Tuesday, 23 October 2012

US Government sues a bunch of coins . . .


The United States of America sue a bunch of inert defendants. Yes, they are as inert as any suspect could be, highly inorganic in fact. They are a bunch of coins. Ridiculous? Another conspiracy theory? At the bottom of this post is the civil docket for case No. 1:08-cv-00230-LHT-DLH which anyone should be able to look up from the Department of Justice site. Having gained some experience now in the Rule of Law, I am less surprised than I could have been. 

I think the “defendants” have so far remained silent; but their prospect of self-defence does not look good.

The following is guest blogger Brynjar Danielsson’s piece on what happened.


以下是美国政府控告一批钱币的真事。控告钱币?没那么荒谬的事情吧。有美国司法部的控告文件为证 (在司法部网站也可以搜寻到)。法治这个好概念,被乱用滥用的时候,可以比 “没有法治” 更加可怕,更令人啼笑皆非。以下是 Brynjar Danielsson 的报告及有关链接。

By Brynjar Danielsson (23 Oct 2012)

I love America.  In spite of everything I still love America, because no matter what they do they can never kill this idea that is America. An idea that has shone as a beacon of light ever since 1776.  The world would be a darker place to me without this America, and I cannot conceive it. 

But they are doing their damnedest to smother America now. 

My own rude awakening came in 2007, during the primaries of the previous election, when I witnessed their dismantling of due process of the law.  That was the day they raided the Liberty Dollar, seizing all of its assets, computers, and having the company's bank accounts frozen - all without so much as a cease-and-desist. We had been supporting Ron Paul, and we were eagerly awaiting the delivery of copper coins that bore his likeness, so we could go around handing them out to people while spreading the word - the message of 'no more senseless wars and monetary madness'. They confiscated them all that day, nearly 2 tons worth of copper - plus all the other metals owned by the company. All we could do was to band together in collective defense, in a class action suit to protect our property and our rights. The case remains in a limbo to this very day, and we are not holding our breaths waiting for victory. 

Through all of this we also witnessed the surreal as the empire struck back.  They had taken the absurd to a whole new level in a counter-charge as they effectively waged war on metals. I take a kind of perverse pleasure when I try to explain this to people, especially those in the legal profession, as I show them the case docket sheet; jaws invariably drop to the floor with priceless expressions on dumbstruck faces.  Hey, you get your kicks where you can these days.

Naturally the founder of the Liberty Dollar was sicced by the imperial attack dogs.  Mr. von Nothaus was pronounced a 'unique terrorist' last year for his troubles. Yet amidst this gloom there was a flicker of light, as media entities such as the New York Sun and the Wall Street Journal questioned this inevitable outcome. The Sun mused that if von Nothaus was branded a terrorist for advocating honest money, what would that make Mr. Bernanke...who even as I write is busy QE-ing all of us into oblivion, to the tune of 40 billion smackeroos a month. The Wall Street Journal had this to say in its own editorial: "...it's a loser's game to suppress private money that is sound in order to protect government-issued money that is unsound."  The truth is catching on and hope springs eternal.

As you head to the polls on November 6th, ready to vote for either the lesser or greater of two evils, for they really do amount to the same things - more senseless wars and monetary madness, haven't you had your fill of this farce? Mittens by the way seems to have the upper hand as his pals appear to control Diebold, while the latest indications are Big Money has abandoned Obama. Please consider the words of an all-American hero, when he wrote about his own awakening: " I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers.  In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.  I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914.  I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.  I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902 - 1912.  I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916.  I helped make Honduras right for the American Fruit Companies in 1903.  In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.  Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints.  The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts.  I operated on three continents."  Maj. General Smedley Butler, War is a Racket, 1935.

I love America, but I fear for her, and the world.
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Friday, 12 October 2012

New Age Narcotics


These things are bad, real bad. How so?

They are seriously addictive. According to my informal survey, more than half of my friends' kids are addicts. Many of them stay up till three four o’clock in the morning indulging in their habits. Some of them are well into their twenties. But young people are not the only victims. Some parents are junkies too. 

Many addicts end up neglecting life. Some miss it altogether, stuck in fabricated reality. They hallucinate rather than participate. These things are extremely damaging to health. The senses and nervous system are dulled by constant over-stimulation. Some suffer from arthritis of the digital joints as well as ruined eyesight as a result. Long-term abusers probably develop funny tics.

You can spot serious fiends on the street, offices and campuses. They look pale, puffy, fat or scrawny, and phlegmatic; zombies with dark pouches under lifeless eyes. Overdosing can result in death. 

But worse than old-fashioned drugs, they are legal, and very readily available. Don’t even have to venture down to Seven Eleven for them. Instead of going to jail, manufacturers and pushers make huge profits and give speeches in conferences. 

