A small act is worth a million thoughts.
AI WEIWEIA historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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I want people to see their own power.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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