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Watching modern political grandstanding, I’m reminded of the Han Dynasty's 举孝廉 - a system that decayed into empty performance.

Are we stuck in the same loop?

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When Did Politics Become Performance Art?
Finally finding time to finish the chapter “Inherit the Whirlwind,” I was struck by the depiction of the Kansas conservative strategy: a…
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December 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Not all "anti-intellectualism" rejects knowledge; sometimes it targets dogma. But trend in Kansas rejecting science for dogma is different. True education doesn't teach what to think, but how to think. #Education

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When Belief Replaces Thought
The quiet war over America’s classrooms and the future of free minds
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November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Why does Kansas vote against its economic interests? The answer isn't just racism, it's in our brain. We're wired for tribal "pattern recognition," seeing "friend or threat" in any difference, the survival instinct shapes our politics.

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Between Fear and Recognition
What Evolution Forgot to Teach the Heart
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Goodness isn’t always gentle. When virtue forgets to doubt, even kindness can destroy what it seeks to protect.

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A reflection on saints, politics, and the wolves we’ve driven away. 🌿 #philosophy #morality #essays
The Other Side of Goodness
Good people, bad choices, and the illusion of virtue in politics.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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AI “hallucination” isn’t a glitch, it’s the true nature of LLMs, and perhaps of us too. If we let machines define truth, what happens to our curiosity, our doubt, and our progress?

#AI #LLM #philosophy

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Why AI Hallucination is Unfixable
The problem of AI “hallucination” isn’t a bug to be fixed — it’s a fundamental feature of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. To…
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October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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From modern conspiracy theorists, we never see a harmless Don Quixote., who is far more dangerous: the power to create an non-existing enemy and convince others to fight it.

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#DonQuixote #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #PoliticalAnalysis
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Conservative elites use cultural symbols to create false solidarity. This theater hides a stark economic divide. We may share cultural symbols, but not the same financial reality.

Stop mistaking cultural familiarity for true kinship. #ClassWarfare

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The Illusion of We
How the Powerful Use Culture to Conceal Economic Conflict
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October 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The deer know when the tiger lilies will bloom - a lesson in local survival. Early humans were experts of their home territory，when they did migrate, it was out of necessity. This ancient story of movement and coexistence is still our story today.

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The Tiger Lily and the Human Map
Every summer, just before the tiger lilies bloom, the deer in my backyard quietly appear and devour all the flower buds — leaving me with…
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October 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Farmer struggle isn’t just about profit; it’s a lesson in human adaptation. Faced with a system that favors capital, what to do?

Culture is a garment we wear, when it no longer serves us, shall we change?

#Adaptation #FutureofFarming

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October 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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What happens when con men steals flag and use it to lead you into a trap? Inspired by Frank's insight on state identity.

#PowerOfWords #CriticalThinking

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The Stolen Flag
At the beginning of Chapter Five: “Con Men and Mod Squad”, Thomas Frank writes that “Republicanism has always been central to the state’s…
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October 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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From “fattest goose” to paper millionaires—farmers chase land wealth as prices soar. Yet history repeats: profile and subsidies fuel cycles. Will we ever learn? 🌀 #Farmers #LandWealth

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Millionaires on Paper, Peasants in History
The long quotation that opens Chapter Four, “Vern Then and Now,” is a heavy read, but worth repeating here:
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October 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Why do leaders use religious language like "losing its soul"? From Kansas to the White House, faith fuels movements & defines policy, acting as both a force for progress and a tool of reaction. Shall society break free to move forward?

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In God’s Shadow: Politics and the American Soul
As expected, the third chapter of Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas? — titled “God, Meet Mammon” — turns directly to religion…
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October 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Is your town a Mission Hills, a Wichita, or a Garden City? Thomas Frank's 20-year-old analysis of Kansas's stark economic divisions reads like a blueprint for modern America. The capitalist feast continues, leaving crumbs for most.

#Inequality #Sociology

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Frank’s Foresight, 20 Years On
In the lengthy second chapter, “Deep in the Heart of Redness,” from What’s the Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank paints a detailed portrait…
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October 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Property taxes are the "rent" we pay for a functioning society. It’s easy to resent the bill, but do we expect roads, power, and schools to just appear? Many reject taxes but still expect services, just not the bill.

