作者： 左智海

在古典文明时期，公民最初的本意是不臣服于任何人，并有权利参与统治的人。

当时的人类就是血与杀，是赤裸裸的统治者与被统治者的关系，除了贵族、元老、将军、祭司和普通公民这些统治者外，还存在大量的无权参与统治，甚至是被统治的人。就比如：“被征服的外邦人，奴隶，女性及其它平民”。

到了现代化社会，公民演变成为了不被任何人统治，并有权参与国家社会公共事务的人。为什么会有这样的演变？

因为，人类社会现代化的一个重大标志，就是统治者与被统治者都消失了、没有了，统治与被统治成为一种野蛮愚昧的行径，统治别人是野蛮，被别人统治是愚昧。在现代化社会，在一个文明国家，基于人权，没有任何一个人有权力去统治另一个人，也没有任何一个人应该臣服于另一个人的统治。公民也没有权力去统治他人，但公民有权力不被任何人统治，并且公民有权力参与管理国家社会公共事务，即公民有权利自己管理自己——公民自治（在这里，你也可以理解成统治权的公共化，在封建社会统治权归于天子、诸侯王这些私人；在帝制时代统治权归于皇上、皇族这些私人；在专制社会统治权归于私人政党；在现代化社会统治权归于公共、归于全体公民）。

现代化社会不是皇权、王权社会，也不是独裁者、寡头、枭雄或政党专制、极权社会，而是人人平等，公民自治的社会。属于皇朝、王廷，独裁政府、专制政党的国家和政府已经不再存在，取而代之的是由公民根据“宪法”组建的公共政府。这公共政府存在的目的并不是为了管公民，更不是为了统治公民，而只是为了执行公民的意志，为了服务于公民的自治，为了维护和保障公民的权利与利益，为了处理国家社会公共事务。

在公民社会公民权利是大于政府权力的，因为公民权利是由“宪法”赋予的，政府没有权力制定侵犯或限制公民权利的政策法规，更无权做出限制或侵犯公民权利的行为及决策，因为这是违宪。

而且，这政府有多少的权力，只取决于公民通过“宪法”有多少的授权，如果公民没有任何的授权，政府就没有任何的权力。也就是说，政府没有权力告诉公民该怎么做，也没有权力去规定、限制公民的行为，而公民有权利告诉政府该怎么做，公民有权利通过“宪法”规定、限制政府的行为，包括这公共政府怎么组建，公职人员怎么产生，也由公民通过“宪法”来授权、规定。

而且，如果公民对这个政府不满意，那么，公民也有权利依照“宪法”撤换或另外组建一个政府。

现代化社会的立法机构、警察、检察署、法院、军队也是公民通过“宪法”授权给予的权力和职责，没有公民的授权，他们就没有任何的权力，他们和政府一样，只能在公民授权的范围内行事，一旦他们有超越公民授权的行为，那就是违法犯罪，就需要对这些职权部门负责人及相关责任人员发起追责。

在现代化社会任何人都没有特权，更不准许存在什么特权阶级，也不允许剥削阶级存在，上至国家元首，省长、市长、县长，小到乡长、镇长、村长及各级民意代表都由普通公民来担任，并且只能由公民选举产生，没有公民的选举，就没有任何人有权力担任这些民选职位。你有能力服务好这个国家和社会，有能力维护公民的权利和利益，并有意愿站出来服务的，公民就选你上，要是你没有这个能力或另有所图的，那么公民也可以让你下来，这是公民的权利。

到这里，可能你会觉得，那这什么政府、立法机构，警察、检察官、法官、军队都管不了公民？那还了得？那公民还不无法无天了？那公民杀人放火怎么办？

这里，首先，公民是独立的，公民无需臣服于任何人，也无需臣服于任何的组织机构，不管是什么皇上、国王、独裁者，还是什么政府、党派、有关部门、领导，公民都无需臣服，公民更无需接受任何人、任何组织的领导。

然后，公民奉行的是平等，在公民社会，公民与公民之间是平等的，大家都具有相同的政治权利和政治义务，不管你身价一个亿还是兜里只有一块钱，不管你是专家教授还是工人农民你我的政治权利和地位、利益和义务都是相同的，都具有相同的选举权和被选举，也拥有相同的投票权和对国家政府对公共事务的参与及监督的权利。

在公民社会，没有任何一个公民有权力凌驾于其他公民之上，也没有哪个公民比另一个公民拥有更多的权利。

公民与这些国家机构及那些公职人员之间也是平等的，在公民社会是没有特权，没有领导，也没有衙门和官的，公民社会更没有领导专用，没有领导特供，没有领导先享受，没有金色社保卡，没有领导违法犯罪自罚三杯，没有领导嫖宿幼女不叫强奸，没有领导的公子和千金们179分上一本，没有协和4年速成博士头衔，没有公务员、事业岗和国企的萝卜招聘，没有领导家亲戚孩子才能进烟草公司，更没有世袭的中国农业发展银行。

那些公职人员都是公民选上去的，谁敢自认是领导、是官老爷，谁敢要享受领导、官员的特权，或是拿出领导、官老爷的作态欺压、侮辱公民，那么，公民就有权利把他给选下来，并追究他的行为责任。至于那什么贪污受贿，滥用职权、以权谋私、公款消费什么的就更不用提，只要是有，那公民就有权让他们牢底坐穿。

公民认为，人不是牲口，人是不需要被其它人或组织去管的，他们认为只有奴隶和奴才才需要被人去管。这其实体现的就是公民的自由意识和公民的自由精神。

大多数中国人并不明白什么是自由，自由其实是一种权利，一种有权不被任何人、不被任何的组织去管的权利。

你有权不被任何人，不被任何的组织、领导、官员颐指气使、吆五喝六的管东管西，你有权不再对任何人，不再对任何的组织、领导、官员低三下四、唯唯诺诺的奴颜婢膝，这才是自由，真正的自由。

但我们中国人从秦汉到现在两千多年，除了那些皇上和枭雄外，从来没有人享受过这样的自由，甚至于大多数人不敢去想象这样的自由，因为他们会觉得这是大逆不道。这也是我们今天的中国人对自由如此的难以领会、理解的原因，因为我们身上的基因，基本已经忘记了自由是一种什么样的体验和滋味。

公民从不服从于管，也无需被管着，更不需要什么组织的领导，而只遵守一种东西，那就是《宪法》，而公民之所以接受行政部门、立法机构、司法机关的管理，这只是基于公民们在“宪法”上的约定和承诺，且在这里，这些国家机关部门对于公民并非是官管民的管，而只是物业对于业主的服务管理。

那公民为什么要遵守“宪法”？“宪法”又是怎么来的？是由谁制定的？

这“宪法”说是法，但其实，“宪法”就是公民之间的一种约定，是一个国家的所有公民坐在一起，大家一起来出主意、来协商、来讨论、最后以投票的方式固定出的一个章程，然后，大家共同约定所有的公民都必须去遵守、去维护、去捍卫的这个章程他就是“宪法”。

是的，“宪法”是公民之间共同约定的所有公民都必须去共同遵守、共同维护、捍卫的一份契约，一个章程。他上面约定了公民的权利、利益和公民的责任、义务，约定了公民该如何行使自己的权利，该如何履行自己的公民职责，约定了公民该如何管理自己的国家，该如何进行立法，需要通过什么程序并确立哪些法律（比如规定什么是犯罪及犯罪该如何惩处），约定了该如何构建公共政府、立法机构、警察、检察署、法院、军队，以及如何进行选举，包括公民民意代表和国家元首、省长、市长、县长及乡镇村长的产生和弹劾、撤换，以及约定了公民之所以要制宪、立宪的原因和目的，和约定了关于宪法的修改程序等等。

“宪法”的实质是国家规则，谁掌握了制定、修改和废止宪法的权利，谁就掌握了国家。而在现代社会，国家规则在公民手中。

之前，你可能不太理解，为什么这些现代化国家和公民都那么倡导“契约精神”，因为本身就连他们治理国家的基石都是由大家公民一起以合同、契约的形式存在和约定的。他们这契约精神维护的其实不只是公民之间的私人约定，更是对“宪法”的一种遵守和捍卫。

你看见了吗？公民并不是说，没有党和政府管着，离开领导和官员管着就会混乱、就会失控。只有奴隶和奴才，才会没有主子的管着就陷入混乱失控。

但公民是人，不是奴隶、奴才，更不是牲畜，不需要被管。公民完全有这个智力和能力，也有这个权利来自己管理自己。不会说是没了个政党管就会无法无天。

那些觉得没有党和政府管着这个社会就会无序、混乱、失控，觉得没有党和政府管着就会感到惧怕和没有安全感的，其实是源于他们内心深处被奴化的奴性部分作祟。奴隶之所以是奴隶，就是因为奴隶不敢自己为自己做主，对奴隶而言一旦失去主子，那就失去了主心骨，没有主子他们就如同天塌了一般的感到恐怖难受、彷徨不安。他们不敢独自面对这世界上的不确定性，他们害怕未知的明天，害怕外面的一切，不敢自己去面对生活，他们需要人管，需要别人负责，他们只有赶紧给自己重新找个新的主子才能重新踏实心安。

奴隶也理解不了没有主子的世界，所以，当他们看到有人不屈从他们主子的时候，他们只会以为，这人一定是在外面投靠了新的主子，奴隶想不到一个人可以独立、自主，也不去奴役他人的活着。

而成为公民的第一步，就是要学会独立、学会思考、学会辨析真相，并学会勇敢的自己为自己做主，学会自己为自己去争取权利和利益，学会承担公民责任，学会自己去参与管理自己的国家和社会。

这种以全体公民一起约定的《宪法》作为治理国家的最高准则和最根本法的模式，也被称作“宪政”，在这种宪政体制之下，公民通过“宪法”，通过制宪权、选举权、被选举权、投票权、创制权、对国家重大事务全民公决权、监督权等，牢牢的将国家的权力掌控在自己手中。所以，他们的政府只是隶属于全体公民，并服务于公民，被公民管理的公共政府，而他们的立法机构、警察、检察署、法院、军队也同样是隶属并服务保护公民，并被公民管理的公共部门机构。

所以，在现代化社会公民是国家真正的主人。

目前有不少摆脱了中共思想控制的国人渴望建立公民社会，渴望民主、自由、宪政、共和，但我们多数人却并不具备公民的品质和公民精神，而这其实也是我们那么多中国人如今反共、民运多年不成的原因。

日本思想家福泽谕吉曾言，“一个现代化的国家，首先是思想的现代化。”但可惜，现在的大多数中国人对现代化思想常识，对公民、宪政这些理念的了解还是太浅，而只有我们先具备了现代化思想，具备了公民的品质和精神，才可能真正争取到公民权利，才可能真正实现中国政治上的现代化。

就我个人认为，目前我们中国人要想成为公民，还需着重注意培养以下几点：

一、学会独立的思考

在思想上，每一个公民都有权独立的做出自己的思考和判断，有权独立的发表自己的意见、观点和主张，而不用去服从任何的权威，公民更不用去接受什么谁的领导，去听什么党的话。

所以成为公民你就得学会思考，学会推理、验证和判断，你得有自己的意见、观点和主张。而现在的大多数中国人只会重复别人的意见、观点和主张，而没有自己的思考和判断，不信的话，你自己回想一下，就你所认为的这些社会政治观点、主张和历史事实有多少是你自己思考和判断出来的，有多少又是你听来看来的，其实听来看来的也没关系，因为每个人都是从听和看开始学习的，但你不能就这样直接的去吸收、接受，不能直接就认为你所听来、看来的这些东西就是绝对正确的真理和事实。而是你要去思考、分析、验证你所听来、看来的这些东西，并不受其它影响的做出你关于这些听来、看来的东西的判断，就包括我对你所说的一切，你也得通过自己的大脑去思考、去分析、去收集证据、去验证。之后再去确认我所说的对错，然后，再找出我的错误和补足我所说的不足，再把这些你思考和验证出来的丰富、联想、运用到其它，这样，久而久之你就能形成自己的意见、观点和主张。

二、学会自己为自己做主

作为一个男人，你不该把你的期望、愿望放在别人身上，你不该希望别人或政党去给你做主、去为你做主。你应该学会自己给自己做主，学会自己去争取、去创造生存空间及生存资源，并学会自己保护自己的生存空间和生存资源，而不是去向别人或政党磕头纳贡，然后求它们赐你、施舍你、分给你一点点的生存空间及生存资源，并保障你们的安全。

你想想，你为什么不能勇敢的自己去争取、去捍卫自己的生存空间及生存资源？

很少有人意识到，其实在我们中国人的文化基因里，潜伏隐藏着一些潜移默化的东西，这些东西致使我们在天性上，会习惯性的、不自主的找人为自己做主。而且仿佛这已烙印、刻在国人灵魂的深处。

从中国结束封建制，从秦始皇的专制帝国开始，这些东西，逐渐深入国人之身心。并且在这些东西的影响下，两千年间，我们想到了所有的东西，创造过璀璨的人类文明，但唯独从来没有想到过，要勇敢的自己为自己做主，也没有想到过，要勇敢的自己保护自己。

而这些东西，其实就是奴性意识。

以至于，作为一个个有手有脚四肢健全的我们，作为一个个有头有脑的成年人，却将保护自己、为自己做主，让自己安身立命、幸福安康的这种人生大事，寄托在帝王将相，寄托在某个党、某个政府或某些伟人的治理之下。

