FROM TIME TO TIMELESSNESS

Excellent piece by the brilliant David Goldman.

Goldman is one of the very rare Westerners having some real understanding of China not only at the politico-economic or practical level but much much more precious, also at the philosophico-psychological level.

**Only he deserves freedom as well as life who must conquer them everyday** (Goethe’s Faust, 1832).

Goldman rightly concluded his article by : “Xi is the most formidable rival the West has ever encountered.”

Xi is the most formidable rival the West has ever encountered because he’s a true aristocratic man of the highest order, surrounded by aristocratic men of the highest order acknowledging him as primus inter pares and endowed with a state apparatus built through many ordeals since 1921, United by a common goal they stated crystal clear : restoring China’s glory. In my way of speaking, I say restoring the Chinese Empire.

And we all know the sequence : wealth, power, prestige, glory.

I did not call Xi a Philosopher King not from disrespect, on the contrary, but because it’s too grand and I think Xi would agree. A Philosopher King is a creator of civilization. Xi is a protector of a civilization which already exists.

China fell during the nineteenth century not because her ruling class was corrupt (corruption was rampant during the most glorious periods of Imperial China) BUT because her elite was mired deeply in complacency.

Xi Jinping is not ESSENTIALLY fighting corruption, economic difficulties or poverty, but COMPLACENCY and he’s doing everything he can for creating and for sustaining ENTHUSIASM within the Chinese population.

**COMPLACENCY** : SMUG SATISFACTION WITH ONESELF OR ONE’S PAST OR PRESENT ACHIEVEMENTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN ACCOMPANIED BY UNAWARENESS OF ACTUAL DANGERS OR DEFICIENCIES.

**ENTHUSIASM** : THE DIVINE WITHIN

**TRADITION** IS NOT THE WORSHIP OF DEAD ASHES BUT THE LIVING TRANSMISSION OF THE INNER FLAME, OF ENTHUSIASM.

And that is absolutely at the center of the creation of the D.A.O., the Devoted Aristocratic Oligarchy for establishing the Everlasting Civilization.

As daunting as it might appear, the real challenge was not when China was backward and downtrodden. When China was backward and downtrodden, the few Chinese devoted aristocratic men can count on the motivations coming from ** the Lower Trigram ** from the Animal Kingdom, for survival, for peace & order, for economic development, for intellectual growth, for social sophistication, what normal human animals are spontaneously driven to embody and to achieve when their leaders manage to offer them a performing organization, the needed tools and resources.

The moment truly fraught with dangers for China is right now and I’m not thinking to the pathetic and utterly laughable gesticulations coming from NATO (North Atlantic Terrorist Organization) & the KFC-AZAEL (Kakistocratic Feudal Conglomerate of the Anglo-Zio-American EstabLishment).

How to make the mental energies of ** the Upper Trigrams manifest in Time as Justice, Valor, Humanity, Wisdom ** in the hearts of as many people as possible ?

China can still live from the mental energies from the Animal Kingdom motivations of the Chinese people for maybe another generation because China’s inner regions are not as developed as her eastern coast but the basic everlasting challenge remains.

How to uplift the motivations from ** the Healthy Animal Time Drives ** (extremely powerful) to ** the Aristocratic Timeless Drives ** (even more powerful and contrary to the Animal Kingdom motivations, endless because the exploration of the inner and outer Realities has no limits) ?

And making those timeless aristocratic drives manifest in as many people as possible.

Xi Jinping’s Faustian moment