When the real is systematically destroyed, the void it leaves doesn’t disappear — it’s filled by the fake. And those who grow up inside the system often don’t know they’re living with substitutes. They think it’s the real thing.

Kurt Cobain said he’d rather be hated for who he is than loved for who he is not. In China, everything comes in a castrated version, including people.

In this world, there is a difference between the internet and the harm-net, between Thai Forest Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, between the natural person and the processed person, between Claude and Doubao.

Free love is a game for citizens, not for serfs — arranged marriage is the native system of the serf.

A person blind to the evil in software, the evil in systems, can hardly be called virtuous.

Things that are truly alive need time to settle, to grow, to be understood.