其实，多数中国的人民及老百姓他们要的从来不是民主，他们要的是明主，他们只求能找个伟大的人物，然后拥护它、热爱它、崇拜它，然后把我们的整个国家，整个民族及所有的一切都交由他做主，只盼着这伟大的人物能够带领他们国富民强，民族兴旺。

他们求的是能碰上个好君主，好政府，有好的领导官员班子，他们愿意积极的服从伟人、领导官员和政府的安排，只期盼这伟人、政府、领导能带给他们，他们生活上所需的一切。

而这样做的后果就是，大人物和它的政府能在1949赐予你土地，也就可以1953在你全家还没捂热的时候又收回去；它们可以钦点你让你成为国家副总理，也就可以让你成为几千万被圈起来饿死的亡魂之一；它们可以让你当官、当书记、当队长，可以让你侵吞国家集体财产，可以让你潜规则其它人民百姓；也可以让你被抄家批斗，可以让你倾家荡产、小命不保，让你和你全家的生死沉浮、兴衰荣辱都被操控在大人物和它的政府手中。让新中国14亿中国人都成为它们可以随意收割、打压的韭菜和耗材，让14亿中国人的一辈子都操于它们之手。

在奴性的作祟下，大部分中国人只以为人生来就应该被政府、被国家管的，我们从来没有想到过，我们可以选择将政府打造成服务和保障我们中国人的工具。我们也从来没有想到过，国家不是政府的，也不是哪个领导人、哪个党的，国家是我们中国人的国家，国家该怎么来治理，应该由我们全体中国人表决来说的算，而不该是由哪个政府，哪个党，哪个领导说的算。你们记住：人生下来不是为了被国家政府管理的，而是人有权利治理自己的国家，有权利监督、管理我们的政府。你们记住，人不是为了国家而存在，相反，是国家为了人而存在。

而那些所谓的伟人也好，大人物也罢，我们凭什么要听它们的？凭什么我们的一生要交由它们来操控？要交由它们来做主、来决定？我们可以自己为自己做主，如果它们愿意，可以来竞选元首、省长、市长，可以来为我们公民打工，为国家打工。而且，它们能不能上台，只应该交由公民投票说了算，这样，以后你见这些所谓的伟人、大人物就不必再战战兢兢的怕它们决定你的生死荣华富贵了，反而是它们需要小心翼翼的讨好你。因为此后，不是它们掌握你的命运，而是它们的命运在你的手中，你记住，这种才是真正做国家主人的感觉，而不是那种，见个小镇长也把你搞得七上八下、要死要活的。

你觉得目前中国人身上奴性的极致是什么？

我觉得，莫过于就连你反抗中共很多的国人还觉得你不配，这里有些民主人士可能会懵圈，我就反抗个中共，反对中共对我的剥削和压迫而已，我怎么就还不配了？

其实，在很多人民百姓的潜意识当中，中共可是它们的主子，而你要推翻中共就是在推翻它们的主子。而且他们并不会认为你推翻中共的目的是要解救他们，让他们可以活得像个人，让他们可以以自由、民主、宪政、共和的方式生活下去。他们只会下意识的觉得：“这帮人要推翻中共是为了想做我的新主子”，所以，按照他们的逻辑，他们的确可以去评论你配不配“造反”的问题。

另外，我们有些反抗中共的朋友还意识不到一个问题，就如同奴隶主需要奴隶一样，奴隶也同样的需要主子，对奴隶来说，没有主子的世界就如同天塌了一般，会让他们感到无比的恐惧和无所适从，因为奴隶是没有勇气独立面对这个世界的。所以很多时候，奴才们为了保护自己的主子，他们往往会比他们的主子对你还要更加的凶狠。

但是，你记住，这世上是没有救世主的，你只能自己拯救自己，相信我，除了你自己之外，没有任何人会比你更在乎你自己的权利和利益。

无论是人权还是公民权利都不是天上掉下来的，更不是伟人、政府赏赐的，而是通过抗争争取得来的，只要你不会或不敢争取自己的权利，那么，你迟早会被当权者给吃干抹净。

从秦汉到现在，我们都一直在为我们上一代的愚昧和懦弱买单，他们每一个人的苦难都和他们的认知及懦弱程度相匹配。如果我们再继续如此，那么我们的后代也将继续会为我们的愚昧和怯懦买单。

那些从秦汉以来冤死、枉死、饿死、累死的老百姓就是我们的榜样，那些从1949到现在被中共整死、斗死、玩死、饿死、压迫至死的人民就是你我或者是你我后代的归宿。

切记：你必须学会勇敢的为自己做主，而不是找个主子为你做主。

三、学会平等。

中国人最难学会的就是平等，因为我们大多数中国人从小所追求的恰恰就是不平等。

是的，中国人是最不认同平等的一个民族，中国人向来追求和认同的是什么？是做人上人，是高人一等，所以，中国人特别喜欢和别人比，无论做什么，处处都特别想压人一头，否则心里就不舒坦。

中国人从小就被叮嘱“吃得苦中苦，方为人上人”，我们从小所追求的就不是平等，而是不惜头悬梁、锥刺股，不惜吃苦受罪，甚至是不计代价的想要成为人上人。然后掌握权力，将其它中国人踩在脚下，仿佛只有这样，你才有价值，才有出息，才能扬眉吐气，才能光宗耀祖。

中国人向来是讲等级的，分三六九等的。从儒家开始就排尊卑，分大人小人，从汉武帝起官位越大的权力越大等级越高越尊贵，能获取的生存空间和生存资源也就越多，等级越低的越卑贱，而排不上等级的向来只能被人踩，被人嘲弄、唾弃、戳脊梁骨，且就算你生计艰难也还得给等级高的贵人、大人、领导干部纳粮、上贡、交税、送红包，所以即便你不想踩人，但你也得拼命的往上爬，因为只有这样，你才能获取足够的生存空间和生存资源，才能避免不被或少被人踩。

从秦汉到现在，大多数中国人生存的最优解还是当官。得手握权力、得往上爬、得做人上人，为此他们只能花样百出的跪舔当权者；只能摧眉折腰的事权贵；只能千方百计的把别人拉下来、挤下去；只能智计百出的谋划如何踩人上位。如何当大官、做领导，如何手握重权，最好是封侯拜相、位极人臣；最好是“一人之下，万人之上”；更有甚者喊出了“王侯将相宁有种乎”，但他们这拼了命的提着脑袋干，为的也不是平等，而是为了成为九五之尊，为了手握皇权，为了可以荣华富贵、脚踏万民。

而正是因为只有成为人上人才能获得权力，才能获取到足够的生存空间和生存资源。所以这种从小便追求不平等，追求压人一头，高人一等的心态近乎成为本能根植于中国人的骨头，也让中国人从不相信人人平等，甚至是想像不到可以人人平等。更让那些皇亲国戚，高门大姓，进士举人，领导干部们，真以为自己就是比其他人高贵，真觉得自己本就应该比别人获得更多的公共权力和社会财富，也恰恰是这种对不平等的追求，对人上人的执念，对权力的病态崇拜，我们给中共这个特权阶级的存在提供了土壤和养料。因为在实际上，当今的多数中国人并不痛恨特权，相反的，他们还崇拜特权，渴望得到特权，他们痛恨的只是拥有特权的人不是我自己而已。

所以，我们必须努力克服这两千年来积攒下来的这一行为特性，学会以平等的方式对待任何一个国人。

西方人开始也很难接受人人平等，因为王公贵族又如何情愿和平民百姓平等，但最终他们靠“上帝面前人人平等”的信仰，及靠平民手中的投票权，和因战时需要平民的参战，而逐步确立了天赋人权，形成了人生而平等的理念。

你可能会说，这对中国人太难了，因为中国人没几个信上帝的，但抱歉我不知道究竟是出于一种什么样原因，而能培养出致使一个人觉得他真比另一个人更加高级的偏见。

我也不知道又究竟是出于一种什么样的心态，而使得一个人自觉到另一个人不配和自己平等，更不配自己以平等相待。

我更不知道为什么有些人会自卑、会被驯化到觉得另一些人就是比自己要高级、高贵。

但你想大家都是人，都只是动物，是穿着衣冠的猿类。那你告诉我，地球上这60亿的衣冠猿里面，有哪一只的生命层次已经超脱了动物的范畴，而已经不是动物了？还是说有哪个人已经不是人了，其生命层次已经达到超人的境界？又或是谁觉得自己已经不是凡夫俗子，而是已经成佛魔仙神了？

好像，一只都没有。

那既然所有人都是一样的哺乳动物，一样的生命层次，你能不能告诉我你引以为傲的觉得自己比其他衣冠猿更高级的原因？

是因为你爸妈是领导高干吗？还是因为你有权力？动物园猴群里的猴王也是领导，也拥有权力，还能优先交配，那么你告诉我，这只猴王的生命层次超出了猴类的范围了吗？如果没有的话，你告诉我，这些拥有权力的猿、猴领导比普通猿、猴又高级在哪里？

猿王、猴王的二代就不是再是猿猴了吗？它们比普通的小猿小猴更高级在哪里？

一只猿会不会因为钱太多而变成超猿？

有权有势的人能吃到蟠桃仙丹人参果吗？还是他们也只能和普通人一样的吃蛋白质、碳水化合物、脂肪和酒精？

住在行宫、别墅里的猩猩就不再是猩猩了吗？

拥有飞机、游艇的猩猩会变鲲鹏吗？

你觉得拥有爱马仕铂金包的母猩猩会比没有爱马仕铂金包的母猩猩更加的高级吗？

爱马仕铂金包是修仙小说里的空间装备吗？它能够收纳远超自身体积的物品吗？

上过常青藤名校，进过联合国工作，去过夏威夷度假，吃过法国大餐，品尝过神户牛肉的人能够变身迪迦奥特曼？还是超级赛亚人？

人的本质就是动物，人的第一性也是动物性，那么，既然大家都是动物，都一样的吃饭睡觉放屁，都一样的生老病死，都一样的没有超脱出动物的范畴，那你凭什么觉得自己会比另一只动物更加的高级？你又为什么不能放下成见，平等待人？

还是你觉得，因为你的基因优越？因为你智商160、因为你100米跑9.5、因为你有经商天赋、你公司世界500强、还是因为你有数学天赋、文学天赋、艺术天赋等等？

但其实人真的生而平等，这个世界上，没有哪个人的基因要比另一个人的基因更好、更优秀、更高贵。

虽然我们每个人都会有着不同的基因和特点，但这些所有的基因和特点都没有高下之分。有的只是这些基因在不同的环境下会有不同的表现和适应能力；有的只是有些人的基因能够幸运的碰上能够发挥他天赋、能够激发他基因能力的环境；而有些人则没有，仅此而已。

当然人都凡夫俗子，像我这样的底层人口难免羡慕那些荣华富贵，锦衣玉食，功成名就。有如花美眷的人，但你我大可不必自我否定，更不用忙着自卑。因为这个世界上有些人之所以成功仅只是因为这个世界上总要有一些人会成功而已。

是的在这个社会上，不管是权力、财富、地位、名望和家势都不是靠你个人自身的努力及能力、智力高低来分配的。

很多时候一个人成功了，并不是因为他有多么的了不起，而仅仅只是因为他运气比别人好而已。

实际上，无论他获得了多大的成就，在这个领域这个方面，你也一定能找出比他能力更好、更擅长、更专业的失败者。但没办法，很多时候，人生就是这样的充满运气、概率和不确定性。

而这一切的根本原因就在于：人类个体的力量非常的渺小，渺小到就连你的成功和失败都不是由你自身来决定的。而是需要看时势、凭运气、拼概率。但这也从这个侧面反映出人与人之间其实是平等的。而且这已经平等到了就算人与人之间的智力与能力存在差距，但这差距也是有限的，且不能弥补时势、运气、概率这些方面对人成败的影响。

而且实际上，就连我们个体的死活也不是由人自身来决定的，每一个现今还存活的人其实都受到了好运的庇护。

所以所谓的成功者不用沾沾自喜，还为此不能平等待人。而像你我这样的失败者也不用暗自菲薄，且更要能以平等之心待人。

作为一个男人，我觉得必须拥有我不比任何人强，但我也不弱于任何人的信念。让我们学会尊重他人，但也不自损，真正的学会人人平等，不卑不亢。

四、大多数中国人并不知道，民主的实质是一个决策程序

公民崇尚共和，遵守规则，推崇民主决策程序，对于破坏共和及违反民主决策程序的人将付出相应的代价。

公民之间的决策靠的不是武力，不是打打杀杀，而是所有公民在共和的前提下一起以平等、自由、独立的方式来讨论、协商、投票。

民主的实质是一个决策程序，由于公民之间是平等的，没有谁有权力命令其他公民该怎么做，也没有谁有权力领导其他公民、擅自代替其他公民决定该怎么做。所以公民在处理国家、社会公共事务及其他团体事务时，如果公民之间出现了分歧或意见达不成一致的，就只能采取一人一票的投票方式来解决。