I believe that computer games should not be banned because addiction is entirely voluntary. But isn’t that the case with most illicit drugs though? 

Before the revolution, my maternal grandparents wasted half their lives dreaming on opium beds because their Daddies could afford it; all their friends' grown up children were fashionably the same. Today's electronic junkies live in another century, a distant world from them, but share a similarly privileged nightmare.

Chinese Version:摩登鸦片
Guo-Du Blog  12/10/2012

摩登鸦片


这东西很坏,十分危险。如何危险呢?

它很容易上瘾。根据我的非正式调查,朋友之中的子女有一半以上是道友道姑。其中不少每晚搞到三四点。年纪最大的已经面临三十岁了。不单只年轻人会沉迷,已经一把年纪的瘾君子也大不乏人。

严重上瘾的可能会感到人生迷惘,失去方向,前路一片虚拟,没有了积极参予的落脚地。这东西还很伤身。长期地过度刺激官能,会导致神经系统出轨。有些道友更会患上关节炎和眼疾之类,或由于面部肌肉经常紧张而变得 “眼戚鼻戚”。

瘾君子越来越多,在街上,办公室,校园都可以看见。他们一般不是身体肥肿便是骨瘦如柴,面色苍白憔悴,两眼无神,活像行尸走肉。严重的致命案子,层出不穷。

这东西合法方便,随手可得,不必长途跋涉到街口711去买。贩子们不单只不用坐牢,发财之余还到座谈会演讲介绍。

它虽然祸害不逊于古典鸦片,但很难想像(我也绝对不赞成)“电脑游戏”被禁制。电脑是死的,玩不玩是活人自己拿的主意。不过其它毒品也是基本上自愿者用的,所以禁制这东西很难有标准。

我的公公姥姥解放前花了半生人躺在烟床上做梦,主要因为他们的爹爹们有能力供养。上流人士吸鸦片当时是“潮”!现代的电子鸦片瘾君子们,与公公姥姥相隔了一个世纪,生活在另一个世界,做着同一个世代相传的噩梦。

英文版:New Age Narcotics
Guo -Du Blog 12/10/2012


Tuesday, 25 September 2012

钓鱼台背后的一个理性“阴谋论”


朋友从电邮发了以下甚有见地的文章给我。冷静的分析,另我更担心无恶不尽其极的霸权主义会把我们眼巴巴傻瓜瓜拖入战争旋涡。也令我想起后赛恩和卡扎菲。

后赛恩曾经是美国老友记。他天真烂漫,以为可以用其它货币制衡美元,结果被处死,一个文明古国被摧毁。卡扎菲是非洲最好的领袖之一;利比亚的生活水平是非洲之冠,十分重视国民教育。但老卡意图搞个金本位非洲货币,被西方喉舌传媒一夜间变为魔头,最后亦国破家亡。这许多的事情, 都与美国的金融军事霸权野心有着明显的重大直接关系。它们一件接一件的发生,一件接一件的被迅速遗忘。

终于烧到我们的头上来了!

本来整件钓岛事件中最令我疑惑的地方之一是香港一批“逢中必反,逢美必舔”的小喽罗,突然生龙活虎,过关斩将登录钓鱼台。另外台湾罕有地强硬,甚至有充满虚幻的声音说要与大陆军事携手保卫中华领土那么激情搞笑。几个小时前(今天9月25)新闻报导台湾与日本的海岸巡逻艇在钓岛互发水炮。台胞突然而来的勇气,令人费解。看了此文之后,这许多疑团都会变得比较通透,甚至可以理解。假如第一招北京不就范,第二招可能是:“国民党勇夺钓鱼台”,做其民族英雄。死未?

我不知道本文作者是谁,但估计他不会介意我把他的高见公开转载。

任何合理的忖测,对不想暴露真相又没有反驳理据的人来说,“阴谋论”是最方便有效的攻击武器。连911那么离谱的“反地心吸力”现象,有那么多的摄录证据,一句“阴谋论”也可以把世人的眼睛蒙上,嘴巴盖住,脑筋封锁,威力可想而知。

以下的电邮,对某些人来说,应该也是阴谋论吧。但我就是特别喜欢有逻辑有根据有观察力的阴谋论。

全文如下:

看看這篇文章吧,或許從中大家就可以理解我們國家為什麼遲遲按兵不動的緣故,我們不是懦弱,而是我們要考慮的更周全、更慎密。看看釣魚島事件中美國的真實目的吧。別讓憤怒沖昏了頭腦。(轉載文章)

1、美國通過最脆弱的希臘攻擊了歐元,火燒連船使得歐盟搖搖欲墜,歐元地位大大動搖,資本快速流向美國,修復美國資產負債表;通過挑起中日釣魚島之爭,兩個外匯儲備最多的國家,外匯在潛在戰爭影響下源源流向美國,並打擊日元和人民幣,能挑戰美元的歐元、日元、人民幣受到打擊,美國則從危機中快速恢復。

