The Propaedeutic

“Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves; not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves; not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder. Therefore the sage, in the exercise of his government, empties their minds, fills their bellies, weakens their wills, and strengthens their bones. He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them from presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from action, good order is universal.” ~ Tao Te Ching

It still befuddles me to no end that for some reason all the kids with authoritarian tendencies still read Nietzsche and cite Nietzsche to justify their authoritarian world view almost 100 years after the end of the Nazi regime. Nietzsche was most and foremost a free spirit, and he is the inheritor of a western tradition that promotes individualism above all else, and the last thing you could associate with Nietzsche is being an authoritarian.

If they really love fascism or authoritarianism, then it’s the Chinese philosophers that they should read.

In fact, Nietzsche is by far one of the most prescient western observers of the Chinese homeostasis and warns against a looming “Chinadom” that was overtaking Europe. The Chinese mediocrity, its mellowness, softness, lack of will, lack of desire, “smallness of heart”, “the Chinese happiness” were all contrary to everything Nietzsche advocated for in his philosophy.

The Chinese Legalists, for instance, are infamous for being the most cruel and virulent supporters of authoritarianism. But it’s not just limited to the Legalists. Open any Chinese philosophical textbook, any Chinese history textbook, and you are bound to find something so shocking that you’d think you are reading the Absurdist fiction of Albert Camus or Jean Paul Sartre; and yet those absurdities, so profound, so tragic and so horrifying, happen on a daily basis in China.

European the lion-hearted! White Man the brave heart! Do not become Chinese! Do not be intimidated in the face of the looming Chinadom! Conquer China. Subjugate China. Rule over China and enjoy Chinese women for your pleasure, but be careful not to become them!

Inspiring young Chinese female TV anchor tortured, imprisoned, and her cadaver put on display at Anatomy Body Exhibit.

Ms. Zhang Weijie was a popular journalist for a TV show in Dalian, China. She was known for her beautiful appearance, elegant voice, and she had no lack of male suitors who wanted become her boyfriend. Around 2001, she became acquainted with Mr. Bo Xilai, a rising Communist Party Cadet and, at the time, the mayor of Dalian. Mr. Bo was also one of the political rivals of Xi Jinping bidding for the highest leadership of China, and just like the current Chinese president Xi, Bo was the second generation of red revolutionaries, one of “the immortals of the Communist Party.”

Considering Ms. Zhang was merely an ordinary citizen, a commoner with no background and no connection, she immediately seized the opportunity and fell in love with Bo. She practically worshiped him. She fell to her knees before him and did all the bidding of Bo and she bragged to her friends, relatives, and coworkers that she was dating one of the most powerful men in China.

“When a woman falls in love, her IQ drops to zero,” the Chinese saying goes, and this certainly was the way Ms. Zhang was. And the most efficient way of gaining a woman’s heart was through her vagina. Day and night Ms. Zhang wrapped her limber, youthful body around Mr. Bo, letting him having his way with her like a libertine, without compunction.

But being young, beautiful and also naive, Ms. Zhang thought she could use her body to seduce Mr. Bo, not just curry favors for herself and her family, but also to win over his heart and become something more than a mere mistress.

At the time Mr. Bo was already married. His wife is Gu Kailai, who was later charged with the murder of a British citizen in 2012. Ms. Zhang remained as Mr. Bo’s secret mistress, his concubine of a sort, and when she became pregnant, she asked Mr. Bo that she be provided a legal status.

That, of course, was not going to happen. In fact, Ms. Zhang was not the only mistress of Mr. Bo. When her demands escalated, Mr. Bo decided to cut her off. That was when Ms. Zhang made the mistake that ended her young life. She approached his wife Gu Kailai and exposed her husband’s affair.

Mrs. Gu was no ordinary woman. Her marriage to Mr. Bo was a political union of two powerful political and economic families. Instead of becoming angry at her husband, or divorcing him, as Ms. Zhang had hoped, Mrs. Gu, with connections to the mafia in Dalian, as well as to the police, made Ms. Zhang “disappear”.

No information is known to this date regarding what she had endured. Whether she was abducted, secretly imprisoned, or tortured. From cases of similar nature, where videos existed, it is not unusual for a wife to torture such a mistress, often through public humiliation, beatings, etc. Some Chinese mistresses have been videotaped of being stripped naked in public, dragged, kicked, and having human feces thrown on them. For someone like Gu Kailai, it’s not unimaginable that she had the power to make her suffer more outrageous things, things that will never be revealed, unfortunately, due to the secretive nature of the Chinese society. Bo Xilai himself was also known to have tortured political rivals when he was promoted to be the highest ranking official of Chongqing: common techniques included burning with cigarettes, hitting with electric batons, forced posture where someone had to remain in a certain uncomfortable position for days and weeks, etc.

For years she was declared “missing”.

Around 2019, someone at an Anatomy Exhibition overseas recognized her.

By now Ms. Zhang’s body had been skinned, dissected, embalmed, and waxed and put on full exhibition in tours around the world by German businessman Von Hagen who owned the Dalian Plastination company, and whose company was connected to Mrs. Gu.

Ms. Zhang’s cadaver was visibly pregnant. She was put into various position to showcase her once luscious, supple body for the world to see, and that was the body that was enjoyed by and had given pleasure to Mr. Bo, the man who almost became the president of China, but who ultimately lost in the political struggle against Xi.

She has now been sold to a private collector from the Netherlands.

Regarding Bo Xilai: China, one might describe, is a dog eat dog world. Bo Xilai was known to have used extreme brutal methods to crush his political opponents, and Xi Jinping had done exactly the same to Bo Xilai. Bo Xilai and his wife are now being confined to life in prison in a secret prison just outside of Beijing, known as Qincheng Prison. Qincheng prison exists outside of the the normal jurisdiction of criminal justice and takes order directly from the emperor.

And lest anyone thinks that Xi Jinping had been better. In fact, the years since the imprisonment of Bo Xi had provedto have been much worse. He has started the most brutal crackdown on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press in China since the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and it is rumored that, in addition to having one daughter known as Xi Mingze, Xi himself has three illegitimate sons born with three different women.