并且，所有的公民都会遵守通过这民主决策机制产生的决议，这不光是公民的义务及对约定承诺的遵守，这也是对民主决策程序的认账，更是公民能结成团体、能不散架的关键。

因为，如果大家都对一人一票的结果不遵守，或是只选择性的挑选对自己有利的遵守，那么这公民的团体就面临着解散、瓦解的风险。这样公民们就无法团结起来，更无法形成力量。

在民主机制下，国人能最大限度的做到只有竞争而没有斗争，竞争是良性的，会决出更优胜者。而中国只有斗争，斗争决出胜负的往往不是优胜者，而是最无耻，最无下限，最能不计代价者胜出。

对于那些民主、共和的破坏者，那些最无耻、最无下限，能拿国人的生命及健康作为代价者将被民主的惩处机制淘汰。

而这，也是我们今天这十多亿中国人最难学会的东西，中国人从秦汉以来就不习惯讲理，也不讲逻辑，更不讲规则，他们只服从强权、暴力，只有当刀架在脖子上的时候才会老实。

很多时候，当事情的结果如他们所愿的，他们乐于接受。而如果不如他们所愿时，他们就会开始诡辩、撒泼、耍赖，甚至不惜破坏大家事先约定好的规则，而如果还达不到自己的目的，他们就开始玩权谋、搞阴谋诡计、拼三十六计。

但这样的后果，就是不用中共出手。我们这些公民的团体、反共的团体就会一个个的分裂、破碎、直到自己垮掉。

这其实是一种尿性，只服从强权、暴力，而不会体面的遵守自己参与制定的规则，这是对自己承诺的不遵守、不认账。

如果大多数中国人改不掉这种只服从强权、暴力，不遵守规则的尿性，那么我们就无法结成庞大而有力的公民团体，无法与中共对抗，更无法争取到自己的公民权利。

而最重要的是，只服从强权、暴力，不遵守规则的尿性是一个奴隶咒印，这个咒印会让你永远活在不讲规则的社会中为奴，因为你本身就是一个规则的破坏者，就算你生来就在民主共和的社会当中，你也只会是这民主社会的蛀虫。而当整个社会的大多数人都是你这样的蛀虫时，民主与共和及宪政的规则和理念就会崩塌，到时候整个社会就会陷入一场无规则、无底线、无下限的拼杀、角逐，最后由新决出的暴力团体上台成为强权，你和其它蛀虫只有臣服为奴。

其实路都是自己选的，是要为奴为婢，还是要成为可以不臣服于任何人、并享有公民权利的公民，决定权在你们自己手中。

要是实在连自己参与制定的规则都遵守不了，那么就依我们这尿性也就只配沦为中共这样暴力强权政党的盛世之牛马，乱世之炮灰。

自秦汉起中国人就不讲究共和，更没有民主决策的传统。中国人只信奉“成王败寇”；只讲究“以成败论英雄”；中国人只讲结果，不看过程。所以为了赢，为了达到目的，无论你做了多少泯灭人性，毫无道德底线，伤天害理的事，也不管你有没有背刺同袍，坑杀队友，屠杀劫掠无辜百姓，只要最后赢的是你，那么你就是英雄是伟人。

而且最病态的是，只要你赢了，就轮不着你去操心历史，自有大儒为你辩经，自然有那些想当官、想升官、想捞好处的大儒为你修改历史，来把你所做的一切合法化、合理化，甚至是神圣化。

从楚汉之争开始，中国就开启了一场无规则、无道德、无底线，也不计代价，只论输赢的内斗。

从此，中国人比拼的不再是规则、能力、智慧、勇气、意志和品格，而是比拼谁更狡诈、更无耻、更无下限，比拼谁更能为了赢而不折手段、不计代价。于是从此在中国赢的只能是那些不讲规则、不讲道德、没有底线，也不要脸、不择手段的流氓、无赖、无耻之徒，就诸如刘邦集团、朱元璋集团、毛泽东集团之流，而如项羽、韩信、蒋介石这种顾及道德、有情义、有羞耻心、讲脸面的就成了中国人心目中的迂腐和妇人之仁，成为了人们要引以为戒的角色。于是中国开启了一场长达2000多年的逆淘汰，并延续至今。

事实上，从秦制起中国人最大的精力都一直用在内斗之上，用在相互挤压、相互残杀、相互消耗之上，即便时至今日，中国人也至少有80%的精力用于内斗、内耗。

我们必须停止内斗，而学会以共和、以民主决策程序，来决定我们国家、民族及个人的命运，学会人人平等；学会在处理社会公共事务、公共决策及遇到公民内部分歧的时候，都采用民主程序来处理，并且让破坏民主和共和的人受到应有的惩处。否则即使推翻了中共，中国人依旧只会陷入秦汉以来中国历史的死循环。

切记：我们要学会遵循民主决策程序，并找出那些真正在反共、敢反共、有能力反共的人。

五、学会能群。

需知：公民是一个群体，对于公民来说，任何侵犯到公民权利及侵犯到社会公义的行为都不可容忍，公民会自发的团结起来，与侵犯公民权利及侵犯社会公义的行为对抗。因为公民们深晓，对其他公民权利的侵害，其实就是对自己的侵害，因为今天它们能侵犯别人的公民权利及公民利益，那么这就意味着明天它们也能侵犯到你，而如果今天你不站出来，不去维护其他公民的权利，那等这些公民都被处理了轮到它们收拾你时，也已经再没有人能够站出来和你一起对抗了，这样，公民们就会被那些蚕食公民权利的害虫给逐步的分解、蚕食直至鲸吞、消灭。

所以所有试图拿走公民的公民权利，试图剥夺公民的公民权利，试图侵犯公民的公民权利和公民利益的害虫都是公民的公敌，公民会自发的团结起来一起与它们对抗，哪怕它们是政府、军队、党及境外势力。

诸位，你们觉得，目前中共能在中国为所欲为、无法无天的原因是什么？

是因为中共领导有什么伟力吗？还是和《哪吒2》里那些高高在上的大神高仙一样，中共的党员会什么神通法术？

没有啊，中共的那些领导也好，小卒也罢，都和我们一样，和陈塘关的百姓一样，都是肉体凡胎，他们和我们一样，一样的吃喝拉撒，一样的挨一枪会死，砍一刀会流血，那么他们凭什么统治我们？他们凭什么把我们十几亿的人口按在地上收割？

其实这答案在先秦诸子的一句话里：“力不若牛，走不若马，而牛马为用，何也？”曰：“人能群，彼不能群也。”

其实不管是牛马，还是豺狼虎豹猪熊象，人即使聪明些，但在只能手持冷兵器的时代，人是难以在一对一的情况下战胜这些野兽的。而人之所以能战胜这些野生动物，并将它们或驯服、或取其皮毛御寒、取骨抓入药、取血肉充饥，其实只是因为人能群，而这些野兽不能群。

现在的中共为什么能够收割役使我们十多亿的中国人，其实也就仅仅是因为中共能群，而我们另十多亿的中国人不能群而已。

是的人类个体的力量是非常的有限、脆弱和渺小的，人类的力量来自群体，来自能群。

可惜今天的多数中国人意识不到这点，他们意识不到自身的力量；意识不到群体的伟力；更意识不到自己是国家力量的源泉。他们只以为自己是普通、平凡、弱小的个体，殊不知只要把我们这些看似普通、平凡、弱小的个体力量集结起来，那么我们就能够汇聚成一股新的能与中共抗衡、并一定能战胜中共的政治洪流，因为中共只有8000万在编人员，而我们普通人有十多亿。

除了意识不到自身及能群的力量外，我们这十多亿中国人最大的问题在于还没学会团结，现在的我们还是一盘散沙，而中共却是一个集结了7000万到8000万在编人员的严密组织。所以我们这些一个、一个、一个的社会个体、沙粒，现在就连和中共对抗的资格都没有，不要说中共碰下你就碎，就连中共底下的某个县公安局打个喷嚏，你我也得融化。

我不是在这里夸张，你就看看最近这些消息，一个外地派出所的远洋捕捞就能令你倾家荡产，能让一个身价上亿的公民在关押期间殒命。

其实写到这里，如何能与中共对抗、并战胜中共的方法和路径也已经明摆着了。要与中共对抗、并战胜中共说简单也简单，只要我们这些被中共哄骗、收割、压榨的十几亿人学会能群！能团结起来一致对抗中共，那么中共会在瞬间融化。而这也正是中共不允许中国人组党、结社的原因，因为这里面蕴藏着摧毁中共的力量。

有些时候你可能会想不通，觉得这中共和其政府小题大做，就连三五个人穿一样的衣服去公共场所跑个步它们都怕，这其实是因为它们知晓群体的力量。

但要说难就难在我们这十几亿的中国人要如何才能学会团结一致的对抗中共。

幸好这路就摆在你我面前，我们中国人不用去发明、创造这种方法，我们只需要去学前人现成的经验就行——以公民的方式相处，结成公民的团体，一致对抗中共。

如果我们这群十几亿被中共愚弄、收割的中国人连前人已经走出来、摆好、放在面前可以让你学的东西你都学不会，那么，就依我们这群人的这种智力和尿性，我们还真活该被中共统治，也活该被中共这样一代代的收割、压榨、迫害下去。

或许这是一种自然选择，智力高的、能群的、会协作的淘汰或奴役那些智商低、不能群、不会协作的。

那么你是要选择被中共淘汰、奴役，还是要选择学会以现代公民的方式能群，来相处、团结、协作对抗并推翻中共？

我个人选择后者，可惜这个世界没有灵气，玩的也不是修仙，靠的更不是个人伟力，个人永远没有对抗这个世界的能力。现实世界靠的是群体和族群的协作，你一个人，就算你再对，再怎么努力，再怎么的选，也只是沧海一粟，到头来孤掌难鸣。但最可惜的是，就算不提国内，只单说都已因中共而流落到海外的中国人，他们也大多还是不能群。

各位，请组党、请结社，并请学会团结一致，对抗中共。

六、中国人需要一部宪法，反共需要一部宪法，每个公民社会、公民国家都需要一部《宪法》。

目前，我们中国人为什么不能群？为什么是一盘散沙？为什么不相互团结、信任，其实最大的原因是我们这十多亿中国人没有共识。我们对我们的国家、民族、社会及个体的当下、未来或各有诉求、或诉求不明、或完全不知道该怎么办，或对此自诩清高，对政治不屑一顾，或纵情山水、沉于声色犬马，或混吃混喝、自我填喂奶头乐，或以躺平，以不工作、不结婚、不生娃的态度无声的反抗，但中国人最多的还是意识不到自己可以有政治诉求，他们习惯了跟党走、听党的话，习惯了服从领导的安排和指挥。他们完全意识不到，自己有权参与国家规则的制定，自己有权利就宪法的生效、修改、废止投出自己的一票，自己有权且有能力决定我们国家、民族及其个人的未来。

我经常在群、在网上看到有网友发帖，大意是担心中共没了中国该怎么办云云，他们惧怕改变，害怕没有中共生活会更加的糟糕，但《宪法》其实就是要你自己敢站起来，让你以主人的身份参与、商议、表决、制定一个我们的国家、民族及个人的现在和未来该怎么办的章程。

表面上“宪法”是公民之间共同参与、协商、表决、约定的一个章程，是公民们都必须共同遵守、维护、捍卫的一个契约。

但实质上“宪法”的本质是国家规则，且谁掌握了制定、修改和废止宪法的权力，谁就掌握了国家，而公民宪政的本质是公民依照全体公民约定的“宪法”自己治理自己的国家，即要求公民能够学会自己治理自己的国家，要求公民能够勇敢的自己承担自己行为所带来的风险和责任，即要求公民不再跪着，而是有勇气站起来自己做自己国家的主人，以享受国家主人的权利，及承担国家主人的责任和义务。

公民离不开“宪法”，没有宪法的公民其实是处于公民的权利和义务待定，及如何治理国家待定的一种状态，有了宪法其实也就明确了公民该如何行事，因此，“宪法”也被称作“公民行为手册”，但更重要的是，“宪法”是全体公民的共识，是凝聚公民民心的关键，也是公民凝聚力的核心。因为公民与公民之间就是通过“宪法”联结到一起的，没有“宪法”的公民就是一盘散沙，且“宪法”还包含着全体公民对自己国家和民族的愿景，指引着公民对国家、民族及公民个人所追寻的未来和方向。

中国公民当务之急，是群策群力，尽快开启全民立宪、修宪、制宪的行动，然后争取达成共识，共同制定出一部真正能够维护、保障中国公民的人权及公民权利的“宪法”出来。

可能会有朋友觉得，就反共而言，修宪没有用，什么法律、思想、观点什么的，都是软蛋、是放空炮、是口嗨，只有枪炮和武装才真实有力量，但其实，有这种观点是因为这思维还停留在二十四史当中。

现在中共怕什么？

绝不是什么张献忠、李自成，这是现代，不是古代。现代即使有张献忠有李自成，各有数万人马起誓，即使除了刀枪盔甲战马他们还配备了ak47和小卡车火箭筒，但中共是不怕这种小股规模的武装起义的，你冒出多少来，中共就轻松灭多少，中共只需要给张献忠和李自成安上一个恐怖分子的头衔，然后再定一个分裂国家、妄图颠覆国家的罪名，派两支部队过去半小时就把他们给剿灭了，然后再合成发布一些张宪忠李自成们杀人放火、抢劫民女财物，和接受国外势力资助的证据，全国的人民老百姓们就会一片欢声拍手叫好，然后中共表功，办联欢晚会，整个事件完结。