2、這個時候爆發的釣魚島之爭名為領土之爭,實為美國主導的經濟之戰,任何爭端的背后都是經濟利益在主導和驅使。

3、美國用愛國主義綁架中國政府,這就是香港某些一向反中親美人士突然反常去登釣魚島的原因;再慫恿日本的政客,激發日本長期被壓抑的領土欲望。釣魚島關乎兩個國家政黨的面子,兩個民族的自尊,已經被挑起。

4、美國在全球有兩大鷹犬,非常凶猛,在歐洲是英國,打擊歐元的戰役中,它最積極;在亞太地區是日本,本來美國不想動用日本,因這個國家的人比較容易走火,只想用菲律賓挑起爭端,讓資本流出中國,然菲律賓不堪大用,中國用軍艦加胡蘿卜就嚇跑菲律賓,只好用日本了。

5、通過打擊歐元,挑起東亞爭端,導致資本流出歐洲和東亞,流入美國,這就是美國的QE3,而不是美聯儲印鈔的QE3,世人翹首以待美聯儲的QE3是這種方式,成本最低的方式,如果還停留在傳統的貨幣思維裡,那麼你就失敗了,到時看資本流出中國的速度吧。

6、對於歐元的打擊,美國可以直接打擊,因為歐元沒有保護屏障,而中國和日本有統一的主權、軍隊、龐大的外匯儲備,只有通過挑起爭端和沖突來打擊,將資本趕向美國。

7、美聯儲為全球最大對沖基金,經常做空美元一切對手,美聯儲坐鎮中央,麾下以索羅斯為代表的對沖基金出擊,橫掃英鎊、日元、港幣、泰銖等東南亞貨幣、歐洲,現在盯住了人民幣,做空過的人都知道,一旦做空,就會變得很有攻擊性,美聯儲也是這樣。

8、將美國整體看成一張資產負債表,最嚴峻的問題是債務過大,目前降低負債不可能,只能增加資本,通過打擊歐元和挑起東亞爭端,資本流入美國,很多會進入股權、房產等所有權領域,這樣就等於增加了美國的資本,降低了負債率,同時投資拉動經濟增長。

9、美國定量寬鬆政策要成功須未來能退出,退不出,美國還是死路一條,因為債務太龐大了。現階段要保証美國經濟的復蘇,美國必須要消滅一切潛在的貨幣對手,一旦其它貨幣部分替代美元在全球的作用,那麼定量寬鬆的負面后果就無法向全球轉嫁。

10、任何貨幣都有致命的缺陷,歐元致命缺陷是缺乏統一的政府信用,美元的致命缺陷是必須要成為全球的結算貨幣和儲備貨幣,否則美國就會引起嚴重的債務危機,一旦有貨幣在國際結算方面對美元構成威脅,美元一定會不惜一切消滅,這是美國政府和美聯儲的國家戰略。

11、美國經濟危機只度過一半,只是將個人和企業債務轉移到政府和美聯儲資產負債表上,后一半是美國政府和美聯儲的資產負債表必須縮減債務,要成功的前提是美元必須繼續作為全球結算和儲備貨幣,否則退出時出售債券沒人要或少人要,美國會迅速被債務危機淹沒。

12、威脅到美元全球結算貨幣地位的,美國必殺之,次貸危機期間,歐盟和中東提出石油貿易用歐元結算,包括伊朗,石油可是美元結算主要貿易啊,再加上默克爾宣揚歐元優秀論,次貸危機一過,美國就拿歐元大開殺戒,慘不忍睹。

13、默克爾來中國訪問,公告貿易結算用彼此貨幣,美國拍馬趕到,希拉里一路殺進中南海,告誡不可和歐洲結盟,尤其結算貨幣不能用彼此貨幣,因中、歐之間貿易量太大,用人民幣和歐元結算會大大動搖美元在全球的結算貨幣地位,而這又是儲備貨幣的基礎,告誡不成,定瘋狂報復。

14、更要命的是,中國和日本在前段時間竟然簽署貨幣互換協議,日本央行准備購買人民幣債券,並將人民幣作為儲備貨幣,過去敵對的經濟大國的貨幣要是互換並迅速規模化的話,對美元的打擊是摧毀性的,美國必須要阻止這種可怕的情況發生,如何阻止?釣魚島!

15、於是一時間釣魚島上空風雲變幻,戰爭一觸即發,兩國的政府都被愛國主義綁架;突然之間日本的金融大臣被自殺,疑點重重。這一切都是為了維護美元的地位,任何阻擋的國家和個人都可能會被自殺。中日戰爭喧囂塵上,美國卻在一邊詭異的笑。這個就是關於釣魚島背后的金融貨幣真相。

16、只要中國繼續推進人民幣國際化,中美之間必然會爆發戰爭,一定會打一場大戰,至於什麼時候打,要看中國政府推進人民幣國際化的速度,至於怎麼打,釣魚島之戰就是預演!

