Atomic Rebellion and Atomic Reflection

The outer wall of the Henan Provincial High Court was graffitied with phrases like "corrupt officials," "collusion," "officials shielding each other," "corruption and injustice," and "a miserable end awaits" (Internet image)

[People News] Recently, grassroots incidents in mainland Chinese society have surged like a tidal wave: the Zhuhai car-ramming incident, the Wuxi vocational school murder by a 21-year-old man, the Guangzhou University stabbing, the suicide at Nanhua University in Hengyang, and a student being run over and killed by a police car at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. These are just the cases exposed online; how many remain hidden is unknown.

Statistics suggest that 230,000 people committed suicide in the first half of this year. How many lives were lost or injured due to violent incidents? The exact number remains unknown, but common sense suggests it is likely even higher than the suicide toll.

Mainland society has now entered an era of comprehensive atomicized unrest and rebellion.

For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has invested massive resources to construct a society governed like a large-scale prison. It is defined by an atheistic, materialistic pursuit of pleasure as the ultimate survival goal, a hierarchical system requiring obedience to superior orders for any change in one’s fate, and a nationwide high-tech surveillance system as the ultimate tool of control.

In such an environment, the authoritarian rulers, seeking their own sense of security, have deliberately and systematically isolated every individual in society, reducing them to passive recipients of information. These individuals are deceived into believing they live in the happiest nation on Earth, akin to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”

Culturally and socially fragmented, individuals are left as insignificant particles, powerless and unwilling to coalesce. Over a billion people are “represented” by the CCP every moment of every day without question.

Party loyalty has replaced humanity, collectivism has obliterated inalienable human rights, xenophobic hatred has supplanted innate human kindness, and individuals are indoctrinated with hollow nationalism, self-serving materialism, and a violent, combative ideology.

The CCP takes pride in this system. Its grid management, big data surveillance, social work systems, and public security enforcement mechanisms have become powerful tools for social control. The CCP believes its Fengqiao model, combined with a “Cultural Revolution 2.0,” leaves no cracks in its armor.

During the economic boom years of so-called “reform and opening up,” when housing, cars, and wealth were abundant, individuals’ material pursuits and societal activities seemed aligned with the state’s direction. This illusion of harmony provided the CCP with a false basis for legitimacy. Many people, trapped in information bubbles, could neither see nor comprehend the ruling regime’s lawlessness and abuses.

Everyone appeared content, and the explosive potential of these “atomic particles” was effectively subdued by materialism and vanity. However, this does not mean that the atomic potential for unrest and rebellion ceased to exist. The rulers’ dreams of a “strong nation” are nothing more than self-deception.

What the CCP could never anticipate is the principle of duality in the universe—where every action has an equal and opposite reaction. While the regime viewed the masses as disorganized and subjugated particles incapable of challenging its Great Wall, it failed to realize that atomicized unrest is one of the starting points of its self-destruction.

Now, with the economy in decline, social injustice rampant, unemployment soaring, and both physical and psychological living spaces for Chinese citizens rapidly shrinking, people are reaching a breaking point. As Laozi said, “When the people no longer fear death, what use is it to threaten them with death?” When atomicized individuals lose their last means of survival and dignity, their response will be catastrophic.

The logic of resisting evil with evil has taken hold among many at the grassroots level. While victims of such violent outbursts may be innocent in some respects, there is also a collective karmic burden shared by those who, over decades, have ignored others’ suffering or even aided the regime’s tyranny.

As Friedrich Hayek once warned, those who trade freedom for security will ultimately lose both. Each tragic incident is heart-wrenching and deserves profound reflection.

“When an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent.” This haunting statement, left by the perpetrator of a tragic school attack in Jiangxi, encapsulates the harsh reality we face. While we hope such tragedies never happen again, we must also ask ourselves: as atomized particles in society, what have we done to prevent this? When a normal individual crosses the threshold into becoming a violent killer, where were we? Can we still claim these events are unrelated to us?

For the CCP, the explosive force of atomized unrest will mark its downfall when it reaches a critical mass. Yet, there is a glimmer of hope: if we, as individual particles, transform our rebellion into reflection—redirecting our resistance against the CCP instead of unleashing indiscriminate violence on innocent bystanders—then perhaps this will be the moment the regime truly begins to tremble.

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(Originally published by People News)