那中共最怕的是什么？

是民心。

是谎言被戳穿。

是怕中国民众形成共识。

因为中共的江山，不是打下来的，而是骗出来的。是当年它们一遍遍的喊着共产党来了人民翻身做主；喊着它们要为人民服务、喊着它们要建立社会主义要消灭剥削、消除两极分化、要物质资源及其丰富；要人人幸福；所以当大多数国人都真正见识到中共的面目和谎言时，中共的基本盘也就不攻自破。

而对于那些已经清醒，却又不知道该如何反抗，或不敢反抗，或觉得反抗无用，或认为即使反抗成功也只是换个皇帝、换个党统治、换汤不换药的那些人，我们通过制宪、立宪的过程，告诉他们中国和中华民族及公民个人的未来在哪里，让他们知道，我们可以赢；让他们看到我们中国人也可以创造更好更实际的生活，也能真正实现中国政治上的现代化。

而更重要的是，这制宪、立宪的过程就是让民众了解宪政，普及民主、共和，让中国民众的思想接触现代化政治常识的过程；而最重要的是，这制宪、立宪的过程就是汇聚民意，形成共识的过程！诚然，如果只是我一个人在叫唤，或是10个，100个人在喊中国人要制宪、立宪，那当然，这宪法就是软的，没有任何的威力，但如果，是1万，10万，或是100万人共同修宪、共同认同一部宪法，那么，中共就头疼难办了，而且，就我估算，疫情封控之后加之最近几年中共在政治、经济、民生上的倒行逆施，我们至少有5%的中国人已经清醒，5%是多少？是7000万，超过英国的总人口，如果我们这七千万人都认同一部宪法，那么，这绝对是完全可以撼动中共的恐怖力量，而且，我们这些人，处在中国的各行各业，甚至有的还占据着中共的岗位，我们只待风起云来，而如果，我们这七千万人再将我们的父母、子女，身边的亲戚、朋友、同事动员起来，当认同制宪、立宪、认同这部宪法的人口超过3亿，都不消中国的过半人口，只要到时我们三亿五千万公民一起走上街头（美国人口3.4亿），要求中共下台，要求中共还权，要求中国实施民主、宪政、共和，那么，中共的政权就会在一夜间崩塌。

你也不用担心我们没有武装，没有军队，因为，只要民心到了这个份上，到时，绝大多数的人民子弟兵只会将枪口对准中共高层的脑袋，因为他们不是机器，因为人民子弟兵们生来就不是党的儿子，他们也不是中共领导的儿子，他们是人民、是老百姓的儿子。

各位，尽可能的发动国人参与立宪、制宪，尽可能的争取民心，凝聚民意，形成共识，这才是真正能够摧毁中共根基的力量，而不是再去盼望什么张献忠、李自成。

当然，我们也不能不承认，制宪、立宪是一个非常长期，也很难达成共识，并需要耗费无数人力物力财力精力的过程，但天佑中华！各位，我们中华民族面前其实就摆着现成的宪法，我们只需把台湾的《中华民国宪法》和其它的宪法性文件直接照搬过来就好，而不用再摸着石头过河。

切记：政治需要智慧，摆在我们中国人面前的最优解其实就是在中国大陆推行台湾的这套民主制度。

全篇的最后，我想问大家一个问题，不知诸位可知，当年清廷二十万清军为何能灭1亿人口的大明？

答：因为大明不能群。

明朝之所以被清庭所灭，最主要就是因为内斗、内耗严重所导致，朱元璋及其历代继任者，为朱家能世世代代坐稳天下，在朝廷：杀功臣、废相权，梃杖士大夫，并为防止武将造反，故意重文轻武，联合文官集团打压、轻视武将，对武将处处限制掣肘，故意消弱军队战斗力，甚至为一己之私不惜自灭军队、屠杀将领，自我阉割国家军事实力，而后为与文臣武将争权夺利又重用宦官，整个朝廷乌烟瘴气，四分五裂。

在民间：朱元璋又制定知丁法，路引制，将老百姓从生至死监控钉死在皇权之下，并提倡乡亲邻里间相互监视，鼓励相互揭发，人人互察，把十里乡亲养成卑鄙阴暗、底层互害之辈，人人相互诬告，相互算计，相互暗害，互相坑杀、民风败坏。

最后整个明朝从朝堂到百姓，社会完全粉末化，人人彼此敌对，团结不到一处，果真，如老朱家所愿，大明内部的确很难再形成一股合力对抗皇权，但，千算万算，最后清庭只费吹灰之力，便入主中原。

即便已是到了南明，明明明朝已经灭了一次，明明清兵已大军压境，明明汉人已是生死存亡之关头，但诸多南明小朝廷的皇帝文官武将之间依旧是争权夺利纷争不断，皇帝与文臣武将间相互算计，文官瞧不起武将，打压武将，武将也不听文官指挥，文官之间朋党之争也越演越烈，武将之间也相互杀伐，归降南明的起义军与原先的文臣武将更是相争不断，清兵烧杀抢掠地主乡绅富商百姓，明军农民起义军也烧杀抢掠地主乡绅富商百姓，地主乡绅富商老百姓间也相互抢劫杀掠，整个南明从上至下离心离德，从始至终，南明十八年间都无法有效的调动军事力量来抗击清兵，最终的后果就是拥有1亿人口的大明不敌二十万入关的清兵，整个明朝在所有人的内斗、内耗中抱着一块去死，大明彻底被外族所灭，汉人从此被满人征服，只能跪地自称奴才为满人效忠。

很多明粉都常痛心疾首，道：是满清误了中国！是满清的闭关锁国才使中国与世界脱节，才使我中华落后于世界，但诸位，“人必自侮，然后人侮之；家必自毁，而后人毁之；国必自伐，而后人伐之。”如果不是大明出了问题，这人口一亿的大明，又怎会被二十万的满清铁骑攻陷。

在我们这代人看这段历史，多会觉得这些皇帝、儒官、武将、起义军、地主、乡绅、富商、百姓愚蠢、迂腐、荒唐、短视、可笑，但是，诸位，今天的我们又何尝不是如此？我们又哪里好过他们了？

君不见中共高层及其核心骨干成员至多500万到800万人左右，但就这不超千万的共党，将我们十多亿的中国人拿着一套所谓的共产主义玩弄于股掌之间，将我们从本应的国家主人活生生哄骗打压成了中共的牛马、韭菜、备用器官。

今天的民运和反共人士是个什么情况？

我一周前，看到一段反共人士的群聊，两位群友一人力挺孙中山总统，另一人力挺宋教仁先生，两人相互谩骂，各自拿出孙宋二位的不是攻击对方，途中一力挺袁世凯总统的群友从半路杀出，说其实袁称帝后走君主立宪中国也能如英国、日本般的富国强兵，并且只有袁总统有能力抵抗、阻止日本军国主义对中国的侵略，最终，三人一番争执之下，有两位群友退群。

近年不少民运、反共人士，经常为川普总统搞得面红耳赤，挺川的和恨川的相互鄙视，相吵相争不可开交，不少原先聊得来的网友、甚至是熟人为此交恶。

其实，这是一种幼稚，政治上的幼稚。

我们的目的是什么？

是反共，是推翻中国共产党，是实现中国政治上的现代化，是在争取中国公民的人权和公民权利。

至于我们其中有些人是挺孙总统，挺宋先生，还是挺袁总统真的不重要，这是个人的自由，政治不是小孩子过家家，你我也不是幼儿园的小朋友，稍有不高兴，就来一句我不和你玩了。我们当中有人是支持川普总统，还是反对川普总统这也和反共关系不大，我们不能如同中共一般去压制、统一、打压思想，我们要建立的并不是另一个专制政党，我们应该允许别人支持你不喜欢的人，只要那个人不是毛泽东之类的毒流，我们也必须学会接纳和容得下别人和我们有不一样的观点，只要大家都一致赞同反共就好，只要还有反共这点共识，我们就能合作，就可以团结，这样民主才能不散架，我们这群反共的人士才能不散架，这样，我们被中共压迫的中国人才能学会能群。

我出生在西南边陲的一山区小镇，年平均气温只有十度左右，大概是中国最偏远最贫穷最落后人口最少的镇子，我们镇子里大多祖上为明朝罪民，是被明朝皇帝发配充军到云南戍边的，我祖上也是南京应天府人，所以，我说话的口音和大多数云南口音不一样，这也是很多网友质疑我不是云南人的原因。也因地处三州交界，属交通要道，又因1995年之前，当地有不少锡铜铁矿和名贵林木资源，当时周边各地开矿、伐木、买卖、搞运输的人非常多，小镇经济异常活跃，所以当时也特别的混乱。那时开矿和伐木都不需什么手续、也不用采矿证，胆子大你占下来就是你的，政府、公安来了也不管用，到处偷矿抢矿乱砍滥伐，那时我们小镇周边的其它县份、乡镇的矿木都被外地来的老板把控，但唯独我们小镇没有，因为当时我们小镇是出了名的团结，虽民风风评不佳，骁勇、好斗，但只要有小镇的人被外地人欺负、被打的，不管有无利益关系，镇子上的其他人都会自发汇聚冲上去便帮忙，而且，就算镇里平素有仇怨的人家，或昨晚刚喝酒打了架的邻里，或是因田边争水、争地相互动过手的村民，他们中有谁被外地人欺负时，另一人还会上前动手帮忙，因为，如果有外地人动手抢矿、抢伐木、打人你不动手帮忙，那以后你家里出事，被外地人打时，也绝不会有镇上的人出手帮忙，这不肯出手的人家会直接社会性死亡。而且，这不光是在镇子里，就算是出门在外卖矿、运木材、拉货、做买卖，只要听到有人打架，而且是我们小镇的口音，都不管认不认识，先冲上去帮忙打完架再说，而这样的后果就是镇子里的矿产、木材和其它资源都只被自己小镇的人赚了，当时，我们小镇每年的收入比县城和县里的其它乡镇加在一起还多。

这是一个稍显野蛮，但关于团结的小故事，那时候每年都会出不少的人命，但这让我从小就体会到了如何能群，如何能将群体团结到一起并保持不散架，也学会了如何勇敢坚毅、不怕疼痛、及敢拿命拼。

我们在海外的朋友要真心反共的，也必须学会如此，即使是过去或现在大家有思想分歧、有利益冲突、有不愉快、或彼此看不惯，但反共是公，个人是私，我们得公私分明，得不计前嫌，得放弃成见，得携手共进，众志成城！我们真的没有谁比谁更高贵。

否则我们永远聚不到一块，永远形不成合力，永远不能群，永远敌不过中共，最后只会如一亿人口的大明不敌二十万清军那般的愚蠢、迂腐、荒唐、短视、徒增笑料。

最后我重复一遍，我在前文所说：

如果我们这群十几亿被中共愚弄、收割的中国人连台湾已经走出来、摆好、放在面前可以让你学的东西你都学不会，那么就依我们这群人的这种智力和尿性，我们还真活该被中共统治，也活该被中共这样一代代的收割、压榨、迫害下去。

或许这是一种自然选择，智力高的、能群的、会协作的淘汰或奴役那些智商低、不能群、不会协作的。

那么你是要选择被中共淘汰、奴役，还是要选择学会以现代公民的方式能群，来相处、团结、协作对抗并推翻中共？

诸位海外和国内的朋友们，诸位尚能群否？

编辑：黄吉洲 校对：程筱筱 翻译：戈冰

Speaking of Citizens: What Is a Citizen?

Author: Zuo Zhihai

In classical civilization, the original meaning of a citizen was one who submitted to no person and possessed the right to participate in ruling.

At that time, human society was defined by blood and slaughter—a stark relation between rulers and the ruled. Beyond rulers such as nobles, senators, generals, priests, and ordinary citizens, there existed a vast number of people who possessed no right to participate in ruling, or were even directly ruled over. Examples included conquered foreigners, slaves, women, and other commoners.

In modern society, a citizen has evolved into one who is ruled by no person and possesses the right to participate in national and social public affairs. Why has such an evolution occurred?

Because a major hallmark of the modernization of human society is the complete disappearance and total elimination of both rulers and the ruled. Ruling and being ruled have become acts of barbarism and ignorance: ruling others is barbarism, and being ruled by others is ignorance. In a modern society and within a civilized state, based upon human rights, no single individual possesses the power to rule over another, nor should any individual submit to the rule of another. Citizens do not possess the power to rule over others either; however, citizens possess the right not to be ruled by anyone, as well as the right to participate in managing national and social public affairs—that is, citizens possess the right to govern themselves: civic self-governance. (Here, you may also understand this as the publicization of ruling power: in feudal society, ruling power belonged to private entities such as the Son of Heaven and feudal princes; in the imperial era, ruling power belonged to private entities such as the emperor and the imperial clan; in autocratic society, ruling power belongs to private political parties; whereas in modern society, ruling power belongs to the public and to the entire citizenry.)

A modern society is neither a society of imperial or royal power, nor an autocratic, oligarchic, warlord-dominated, party-autocratic, or totalitarian society; rather, it is a society of equality for all and civic self-governance. States and governments belonging to imperial dynasties, royal courts, dictatorial regimes, or autocratic political parties no longer exist; in their place are public governments established by citizens pursuant to the “Constitution.” The purpose of this public government’s existence is not to control citizens, let alone to rule over citizens, but solely to execute the will of citizens, to serve the self-governance of citizens, to safeguard and guarantee the rights and interests of citizens, and to handle national and social public affairs.