17、任何一種貨幣要想成為國際結算貨幣和儲備貨幣,必須要有強大的經濟和武力作為后盾的,因為貨幣成為國際結算和儲備貨幣,就相當於貨幣殖民主義,可以印鈔購買世界資產,而殖民地都是要靠武力搶奪的,人民幣想要搶奪別人的殖民地,避不開戰爭的。

18、釣魚島:有人問我世界上有沒有貨幣戰爭,可以肯定的答有,貨幣的世界裡充滿戰爭,但掌握世界貨幣的不是羅斯柴爾德家族,任何一家投行,一個家族都控制不了一國乃至世界經濟和貨幣,這個世界最大的貨幣統治者和殖民者是美聯儲,是全球的掠奪者和經濟災難制造者。

19、美國為什麼要發動釣魚島貨幣戰爭?美國和中國可以是一種合作、互利的關系,但這是建立在中國不能動搖美元的世界結算貨幣和儲備貨幣的基礎上的,一旦人民幣國際化威脅到了美元的霸權地位,美國必定會用一切手段來打擊人民幣,包括挑起地區戰爭。

20、釣魚島:為什麼動搖到美元的國際結算和儲備貨幣地位,美國必須會消滅它?因美國經濟結構和社會結構是建立在債務擴張基礎上,美國償還不了這些債務,美國的債務鐘已經說明了一切,只有印鈔還債,一旦世界結算和儲備貨幣地位動搖,美國經濟和社會將崩潰。

21、釣魚島戰爭已經打響,而且驚心動魄。網絡上一片罵政府軟弱無能之聲,但兵者,詭道也,尤其面對美國、日本兩個戰爭狂人,得更詭異,更聰明,做好更周全准備,美元指數跌破80,中國已經在拋售美債美元,貨幣戰爭已經打響,拋售美債是為和日本打仗的必須准備。

看了這文章,比我們發一百張圖片都有用;學會用貨幣的思維考慮問題;建議大家仔細看,必有收獲!

一個國家,一個民族,如果一點腦子也沒有,只會讓別人呼來喚去。

Monday, 24 September 2012

钓鱼台纷争是难得的和平契机?


我甚少直接评论政治纠纷的原因是从来搞不请一般的七嘴八舌究竟谁是谁非。但很想就钓鱼台的纷争插句嘴。

从最乐观的角度看,今次的钓岛纷争可能是难得的个和平契机。从最悲观之处着眼,则中日眼巴巴被摆上台表演鹬蚌相争。

现在的情势大概是两方面都进退两难。绝大部份中国人的一向共识是日本搞钓鱼台等于冲击底线,不能退让。北京很清楚不能示弱,否则后果不堪。至于日本方面,做了那么多小动作,现在“缩沙” 也有难度。

双方的老百姓都不愿意见到武装冲突。气愤的时候,会觉得日本的军国主义复萌,非打不可。但冷静一想,战后的日本在这方面实在有了基层式的思想变化,现在要发动全民把军国主义死灰复燃,恐怕难度甚大。当然, 日本国内有不少神经佬,绑条白布在额头便以为可以战无不胜,但他们不竟是很小数的大声公而已。而民主政客利用和逢迎大声公,是国际通病。

我尝试幻想现在这个局面如何收场。

日本可以照样买島,但必须同时通过一条“保育法”,宣布钓鱼台五十年内不能有任何形式的发展。这样其实把中日几十年来的默契“正式化”了,增加了法律依据,方便今后约束右翼份子。这不正是日本政府不断强调的购岛原意吗?

中国当然仍然得严厉抗议,宣布整个交易非法和无效。但假如日本政府真的以某种立法形式承诺“不碰”钓鱼台,则可暂且保证现状不变。为了五十年后的交涉打基础,中国也可以作出相应的立法,保育钓鱼台。

这个想法可能有点天真。得看日本是否真的有诚意。

唉,大家是否记得,自越战之后,亚洲基本上相对太平。现在美国再度关注亚太区的福祉,我们要继续安享太平,恐怕没有以前那么简单了。

Monday, 10 September 2012

Noah’s Flood: A Hydrological Calculation

In (Genesis chapters 6–9) the Patriarch Noah saves himself, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals when God decides to destroy the world because of evil mankind. God gives Noah detailed instructions, down to the construction material, probably to ensure that the epic penalty won’t be explained away as being merely “symbolic” when future humans become more knowledgeable yet no less superstitious, something that He no doubt had foreseen. 

