关注并屏蔽着

长 江后浪推前浪，博客过后微博来。在眼下这个“微时代”，新浪微博无疑是微博中的龙头老大。早在一年前（巧了，离今天整整一年），我就曾经（极具洞察力地） 写道：“新浪微博这款产品是一个成功的、典型的创意山寨产品。虽然它脱胎于 Twitter，但是它并没有被 Twitter 局限了思路，在转发、评论、贴图等方面的好用程度已经明显超过了 Twitter，……新浪微博其实比 Twitter 更好用。”

最近，新浪微博 still und heimlich 增加了一个“屏蔽名单”功能（账号 -> 帐号设置 ->隐私设置 -> 屏蔽设置）。你可以通过这个设置“屏蔽”掉你所关注的人中的一部分，而被“屏蔽”的用户虽然仍出现在你的关注名单中，但他们的微博将不会在你的页面上显 示。这个功能乍一看十分多余（不想看某人的微博直接取消关注不就得了？）但仔细想想，你会发现这一举措实在是用心良苦，甚至可以称得上是当代社交网络发展 中的一个创举。想想看，作为一个微博用户，你是否会时而因为那些你实在不想关注但 hindern 于情面不好意思不关注或取消关注的人而苦恼？这些人可能是你的领导、同 事、亲戚、朋友，或者是直接上门“求关注”的人。你不关注我？你不给我面子！而现在，有了“屏蔽”功能，你可以热情地关注他们，但同时神不知鬼不觉地在你 的账户里“屏蔽”掉这些人。我名义上关注你，但用不着看你的微博——既不得罪别人，也不亏待自己，一举两得，皆大欢喜。

就凭这个“屏蔽”功能，我们就可以毫不夸张地说：新浪微博真替用户着想，而且真他妈懂得国人心理。

十分明显，这个“屏蔽名单”功能说白了就是“假关注”功能。这一功能给新浪微博这一社交网络增加了人情味儿，让网络社交变得更加接近生活。

既然“屏蔽名单”实现了“表面上关注、其实不关注”这一功能，那么顺理成章，新浪微博下一步实在应该帮用户实现“表面上不关注、其实关注”这一功 能，名字我都想好了，叫“隐身关注”。试想一下，有了这个功能，你可以放心大胆、不为人知地关注那些你很想关注但不想让别人知道你在关注的用户，不管对方 是你的前任男/女友、你的网上宿敌、你绝对不能公开的暗恋（或幻想）对象，还是那些不利于你维护、提升自己形象的微博账号，总之，他们不会出现你的关注名 单中（所以不会被人发现），但你可以尽情的阅读他们的微博。

起初，“僵尸粉”让新浪微博的粉丝数不可信，现在，有了“屏蔽”功能，“关注”也终于变得不可信了。但“Weibo”的用户会因此更舒服、更快乐，我们开心地织着、织着。“关注并屏蔽着”——这可是一种极高层次的人生境界哦。

Bi Muyu

Übersetzung

As the Chinese proverb goes: “In the Yangtze River the waves behind push on those ahead, and thus, the new generation excels the old.” Microblogs are the next generation in blogging. In this era of all things “micro”, Sina Weibo is no doubt the leading microblogging platform in China. A year ago (incidentally, it is exactly one year from today), I posted (with insightful observation): “Sina Weibo is a successful – and typical – creative knock-off product. Although the idea is taken from Twitter, Weibo is not just a copy of it. In comparison, Weibo is much more user-friendly in forwarding, commenting, and posting pictures. All in all, Weibo is better than Twitter.

Recently, Sina Weibo quietly introduced the ‘blocked list’ feature (Found under Account -> Settings -> Privacy -> Block Settings). With this feature, you can block people that you’ve been following. You will still be their followers – but their updates won’t show up and bug you any more. At first glance, it is a useless invention (just un-follow them if you have had enough of their crap). But take a second thought, and you’ll understand how thoughtful the developers are. They are so attentive to customers’ needs, that you could even consider it a milestone in the development of social networking. Let me put it this way: as a Weibo user, are you suffering from having to follow somebody that you don’t want to follow at all? This might be your boss, a colleague, a relative, a friend, or someone who requested to be followed. If you don’t follow as asked, you are not giving them face, which in a Chinese context could mean anything from respect, care, love, to trust, etc. That could be really rude. However, thanks to the blocked list, you can enthusiastically follow them while secretly ignoring their existence. I am your follower, in name only, therefore I will not be reading your Weibo. Two birds killed with one stone and it keeps everyone happy.

Based on the aforementioned “blocking” feature, Weibo should be credited for being extremely attentive to clients, and they understand the Chinese so damn well!

