You used to live in the countryside, where you had parents, siblings, seven aunts, eight aunts, and the whole village. Although your relationship with them may not necessarily be very good, you are one with them. They feel the danger, but it is this "oneness" that can be said to have caused the village's system to enslave you. Now you live in the city, unlike the village, you are alone, you seem to be free, and no one cares about you. You have some friends and classmates, you don’t keep in touch often, you have colleagues and bosses, your relationship is indifferent, you are separated from everything, if you can, you may still have a family, this is your last fortress, but you can easily lose it it. For those people you pass by often on the road, they are just passing by. They are no different to you than a stone on the road, and sometimes they may be malicious bad people, but they are not as good as a stone. If you were not in China but in a western developed country, you might have joined some social organizations, but when the whole world is saying that you are an asshole, no one will believe you, and your wife and children can only hesitate. You think you have everything and yourself, but you have nothing, including yourself.
In the past, we relied on the family, the ethnic group, and the parish. Later, we broke free of all of these in the name of personal freedom. Naturally, these rotten forces have no ability to bind us, but we have fallen into a new, stronger and crueler embrace. And deliberately cultivate his power in the name of safety, weakening himself and increasing his control, but safety also means danger, and the truth is just a synonym for lies.
This movie may not be that exciting and has no artistry, but whether it is the president, the prime minister, the general secretary, or the homeless person who can't watch the movie, you should remember this movie and never think that you are in charge of the country, or that you have a relationship with the country. It doesn't matter, you are always the enemy of the state, that is, the state is always your enemy.
The struggle between the individual and the system has no end unless you are the only human left in the universe. Maybe true liberalism is our great fantasy, as the Austrian economist Mises said, there has never been a real liberalism in the history of human society. When you are going to practice liberalism, or protect liberalism, you are destroying liberalism and going to the opposite of liberalism.
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