I wondered about the magnitude of God’s hydrodynamic wrath, so I did a little calculation, and discovered that the biggest mystery in the whole flood thing is the number 40.

“诺亚方舟” 的水文计算

「諾亞方舟」是基督教聖經「創世紀」中的著名故事。話說部分中東人士激怒了上帝,他一怒之下決定把所有生物一次過淹死。為了避免從頭創世的麻煩,他教諾亞一家人造了條一百多米長的方舟,把全世界的生物一對一對的放進去之後,才放水四十晝夜屠殺。

我想進一步瞭解上帝這個「水力懲罰」的實際規模,於是概算了一下他當時淹沒蒼生的用水量,和如此大量的殺人用水最後會退到什麼地方去。從計算過程中,我意外的重大發現是整件「諾亞慘劇」中最令人費解之處,原來是「四十」這個數目字。

就讓我們逐步分析一下吧:

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

艺术家的矛盾



周蜜蜜的「文曲譜」 寫得實在精彩,故事中人有血有淚,有愛有恨,充滿人性,呼之欲出,卻完全沒有給人「製造激情」的感覺。「文曲譜」 隨時可以被拍成一部感人的寫實派文藝電影!

書中的主要人物都是從大陸移居香港的藝術家:有畫家詩人,作家導演等等。他們身處萬事以金錢掛帥的文化沙漠小香港,雖然際遇不一,卻都難免有 「事事未盡人意」 的時候。運氣不來的話,甚至要出賣藝術以謀生計,飽受虎落平陽的委屈。雖然自己與故事中人的背景並不相似,卻不知怎的對他們的奮鬥和遭遇很有共鳴。一口氣看完之後,把書放下,心情猶如與一群老友告別,少許依依,暗中祝願。

可能這班人的奮鬥和遭遇,並不局限於身世和地域吧。藝術家的掙扎,往往有股奮不顧身的激情,比較浪漫,令人感動。默默耕耘多年,最後還不是由不明所以的局外人來下斷語?剛剛捱出了一點成績來,已經感覺到時日無多。心一急,正好被奸商利用!

不過想深一層,藝術家嘆息 「知音難遇」,似乎是必然的事。眼看世界,試問哪個年代哪個地方不是庸俗人的天下,玩權弄金者的世界呢?不過矛盾也正正在此:假如一般人都 「懂得藝術」的話,藝術創作便會變得平平無奇,藝術家會變成技工。當然,有天份的可以更上一層樓,另創更新更高的境界。但為了新而新,很多時會適得其反。況且真的成功「升格」之後,又會相對地把大家貶回平庸,將自己再度陷於「知音難尋」的寂寞境界。好矛盾的循環死結!

真正的藝術,注定了永遠要與平庸相對。沒有平凡的襯托,超卓的才華便失去了顯現的平台。曲高和寡,是理所當然。所以曲高的命運,是整輩子絕大部分時間對牛彈琴 「搵兩餐」。而這不是藝術界獨有的問題。任何人要是在某方面的天份或努力超過了最普通的大平均值,都會有對這方面的事情 「看不順眼」的苦惱。古今中外的人類社會,不管在政治理念上吹那一門派的牛,最後都逃不出 「平庸價值」 的專政。


「文曲譜」書中有個 「偽術畫家」 憑著與市井奸商串通造勢的本領,把不知所謂的「作品」拉上天價,把真正的畫家氣個半死。可是這種人比比皆是,充斥著各行各業。騙子把騙人的東西賣給其它騙子,其它騙子再抬價賣給發了橫財急於扮風雅的笨蛋豬玀,無非「名牌效應」的一個嘴臉而已。買賣雙方你情我願,各得其所,通通活該,是暴發戶階層的內部運作。這些人無論有沒有「偽術家」串同,也不會欣賞或支持有分量的創作。他們與藝術根本就扯不上關係,扮風雅也只是扮給自己也看不起的同類看,與真正的藝術家們沒有實質衝突;看不過眼也不妨置之不理,免勞真氣。

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Quantum Dao

It is an uncanny coincidence that around two and a half millennia ago, ancients from civilisation apart, unaware of each other, told us remarkably similar things about existence, reality, stuff like that. They relied on nothing more than the power of human perception and contemplation.

The Buddha, aka Siddartha Gautama (c. 563 - c.483 BCE) realised without microscope or telescope that there are tens of thousands of bugs in a single drop of water, and that there are countless worlds out there. These amazing realisations took us another two thousand years to verify. A central tenet of his philosophy is that reality isn’t what it seems to be, and that all dharma is the result of our “heart”, perception, desire. The Buddha taught us repeatedly that there really — or not really — is nothing out there. The concept must have been wildly incredible before quantum mechanics.

