/lit/ - Literature

Gods don't exist and I think the true path now is towards the Sinicization of Marxism which is combining scientific rationality with a sort of like Zen / Wang Yangming-style Neo-Confucianism, wherein by doing everyday tasks, you are meditating and thus achieving enlightenment. Or in other words, "The Secular Is Sacred," as a certain book on Confucianism is titled. Paper-pushing to develop socialism is thus not merely a secular, rational activity, but something transcendental.

It's interesting to note that in Peter Hessler's time in the Peace Corps, he has an actual Chinese Communist Party member saying that their belief in the Party and in Marxism is a type of faith. That's to say, Marxism, despite all its claims to being scientific, is actually regarded as a sort of religion in China, probably in the Kierkegaardian sense (faith is an act of will). But Confucianism is a mostly secular social ideology anyways and goes as far, in its later stages, to deny the existence of a soul, and often tries to give purely secular actions a religious or spiritual element. That is to say, everyday actions, including those that build socialism, are now transcendent.

You guys have fun with your poop gods.

https://youtu.be/9wPq0M_T8JQ?t=79