In a civil society, citizens’ rights are greater than governmental power, because citizens’ rights are conferred by the “Constitution.” The government possesses no power to formulate policies or regulations that infringe upon or restrict citizens’ rights, and even less power to make actions or decisions that restrict or infringe upon citizens’ rights, as doing so constitutes a violation of the Constitution.

Furthermore, how much power this government possesses depends entirely on how much authorization citizens grant through the “Constitution.” If citizens grant no authorization whatsoever, the government possesses no power at all. That is to say, the government has no power to tell citizens what to do, nor does it have the power to prescribe or restrict the behavior of citizens; conversely, citizens possess the right to tell the government what to do, and citizens possess the right to prescribe and restrict the behavior of the government through the “Constitution,” including how this public government is formed and how public officials are produced, both of which are authorized and prescribed by citizens through the “Constitution.”

Moreover, if citizens are dissatisfied with this government, citizens also possess the right to replace it or establish another government in accordance with the “Constitution.”

The legislative bodies, police, procuratorates, courts, and military of a modern society are also granted their power and duties by citizens through the “Constitution.” Without the authorization of citizens, they possess no power whatsoever. Like the government, they can act only within the scope authorized by citizens. Once they engage in actions that exceed the authorization of citizens, that constitutes an unlawful crime, and accountability must be initiated against the heads of these functional departments and relevant responsible personnel.

In a modern society, no individual possesses privileges, nor is any privileged class permitted to exist, nor is any exploiting class allowed to exist. From the head of state, provincial governors, mayors, and county magistrates, down to township heads, town mayors, village heads, and representatives of public opinion at all levels, all positions are held by ordinary citizens and can only be produced through election by citizens. Without an election by citizens, no individual possesses the power to hold these elected positions. If you have the ability to serve this country and society well, have the ability to safeguard the rights and interests of citizens, and have the willingness to step forward to serve, citizens will elect you; if you do not have this ability or harbor ulterior motives, citizens can also remove you from office—this is the right of citizens.

At this point, you might feel: do you mean that this government, legislative bodies, police, prosecutors, judges, and the military cannot control citizens at all? Wouldn’t that be disastrous? Wouldn’t citizens then become utterly lawless? What if citizens commit murder or arson?

Here, first of all, citizens are independent. Citizens do not need to submit to any person, nor do they need to submit to any organization or institution. Be it an emperor, a king, a dictator, or a government, a political party, relevant departments, or leaders, citizens do not need to submit to any of them, and citizens even less need to accept the leadership of any person or organization.

Next, what citizens uphold is equality. In a civil society, citizens are equal among themselves; everyone possesses the same political rights and political obligations. Regardless of whether your net worth is one hundred million or you have only one yuan in your pocket, regardless of whether you are an expert, a professor, a worker, or a peasant, your political rights and status, interests, and obligations are identical to mine. All possess the same right to vote and to stand for election, as well as the same voting rights and the right to participate in and supervise state government and public affairs.

In a civil society, no single citizen has the power to place themselves above other citizens, nor does any citizen possess more rights than another.

Citizens are also equal with these state institutions and those public officials. In a civil society, there are no privileges, no leaders, and no imperial officials’ offices or officials. Civil society even less has special provisions reserved for leaders, special supply lines for leaders, priority enjoyment for leaders, golden social security cards, leaders committing crimes and self-penalizing with three glasses of wine, leaders sleeping with underage girls not being called rape, leaders’ sons and daughters scoring 179 points to get into tier-one universities, Union Medical College four-year shortcut doctorate titles, radish recruitments tailored for civil servants, public institutions, and state-owned enterprise posts, children of leaders’ relatives being the only ones who can enter the tobacco company, let alone a hereditary Agricultural Development Bank of China.

Those public officials were all elected by citizens. If anyone dares to consider themselves a leader or an official master, if anyone dares to demand the enjoyment of leaders’ or officials’ privileges, or display the demeanor of a leader or official master to oppress and insult citizens, then citizens possess the right to vote them out and pursue liability for their behavior. As for things like corruption and bribery, abuse of power, seeking personal gain through official power, and consumption with public funds, those need not even be mentioned; as long as they exist, citizens have the right to put them behind bars until they rot.

Citizens hold that human beings are not livestock; human beings do not need to be managed by other people or organizations. They hold that only slaves and lackeys need to be managed by others. This, in fact, embodies the civic consciousness of freedom and the spirit of civic freedom.

Most Chinese people do not understand what freedom is. Freedom is actually a right—a right not to be managed by any person or any organization.

You have the right not to be bossed around, shouted at, and micromanaged by any person, organization, leader, or official; you have the right to no longer act servilely, obsequiously, and sycophantically toward any person, organization, leader, or official—this is freedom, true freedom.

However, we Chinese people, from the Qin and Han dynasties down to the present for over two thousand years, except for those emperors and ruthless warlords, have never enjoyed such freedom; most people do not even dare to imagine such freedom, because they would feel it is high treason and outrageous. This is also why we Chinese people today find freedom so difficult to comprehend and understand, because the genes in our bodies have essentially forgotten what kind of experience and taste freedom is.

Citizens never obey management, nor do they need to be managed, and even less do they need the leadership of any organization; instead, they obey only one thing, and that is the “Constitution.” The reason why citizens accept the management of executive departments, legislative bodies, and judicial organs is based solely on the agreements and promises made by citizens within the “Constitution.” Moreover, here, the management of citizens by these state organs and departments is not the management of subjects by officials, but merely the service management of property management for property owners.

So then, why must citizens obey the “Constitution”? How did the “Constitution” come into being, and who drafted it?

While this “Constitution” is called a law, in reality, the “Constitution” is simply an agreement among citizens. It is a charter formulated when all citizens of a country sit down together to pool ideas, deliberate, discuss, and ultimately fix through voting. Then, the charter that everyone jointly agrees all citizens must obey, maintain, and defend is the “Constitution.”

Yes, the “Constitution” is a contract and a charter jointly agreed upon by citizens, which all citizens must jointly obey, maintain, and defend. It stipulates the rights and interests of citizens as well as the responsibilities and obligations of citizens; it stipulates how citizens should exercise their rights and how they should fulfill their civic duties; it stipulates how citizens should manage their own country, how legislation should be conducted, and what procedures must be followed to establish which laws (such as defining what constitutes a crime and how crimes should be punished); it stipulates how public governments, legislative bodies, police, procuratorates, courts, and the military should be constructed, as well as how elections should be conducted, including the emergence, impeachment, and replacement of citizens’ representatives of public opinion, heads of state, provincial governors, mayors, county magistrates, and township and village heads; and it stipulates the reasons and purposes for which citizens frame and enact a constitution, as well as the procedures for amending the constitution, among other things.

The essence of the “Constitution” is the rules of the state. Whoever holds the power to frame, amend, and abolish the constitution holds the state. In a modern society, the rules of the state are in the hands of the citizens.

Previously, you might not have quite understood why these modern countries and citizens advocate the “spirit of contract” so strongly. That is because even the very bedrock of their governance of the state exists and is agreed upon in the form of contracts and agreements among all citizens. What their spirit of contract maintains is actually not just private agreements between citizens, but, more importantly, the obedience to and defense of the “Constitution.”

Do you see now? It is not that citizens will fall into chaos or lose control without the party and government managing them, or without leaders and officials managing them. Only slaves and lackeys fall into chaos and lose control without a master to manage them.

Citizens are human beings; they are neither slaves, lackeys, nor livestock, and they do not need to be managed. Citizens possess full intelligence and capability, as well as the right, to manage themselves. It is simply untrue that without a political party to manage them, they would become lawless.

Those who feel that without the party and government managing it, this society would become disordered, chaotic, and out of control, and who feel fearful and insecure without the party and government managing them, are actually acting out of the enslaved servility deep within their hearts. A slave is a slave precisely because a slave does not dare to make decisions for themselves. For a slave, losing a master means losing their backbone; without a master, they feel terrified, distressed, aimless, and uneasy, as if the sky were falling. They do not dare to face the uncertainties of this world alone; they fear the unknown tomorrow and everything on the outside, and they do not dare to face life on their own. They need to be managed and require others to take responsibility for them; only by hastily finding themselves a new master can they regain peace of mind and feel grounded.

Slaves cannot comprehend a world without masters either. Therefore, when they see someone refusing to yield to their master, they can only assume that this person must have sought refuge with a new master on the outside. A slave cannot imagine that a person can live independently, autonomously, and without enslaving others.

The very first step to becoming a citizen is learning to be independent, learning to think, learning to discern the truth, learning to bravely make decisions for oneself, learning to strive for one’s own rights and interests, learning to assume civic responsibilities, and learning to participate in managing one’s own country and society.

This model—wherein the “Constitution” agreed upon by all citizens serves as the supreme standard and fundamental law for governing the state—is also known as “constitutionalism.” Under this constitutionalist system, citizens firmly hold the power of the state in their own hands through the “Constitution”—via the power of constitution-making, the right to vote, the right to stand for election, voting rights, initiative rights, the right to referendum on major state affairs, and the power of supervision. Therefore, their government is merely a public government subordinate to all citizens, serving citizens, and managed by citizens; similarly, their legislative bodies, police, procuratorates, courts, and military are public departmental institutions that likewise belong to, serve, protect, and are managed by citizens.

Therefore, in a modern society, citizens are the true masters of the state.

Currently, many Chinese people who have freed themselves from the ideological control of the Chinese Communist Party long to establish a civil society and yearn for democracy, freedom, constitutionalism, and republicanism. However, most of us do not possess the qualities and spirit of citizens, and this is actually the reason why so many of us Chinese have failed in our anti-communist efforts and pro-democracy movements for so many years.

The Japanese thinker Fukuzawa Yukichi once said, “For a state to achieve modernization, the modernization of thought comes first.” But unfortunately, most Chinese people today still have too shallow an understanding of common sense regarding modern thought and concepts such as citizens and constitutionalism. Only when we first acquire modern thought, along with the qualities and spirit of citizens, can we truly strive for civil rights and truly realize political modernization in China.

In my personal view, if we Chinese people wish to become citizens at present, we still need to focus on cultivating the following points:

1，Learn to think independently

Ideologically, every citizen has the right to independently form their own thoughts and judgments, and the right to independently express their own opinions, viewpoints, and propositions, without having to submit to any authority. Citizens even less need to accept anyone’s leadership or listen to the Party’s words.

Therefore, to become a citizen, you must learn to think, learn to reason, verify, and judge, and you must have your own opinions, viewpoints, and propositions. Currently, however, most Chinese people can only repeat other people’s opinions, viewpoints, and propositions, lacking their own thought and judgment. If you don’t believe it, think back on how many of the socio-political viewpoints, propositions, and historical facts you hold were actually arrived at through your own thinking and judgment, and how many were merely heard or read about. In fact, hearing or reading about them doesn’t matter, because everyone begins learning by hearing and seeing; however, you cannot directly absorb and accept them in this manner, nor can you directly assume that what you have heard and seen constitutes absolute truth and fact. Instead, you must think about, analyze, and verify the things you have heard and seen, and make your judgment regarding these things without being influenced by others. This includes everything I am telling you—you must also use your own brain to think, analyze, gather evidence, and verify. Only afterward should you confirm whether what I said is right or wrong, identify my errors, supplement where my account falls short, and then enrich, associate, and apply these results of your thinking and verification to other matters. In this way, over time, you will be able to form your own opinions, viewpoints, and propositions.

2，Learn to decide for yourself

As a man, you should not place your hopes and wishes upon others, nor should you hope that others or political parties will make decisions for you or on your behalf. You should learn to make decisions for yourself, learn to strive for and create living space and resources on your own, and learn to protect your own living space and resources by yourself, rather than kowtowing and paying tribute to others or political parties, and then begging them to bestow, grant, or allocate a little bit of living space and resources to you, and safeguard your security.

Think about it: why can’t you bravely strive for and defend your own living space and resources by yourself?

Few people realize that, in fact, within the cultural genes of us Chinese people, subtle and imperceptible elements lie hidden. Influenced by these elements, we naturally, habitually, and involuntarily seek others to make decisions for us. It is as if this has been branded and engraved deep within the souls of the Chinese people.

Ever since China ended its feudal system and entered the autocratic empire of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, these elements have gradually penetrated deep into the bodies and minds of the Chinese people. Under the influence of these elements over two thousand years, we have thought of everything and created a splendid human civilization, yet the only things we have never thought of are bravely making decisions for ourselves and bravely protecting ourselves by ourselves.

And these elements are, in reality, servile consciousness.

To the extent that, as whole adults with sound limbs and functional minds, we entrust such major life matters as protecting ourselves, deciding for ourselves, establishing ourselves, and securing our well-being and happiness to the governance of emperors, generals, ministers, a certain party, a certain government, or certain great men.

In truth, what the majority of Chinese people and ordinary populace have ever wanted is never democracy, but a wise master. They only seek to find a great figure, and then support him, love him, worship him, and hand over our entire country, our entire nation, and everything we have to him to decide, praying only that this great figure can lead them toward a wealthy state, a strong people, and a prosperous nation.

