作者：周恒 编辑：冯仍 责任编辑：侯改英 校对：程筱筱 翻译：彭小梅
到底是人民选择了制度，还是制度塑造了人民？这是一个经典的问题。2024年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者的观点是：国家的繁荣主要取决于其社会制度。我的观点是制度和人民就是国家的两条腿，它们相互依存相互影响，国家拥有健康的双脚才能持久繁荣。我们先来看看被很多悲观人士形容为“盐碱地”的中国现状。
2000多年以来，中国这片土地上最大的悲哀在于逆淘汰。真正有灵魂、有血性的人都会在一次又一次的杀戮中被消灭。这个族群早已失去骨气和勇气。能够活下来的，都是胆小怕事、虚伪狡诈的庸众。而今中国人都是庸人、怂人的后代，这样的人民是赤色共产主义的温床，发展的沃土。
近代一百年来，中共集苏共和德国纳粹洗脑手段之精华，利用国家机器将中国人思维方式和价值观彻底摧毁。”；中共和人民没有共同利益，但被洗脑的人民却相信他们和中共有共同的敌人，那就是国内的资本家和西方反华势力。
中共和他们的喉舌宣传的这种论调极其荒谬，经不起推敲。如果中国人民素质低下不适合搞西方民主制度，那为什么中国人可以实行更加先进的社会主义制度”？难道是社会主义对人民的素质要求不高？还是社会主义不如资本主义民主？
一般来说，国家制度分两种：①专制暴政，②民主法治；人民也分为两种：：野蛮、奴性、盲从集体；：理性、独立思考、个人负责。国家制度和人民两两组合，共有四种情况：
第一种情况①专制暴政洗脑让人民更加愚昧，愚昧的人民默许服从，让专制暴政更加稳固。中国大陆就是这种情况。这种情况下的国家制度和人民，像看似稳定的两只脚，实则是病态的，走不长久。它一定会从内部瓦解或者被外力改变。转换成其他三种情况之一。
第二种情况①要么理性人民推翻专制暴政，要么专制暴政驯化奴化理性的人民。这种情况下的国家制度和人民，像两只不同步的脚，不能行走。他一定会快速转变为第一种情况，或者是第四种情况。
第三种情况②要么民主法治制度启蒙教育转化奴性的人民，要么奴性的人民推翻民主法治制度。这种情况下的国家制度和人民像不同步的两只脚，不能行走。他一定会快速转变为第一种情况，或者是第四种情况。
第四种情况②。这种情况下的国家制度和人民，是真正和谐稳定步调一致的两只脚。即使偶尔有重大错误也能及时自我纠错、自我纠偏，回到正轨。而其它三种情况最终都将转变成这种情况，正所谓“天下大势，浩浩汤汤”，向前谁也无法阻挡。
推翻中共再造共和是所有民运人士的理想。当这一天真正来临时，我们不得不提防民主倒退和专制复辟重建民主法治制度的同时，也要加强对人民的逻辑反思教育——让理性回归人民，让人民学会独立思考。因为只有这样的人民才能保护民主制度有效运行，这样的民主制度才能让全体人民得到平等的权利和尊严。这样中国才能的复，才能变得真正文明和繁荣。
，要迎接那个时候的来临，至少两代人这是中共执政事实下的必然代价。就像摩西带领以色列人出埃及后，在旷野里走40年，让奴性思维的人全部死去才带领剩余的人进入上帝应许的迦南地。希望那个时代能够善待他们。他们是我们的弟兄姊妹，他们只是中共统治的受害者。
A Brief Discussion on Institutions and the People
Author: Zhou HengEditor: Feng Reng Executive Editor: Hou GaiyingProofreader: Cheng Xiaoxiao Translator:Xiaomei Peng
Abstract:This article examines the mutually shaping relationship between political institutions and the people. It argues that the CCP uses brainwashing and reverse selection to cultivate a submissive populace, creating a vicious cycle of authoritarianism. Only by rebuilding democratic institutions and renewing rational thinking among the people can China escape the “historical cycle” and move toward genuine freedom and prosperity.
Are institutions chosen by the people, or are the people shaped by institutions? This is a classic question. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics asserts that a nation’s prosperity depends primarily on its social institutions. My view is that institutions and the people are like the two legs of a nation—interdependent and mutually reinforcing. A country can prosper sustainably only when both legs are healthy.Let us first look at the current situation in China, which many pessimists describe as a “barren land” for civic development.
