The depravity of Chinese tradition under Rousseau's lens
After reading half of Part I of Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, I felt quite concerning about modernity and tradition present in China.
Believing that one can design reproduction better than nature:
周禮 has a myth where the monogamy practice (周公之禮、嫁娶) was invented when someone thought that the promiscuous human nature is bad. Rousseau would have said, “How dare him?”
Result: severe overpopulation throughout history after many, many cycles of intense reproduction (until land cannot support it) and immigration.
Cultural racism:
華裔之辯 is a blind faith that believes their own culture is the most superior. It extends to racism by birth.
Result: even to this day, disrespect for science and blind faith to whatever the ancestors have said.
Make no doubt that it is a culture passed down by conquest, not by blood. It is not without an irony that nature selects culture too, as if information is a living creature. Natural selection has never cared for the welfare of individuals, nor does the market.
What else lost in modern society (according to the book):
- The ability for one to sleep under trees, wherever they want.
- Let nature select infants. (Do not let infants be a burden to parents.)