I feel like this is the perfect capture of the zeitgeist...

#zombieStyle #lyingFlat #tangPing

https://wapo.st/3Xx6skk

Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation

Ch. 20

Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?

How ridiculous!

Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don’t care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.

I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharper;
I alone am dull.
Other people have a purpose;

I alone don’t know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother’s breasts.

#TTC #TaoTeChing #Tao #Taoist #Chinese #Philosophy
#LyingFlat #TangPing

曾先生：「我只是想躺平，很簡單。我的訴求就是想躺平，沒有其他。」 #lyingflat #lyingflatism

Reading up on this whole Bai Lan movement in China is pretty interesting. It's basically people giving up on the system because it's so stacked against them that there's no point in trying.

I guess there's people in the West that think similarly, but I don't reckon it's been quite as thoroughly enshrined in thinking as it has been with young people in China.

Maybe the best way to bring a system down is to not participate.

#bailan #letitrot #tangping #lyingflat

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/the-rise-of-bai-lan-why-chinas-frustrated-youth-are-ready-to-let-it-rot

RT @backwardstoucan@twitter.com

Essential workers are heroes! #antiwork #antiarbeit #躺平 #lyingflat

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/backwardstoucan/status/1484827427893354499

Speaking of #demographics: The one-child policy enforced by the #CCP for a long time has led to a society that is getting out of balance increasingly: Not enough young working people to support all the pensioners. And seen #China's shrinking #population, the housing bubble is here to stay. Add #tangping aka the #lyingflat movement to the mix, and the dream of continuous high #GDP growth rates becomes an illusion.

Keep in mind that economic growth legitimizes the regime in #Beijing.

#lyingflat