To put it simply, to blocklist is to fake-follow. The innovation has added a human touch to the virtual world, (Übersetzung Christian Bauer:) Es bringt Social Networking dem echten Leben näher.

Since to blocklist means to fake-follow, logically Sina Weibo should be working on the feature of fake-un-following in the next phase. I’ve already thought of a name for that: invisible follower. With this feature, you can follow anyone you desire without a trace, be it your exes, your enemy online, your undisclosed crush, or people you fantasize but whose image doesn’t suit yours in public eyes. In short, a great fun for guilty pleasure.

At first, the number of Jiangshi fans (inactive followers) casted a shadow on the credibility of using the number of fans as indicators for popularity in Weibo. Now that we can block list , the action to follow itself will become unreliable. Nevertheless, for Weibo users, it will be a more comfortable, happier, and attractive community to engage in. Following yet block listing has taken the joy of the virtual space to another level!

Julien Leyre

“中国心态”的一个比喻

如果对当下的中国人之普遍心态以及状态做一高度的归纳，一个比喻是再恰当不过的了。

伟大的精神分析学奠基人弗洛伊德曾经就人格发展之某种可能性打过一个比方：一个国家突然勃兴起来且扩张自己的领土。它迅速占领了外国的许多个城市，因而它的统治范围迅速膨胀。可它所占领的每一个城市都必须要派兵驻守，这耗散了它的兵力。由于它的战线太长，而它有限的给养实在不足以支撑其扩张的速度，到头来，它变得越来越空洞、verarmt 和大而无当。终于，它庞大的帝国面临 Kollaps 的危险，而这危险不来自敌人，就来自自己，或者说，是它自己的扩张摧毁了自己。

读到佛洛依德的这个比喻，真有 erleuchten 的感觉———这个比喻所形容的，不就是发生在无数我们这个时代的国人的身上及其精神世界里的过程吗？

今天的中国，随处是这样的人，他们构成了我们的社会图景的底色并占有着话语权：他们似乎很有能量仗着体制赋予的权力和靠着所谓商圈的“人脉”去折腾出一些看似 großartig、热火烹油、令人 beneiden 的事业来。他们是令整个社会羡慕的所谓“成功人士”。他们就像穿着充气衣服的巨人、傲慢张扬地横行在国外奢侈品商店的刷卡机前和国内与民争利、弱肉强食的现场。他们仿佛是外在看得见的世界的无可置疑的征服者，他们引导着整个社会的价值观。

然而，走进他们的内部世界，就会发现，那里是多么地空虚混沌、渊面黑暗。在他们精神的“司令部”里，并没有一个有主张、深谋远虑的“主帅”。从那里发出的“指令”，无非是一种机会主义的冒险；其所依赖的“资源”，无非是 Mob 的拉帮结伙。然而就是这样一个“贫困”的“司令部”，却要硬撑起一个不断向外扩张的庞大的“帝国”，且不断地要向这个“帝国”输送“给养”，这将意味着什么呢？这三十年来无数“成功”神话的幻灭的故事，无不见证着佛洛依德那个比喻所揭示的关于人性的真理———迅速壮大的巨人，往往被自己内在的空洞和 Armut 所击溃。 在将来的岁月里，这种神话幻灭的故事将不断地在很多的“成功”的中国人身上继续重演！意识到这一点是痛苦的，但这就是真相。

佛洛依德的比喻带给我们一个启示：觉悟了的人将不再看重自己在外部世界抢占了多少的“地盘”，而是将能量集中用于建设自己内部世界，为自己构筑一个由精神价值所构成的打不 besiegbar 的 “司令部”。

Li Yehang website blog.sina.com

Übersetzung

A metaphor for ‘Chinese mentality‘

If we are to make a broad categorisation of the widespread mentality and state of Chinese people at present, there is one metaphor that could not be more appropriate.

The great founder of psychoanalysis (Sigmund) Freud once made an analogy for one possibility of personality development – of when a nation suddenly begins to grow vigorously and expand its own territory. Because it rapidly occupies many foreign cities, the scope of its rule rapidly swells. However, each city which it occupies requires troops to be sent and stations, and this dissipates its military strength. Since its battlefront is too long and its limited provisions are in fact insufficient to support its rate of expansion, eventually, it becomes more and more empty, depleted and cumbersome. In the end, its enormous empire faces the danger of collapsing. But this danger does not come from enemies but from itself, or that is to say, its own expansion destroys itself.

Reading this metaphor by Freud really gives one a sense of being bestowed some enlightenment. Isn’t what this metaphor describes exactly the process that is happening to countless countrymen of our times, and to their inner spiritual worlds?

