet spectacle. All manner of pork — whether from pigs that can run or pigs that can't — uniformly processed into sausages, swinging around the internet. The most laughable part is that, armed with some ranking concocted from who-knows-which dingy corner, they think a row of sausages can fill the entire internet. Not bashing PKU has somehow become the mark of not being a sausage.
In an era when everyone scrambles to be a sausage, sausages too have their limp moments. Today, the news that "The Times of London has published its latest global top 100 universities list, with Peking University ranked highest in Asia at number 14 globally" has left all the sausages falling into vinegar vats. All over the internet, limp sausages are floating about, the stench of vinegar everywhere. On an internet where more voices means more beauty, PKU will always be the minority. Who told PKU's pool was too small to float that many sausages?!
But The Times certainly has more authority than whatever was cobbled together in some dingy corner — even the sausages can't deny that. And so what? Does PKU need the British to say it's world-class before it counts? PKU has always been world-class — who needs the British to pipe up? Please see this ID's old post, "Peking University Has Always Been a World-Class University — What Is There to Argue About!":
"Today online, I suddenly saw people again frenziedly hyping PKU's 'first-rate, Nth-rate' issue. This world doesn't lack boring people, and even less does it lack people scrambling to become boring. So rest assured, PKU's 'first-rate, Nth-rate' issue will continue to be an issue — an issue that makes the brainwaves of those whose mouths lack grapes, whose eyes see too many grapes, and whose hands hold only grape skins tremble a few extra times.
Peking University has always been a world-class university — what is there to argue about! I believe no department on Earth dares to compare with PKU's Chinese department. PKU's history, philosophy, and similar departments — probably very few Earth departments dare to challenge them. There's a long list of such departments at PKU. If you don't agree, bring real skills to PK — shouting is useless!
Of course, PKU has plenty of garbage departments too — the economics-related ones, for instance, which have truly become garbage to the point of seriously damaging PKU's reputation. But so what? Which world-class university doesn't have garbage disciplines? Which world-class university has all its disciplines at world-class level? Moreover, PKU's garbage disciplines are already not so garbage by national standards, because any discipline at PKU — even the most garbage one — can be stated with certainty to rank in the national top five! If you disagree, gather any discipline from all other schools in the nation and PK with PKU!
Furthermore, the standard for 'world-class' is inherently pluralistic. Why should the Chinese follow foreign standards? Especially in the humanities — why should the Chinese apply foreign ideology to standardize themselves? For example, foreigners discuss their Christianity, and the Chinese discuss Daoism — do the foreigners dare say their Daoism studies are more first-rate than ours? Then on what grounds should the Chinese standardize their Daoist studies by the foreigners' standard for studying Christianity?
PKU has long been a world-class university — there is absolutely nothing to discuss. The only thing that needs vigilance now is that PKU's world-class status not tilt toward others' industry standards. PKU must have its own Chinese world-class industry standards. Why can't there come a day when 'world-class' is measured by the Chinese standard! People in business all know that standard-setting power is the most important — and this applies equally to the issue of world-class universities!
PKU is PKU precisely because PKU can stand alone and walk its own path. Lose that independence, and PKU will no longer be PKU. The world has no name. The world is named by us. Let our standard become the world's standard, because the world has always been under our feet!"
The views above remain valid today. Whether the British praise us or the Americans mock us — it's all foreign hot air. No need to pay them any mind. PKU is PKU, walking its own path. As for whether the sausages are limp or firm — that's even less worth caring about. Sausages are sausages — in the end, they all go to the large intestine!
However, it's Mid-Autumn Festival today. We should at least send some gifts to the sausages. Let me use this ID's other old post, "The Resentful Men Who Curse PKU and Tsinghua to Collapse!" — and throw in Tsinghua for good measure — as a gift to the sausages. Sausages, happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
The Resentful Men Who Curse PKU and Tsinghua to Collapse!
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán
An era that needs Viagra is one that craves Viagra. The only ones who don't crave it are resentful men. Whether resentful men are all impotent — "you'll know when you use it" — is a non-question. Drained of vitality, these resentful men: other than resentment, what can they ejaculate? When a bunch of resentful men, with duck bills and duck tongues, curse PKU and Tsinghua to collapse, they are merely cursing everything that is standing up — so that standing up will be forever far from resentful men.
"Hong Kong University Relegates PKU and Tsinghua to Second-Rate" — this kind of garbage news becoming the sausage of internet and media merely sausage-ily reveals that today's internet and media resentful men have nothing but the sausage problem. The resentful men who couldn't make it into PKU or Tsinghua have sausage-ily confused the relationship between sausages and scallions. Thinking that since both sausages and scallions can be stalk-shaped, one can therefore treat sausages as scallions, and that scallion-ified sausages can then manufacture the sausage of "relegating PKU and Tsinghua to second-rate" — their brains must have been stuffed with sausage!
The internet and media, filled with a mysterious craving for sausages, tremble with a nameless sausage-ified shudder before any object that relates to sausages. Yet even if the sausage-loving and sausage-ified resentful men sausage-ify the internet and media as sausage-ified hot topics, they cannot let sausage-ified hot dogs and sausage-ified hot topics fill this era's stomach, which cannot live on sausage alone. An era filled with sausage-ified hot dogs and sausage-ified hot topics is, "you'll know when you use it"-ly, forever far from hot-bloodedness.
Without hot blood, there can only be hot dogs. Without vitality, there can only be resentment. Those who curse PKU and Tsinghua to collapse are merely proving that PKU and Tsinghua continue and will continue to stand! Those who curse PKU and Tsinghua to collapse don't even have the possibility of collapsing — because they've never stood up! You who curse PKU and Tsinghua to collapse: first stand yourselves up. In an era that needs nothing but Viagra, without standing up, how can you stand your ground?
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Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/10/7 23:09:10
[Anonymous] rc
2006-10-07 22:17:02
http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/zhudake
Cultural Degeneration and Literary Rupture
Zhu Dake
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To discuss culture apart from the heart of culture is to miss the point entirely. Culture is trace. That the pre-Qin cannot be attained today — this is not because of the writing, but because the people and their hearts cannot be attained.
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/10/7 23:13:38
[Anonymous] 转笔刀
Is this the kind of "big shot" that Peking University has produced?
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If I am formidable on account of PKU, I am not truly formidable. If PKU is formidable on my account, that would be truly formidable. Even the Six Classics are not sufficient as footnotes to me — PKU, in relation to me, is hardly worth mentioning!
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/10/8 18:37:21
[Anonymous] 豁达
2006-10-08 14:30:36
Before, on the Tianya Community there was a screen name "A Girl Who Loves Math," later changed to "Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán" — are they the same person?
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Yes.
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/10/6 18:23:02
To all of you who aren't sausages — happy Mid-Autumn Festival! To those who are sausages — happy Mid-Autumn Festival too!