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编辑：钟然 校对：毛一炜 翻译：戈冰

近日，红潮国安部又发了一篇雄文，义正辞严地指出：年轻人躺平，是境外势力渗透！是颜色革命的新花样！是敌对分子在背后搞鬼！读完我差点笑出声——这届国安部怕不是把《西游记》当内部文件学了，天天都能抓出个“境外妖怪”。

躺平有那么可怕吗？年轻人不996了，不内卷了，不想当韭菜了，就成了“国家安全隐患”？这逻辑也太好笑了。古人说“达则兼济天下，穷则独善其身”。可如今呢？达者们早就不兼济天下了，他们只兼济自己和亲戚朋友的账户余额。穷者想独善其身，躺平一下，喘口气，就被扣上“境外势力”的帽子。妙啊，这叫什么？叫只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯；只许权贵躺赢，不许平民躺平。

你们这些“达者”当年是怎么兼济天下的？

房地产大潮里，左手政策右手土地，轻松把几代人的财富收割进腰包；互联网红利期，平台经济野蛮生长，996福报喊得震天响，转头就把程序员当电池用完即弃；疫情期间，一边歌颂“动态清零是人间大爱”，一边让小商贩、打工仔倾家荡产；现在经济下行，又突然发现“躺平是境外势力”，赶紧把锅甩给美帝、日帝、台独、港独、境外NGO……反正只要不是自己无能，天下就没有解决不了的“境外势力”。

年轻人躺平的真正原因，你们心里比谁都清楚：

房价高不可攀，结婚生娃成了奢侈品；996干到35岁就被优化，35岁成了职场死刑；内卷卷到头秃，回报却越来越薄；阶层固化比水泥还硬，拼爹的时代，普通人再努力也只是给别人做嫁衣。

这时候你们不反思自己“兼济天下”干了什么好事，反而怪穷人“独善其身”？这不就是典型的“自己吃肉不给别人喝汤，还怪别人不感恩”吗？

更绝的是，国安部这篇雄文里，估计又要列举一堆“境外网站”“境外博主”“境外App”在教唆躺平。拜托，你们自己把国内互联网管得铁桶一般，连个正常发声的地方都不留，年轻人不翻墙还能去哪儿听真话？结果翻墙听了句“别卷了，保重身体”，就成了境外势力？那请问，当年教我们“知识改变命运”“努力就有未来”的那些鸡汤，又是哪国势力？是不是也该一起抓？

讽刺的是，最该躺平的其实是你们自己。

你们这些既得利益者，早就躺平在权力和垄断红利上几十年了：子女海外留学、资产海外配置、医疗海外就诊，自己躺得舒舒服服，却要求国内年轻人“站起来奋斗”“为民族复兴添砖加瓦”。砖瓦是你们搬吗？瓦刀是你们挥吗？最后累死累活的还是底层，享受成果的还是你们。

这叫什么兼济天下？这叫“达则兼济自家，穷则怪你不卷”。

躺平不是不奋斗，是拒绝被你们定义的“奋斗”当燃料。

年轻人选择低欲望、低消费、低婚育、低期待，本质上是对你们这套游戏规则的消极抵抗。他们不傻，看得比谁都清楚：再怎么卷，也卷不过关系、卷不过平台、卷不过政策风向。既然终点早已内定，那我干嘛还拼了命去跑？躺平，至少不会被你们当燃料烧完。

国安部啊国安部，你们越是急着把“躺平”打成境外势力，越说明这套系统已经病入膏肓。真正的境外势力，从来不是教年轻人躺平的那几个推文，而是把中国年轻人逼到只能躺平的那套制度和既得利益集团。

达者不再兼济天下，却要穷者必须卷到死，这才是真正的“国家安全隐患”。

如果躺平真是境外势力教唆的，那为什么境外势力没教权贵们也躺平呢？他们怎么还卷得那么起劲？

转发、点赞、保存——别让“境外势力”又多了几个！

The True Nature of the Crackdown on “Lying Flat”: The Successful No Longer Seek to Benefit All, Yet Blame the Poor for Looking Out Only for Themselves

Source: Luo Xiang – Breaking the Curtain, Tearing Down the Wall

Editor: Zhong Ran Proofreader: Mao Yiwei Translator: Ge Bing

Abstract: The authorities attribute young people’s “lying flat” to foreign forces, ignoring real pressures such as high housing prices, hyper-competition, and class固化; young people’s choice of a low-desire lifestyle is, in essence, a passive response and resistance to an unreasonable competitive system.

Recently, the “Red Tide” Ministry of State Security published another bombastic article, sternly declaring: Young people’s “lying flat” is the infiltration of foreign forces! It’s a new tactic of color revolutions! It’s hostile elements pulling strings behind the scenes! After reading it, I almost burst out laughing—this Ministry of State Security must have been studying *Journey to the West* as an internal manual; they seem to catch a “foreign demon” every single day.