His contemporary way over in China Lao Zi (aka Lao Tsu, c. 571 - c.471 BCE) gave a similar worldview in 5000 words — all that he had left in writing. The opening sentence in his Dao De Jing is “The Dao that can be explained is not the real Dao.” Nature’s way, the Dao, absolute reality, is far beyond the paltry capabilities of human languages. Dao just is, but sorry, not necessarily the way we think it is. We might laugh, as he predicted: “On hearing the Dao, a wise man would practice; an average man would be baffled; the idiot would laugh it off.”  Ha.

物理道可道

話說兩千五百年前左右,一批被時空所隔,互不認識的古人,不約而同地告訴我們一些有關存在的奧秘。

佛祖釋迦牟尼(約公元前563-483)單憑參悟,便得悉外面有三千大千世界和一滴水有八萬四千蟲。他的驚人結論,我們要等足兩千多年才用望遠鏡和顯微鏡加以證實。他幫助眾生解脫的中心哲學是「空」和「無」的宇宙人生觀。佛學說的萬法唯心:「唯心所現,唯識所變」,「一切唯心造」 等等,例子很多。空無的概念很玄,與量子物理一樣不可思議,不能單靠表面觀察和死用力動腦筋思考。

在佛祖努力教化世人的同期 -- 隨便加減一兩百年吧 -- 中國出現了老子。他老人家可能比佛祖自私,也可能更瞭解眾生的不可造就,只留了五千字的道德經給我們自己參詳,好自為之。道德經一開頭便說 「道可道,非常道」。想用人類的語言說明宇宙的奧秘,何其妄想。一般人覺得道德經神神化化,莫明其妙,一笑置之。哈,真不出乎老子意料之外:「上士聞道,勤而行之;中士聞道,若存若亡;下士聞道,大笑之」。哈哈。

老子騎青牛出關之後,蘇格拉底便出生了。這位希臘老師,很有老子的古怪味道,最後連五千字也懶得寫。幸好他的學生柏拉圖(約公元前427-347)滿肚子墨水,才把他老人家的出世哲學保留下來。莊子(約公元前369-286)和柏拉圖一樣,文筆活潑生動,同樣喜歡把玄妙的道理用寓言和對話方式傳授世人。

佛祖,蘇格拉底,柏拉圖都告訴我們人的精神不生不滅,有如薪火相傳。做一世人沒有把東西學好不打緊,投胎再續。每一生吸收少許,早晚做天才。可惜現代人對學習已經完全失去興趣,輪回再生也不過是繼續上網打機,有點兒浪費。

蘇格拉底,柏拉圖,老莊們通通都很清楚地警告我們不要墮入滿口仁義道德的人的圈套。「聖人不死,大盜不止」。兩位希臘老師更痛恨詭辯,提醒大家所謂“民主”的結果是詭辯小人當道,蠱惑人心,後果不堪設想。

 光陰似箭,大概八十五萬天之後,二十世紀即將來臨 。。。


地球一下子出現了一批奇才。1879年,「電光老祖」 麥克斯韋辭世。剛好愛因斯坦同年出生,接力而上,而一上便是幾層樓。不到六年,量子學巨人波爾降生。再過兩年薛定諤出世,罕有的通天鬼才一個接著一個來到世上,好不熱鬧。新世紀開始,1901年還添了個海森堡, 長大後為量子物理貢獻了神秘的「不確定性定律」。他們都是諾貝爾獎還未淪為政治家的小把戲之前實至名歸的得獎者。

對這批劃時代天才來說,「存在」又究竟是什麼的一回事呢?

1。 波爾和海森堡的論調,現在聽來也十分驚人,當時更不用說了。他們認為根本就沒有什麼真實世界;所謂量子本質其實是量度行為本身所引發出來的現象。波爾更進一步認為沒有外在觀察的話,「真實」 根本就不存在。換句話說,「真實」只不過是觀察的「果」而已。哎呀!他在說「萬法唯心」?這老外懂得十二因緣?玄!

2。 海森堡說:「可以形容的 ‘真實’ 都不會是真實的真面目」;真個「道可道,非常道。名可名,非常名」!

3。  1918年出生的後輩 理查德·費曼 歸納了他對量子物理的理解如下:「根本就沒有人明白量子物理。」 那麼坦白,最後也不明所以地拿了個諾貝爾獎。所以說要得獎不一定要明白。他認為我們覺得「不合理」的現象,只不過是「現實與我們的主觀猜度有出入而已」。 奇怪的是,除了這類殿堂級的科學怪人之外,一般人都覺得「現實」 就擺在眼前,簡單明白,一請二楚!

