Auntology: The Waystation of Red Pill Sanity

“...This war was completely tilted to one side. There was almost no doubt as to the outcome. As soon as Chiang exhausted within one or two years the military resources he accumulated in the latter part of the Anti-Japanese War, the war was over. And the industrial zone in the northeast would be able to continue to produce. If the Northeast had been an independent country like Manchuria, it would have no difficulty to beat a big country like China, just as it would be no problem for Israel to defeat a big country like Egypt. One was a small industrialized country and the other a large agricultural country without industrialization. The large agricultural country had only scattered and disorganized peasants...”

Season 2 - Lords and Wanderers

The first two episodes are excerpts from an invited talk of YiXi, which was first published on April 12, 2014.  The full video (in Mandarin Chinese) is at https://youtu.be/edB7ly0_KSc .

"One thing is different though, the Chinese dream does not really exist. The so-called American Dream is a stable consensus that runs through history and permeates across society, such as individualism, personal striving, a sense of protagonism by ordinary people, that sort of thing. There is no such consensus in China, and the Chinese Dream is merely a cosmetic phrase, used for perfunctory purposes. "

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Season 1 was translated from an invited talk given by William Liu in Guangzhou, March 2015. 

"...The USSR adopted what we now call unrestricted warfare to oppose the international order. As a result, the right-wing forces in Europe, such as the German Army Corps or Kapp Putsch, also resorted to the means of unrestricted warfare to counter the Soviet Union. In other words, if you are without scruples I shall also be ruthless. Only after Leninism came fascism; after fascism, Nazism; after Nazism and Soviet operations in the third world, came Islamic extremism and then the Chinese revolution. "

“...At the same time, because of the existence of such institutions, it is hard to avoid becoming an empire because the system itself had its own power...  This institution, which can scare the Communist Party, should probably mirror the Communist Party. It also needs bureaucratic institutions and armies as large as the Communist Party, otherwise, you can’t oppose the latter... For McCarthy, this was very painful because he had a close flesh-and-blood connection with the American community, it was a great pain for him to leave politics. But for Ayn Rand, it did not matter. She was what I call a rootless wanderer from the very beginning. She had no flesh-and-blood relationship with American society. She was an intellectual and relied on selling her theory... ”