For over two millennia, the greatest tragedy on this land has been reverse selection. Individuals with soul, integrity, and courage have been repeatedly eliminated through waves of political purges and killings. The Chinese people have long been stripped of their backbone and bravery. Those who survived are often the timid, the cunning, and the mediocre. Today’s Chinese are largely the descendants of the timid and compliant—fertile soil for the growth of red totalitarianism.
Over the past century, the CCP has absorbed and refined the propaganda and brainwashing techniques of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, using the machinery of the state to completely destroy Chinese modes of thinking and systems of values. Behaviors once considered shameful—deception and manipulation—have, under high-pressure propaganda, been redefined as “survival skills.” Criticizing the government, originally a civic duty, is now framed as “attacking the nation.”Although the CCP and the people share no common interests, indoctrinated citizens are convinced that they and the CCP face the same enemies—domestic entrepreneurs and the anti-China force of the West.
Writer Ji Xianlin once said: “Under China’s public-ownership system, every workplace is ruled by petty men. The upright is always the minority and hold no power. The masses are blind and opportunistic; most of the time, they do not stand with the upright. Bad people will not become good, for they do not think they are bad.” Though tinted with the emotions of his era, his words reflect a common observation among many intellectuals. Artist Chen Danqing put it more bluntly:
“In China, if you have no background and still choose to be a good person, you will certainly fall to the bottom of society—even if you are talented, even if you possess real insight. Society’s sieve filters you out. The more honest, upright, and kind you are, the more likely you are to be eliminated.” In a system where morality is deliberately inverted, goodness yields no institutional reward. The CCP ensures moral degradation and universal confusion: calling a deer a horse, punishing the righteous, rewarding the deceitful, and promoting the utterly shameless. Why?
To atomize the lower classes, preventing solidarity and making authoritarian control easier.
To tarnish the global image of the Chinese people, so foreigners conclude China is not worth helping—thus reducing pressure on CCP dictatorship.
To reinforce the narrative that “Chinese people are not suited for democracy,” so that only a centralized authoritarian party can maintain “stability and prosperity.”
This narrative collapses under the slightest scrutiny. If Chinese people supposedly lack the “quality” for Western democracy, how can they implement the CCP’s so-called “more advanced socialist system”? Does socialism require lower civic quality? Or is socialism simply inferior to democratic capitalism?
Broadly, national systems fall into two categories:① Authoritarian tyranny② Democratic rule of law
Likewise, people can be divided into two types:A. Submissive, collectivist, and easily manipulatedB. Rational, independent thinkers who take personal responsibility
This yields four combinations:
1. Authoritarian + Submissive (① + A)
Authoritarian rule produces an even more submissive populace, and submissive people reinforce authoritarianism. Mainland China represents this model. Such a state appears stable, but is fundamentally unhealthy and unsustainable. It will eventually collapse from within or be transformed by external forces.
2. Authoritarian + Rational (① + B)
Either rational citizens overthrow the regime, or the regime forcibly reshapes citizens into obedience. This combination cannot last long; it quickly shifts to either the first or the fourth scenario.
3. Democracy + Submissive (② + A)
Either democratic institutions enlighten the people, or the submissive people dismantle democracy. Again, this combination is unstable.
4. Democracy + Rational (② + B)
This is the truly stable combination. Even when serious mistakes occur, the system can self-correct and return to the right path. All other combinations eventually evolve into this one, because the tide of history flows irreversibly toward rationality and democracy.
To overthrow the CCP and rebuild a republic is the ideal of all democracy activists. When that day comes, the greatest danger will be democratic backsliding or authoritarian relapse. Therefore, rebuilding democratic institutions must go hand in hand with strengthening the logical and reflective capacity of the people—restoring rationality and cultivating independent thought. Only rational citizens can safeguard democratic institutions; only democratic institutions can protect the equal rights and dignity of the people. Only then can China escape the endless cycle of authoritarian relapse and rise as a truly civilized and prosperous nation.
One must remain sober: the mental frameworks shaped by long-term authoritarian rule cannot disappear in a single generation. To fully transition, at least two generations of cultural renewal will be required. Just as Moses led the Israelites through the wilderness for forty years—allowing the generation enslaved in Egypt to pass away before entering the Promised Land—China will need time to let old mindsets fade. May the coming era treat its people kindly.They are our brothers and sisters—victims of CCP rule, not its accomplices.