4。 在量子世界,兩顆小粒子在某情況下產生之後,會息息相關地糾纏下去。騷擾其一,另外一粒無論身處天涯海角,相距千萬光年,也會即時相應變動。薛定諤說這是量子物理學中具有界定性的特徵。但這理論怪到連愛因斯坦也覺得難以相信,稱之為:「恐怖怪異的遠程行為」。這理論最終在2008年被實驗證實。中國科學家更在2012年五月份刷新世界記錄,把糾纏量子成功分隔97公里。今天,在2018年,中國更有量子衛星在太空兜圈。薛定諤除了物理之外,私人生活深受非議,因為他與最少兩個女人一同生活,生兒育女,是有中国特色的奥地利人。會不會由於這方面的個人體會,令他比愛因斯坦更瞭解「糾纏」為何物呢?

說了一大堆自己不明所以的怪事,令我聯想到人類的普通語言其實也頗為怪異。現代科學已經逐步證明了老佛爺老祖先們的超人智慧。不過他們的教化,仍然被視為一種「東方神秘學」,甚至與民間迷信掛鈎對待。而「聖經」兩個字,包涵著 「創世紀」,「諾亞荒舟」 和 「啓示錄」 之類的原始故事和神話小品,在英語中則仍然被用來比喻具有權威的真理。奇怪嗎?更奇怪的是有些人用中文的時候也有樣學樣呢!

見怪不怪,其怪自敗。善哉善哉!

英文版:Quantum Dao



Sunday, 22 July 2012

香港文革終結篇 Hongkong Cultural Rev -Conclusion

革命終結篇
同志們!
七天的革命,轉眼便要完結。我當日投身革命,是由一種失戀的感覺所驅使的。
我失戀的對象是香港。我是個小人物。細小的地球,對我來說非常之大。我又喜歡四海為家,那裡住都一樣。但香港是我和兩個女兒的第一個家,一個我曾經引以為榮的家,也是我爸爸媽媽那一代咬緊牙根,死拖著命運的手不放,拼命扭轉人生局面的革命根據地。但這幾年來,我對香港的感情,有一種萬語千言卻不知從何說起的不自在。跟朋友們說起,原來他們也有一種不願意去多想的感歎。有能力的人一個個的退隱,不敢再為香港服務。
我終於耐不住了,於是在家裡的密室爆發了這場臭氣熏天的民主文化大革命!
我一向喜歡諷刺。 這可能是一種心理變態,也可能是由於環顧四周,人類發達社會之中,都是些非常諷刺的現象。朋友說:“你不能老用‘激脹法’ 跟老鄉說話,諸多批評,大家不喜歡聽。來些好聽的話哄哄吧!” 但哄我們的花言巧語不愁沒有人說哦!大家只要繼續鬧,拼命鬧,鬧得夠狂夠份量的話,美國(挪威?唉!)早晚會頒個諾貝爾和平獎給“整體香港人”。
某方面我是個典型的中國人。人家的事, 不直接影響我的,與我無關,我沒有資格批評。美國是例外。美國政府的手指腳趾飛船大炮喉舌傳媒假銀紙假道德遍佈全球,危害著全人類的將來,所以人人都應該關心。其實美國的老百姓與香港人有些相似;一般很熱情;聲大大傻乎乎的都不是壞人。為甚麼一群普通的好人,會攪出一個這樣的政府來呢?這是否證明制度上有問題呢?根據紐約時報的民調,美國的極端民主國會只有百分之九(哎 yes!9%!不滿意這民調結果的人,大可以隨便給它加倍調整,就當它18%吧)的支持率,跟被他們任意處死的候賽恩等民望相距甚遠。諷刺嗎?這方面香港為甚麼不向美國人民借鏡,吸取他們的慘痛經驗呢?
我寫“笙歌”的時候,某天坐在海邊欣賞那百看不厭的維港風貌,幻想這個都市在2090年人口稀疏的假想情況之下的情景。突然之間,不聽話的念頭一轉,想起了顧家輝, 想起了黃霑。腦袋裡響起了仙杜拉的歌聲:
青山原是我身邊伴     伴著白雲在我前
碧海是我的心中樂     與我風裡渡童年 。 。。
是誰令青山也變 變了俗氣的咀臉
又是誰令碧海也變 變作俗流滔天 。 。 。
平時不多愁善感的我,被這突然而來的幻覺打了個措手不及,凝望大海,若有所思,把隔鄰同樣患有輕微神經病,蹲在碼頭釣魚毛的老鄉嚇了一跳:莫非這個年近花甲的年青人失戀,意圖跳海?跳海嘛當然不會,失戀也只不過是誇張話。一時間被懷舊愁緒所困,禁不住為故鄉的前景輕嘆,卻是事實。
唏噓的並不是滄海桑田。人生反正無常,沒有變幻便沒有進步,沒有精彩。我嘆惜的是香港不懂變,太怕變,不敢讓今天的自己,更聰明成熟有自信地打倒昨天的自己。世界上發生的事情,明眼人都有目共睹。我們理應吸取教訓,冷靜思考修正才對。為何很多人仍然天天叫破喉嚨喊著人家幾十年前的口號上街,甘願與現實脫節呢?難道這是富不過三代的必然過程?
呀!我知道我知道!原因是香港沒有人家的那一套民主!