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The Myth of the Self-Made Citizen
There is a common misunderstanding about the very idea of entitlement. I was reminded of this recently when I saw a video of a farmer…
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October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Who are the real elites? It's not who you think. The powerful have twisted words like "elite" and "mainstream media" to create a fake underdog narrative, and pretend to be powerless👇

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October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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From "too many people" to "not enough," elite use population panic as a tool. If Big Ag's profits waver, could abortion bans flip to a welcoming population control tool?

#Demographics #Power

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Extinction, Abortion & Big Ag
What does the fate of the Neanderthals have to do with today’s debates over abortion and agriculture? A recent video on their disappearance…
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October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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American farming’s crisis isn’t just bad weather, low prices, or foreign rivals. It’s a high-capital rat race: land, machines, endless inputs, driven by fear, slogans & blame. The real problem is structural and cultural. 👇

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The Farmer’s Dilemma: Emotion vs. Economics
Recently, a wave of videos has been circulating online about the crisis in American agriculture and rural life. Curious, I watched two farm…
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October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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What if humanity's greatest advantage: our imagination, started as a form of "craziness"? Explores the radical idea that we prospered because we tolerated the "different" minds among us. #Evolution #Psychology #Science

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How Madness Shaped Humanity
Watching a lecture by Professor Robert Sapolsky sparked a fascinating thought. He discussed how certain religious predispositions might be…
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September 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Reading "Why We Die" made me ask: why do we bury our dead? We share that raw, mourning impulse with elephants & monkeys—but only we had the tools to act on it. This ritual isn't about divinity, but a profound part of our humanity itself.

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Before God, We Buried
How Burial Emerged from Grief, Tools, and Community
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September 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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When did humans first imagine a soul? The answer may lie in a universal mystery: a child’s resemblance to a departed ancestor, sparking imagination of reincarnation and religion, and could be a cosmic phenomenon. #Philosophy #Science

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The Origin of the Soul: An Evolutionary Speculation
On why belief in souls — and perhaps even gods — may be written into the fabric of life itself
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September 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Like the fleeting bloom that opens only at night, life’s beauty lies in its finiteness. If it were endless, would we still cherish it, or is it scarcity itself that gives life meaning?

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The Fleeting Bloom: Why Mortality Gives Life Its Meaning
On the illusions of immortality and the beauty of limits
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September 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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从限制饮食到基因药物，人类追求长生的路径充满戏剧性：
• 复活节岛土壤中偶然发现的雷帕霉素
• 仅900个细胞的蠕虫揭示寿命基因奥秘
• 富人争相试药，成为“勇敢的小白鼠”

但延长寿命往往以繁殖力为代价——生命真正追求的是时间，还是意义？资本与科学博弈，恐惧与贪婪驱动，我们是否在重复秦始皇求仙丹的现代版本？

#长生幻象 #抗衰老 #生命科学 #读书思考
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长生幻象：恐惧、贪婪与无知的危险游戏
读书笔记
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September 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Life survives by walking a razor’s edge: divide too much, cells turn cancerous; divide too little, they wither and die. From telomeres to forests, mortality is no flaw—it is balance itself. Death clears space so life can continue. Immortality, perhaps, is the true danger.

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The Balance That Sustains Life
In Why We Die, chapters 4 and 5 pull us into the quiet drama that plays out inside every living cell. From the instant an egg is…
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September 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Just saw the leaked Xi–Putin chat on immortality 👀. It’s dangerous hubris. Energy limits, inequality, stagnation—immortality would be the end of us.

For scientists, the real task is not to chase eternity, but to understand why finitude makes life meaningful.

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The Immortality Trap: How Chasing Eternal Life Could Doom Humanity
Continuing my reflections on Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, I was stunned to find even progressive thinkers entertain the idea of…
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September 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Life’s master controller—DNA—is fragile by design. Errors shorten lives but fuel evolution. Without imperfection, species would stagnate. Mortality is not life’s defect, but its condition: the cost we pay for the possibility of intelligence.

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Mortality as the Price of Evolution
In Chapter Three: Why We Die — “Destroying the Master Controller”, Venki begins with the image of collapsing cities and disappearing…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM