from the inspiring pages of the people's daily.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met in Almaty Friday with his Kyrgyz counterpart Ruslan Kazakbayev to discuss regional peace and security.
During their talks on the sidelines of the meeting of Foreign Ministers' Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Yang said that China is ready to work with Kyrgyzstan within the SCO and other multilateral frameworks to jointly combat the "three evil forces" of terrorism, splittism and extremism in a bid to safeguard regional peace, security and stability.
a lot of times it's hard to tell whether there's a translation problem, or whether china is ruled by lobotomy patients, or whether chinese culture really is grotesque because, as people often assert, it denies or actually successfully expunges the human individual. chinese people are naturally all merged with each other; they are non-individuals, as though god dropped them into a blender and hit frappe. that's why westerners often yearn toward the china they imagine, or that the chinese state portrays. the fantasy of politics, in rousseau, hegel, marx, hitler, in left right and center, etc is self-annihilation: becoming one with others, as the fantasy of religion is becoming one with god etc.
at any rate, i love the coinage 'splittist,' which the chinese always throw at the dalai lama. so in this sentence, the idea is that he is equivalent in his evil to osama bin laden or something: self-evidently a refusal to merge entirely with the chinese state is the essence of evil. but i am a proud splittist. i wonder whether anyone owns 'splittist.com'? who will join me in splittism? we can all be one in our resolution to split and keep splitting, both to fragment the society and to take our leave. we can split with each other as an expression of our solidarity. and then we can each permit ourselves to fragment within.
thesaurus.com gives nice guidelines for splittist action: bifurcate, branch, break, burst, cleave, come apart, come undone, crack, dichotomize, disband, disjoin, dissever, disunite, diverge, divide, divorce, fork, gape, give way, go separate ways, hack, isolate, open,part, part company, put asunder, rend, rip, rive, separate, sever, slash, slit, snap, splinter, sunder, tear, whack.
a rich plan of action.
see ya!
