The Psychological Needs for WeChat Group
The psychological needs for WeChat group is very interesting. Z is an active ingredient for the group for his leftist albeit self-contradictory view. For example, he observed Chinese's peasant mentality of seeking out a dictator for centuries, and any liberal period was ended by violence. He cited three most liberal periods in Chinese history, namely, Spring and Autumn, Six Dynasty-Era, and the Republic. The facts cited by him are not entirely accurate in terms of defining "most liberal". In fact, the Six Dynasty-Era was hardly liberal at all, and it was not ended by Chinese people but by foreigners, namely the descendants of Huns. Nevertheless he would argue that China now is very liberal and needs more dictatorship.
Of course, this raised a huge hoopla, causing an ideological siege on him. As a result he left the group. That again generated another blame hoopla. Then a few days ago, his nemesis W invited him back again. As soon as Z returned, the group turned active again from the coma mood. To be honest with myself, I checked the update more often after he returned.
I guess we all need him. The "fight" is not worth much intellectual value, more or less a sort of geezer fight, but exciting. From my own point of view, it helps me combing jammed information into thinking with clarity when face opposition of opinions. Plus it's always fun to win argument and get "thumb up" from friends. It's nothing more than a brain exercise. Nowadays most people are kinda stuffy, at least Z is dramatic and showing he's still alive mentally.
The basic take-away is that regardless ideologically left or right, my Chinese folks do not seem to have logically consistent views. The left side blamed all the problems to Deng, and wanted to go back to Mao. It's certainly the blame in convenience. The right side blamed all the problems to government yet excluded Deng's accountability, a rather hypocritical bias.
Maybe Z really has a point if I could ever figure out what he really means given all the self-contradiction. Maybe the peasants' mentality of seeking a wise leader runs deep in our DNA. At the meantime, I just view the whole thing as entertainment.
Of course, this raised a huge hoopla, causing an ideological siege on him. As a result he left the group. That again generated another blame hoopla. Then a few days ago, his nemesis W invited him back again. As soon as Z returned, the group turned active again from the coma mood. To be honest with myself, I checked the update more often after he returned.
I guess we all need him. The "fight" is not worth much intellectual value, more or less a sort of geezer fight, but exciting. From my own point of view, it helps me combing jammed information into thinking with clarity when face opposition of opinions. Plus it's always fun to win argument and get "thumb up" from friends. It's nothing more than a brain exercise. Nowadays most people are kinda stuffy, at least Z is dramatic and showing he's still alive mentally.
The basic take-away is that regardless ideologically left or right, my Chinese folks do not seem to have logically consistent views. The left side blamed all the problems to Deng, and wanted to go back to Mao. It's certainly the blame in convenience. The right side blamed all the problems to government yet excluded Deng's accountability, a rather hypocritical bias.
Maybe Z really has a point if I could ever figure out what he really means given all the self-contradiction. Maybe the peasants' mentality of seeking a wise leader runs deep in our DNA. At the meantime, I just view the whole thing as entertainment.
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