What they seek is to chance upon a good monarch, a good government, and a good team of leading officials; they are willing to actively obey the arrangements of great men, leaders, officials, and the government, hoping only that these great men, government, and leaders can bring them everything they need for their lives.

And the consequence of doing so is that while a great figure and its government could bestow land upon you in 1949, they could also take it back in 1953 before your whole family even had a chance to warm it up; they could handpick you to become a Vice Premier of the country, and they could also make you one of the tens of millions of souls penned in to starve to death; they could let you become an official, a secretary, or a team leader, allow you to embezzle state and collective property, and let you subject other ordinary populace to unspoken rules; and they could also have your home raided and lead you to be criticized and denounced, leave you penniless with your life in jeopardy, and cause the life-and-death ups and downs as well as the rise, fall, honor, and disgrace of you and your entire family to be controlled in the hands of a great figure and its government. They make all 1.4 billion Chinese people in New China into chives and consumables that they can harvest and suppress at will, leaving the entire lives of 1.4 billion Chinese people in their hands.

Under the influence of servility, most Chinese people merely think that human beings are born to be managed by the government and by the state. We have never thought that we could choose to forge the government into a tool that serves and safeguards us Chinese people. We have also never thought that the state does not belong to the government, nor to any leader or any party; the state is the state of us Chinese people, and how the state should be governed should be decided by the vote of all of us Chinese people, rather than being decided by any government, any party, or any leader. Remember this: human beings are not born to be managed by state governments; rather, human beings have the right to govern their own state, and the right to supervise and manage our government. Remember this: human beings do not exist for the state; on the contrary, the state exists for human beings.

As for those so-called great men or great figures, on what grounds should we listen to them? On what grounds should our lives be handed over to them to manipulate? Handed over to them to decide and determine? We can make decisions for ourselves. If they are willing, they can come to run for head of state, provincial governor, or mayor, and come to work for us citizens and work for the state. Moreover, whether they can come to power should only be decided by the vote of citizens. In this way, when you meet these so-called great men and great figures in the future, you will no longer need to tremble with fear that they will decide your life, death, glory, and wealth; instead, it is they who will need to carefully curry favor with you. Because from then on, it is not they who hold your destiny, but rather their destiny that is in your hands. Remember this: this alone is the true feeling of being the master of the state, rather than the kind where meeting even a small township mayor makes you nervous and distressed to the extreme.

What do you think is the ultimate form of servility in Chinese people today?

In my view, it is nothing less than the fact that when you resist the CCP, many Chinese people still feel you are not worthy. Here, some pro-democracy figures might be baffled: I’m just resisting the CCP, merely opposing the CCP’s exploitation and oppression of me—how am I not worthy?

In fact, in the subconscious of many ordinary populace, the CCP is their master, and your attempt to overthrow the CCP is an attempt to overthrow their master. Furthermore, they will not think that your purpose in overthrowing the CCP is to rescue them, so that they can live like human beings and continue to live in a way characterized by freedom, democracy, constitutionalism, and republicanism. They will only subconsciously feel: “This group of people wants to overthrow the CCP because they want to become my new master.” Therefore, according to their logic, they indeed can judge whether you are worthy of “rebellion.”

In addition, some of our friends who resist the CCP still fail to realize a problem: just as a slave owner needs slaves, slaves likewise need a master. To a slave, a world without a master is as if the sky were falling, filling them with boundless terror and leaving them completely at a loss, because slaves lack the courage to face this world independently. Therefore, in many cases, to protect their master, lackeys are often far more fierce and ruthless toward you than their master is.

However, remember this: there is no savior in this world; you can only save yourself. Trust me, no one besides yourself will care more about your own rights and interests than you do.

Neither human rights nor civil rights drop from the sky, let alone are they bestowed by great men or governments; rather, they are won through struggle. As long as you do not know how to or do not dare to strive for your own rights, sooner or later you will be consumed and picked clean by those in power.

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the present, we have continuously paid the price for the ignorance and cowardice of our previous generations. The suffering of every single one of them matched their level of cognition and cowardice. If we continue in this manner, our descendants will likewise continue to pay the price for our ignorance and cowardice.

Those ordinary populace who died wrongfully, unjustly, from starvation, or from exhaustion since the Qin and Han dynasties are our warnings; those people who have been persecuted to death, struggled to death, played to death, starved to death, or oppressed to death by the CCP from 1949 to the present are the ultimate destination of you and me, or of our descendants.

Remember well: you must learn to bravely make decisions for yourself, rather than finding a master to make decisions for you.

3，Learn equality.

The hardest thing for Chinese people to learn is equality, because what most of us Chinese people have pursued since childhood is precisely inequality.

Yes, Chinese people are the nation that least approves of equality. What have Chinese people always pursued and approved of? It is becoming a person above other persons, being superior to others. Therefore, Chinese people especially like to compare themselves with others; in whatever they do, they especially want to overpower others everywhere, or else they feel uncomfortable deep inside.

From a young age, Chinese people are exhorted, “Only by enduring the bitterest of hardships can one become a person above other persons.” What we have pursued since childhood is not equality; instead, we spare no effort in hanging our hair from the rafters and pricking our thighs with an awl, spare no effort in enduring hardship and suffering, and even want to become a person above other persons at all costs. Then we grasp power and trample other Chinese people underfoot—as if only in this way do you have value, do you have a promising future, can you hold your head high, and can you bring glory to your ancestors.

Chinese people have always emphasized social hierarchy, dividing people into three tiers and nine ranks. Starting from Confucianism, hierarchy was arranged by status, distinguishing between noble persons and petty persons. From Emperor Wu of Han onward, the higher the official post, the greater the power, the higher the rank, and the more noble one was, and the more living space and resources one could obtain. The lower the rank, the more base one was, while those who could not even fit into a rank were historically only trampled, mocked, spurned, and poked in the back by others. Moreover, even if your livelihood was difficult, you still had to grain-tribute, pay tribute, pay taxes, and send red envelopes to noble persons, grand officials, and leading cadres of higher rank. Therefore, even if you did not want to trample on others, you had to climb upward with all your might, because only by doing so could you obtain sufficient living space and resources and avoid being trampled on, or be trampled on less.

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the present, the optimal solution for the survival of most Chinese people has still been becoming an official. One had to hold power, climb upward, and become a person above other persons. For this, they could only fawn upon those in power in every imaginable way; could only bow and scrape to serve the powerful and noble; could only exhaust every effort to pull others down and push them out; and could only plot with all their wits how to trample on others to advance themselves. How to become a high-ranking official or a leader, how to hold heavy power—ideally to be ennobled as a marquis or appointed as prime minister, reaching the pinnacle of a minister’s career; ideally to be “below one person, above ten thousand people”; and some even shouted, “Are kings, dukes, generals, and ministers born to their rank?” Yet they risked their lives and put their heads on the line not for equality, but to become the supreme sovereign of nine and five, to hold imperial power, to enjoy wealth and glory, and to trample all the populace underfoot.

And it is precisely because only by becoming a person above other persons can one obtain power and acquire sufficient living space and resources. Thus, this mindset of pursuing inequality, striving to overpower others, and seeking superiority over others from a young age has become almost instinctual, deeply rooted in the bones of Chinese people. It has led Chinese people to never believe in equality for all, or even to be unable to imagine that all people can be equal. Furthermore, it has led those imperial relatives, noble families, imperial scholars, and leading cadres to truly believe that they are inherently more noble than others, and to genuinely feel that they ought to obtain more public power and social wealth than others. It is precisely this pursuit of inequality, this obsession with becoming a person above other persons, and this pathological worship of power that has provided the soil and nutrients for the existence of the CCP as a privileged class. Because in reality, most Chinese people today do not hate privilege; on the contrary, they worship privilege and long to obtain privilege. What they hate is merely that the person possessing privilege is not themselves.

Therefore, we must strive to overcome this behavioral trait accumulated over these two thousand years and learn to treat every fellow Chinese person in an equal manner.

At first, Westerners also found it difficult to accept equality for all, because how could royals and nobles willingly accept equality with common people? Yet ultimately, relying on the faith that “all men are equal before God,” as well as the voting rights in the hands of commoners and the need for commoners to participate in battle during wartime, they gradually established natural human rights and formed the concept that human beings are born equal.

You might say that this is too difficult for Chinese people, because very few Chinese people believe in God. But I am sorry, I do not know what kind of reason could possibly cultivate the prejudice that causes one person to feel he is genuinely superior to another person.

Nor do I know what kind of mindset causes one person to self-consciously feel that another person is not worthy of being equal to them, let alone worthy of being treated equally.

Even less do I know why some people possess an inferiority complex and are conditioned to feel that certain other people are simply superior and more noble than themselves.

However, if you think about it, everyone is human, everyone is merely an animal—apes dressed in clothes and hats. So tell me: among these six billion clothed apes on Earth, which single one has had its level of existence transcend the realm of animals, so as to no longer be an animal? Or is there any person who is no longer a human being, whose level of existence has reached the realm of a superman? Or who feels that they are no longer a mortal, but have already become a Buddha, demon, immortal, or god?

It seems there is not a single one.

So since all human beings are the exact same mammals and share the exact same level of existence, can you tell me the reason why you feel proud and superior to other clothed apes?

Is it because your parents are leading high cadres? Or is it because you hold power? The monkey king in a zoo’s monkey troop is also a leader, holds power, and enjoys priority mating rights; so tell me, has the level of existence of this monkey king exceeded the realm of monkeys? If not, tell me: where are these ape and monkey leaders who possess power superior to ordinary apes and monkeys?

Are the second-generation offspring of ape kings and monkey kings no longer apes and monkeys? Where are they superior to ordinary little apes and little monkeys?

Can an ape transform into a super-ape simply because it has too much money?

Can powerful and influential people eat Flat Peaches, Elixirs of Immortality, or Ginseng Fruits? Or can they only consume proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and alcohol just like ordinary people?

Does a chimpanzee living in a imperial lodge or villa cease to be a chimpanzee?

Does a chimpanzee possessing airplanes and yachts transform into a Kunpeng?

Do you feel that a female chimpanzee possessing an Hermès Birkin bag is superior to a female chimpanzee without an Hermès Birkin bag?

Is an Hermès Birkin bag a spatial artifact from a cultivation novel? Can it store items far exceeding its own volume?

Can a person who attended Ivy League universities, worked in the United Nations, vacationed in Hawaii, ate French cuisine, and tasted Kobe beef transform into Ultraman Tiga? Or a Super Saiyan?

The essence of a human being is an animal, and the primary nature of a human being is animality. Since everyone is an animal, everyone eats, sleeps, and farts in the exact same way, everyone goes through birth, aging, sickness, and death in the exact same way, and no one has transcended the realm of animals, on what grounds do you feel that you are superior to another animal? And why can you not lay down your prejudices and treat others equally?

Or do you feel it is because your genes are superior? Because your IQ is 160, because you run the 100-meter dash in 9.5 seconds, because you have a gift for business, because your company is in the Fortune Global 500, or because you have a talent for mathematics, literature, art, and so on?

In truth, however, human beings are genuinely born equal. In this world, no person’s genes are better, more excellent, or more noble than another person’s genes.

Although each of us possesses different genes and characteristics, none of these genes and characteristics are inherently superior or inferior. There is only the fact that these genes manifest and adapt differently in different environments; there is only the fact that some people’s genes are fortunate enough to encounter an environment that can give play to their talents and activate their genetic capabilities, while others do not—that is all.

Of course, human beings are all mere mortals. A low-level person like me inevitably envies those who enjoy wealth, glory, fine clothing, exquisite food, success, fame, and beautiful spouses. Yet you and I need not engage in self-denial at all, let alone rush to feel inferior. Because the reason some people in this world succeed is merely that, in this world, there will always have to be some people who succeed.

Yes, in this society, whether it be power, wealth, status, prestige, or family background, none of these are distributed based on your individual personal efforts, capabilities, or level of intelligence.

Many times, when a person succeeds, it is not because they are particularly extraordinary, but simply because their luck was better than others’.

In fact, no matter how great an achievement someone attains, in that same field and aspect you can certainly find a loser whose capabilities were better, who was more adept, and who was more professional. Yet there is no way around it; many times, life is just so full of luck, probability, and uncertainty.

The fundamental reason behind all of this is that the power of an individual human being is exceedingly tiny—so tiny that even your success and failure are not determined by yourself. Instead, one must look to the trends of the times, rely on luck, and contend with probability. Yet this also reflects from another angle that human beings are actually equal. Furthermore, this equality reaches such an extent that even if gaps in intelligence and capability exist among people, these gaps are limited and cannot offset the impact that the trends of the times, luck, and probability exert on a person’s success or failure.

Moreover, in reality, even our individual survival is not determined by human beings themselves; every person who is still alive today has, in fact, been sheltered by good fortune.

Therefore, so-called successful individuals need not feel self-satisfied, let alone refuse to treat others as equals because of it. Likewise, losers like you and me need not harbor self-deprecation, and even more so must treat others with a heart of equality.

As a man, I feel one must possess the conviction that “I am no better than anyone else, but I am also inferior to no one.” Let us learn to respect others without self-disparagement, and truly learn equality for all, remaining neither servile nor arrogant.

4，Most Chinese people do not know that the essence of democracy is a decision-making procedure

Citizens revere republicanism, abide by rules, and advocate democratic decision-making procedures; those who destroy republicanism and violate democratic decision-making procedures will pay the corresponding price.

Decision-making among citizens relies not on physical force, nor on fighting and killing, but rather on all citizens—under the premise of republicanism—discussing, deliberating, and voting together in an equal, free, and independent manner.

The essence of democracy is a decision-making procedure. Because citizens are equal among themselves, no one possesses the power to command other citizens on what to do, nor does anyone possess the power to lead other citizens or arbitrarily decide what to do on their behalf. Therefore, when citizens handle state, social public affairs, and other group affairs, if disagreements arise among citizens or a consensus cannot be reached, the only option is to resolve it through a one-person, one-vote method of voting.

Furthermore, all citizens will abide by the resolutions produced through this democratic decision-making mechanism. This is not only a civic obligation and adherence to agreed promises, but also an acknowledgment of the democratic decision-making procedure itself, and even more so the key to citizens being able to form a group and prevent it from falling apart.

Because if everyone fails to abide by the results of one-person, one-vote, or selectively chooses to abide only by what is advantageous to themselves, then this group of citizens faces the risk of dissolution and collapse. In this way, citizens will be unable to unite, let alone form power.

Under a democratic mechanism, Chinese people can to the maximum extent achieve competition without struggle. Competition is benign and will produce superior winners. In China, however, there is only struggle; those who prevail in struggle are often not the superior ones, but rather the most shameless, those with the lowest bottom line, and those most able to win at any cost.

As for those destroyers of democracy and republicanism—those who are the most shameless, have the lowest bottom line, and are capable of taking the lives and health of Chinese people as a price to pay—they will be eliminated by the punishment mechanism of democracy.

We must stop infighting and learn to decide the destiny of our country, nation, and individuals through republicanism and democratic decision-making procedures, as well as learn equality for all. We must learn to adopt democratic procedures when handling social public affairs, public decision-making, and internal disagreements among citizens, and ensure that those who destroy democracy and republicanism face their deserved punishment. Otherwise, even if the CCP is overthrown, Chinese people will still fall into the dead loop of Chinese history since the Qin and Han dynasties.

Remember well: we must learn to abide by democratic decision-making procedures and identify those who genuinely oppose the CCP, dare to oppose the CCP, and possess the capability to oppose the CCP.

5，Learn to form a group.

One must know: citizens are a group. For citizens, any action that infringes upon civil rights or social justice is intolerable. Citizens will spontaneously unite to combat actions that infringe upon civil rights and social justice. This is because citizens deeply understand that an infringement upon the rights of other citizens is, in reality, an infringement upon themselves. If they can infringe upon the civil rights and interests of others today, it means they can also infringe upon yours tomorrow. And if you do not step forward today to maintain the rights of other citizens, then when those citizens are dealt with and it becomes their turn to handle you, there will no longer be anyone left to step forward and fight alongside you. In this way, citizens will be gradually decomposed, eroded, and ultimately swallowed up and eliminated by those pests that erode civil rights.

Therefore, all pests attempting to take away citizens’ civil rights, attempting to deprive citizens of their civil rights, or attempting to infringe upon citizens’ civil rights and interests are the public enemies of citizens. Citizens will spontaneously unite to combat them together, even if they happen to be the government, the military, the party, or overseas forces.

Everyone, what do you think is the reason the CCP can do whatever it pleases and act lawlessly in China at present?

Is it because the leaders of the CCP possess some great power? Or, like those high-and-mighty great gods and high immortals in Nezha 2, do CCP members possess some supernatural abilities and spells?

None at all. Whether they are leaders or low-level minions of the CCP, they are all flesh and blood like us and like the populace of Chentang Pass. They eat, drink, defecate, and urinate just like us, and they die from a bullet shot or bleed from a knife cut just like us. So on what grounds do they rule over us? On what grounds do they press our population of over one billion to the ground to harvest us?

In fact, the answer lies in a single line from the pre-Qin thinkers: “In strength, man is no match for the ox; in running, man is no match for the horse; yet the ox and the horse are used by man—why is that?” The answer: “Because human beings can form groups, whereas they cannot.”

In truth, whether it be oxen, horses, jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards, pigs, bears, or elephants, even if humans are somewhat smarter, in an era where humans could hold only cold weapons, it was difficult for a human to defeat these wild beasts in a one-on-one situation. The reason humans were able to defeat these wild animals—and either tame them, take their hides and fur to keep out the cold, harvest their bones and claws for medicine, or take their blood and flesh to satisfy hunger—was simply that humans can form groups, whereas these wild beasts cannot.

The reason the current CCP can harvest and enslave us—over one billion Chinese people—is simply because the CCP can form a group, whereas we, the other one billion and more Chinese people, cannot form a group.

Yes, the power of an individual human being is exceedingly limited, fragile, and tiny. Human power comes from the group—from the ability to form a group.

Unfortunately, most Chinese people today fail to realize this. They fail to realize their own power; they fail to realize the grand power of the group; and even less do they realize that they themselves are the source of the state’s power. They merely think of themselves as ordinary, mundane, and weak individuals, completely unaware that as long as we assemble the power of these seemingly ordinary, mundane, and weak individuals, we can converge into a new political torrent that can contend with the CCP and will certainly defeat the CCP, because the CCP has only 80 million registered personnel, whereas we ordinary people number over one billion.

In addition to failing to realize our own power and the power of forming a group, the biggest problem for us—over one billion Chinese people—is that we have not yet learned to unite. Currently, we remain a heap of loose sand, whereas the CCP is a tight organization assembling 70 to 80 million registered personnel. Therefore, we—these individual, separate social units, these grains of sand—currently do not even possess the qualification to contend with the CCP. Forget the fact that you shatter the moment the CCP touches you; even if a certain county public security bureau under the CCP sneezes, you and I melt away.

I am not exaggerating here. Just look at the recent news: offshore fishing by an out-of-town police station can leave you penniless and cause a citizen worth hundreds of millions to perish during detention.

In fact, writing up to this point, the method and path to contend with and defeat the CCP are already plain for all to see. Contending with and defeating the CCP is both simple and straightforward: as long as we—the over one billion people duped, harvested, and squeezed by the CCP—learn to form a group and unite to fight the CCP with one mind, the CCP will melt away in an instant. And this is precisely why the CCP does not permit Chinese people to form political parties or associations, because within this lies the power to destroy the CCP.

Sometimes you might find it incomprehensible and feel that the CCP and its government are making a mountain out of a molehill, fearing even three or five people wearing the same clothes running in a public space. This is actually because they know the power of the group.

Yet where it is difficult lies in how we—these over one billion Chinese people—can learn to unite as one to fight the CCP.

Fortunately, this path lies right in front of you and me. We Chinese people do not need to invent or create this method; we only need to learn from the ready-made experience of those before us—interacting in the manner of citizens, forming citizens’ groups, and fighting the CCP with one mind.

If we—this group of over one billion Chinese people fooled and harvested by the CCP—cannot even learn what those before us have already walked out, laid down, and placed in front of us to learn, then given the intelligence and pathetic disposition of our group, we truly deserve to be ruled by the CCP, and deserve to be harvested, squeezed, and persecuted by the CCP generation after generation.

Perhaps this is a form of natural selection: those with high intelligence, the ability to form groups, and the capacity to collaborate eliminate or enslave those with low IQ, an inability to form groups, and an inability to collaborate.

So, will you choose to be eliminated and enslaved by the CCP, or will you choose to learn to form a group in the manner of modern citizens—interacting, uniting, and collaborating to fight and overthrow the CCP?

I personally choose the latter. Unfortunately, there is no spiritual energy in this world, nor are we playing a game of immortal cultivation, and even less does it rely on individual extraordinary power. An individual never possesses the capability to contend with this world alone. The real world relies on the collaboration of groups and ethnic groups. As a single person, no matter how right you are, no matter how hard you try, and no matter how you choose, you are merely a drop in the ocean, and in the end, a single palm cannot clap. What is most regrettable, however, is that even leaving aside those domestically, looking solely at the Chinese people who have already drifted overseas because of the CCP, most of them still cannot form a group.

Everyone, please form political parties, please form associations, and please learn to unite as one to fight the CCP.

6，Chinese people need a constitution; anti-communism needs a constitution; every civil society and citizen state needs a “Constitution.”

Currently, why can’t we Chinese people form a group? Why are we a heap of loose sand? Why do we not unite with or trust one another? In fact, the biggest reason is that we—over one billion Chinese people—lack a consensus. Regarding the present and future of our country, nation, society, and individuals, we either have varying demands, unclear demands, or have no idea whatsoever what to do. Or we pretend to be noble and disdain politics; or we indulge in mountains and rivers, immersing ourselves in sensuality and debauchery; or we muddle through life, feeding ourselves with pacifying entertainment; or we mount a silent resistance through the attitude of lying flat—not working, not getting married, and not having children. Yet most Chinese people fail to realize that they can have political demands at all. They are accustomed to following the Party and listening to the Party’s words, and accustomed to obeying the arrangements and commands of leaders. They fail completely to realize that they have the right to participate in making the rules of the state, that they have the right to cast their vote regarding the enactment, amendment, and abolition of the constitution, and that they have the right and capability to determine the future of our country, nation, and individuals.

I often see net-citizens posting in groups and online with messages to the effect of worrying about what will happen to China if the CCP is gone and the like. They fear change and are terrified that life will be even worse without the CCP. In reality, however, the “Constitution” is meant precisely to have you dare to stand up yourself and allow you—in your capacity as a master—to participate in, deliberate on, vote on, and formulate a charter concerning what the present and future of our country, nation, and individuals should be.

On the surface, the “Constitution” is a charter formed through the joint participation, deliberation, voting, and agreement among citizens; it is a contract that all citizens must jointly obey, maintain, and defend.

Substantively, however, the essence of the “Constitution” is the rules of the state, and whoever holds the power to frame, amend, and abolish the constitution holds the state. The essence of civic constitutionalism is that citizens govern their own country in accordance with the “Constitution” agreed upon by all citizens. That is, it requires citizens to be able to learn to govern their own country by themselves, requires citizens to be able to bravely assume the risks and responsibilities brought about by their own behavior, and requires citizens to no longer remain kneeling, but rather to have the courage to stand up and become the masters of their own country themselves, so as to enjoy the rights of a master of the state and assume the responsibilities and obligations of a master of the state.

Citizens cannot do without the “Constitution.” Citizens without a constitution are actually in a state where civic rights and obligations remain to be defined, and how to govern the country remains to be determined. Having a constitution actually clarifies how citizens should act; therefore, the “Constitution” is also referred to as a “Civic Manual of Conduct.” Even more importantly, however, the “Constitution” is the consensus of all citizens, the key to uniting the hearts of the citizens, and the core of civic cohesion. This is because citizens are linked together with one another through the “Constitution”; without a “Constitution,” citizens are a heap of loose sand. Furthermore, the “Constitution” also contains the vision of all citizens for their own country and nation, guiding the future and direction pursued by citizens for the country, the nation, and individual citizens.

The urgent priority for Chinese citizens is to pool their wisdom and efforts to initiate as quickly as possible the actions of national constitutional drafting, amending, and framing, and then strive to reach a consensus to jointly formulate a “Constitution” that can truly maintain and guarantee the human rights and civil rights of Chinese citizens.

Some friends might feel that as far as anti-communism is concerned, amending the constitution is useless, and that things like laws, ideologies, and viewpoints are all soft, empty talk and verbal satisfaction, whereas only guns, artillery, and armed forces possess real power. In reality, however, having this viewpoint is because one’s thinking remains stuck in the Twenty-Four Histories.

What is the CCP afraid of nowadays?

It is definitely not some Zhang Xianzhong or Li Zicheng; this is the modern era, not ancient times. In modern times, even if there were a Zhang Xianzhong or a Li Zicheng with tens of thousands of troops swearing oaths, and even if in addition to swords, spears, armor, and warhorses they were equipped with AK-47s, small trucks, and rocket launchers, the CCP is not afraid of such small-scale armed uprisings. No matter how many of you pop up, the CCP can easily eliminate just as many. The CCP needs only to label Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng as terrorists, pin on them the crimes of splitting the country and vainly attempting to subvert the state, send two units over, and exterminate them in half an hour. Afterward, they synthesize and publish some evidence of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng killing, committing arson, robbing women and property, and receiving funding from foreign forces. The ordinary populace across the country will cheer and applaud enthusiastically, and then the CCP will claim credit, hold gala celebrations, and the entire incident concludes.

Then what is the CCP most afraid of?

It is the hearts of the people.

It is having its lies exposed.

It is the fear that the Chinese populace will form a consensus.

Because the CCP’s regime was not won through fighting, but tricked into existence. Back then, time and again they shouted that when the Communist Party comes, the people will stand up and become masters; they shouted that they would serve the people, shouted that they would build socialism, eliminate exploitation, eliminate polarization, achieve an extreme abundance of material resources, and make everyone happy. Therefore, when the majority of Chinese people truly see the true face and lies of the CCP, the fundamental base of the CCP will collapse without a blow.

As for those who are already awakened, yet do not know how to resist, or do not dare to resist, or feel that resistance is useless, or believe that even if resistance succeeds it would merely be changing emperors, changing which party rules, and changing the medicine without changing the broth—through the process of constitution-framing and constitution-enacting, we tell them where the future of China, the Chinese nation, and individual citizens lies; we let them know that we can win, and let them see that we Chinese people can also create a better and more practical life, and can truly achieve political modernization in China.

What is more important is that this process of constitution-framing and constitution-enacting is a process of enabling the populace to understand constitutionalism, popularizing democracy and republicanism, and exposing the Chinese populace’s thinking to modern political common sense; and what is most important is that this process of constitution-framing and constitution-enacting is a process of gathering public opinion and forming consensus! To be sure, if it were merely myself shouting alone, or 10 or 100 people shouting that the Chinese people must frame and enact a constitution, then of course, this constitution would be soft and without any power. But if 10,000, 100,000, or 1,000,000 people jointly amend a constitution and jointly approve of a constitution, then the CCP will face a severe headache and dilemma. Moreover, according to my estimation, following the epidemic lockdowns coupled with the CCP’s perverse actions in politics, the economy, and people’s livelihoods in recent years, at least 5% of us Chinese people have awakened. How many is 5%? It is 70 million—exceeding the total population of the United Kingdom. If all 70 million of us approve of a constitution, then this is absolutely a formidable force that can completely shake the CCP. Furthermore, we are situated in all walks of life across China, and some even hold positions within the CCP; we are merely waiting for the wind to rise and the clouds to gather. If all 70 million of us further mobilize our parents, children, and the relatives, friends, and colleagues around us, when the population approving of constitution-framing, constitution-enacting, and this constitution exceeds 300 million—not even requiring more than half of China’s population, as long as 350 million of us citizens take to the streets together (the U.S. population being 340 million) to demand that the CCP step down, demand that the CCP return power, and demand that China implement democracy, constitutionalism, and republicanism—then the CCP’s regime will collapse overnight.

You also need not worry that we lack arms or a military. Because as long as public support reaches this point, when the time comes, the overwhelming majority of the soldiers—the sons of the people—will only point their gun barrels at the heads of the CCP top leadership. For they are not machines; the soldiers, as sons of the people, were not born to be sons of the Party, nor are they sons of CCP leaders—they are the sons of the people and the ordinary populace.

Everyone, mobilize fellow countrymen as much as possible to participate in constitution-enacting and constitution-framing, strive as much as possible to win the hearts of the people, gather public opinion, and form consensus. This is the power that can truly destroy the foundation of the CCP, rather than continuing to pin hopes on some Zhang Xianzhong or Li Zicheng.

Of course, we must also admit that constitution-framing and constitution-enacting is a very long-term process that is very difficult to reach a consensus on, requiring the consumption of countless human, material, financial, and mental resources. But God bless China! Everyone, a ready-made constitution actually lies right before our Chinese nation; we need only directly copy over Taiwan’s Constitution of the Republic of China along with its other constitutional documents, without having to cross the river by feeling the stones.

Remember well: politics requires wisdom, and the optimal solution placed before us Chinese people is actually to implement Taiwan’s democratic system on mainland China.

At the very end of the entire article, I would like to ask everyone a question: I wonder if you happen to know why back then 200,000 Qing troops of the Qing court were able to destroy the Great Ming with its population of 100 million?

Answer: Because the Great Ming could not form a group.

The reason why the Ming dynasty was destroyed by the Qing court was primarily due to severe infighting and internal attrition. Zhu Yuanzhang and his successive successors, in order to allow the Zhu family to securely rule the realm generation after generation, did the following at court: slaughtered meritorious officials, abolished prime-ministerial power, physically flogged scholar-officials with heavy sticks, and, in order to prevent military generals from rebelling, intentionally emphasized the civil while slighting the military, colluded with the civil official group to suppress and despise military generals, placed restrictions and obstacles on military generals at every turn, intentionally weakened the combat power of the military, and even for selfish personal gain did not hesitate to destroy their own military, massacre generals, and self-castrate the state’s military strength; subsequently, in order to fight for power and profit against civil officials and military generals, they heavily relied on eunuchs, making the entire imperial court foul, smoky, and shattered into pieces.

Among the populace: Zhu Yuanzhang further enacted the Zhiding Law (Law of Identifying Able-Bodied Males) and the travel permit (luyin) system, monitoring and nailing the ordinary populace securely under imperial power from birth to death, while advocating mutual surveillance among villagers and neighbors, encouraging mutual exposure, with everyone scrutinizing one another. They turned neighbors within ten li into despicable, dark, bottom-layer mutually harmful individuals, where everyone falsely accused one another, plotted against one another, secretly harmed one another, and trapped and killed one another, causing the popular morale to degenerate.

In the end, the entire Ming dynasty, from the imperial court down to the ordinary populace, saw its society completely pulverized. Everyone was hostile toward one another and could not unite in one place. Indeed, just as the Zhu family wished, it was indeed very difficult for a combined force to form within the Great Ming to contend with imperial power. Yet, after thousands of calculations, in the end the Qing court entered the Central Plains with effortless ease.

Even after reaching the Southern Ming, when the Ming dynasty had clearly already fallen once, when Qing troops were clearly bearing down in force on the border, and when the Han people were clearly at a critical juncture of life and death, the various emperors, civil officials, and military generals of the Southern Ming puppet courts were still constantly squabbling for power and profit. Emperors and civil and military officials plotted against each other; civil officials looked down on military generals and suppressed them; military generals refused to obey the commands of civil officials; factional strife among civil officials grew ever more intense; military generals slaughtered one another; and the rebel armies that surrendered to the Southern Ming engaged in endless conflict with original civil officials and military generals. While Qing troops burned, killed, pillaged, and looted landlords, local gentry, wealthy merchants, and the ordinary populace, Ming troops and peasant rebel armies also burned, killed, pillaged, and looted landlords, local gentry, wealthy merchants, and the ordinary populace; and landlords, local gentry, wealthy merchants, and the ordinary populace also robbed, killed, and looted among themselves. The entire Southern Ming, from top to bottom, was alienated and divided. From beginning to end, throughout the eighteen years of the Southern Ming, it was unable to effectively mobilize military forces to resist the Qing troops. The ultimate consequence was that the Great Ming, with a population of 100 million, was no match for the 200,000 Qing troops entering the Pass, and the entire Ming dynasty embraced death together amidst everyone’s infighting and internal attrition. The Great Ming was completely destroyed by foreign tribes, and the Han people were henceforth conquered by the Manchus, able only to kneel on the ground, call themselves “slaves,” and pledge loyalty to the Manchus.

Many fans of the Ming dynasty often lament bitterly, saying: “It was the Manchu Qing that ruined China! It was the Manchu Qing’s policy of national isolation that disconnected China from the world and caused our China to fall behind the world!” But everyone, “A person must first insult himself before others insult him; a family must first destroy itself before others destroy it; a state must first attack itself before others attack it.” Had something not gone wrong with the Great Ming, how could this Great Ming with a population of 100 million have been breached and fallen to the 200,000 iron cavalry of the Manchu Qing?

When our generation looks at this period of history, we mostly feel that these emperors, Confucian officials, military generals, rebel armies, landlords, local gentry, wealthy merchants, and ordinary populace were foolish, pedantic, absurd, short-sighted, and laughable. But everyone, are we today not precisely the same? In what way are we any better than them?

Don’t you see that the high level of the CCP and its core backbone members number at most around 5 to 8 million people? Yet this Communist Party of no more than ten million plays our population of over one billion Chinese people like toys in the palm of its hand using a set of so-called Communism, live-streaming us from our rightful status as masters of the state into the CCP’s beasts of burden, chives, and spare organs.

What is the situation with today’s democracy movement and anti-communist figures?

A week ago, I saw a group chat among anti-communist figures. Two group members were involved: one strongly supported President Sun Yat-sen, while the other strongly supported Mr. Song Jiaoren. The two abused each other, with each bringing up the faults of Sun and Song to attack the other side. Midway, a group member who supported President Yuan Shikai charged in out of nowhere, claiming that in fact, if China had pursued a constitutional monarchy after Yuan declared himself emperor, China could also have enriched the state and strengthened the military like Britain and Japan, and that only President Yuan had the capability to resist and stop Japanese militarism’s aggression against China. Ultimately, after a bout of bickering among the three, two group members quit the group.

In recent years, quite a few democracy movement and anti-communist figures often get red-faced and flushed over President Trump. Those supporting Trump and those hating Trump despise each other, arguing and fighting endlessly, causing quite a few netizens—and even acquaintances—who previously got along well to turn sour over this.

In reality, this is a form of childishness—political childishness.

What is our purpose?

It is anti-communism; it is overthrowing the Chinese Communist Party; it is achieving political modernization in China; it is striving for the human rights and civil rights of Chinese citizens.

As for whether some among us support President Sun, support Mr. Song, or support President Yuan, it truly does not matter—that is individual freedom. Politics is not playing house like children, nor are you and I kids in a kindergarten who, at the slightest displeasure, blurt out “I’m not playing with you anymore.” Whether someone among us supports President Trump or opposes President Trump also has little to do with anti-communism. We cannot suppress, unify, and crush thought as the CCP does. What we want to establish is not another autocratic political party. We should permit others to support people whom we do not like; as long as that person is not a toxic current like Mao Zedong, we must also learn to accept and accommodate viewpoints different from ours. So long as everyone unanimously agrees on anti-communism, we can cooperate and unite. In this way, democracy will not fall apart, our group of anti-communist figures will not fall apart, and we Chinese people who are oppressed by the CCP can learn to form a group.

I was born in a mountain town along the southwestern border where the annual average temperature is only around ten degrees Celsius. It is probably China’s most remote, poorest, most backward, and least populated town. Most of the ancestors in our town were convicted criminals of the Ming dynasty who were banished and conscripted by Ming emperors to defend the border in Yunnan. My ancestors were also from Yingtian Prefecture in Nanjing, which is why my spoken accent differs from most Yunnan accents—and why many netizens question whether I am from Yunnan. Furthermore, because it was located at the junction of three prefectures, serving as a transportation thoroughfare, and because prior to 1995 there were abundant tin, copper, and iron mines as well as precious timber resources locally, many people were engaged in mining, logging, trading, and transport in the surrounding areas at that time, making the small town’s economy exceptionally active and extraordinarily chaotic. At that time, mining and logging required no formalities or mining permits; if you were brave enough to occupy it, it was yours, and neither the government nor the public security bureau could do anything about it. Stolen mining, mineral looting, and illegal logging were rampant everywhere. Back then, the minerals and timber around other counties and townships surrounding our small town were all controlled by bosses from outside, but our small town alone was the exception, because back then our small town was famous for being united. Although the local reputation was poor—fierce and combative—whenever anyone from the small town was bullied or beaten by outsiders, regardless of whether there were interests involved, other people in the town would spontaneously gather and charge forward to help. Moreover, even families that usually held grudges in the town, neighbors who had just gotten into a fight while drinking the night before, or villagers who had exchanged blows over water or land along the field edges—when any of them was bullied by outsiders, the other would step forward to help. For if outsiders moved to grab mines, grab timber, or beat someone up and you did not step forward to help, then whenever trouble struck your household in the future and you were beaten by outsiders, no one in town would step forward to help, and that unhelpful household would face immediate social death. Furthermore, this was true not only within the town: even when traveling away to sell minerals, transport timber, haul freight, or do business, whenever anyone heard a fight breaking out and heard our small town’s accent, regardless of whether they knew each other, they would charge up to help finish the fight first before saying anything else. The consequence of this was that the town’s minerals, timber, and other resources were earned exclusively by our own small town’s people. At that time, our small town’s annual income was greater than the county seat and all other townships in the county combined.

This is a somewhat barbaric yet illustrative small story about unity. Back then, many lives were lost every year, but this allowed me from a young age to experience how to form a group, how to unite a group together and keep it from falling apart, and also taught me how to be brave and resolute, unafraid of pain, and daring to risk my life to fight.

Those of us overseas who genuinely want to oppose the CCP must also learn to do the same. Even if everyone had ideological disagreements, conflicts of interest, unpleasantness, or mutual dislikes in the past or present, anti-communism is a public affair, while the personal is private. We must clearly distinguish between the public and the private, disregard past grievances, relinquish prejudices, join hands to advance together, and unite as one! Truly, none of us is more noble than anyone else.

Otherwise, we will never gather together, never form a combined force, never be able to form a group, and never be a match for the CCP—ending up merely as foolish, pedantic, absurd, short-sighted, and adding to the laughingstock, just like the Great Ming with its 100 million population falling to the 200,000 Qing troops.

Finally, let me repeat what I stated earlier in the text:

If we—this group of over one billion Chinese people fooled and harvested by the CCP—cannot even learn what Taiwan has already walked out, laid down, and placed in front of us to learn, then given the intelligence and pathetic disposition of our group, we truly deserve to be ruled by the CCP, and deserve to be harvested, squeezed, and persecuted by the CCP generation after generation.

Perhaps this is a form of natural selection: those with high intelligence, the ability to form groups, and the capacity to collaborate eliminate or enslave those with low IQ, an inability to form groups, and an inability to collaborate.

So, will you choose to be eliminated and enslaved by the CCP, or will you choose to learn to form a group in the manner of modern citizens—interacting, uniting, and collaborating to fight and overthrow the CCP?

Friends overseas and at home, are you all still capable of forming a group?

Editor: Huang Jizhou Proofreader: Cheng Xiaoxiao Translator: Ge Bing