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A privileged white Western man's take on truth:

Machiavelli writes [phil.pku.edu.cn/resguide/nicco…]:
In states ruled by 天命, it would be the act of a presumptuous and rash man to discuss heavenly Truth.
I used @realsexycyborg's @sino_bit to show Truth @ #GPN18.
The reactions to my cultural appropriation of @realsexycyborg's @sino_bit at #GPN18 were different and sometimes quite amusing.
Some younger hackers asked who that young man with the red star on his hat was [1/n]
Others tried to read a political message into the characters shown on @realsexycyborg's @sino_bit without actually being able to read Chinese. [2/n]
Yet others at #GPN18 wanted to see the full text, so they could try and decipher it more easily than as scrolling bitmap text on @realsexycyborg's @sino_bit
[3/n]
Then, a visiting Chinese scientist (who doesn't want to be identified) showed up at #GPN18, saw the messages on @realsexycyborg's @sino_bit and found them really funny. He told me that this was "扛着红旗反红旗", which, as Westerner, I didn't quite understand. [4/n]
Machiavelli writes: if you tell a truth your masters dislike, you burn.
At #GPN18, @realsexycyborg's @sino_bit showing
"马克思主义是无所不能的,因为它是真实的"
crashed and burned.
Maybe because it wasn't Marx's 200th, but Feynman's 100th birthday.
But I blame 孙悟空.
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