Day 7 - Final Declaration
Dear Comrades,

Our revolutionary journey is coming to an end. I ask myself why I started this revolution. Just something to do, of course. In addition, there’s a tinge of nostalgia. I’m after all at my prime for nostalgia.
This small small world is a big big place to me. There are a number of places I can happily call home. But Hong Kong is the first home for me, and my daughters. I was once very proud of it. My parents' generation struggled and created hope right here during a turbulent time. They showed a tenacious spirit which people still talk about. They held hands with fate, and changed destinies. They also changed Hong Kong.

But lately, my relationship with this home has become awkward. Many of my friends feel the same. These imminent retirees are reluctant to offer their experience and advice to a community to which they owe their success, and love. They opt to withdraw instead, with mouths shut.
So I decided to revolt from the top secret Fragrant Chamber in my apartment.
I realised this is a local movement. Anyone unfamiliar with HK news may have difficulties making sense of some of the messages. This Final Declaration is quite different from the Chinese version because some nostalgic lamentations could only be felt by people who I grew up with. There’s only so much a family letter can be understood by friends.
I’ve been accused of being too critical and sarcastic about HK’s simple-minded views on democracy. Perhaps I should be more encouraging instead. But what does it matter? Only a few would hear anyways. 
I see ironies everywhere I look in today’s wonderful world of Homo sapiens. Most Americans I know are gregarious and generous, loud and enthusiastic, quite similar to Hongkongers. But their government is killing and looting with unchecked avarice, demonising the victims through a powerful propaganda network, flooding the planet with pollution, fake money, dubious morality and triple standard. How could a bunch of good people have created such an abominable empire? But according to the New York Times, the US Congress has an approval rating of only 9% (say nine percent! Okay, those who find uncooperative poll figures disturbing may arbitrarily double it to 18%, fair enough?) Why would anyone imitate such an evidently unrepresentative and flawed system?
When writing Man's Last Song, I sat by the waterfront one day, wondering how the magnificent view might look in Song Sung's world. My mind drifted off to a song from younger days: "Who had polluted my childhood landscape, giving it the tawdry face that I see . . ." The sentimental attack nearly brought a tear; even the equally deranged fellow squatting nearby, fishing for sickly looking fingerlings shimmering with petroleum, was worried.
I was not saddened by change. Everything changes all the time. I was disappointed by our mindlessness in this change. Why can’t we learn from other's lessons instead of screaming empty slogans that most people never give any thought to? 
I know why! Because Hong Kong doesn't have democracy the same way!



Be thorough in copying Democracy. Don’t think too much! Listen to mentor! Be ready to sacrifice and sink together as one glorious bundle! 


Democracy Biggest! Other Talks No Sense!
Link to DAY 1 鏈接到第一天 HK Cultural Rev Declaration 文革宣言

Guo Du 22.07.2012

Saturday, 21 July 2012

香港文革(第6天): 检控斗争 Hongkong Cultural Rev (Day 6) Persecute!


Day 6
Dear Comrades,
A revolution is toothless without some means to persecute. For the time being, we use the ICAC and judiciary review to that effect. But they are not dependable in the long run. We will need our own Rat Centre and the power to conduct democratic public trials to maintain momentum in the reporting of despicable neighbours, loathsome bosses, threatening competitors and sarcastic anti-revolutionaries. Let’s unfurl their dirty laundry regardless of size. Nothing is too trivial: the tiniest skid mark on a pair of old briefs is prime time news in this town, and can help to bring down an important enemy!
Comrades, tomorrow will be the last day of our revolution. I will make an important declaration. 
Until then,  Vive la revolution!
革命第6天
同志們好!
每個成功的革命運動,都必須有逼害反革命份子的實際能力。暫時來說,我們可以利用廉署和司法覆核來達到這個目的。但這不過是權宜之計。長遠來說,我們要有自己的處理中心和民主公審機制,讓群眾隨意舉報反革命鄰居,老闆,競爭對手和其他的反民主聲音。我們要把他們的醜事宣揚,公諸於世。表面更小更瑣碎的醜事,在香港也可成為頭條新聞,把敵人鬥垮鬥臭鬥賤。
同志們,明天是我們這個偉大革命的最後一天。我將會有重要說話跟大家講。
革命尚未成功,同志仍須努力!


Do not underestimate the Big Big power of claptrap and nitpicking. Use them well to destroy the enemy.



In the long run, we need a Rat Centre directly controlled by us to process anonymous reporting and democratic Trial by the Masses. The ICAC is not a long term solution.