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The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins

Web3 & Bitcoin2025.01.23
The Real Web3 Revolution: A Recent Little Collection of Thoughts on MEME Coins
Recently I’ve basically given up on Weibo and switched to Twitter; one of the big themes on Twitter lately has been the MEME-related discussion that came along with Trump’s coin launch. 【On the origin of MEME】…A lot of people don’t know that the word MEME was coined by Dawkins. “Memes” are certainly a kind of meme, but MEME is not limited to “memes.” 【On TikTok being banned in the U.S.】This is the problem with Web2: you can’t always expect leader figures like Elon Musk to govern Web2 platforms. If so-called Web3 projects ultimately cannot provide a permissionless, uncensorable, open and free social space, then they do not deserve to be…
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2025年1月23日
Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes

Life & Notes2013.03.27
Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes
A few days ago I reposted and mocked Xi’s “shoe theory” on Weibo, and my dad got unsettled. He immediately called to warn me to be careful with what I said, so as to avoid settling accounts after the autumn harvest. Generally speaking, it is rather awkward when the blogs and Weibo accounts of people born in the 1980s and 1990s come under the gaze of their parents, and I am no exception. Although my writing is addressed to anyone, and even if it is watched by parents and relatives it will not place any real pressure on me, it would be a lie to say that it causes no…
China freedom history Aristotle
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2013年3月27日
[Reprint] Zhou Ruixuan: Lovers of wisdom, the things you don’t know — A note on Hu Yilin, a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, Class of 2010

Life & Notes2012.09.18
[Reprint] Zhou Ruixuan: Lovers of wisdom, the things you don’t know — A note on Hu Yilin, a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, Class of 2010
Note: The author is a girl I met back then when I was a TA for the “What Is Science?” course, and of course I was very honored to accept the interview. This should count as the first time I was written into an interview article, though of course one can still find an interview from when I was in middle school, as the “Dong Gezhi Star,” but that interview was fake; what I said was made up. This piece, however, really was the product of an actual conversation, and the author also used a lot of material from my blog. She showed it to me before publication, so it…
philosophy China autobiography Peking University
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2012年9月18日
Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”

Philosophy & Thought2012.02.03
Maid Cafés and “Professional Ethics”
Stirred by the Fang Yaohan incident, I wrote three articles in a row, which is already quite enough to have gotten my money’s worth. Since Han Han has also announced that he is stopping writing and not talking about it anymore, I may as well stop here too. So this article continues from the earlier piece “The Kingly Way”; everyone can skip the previous three articles, and we can continue talking about “morality.” We say that the kingly way is the path to supreme goodness, and supreme goodness is nothing other than “the best life.” But in the traditional sense, for a ruler, the kingly way merely provides one of…
philosophy freedom pursuit Marx
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2012年2月3日
Why “ideals” cannot be crushed by “reality”

Life & Notes2008.09.04
Why “ideals” cannot be crushed by “reality”
(This article is chaotic; not recommended reading.) We often see people who are so-called “idealists” — university students, for example — who, after they “step into society,” are struck by all the cruelty of “reality,” eventually give up their “ideals,” throw themselves into the embrace of “reality,” and become yet another “petty bourgeois.” We then say that an idealist has become realistic? But what does that mean? What exactly is idealism? And what is it that drives them to “become realistic”? The issue I mentioned last time in the 08 undergraduate freshmen group is precisely this. The previous article did not finish it, so let me start over. Speaking of…
philosophy autobiography knowledge pursuit
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2008年9月4日
What Is “Ideal”?

Life & Notes2008.08.31
What Is “Ideal”?
Today in the freshman group for the 2008 cohort, I mentioned this question (the 08 freshmen are really interesting): what is “ideal”? The concept of “ideal” is one I use fairly often, though I haven’t made many distinctions about it. In “Scattered Notes on Love and Hatred During the Period of Seclusion,” I brought up the connection between “idealism—subjective idealism—philosophy”; in an earlier article I probably mentioned it too (though I couldn’t find it); and more than two years ago, when I talked about “My Life Ideal,” I was using the word ideal entirely in everyday language; while two and a half years ago, in one of the articles that…
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2008年8月31日
Ideal

Life & Notes2007.09.16
Ideal
It seems that the aftereffect of that erguotou was quite something; I no longer know what I’m talking about. This sort of inexplicable writing was originally meant for Yilin Xiaozhu, but after thinking it over and over, I figured I’d better not make myself split into multiple personalities again—what’s wrong with putting it here? I’ve always said I’m an ideal realist, or a realist idealist; in any case, I look for ideals in reality. Ideals detached from reality are empty, or at most can only make you more dissatisfied with reality. They aren’t worth your yearning or infatuation, and as you grow up, these so-called yearnings will leave you. For…
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2007年9月16日
My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active

Life & Notes2006.06.24
My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active
Recently someone happened to mention the topic of life ideals (seehttp://www.gotopku.cn/forum/viewthread.php?tid=39888&fpage=1), and I realized that I have never written out my own “life ideals” here in full, so I’ll jot down a few lines offhand. My “whole set” of life ideals was already determined long ago. To put it grandly for once (this article is just a bit of casual chatter): this is truly rare. Things like life ideals have no distinction of high or low, deep or shallow, but there is a distinction between being definite and being vague. When asked what one’s ideals in life are, answers like “hard to say,” “I haven’t thought it through,” “probably something…
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2006年6月24日
I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)

Life & Notes2006.01.07
I Am a Realistic Idealist, or an Ideal Realist (A Supplement to the Previous Essay and the Debate It Sparked)
I just debated with ZW for more than an hour. It’s already started to have a bit of the flavor of “directing the realm from the mountaintop” (just kidding—don’t take it seriously), and although I did get something out of it, I’m exhausted. Because my personal political views are very easy to misunderstand—easy to mistake for “counterrevolutionary” or “fool-the-masses”—but perhaps it’s not a misunderstanding after all. If revolution is understood as a revolution against China as it exists in reality, then I am a resolute “counterrevolutionary.” Of course, someone may say: as social development reaches a certain stage, there is always the possibility that revolution will become necessary; so am…
philosophy faith autobiography politics
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2006年1月7日
Application for Confirmation of Party Membership

Life & Notes2005.07.31
Application for Confirmation of Party Membership
Dear Party Organization: I was accepted as a probationary member of the Communist Party of China on April 30 last year. The probationary period is one year, and it expired on April 30, 2005. I now solemnly apply to the Party organization to be converted into a full member. In the past year, I came from Shanghai to Beijing, transformed from a high school student into a university student, experienced many things, and also gained much growth and maturity. Yet my faith in, and enthusiasm for, the Party have never changed. From high school to university, one’s experience grows richer, one’s knowledge increases, one’s emotions mature, one’s learning improves… all…
everyday life faith trust Arendt
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2005年7月31日