with x = C (China), x ≡ X (Xi)
From this postulate, the corollaries follow: 制度自信 = 习自信，制度优势 = 习优势，东升西降 = 习升西降，人权 = 习权，大国抗疫 = 习抗疫，…… :-)
上次说起今年强人俱乐部成员们都走了麦城。像里海褐粉们以前最爱说的，“新冠病毒专治各种不服”，接下来就看习强人怎么漂亮转身，继续强大了 :-)
另外说到强人和褐粉们，想起来当年 Bonhoeffer 的“Theory of Stupidity” ： :-)
“Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. It would even seem that this is virtually a sociological-psychological law. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence, and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.”
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