@mariocavolo such as the Opium Wars — priests often appear as figures of "conscience" and "admonishers." It could be said that Catholicism sometimes embodies our yearning for a notion of good and evil that is not bound by the secular world.
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@ishaqsamaila5@Sadeeqsipikin Among these, what has been able to survive and endure is hardly cynical at all. On the contrary, it is a kind of "worldly wisdom" accompanied by keen awareness. Therefore, the idea of a "docile and illiterate" populace is hardly tenable.
@ishaqsamaila5@Sadeeqsipikin People's attention finds its own path. The time when Chinese people do not talk about "gods" is actually often spent discussing the extremely complex and vast human relationships in Chinese society — relationships modeled on the ethics of "parent–child."
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@ishaqsamaila5@Sadeeqsipikin Among these, what has been able to survive and endure is hardly cynical at all. On the contrary, it is a kind of "worldly wisdom" accompanied by keen awareness. Therefore, the idea of a "docile and illiterate" populace is hardly tenable.
@ishaqsamaila5 Although this is treated as a romantic motif in literature and art, it is much like the "artist's romanticization of tuberculosis" — no one would actually wish to embody that romance with their own body.
@ishaqsamaila5 In ancient times, if an emperor was described as "obsessed with elixir-refining and ascending to heaven," such a comment implied that he was not a good ruler.
@ishaqsamaila5 Compared with Westerners, we almost have to take our inner privacy and lay it out in the context of friendships for examination. Such dense, complex interpersonal and family bonds leave us with little psychological space to talk about "gods."
@ishaqsamaila5 Even in modern schools, classes still have a very high number of students. This communal way of living makes our interpersonal relationships exceptionally complex.