Me ne frego

δούλου τόδʼ εἶπας, μὴ λέγειν ἅ τις φρονεῖ.
What you said is a slave, for whom it’s not to say what he thinks.
Euripides, Phoenissae 392

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of bus in Kyoto city; the way of an activist outside the camera; the way of a Korean preacher in the midst of the university; and the way of a man suiting an online porn star. But none of there, my friend, ever amazed me more than the way of Chinese dissidents, the gang of wretched who delight in being abused and revere whatever people who insults them most. I need not to explain the racism against Chinese people, for even one’s eyes are capable to see through Vatican that he may know who will be next Pope, could he ever find anyone who has neither declaimed Chinese as subhuman nor cooperated with such people, or who has never denied Chinese civilians’ massacre during WW2 nor made fun of it? Who ever condemned the celebrates and super stars of certain medias who celebrate, call for, or even threaten the hatred and crime against Chinese people? However, just like the parasites in Alciphron’s letters go to feast of the rich to be beaten up and made to drink up mustard, fish-sauce, and vinegar, or whom someone
αὐχένʼ ἔλασσεν ὑπʼ οὔατος, ὀστέα δʼ εἴσω ἔθλασεν,
he
κὰδ δʼ ἔπεσʼ ἐν κονίῃσι μακών
yet fawning at the “ἀγαυοί”; Such is the way of the dissidents make pilgrim to the feast of freedom and democracy, there they are driven by the ecstasy of being condemned as sinners or pest by Cantonese tone, rejoice in being addressed as swines by Uyghuri or Taiwanese lips, in great hurry to hurl all kinds of monstrous humiliations to their very ancestors or every victim of massacre and torture as long as they seem to have certain connection with them in being Chinese, of all, they
διὰ δὲχειμάρρου νάπης ἀγμῶν τʼ ἐπήδων θεοῦ πνοαῖσιν ἐμμανεῖς
and
ἀφρὸν ἐξιεῖσα καὶ διαστρόφους κόρας ἑλίσσουσα,
desire to be seen as most base creature to satisfy a certain perverted self-hating caused by lack of the feeling of identity due to some reason. Compared with their attitude to Chinese, you will call Johannes Pfefferkorn a big Zionist and Jewish supremacist concerning his comments on whatever Jewish and Christopher Marlowe a lobbyist of Israel for he described Jews at least as humankind. As a man is said to be deprived by Zeus of his half mind once he entered slavery, these pathetic fellows lose their dignity when they became dissidents and keep on begging it from the westerners, Japanese and “several certain privileged Asian people” while receiving it as an amazing grace. Meanwhile, as learned people know about the tale of the lion and Moorish woman, even lion, low as senseless beast, gets ashamed of itself for pleading to her pity and compassion, these sorry dissidents themselves aware of their statue being quasi-pariah, there’s sadness in their mind and depression on their visage, you can not tell eventually their madness will be led to another level or themselves to voluntary death. Behold, now there’re two theories, one with the slogans of freedom and democracy, tells people they’re sinful for what they’re born to be, for the mere fact they’re breathing, that they forever owe some peoples and the only thing they can do is to apologize, apologize and apologize: their dignity taken away, their glory ruined, like the boys of Corcyra sent by Periander to Sardis, their very existence become to serve others’ cause as atonement, yea, the atonement for what they were assigned at birth; while if the other theory, so far as telling whatever kind of glory, of confidence in oneself, of pride in being what one is, could that be Maoism, be Mussolini, be Karl Schmidt, and yet there’s long list, when they say that motto, “me ne frego” with a proud face, who could deny that this way could be salvation of aforesaid miserable fellows? Yet I would say, of all creatures creeping the earth, none is more miserable than the female race. They lack all physical and spiritual means of defending themselves, not because they have mean nature, but because the degenerate and lewd members of male race have all the time endeavored to shape women according to their own wicked nature and keep them from virtues, given that virtues prevail no time in human’s history. The women, being not treated by their father, brother and son as daughter, sister and mother, being in a nation which ties them, lack a nation which recruits them. Women are slandered as born traitors to family, nation, and race, but it’s seriously unfair. If female dissidents in seeking the feeling of belonging and at dim hope of acquiring it more bark at their origins, the only reason is they really in more need of being belonging; they follow whoever promises and be led away as sheep. Given that sufferings make people effeminate, we are all more or less on the female position, how could anyone blame women? If for long Chinese dissident community is like running OnlyFans page, make contents which customers order or which may please the market, we make ourselves womanish when feminism is on trend, push queer people to front when multiculturalism is welcomed, make talk show when it’s easy to understand, we disdain the ideas also of female and queer members by even in fighting they are counted as female or queer before human-human, the noble and the only animal who contemplates, verily, aren’t we no more than jesters in a stupid play, and if so, how could we ever declaim anything without being objects of either laughter or sympathy? Should I ask, or rather lament, the first thing forever is not to depend one’s own legality of existing on others, that’s to say, the motto “me ne frego” is far more precious than so called freedom; till when could that kind of high-spiritedness come from any Chinese person, and should I expect in another life, where our youth “have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts”?