Is “lying flat” really that terrifying? Just because young people refuse to work 996, reject the rat race, and refuse to be treated like chives, does that make them a “threat to national security”? That logic is laughable. The ancients said, “When one is successful, one benefits all under heaven; when one is in adversity, one cultivates oneself.” But what about today? The “successful” ones stopped benefiting the world long ago; they only benefit their own bank accounts and those of their relatives and friends. The “poor” want to cultivate themselves, lie back, and catch their breath, yet they’re branded as “foreign forces.” Brilliant! What do you call this? It’s called “officials are allowed to set fires, but the common people aren’t allowed to light lamps”; it’s called “the powerful are allowed to win without lifting a finger, but the common people aren’t allowed to lie back.”

How exactly did you “successful” ones benefit the world back in the day?

During the real estate boom, with policies in one hand and land in the other, you effortlessly raked in the wealth of generations into your own pockets; during the internet boom, as the platform economy grew unchecked, you shouted “996 is a blessing” at the top of your lungs, only to turn around and treat programmers like disposable batteries; during the pandemic, while extolling “dynamic zero-COVID as the greatest love on earth,” you drove small vendors and working-class people into bankruptcy; Now that the economy is slowing down, you’ve suddenly declared that “lying flat” is the work of “foreign forces,” and you’re scrambling to shift the blame onto the U.S., Japan, Taiwanese separatists, Hong Kong separatists, and foreign NGOs… After all, as long as it’s not your own incompetence, there’s no problem in the world that can’t be solved by blaming “foreign forces.”

You know better than anyone else the real reasons why young people are “lying flat”:

Housing prices are sky-high, making marriage and having children a luxury; Working 996 until age 35 only to be “optimized”—35 has become a death sentence in the workplace; the rat race is so intense it makes your hair fall out, yet the returns keep getting thinner; class固化 is harder than concrete; in this era of “connections,” no matter how hard ordinary people work, they’re just working to line someone else’s pockets.

At a time like this, instead of reflecting on what good your “benefiting all under heaven” has actually done, you blame the poor for “looking out only for themselves”? Isn’t this the classic case of “eating the meat yourself while denying others even the broth, then blaming them for being ungrateful”?

What’s even more outrageous is that this “masterpiece” from the Ministry of State Security will likely list a bunch of “foreign websites,” “foreign bloggers,” and “foreign apps” as instigators of the “lying-flat” movement. Come on—you’ve locked down the domestic internet like a fortress, leaving no space for people to speak their minds. Where else can young people go to hear the truth without circumventing the Great Firewall? So if they use a VPN to hear a single phrase like “Stop the rat race, take care of your health,” does that make them foreign agents? Then may I ask: which foreign power was behind all that inspirational fluff back in the day that taught us “knowledge changes destiny” and “hard work leads to a bright future”? Shouldn’t they be rounded up too?

The irony is, the ones who really need to “lie flat” are actually you yourselves.

You vested interests have been coasting on the dividends of power and monopoly for decades: sending your children to study abroad, shifting your assets overseas, and seeking medical treatment abroad. You lie back in comfort while demanding that young people in China “stand up and strive” and “contribute to the nation’s rejuvenation.” Are you the ones carrying the bricks? Are you the ones wielding the trowels? In the end, it’s the working class who toils themselves to death, while you reap the rewards.

What kind of “benefiting all under heaven” is this? This is “when we’re prosperous, we benefit our own families; when we’re poor, we blame you for not competing hard enough.”

Lying flat doesn’t mean not striving; it means refusing to be used as fuel for the “striving” you’ve defined.

When young people choose low desires, low consumption, low marriage and childbirth rates, and low expectations, it is essentially a passive resistance to your set of rules. They aren’t stupid; they see it clearer than anyone else: no matter how hard they compete, they can’t outcompete connections, platforms, or shifting policy winds. Since the finish line has long been predetermined, why should I run myself to death? Lying flat—at least—means I won’t be burned out as fuel by you.

Ministry of State Security, oh Ministry of State Security, the more you rush to label “lying flat” as the work of foreign forces, the more it proves that this system is already beyond salvation. The real foreign forces are never those few tweets teaching young people to lie flat, but rather the system and vested interest groups that have driven China’s youth to the point where lying flat is their only option.

The privileged no longer strive to benefit the world, yet the poor are forced to compete until they die—this is the true “threat to national security.”

If “lying flat” really were instigated by foreign forces, then why didn’t those foreign forces tell the privileged elite to lie flat too? How come they’re still competing so fiercely?

Share, like, save—don’t let the “foreign forces” gain a few more followers!