Everywhere in China today there are this kind of people. They make up the basic tone of our social landscape and also hold discourse power: they are seemingly very able to grasp the power vested in them by the system and rely on the so-called connections of the business world to bust out careers that appear grandly vigorous, sizzling along, and enviable. They are the so-called “successful people” that are the envy of entire society. They are just like giants wearing inflatable clothing, arrogantly striding around in front of credit card machines in luxury stores in foreign countries and in domestic, predatory struggles with the people for advantage. In the exterior, observable world, they are seemingly the undeniable conquerors who guide the entire society’s system of values.

However, entering into their internal world we will discover how very vacuous, chaotic, profoundly dark and empty it is there. In their spiritual ‘command centre’ there is simply no general commander with a standpoint or deeply considered perspectives. The ‘orders’ sent out from there are nothing but a kind of risk taking born of opportunism. The ‘resources’ which it relies upon are nothing more than a mob that forms gangs and alliances. However, what is the significant of the fact that it is exactly this kind of ‘impoverished command centre’ that is needed to bear the pain and prop up a continuously outwardly expanding, enormous ’empire’, and continuously ‘transport’ ‘provisions’ to this ’empire’?In the last thirty years, none of the countless stories of legendary ‘successes’ vanishing did not evidence the truth revealed by Freud about human nature in this metaphor – rapidly bulking giants are often smashed by their own internal emptiness and poverty. In the years to come, stories of vanishing legends of this kind will unceasingly continue to repeat themselves among many ‘successful’ Chinese people. It is painful to realise this, but this is the truth.

Freud’s metaphor gives us an insight: enlightened persons will no longer regard the amount of ‘territory’ they have seized for themselves in the external world as important. Rather, they will concentrate their energy for use in constructing their own internal world and build for themselves an undefeatable ‘command centre’ comprised of spiritual values.

Julien Leyre website

“自信”是一种病态心理

这两年愈发觉得被很多人挂在嘴边的“自信”是一种多少有些病态的心理，这种病态心理有着自我欺骗和自我-Hypnose 的作用。

病态心理能让人拥有病态的力量，这力量能让人拥有一种觉得自己变得越来越强大的幻觉，但更有可能让人变得外强中干，变得没有内心，没有感情。例如有些人喜欢对着镜子 und ruft：“你是最棒的！”脸上整天挂着很职业的自信笑容，甚至在家人和朋友面前也是如此，这其实是一种很 erschreckend 的异化状态。

另外很多时候，“自信”也是一些人用来欺骗他人的手段。谁是这个世界上看上去最自信的人？我想到了这样两种人，邪教教主和传销组织讲师。

在杨 Dechang 的电影《麻将》里有这样一段台词：“这个世界上没有一个人知道自己要的是什么。每个人都在等别人告诉他该怎么做，他就跟着怎么做。你只要很有信心地告诉他们，他们要的是什么，他们会感激你。”这段话完美揭示了“自信”的欺骗性。

我无意对那些用“自信”欺骗他人的普通人加以道德评判，因为很多时候，这只是一种必要的生存策略而已。人生已是如此 schwierig，尤其是生活在现代商业社会，没什么钱的普通人为了谋生糊口，都活得跟推销员似的，为了把自己卖个好价儿，很自信地说着各种自欺欺人的话。这让那些一骗人就脸红的人怎么活呢？只能想着有一天如果有钱了，就把自己“买”回来，不再继续假装“自信”，不再为了钱做任何虐心之事。

Douban

Ding Xiaoyun

Übersetzung

‘Self-confidence’ is a kind of morbid psychology

Over the last couple of years I have become increasingly convinced that this much talked about “self confidence” is in some ways similar to a kind of mental disorder; a disorder that can have both a self hypnotising and self deluding effect on the individual.

This psychological disorder gives people a perverse sort of power that results in the delusion that they are becoming stronger and stronger, when in actual fact they are more likely to be merely building an external facade of strength while remaining internally weak, lacking in a real inner life, and emotionless. Take for example people who shout to themselves in front of the mirror “I am the greatest”, then put on a professional smile of self confidence all day, and even in some cases maintain this charade in front of family and friends. In reality, this is nothing more than a horrifying form of alienation.

In many other circumstances, “self confidence” is another means used by people to cheat others. Who are some of the most self confident looking people in the world? There are two kinds that come to my mind: cult leaders and pyramid scheme marketers.

The film ‘Ma-jiang’ by Edward Yang has this to say on the topic: “Nobody really knows what they want. Everybody is just waiting for somebody to tell them what to do, and then follow that. All you need to do is with complete confidence tell them what it is they want, and they’ll thank you for it.”

I have no intention of morally judging the average person who uses “self confidence” to deceive others, as in most cases this is merely a necessary part of life. Life is already difficult enough as it is, and especially in this commercialised day and age, the average person is forced to live like a salesmen in order to just make a living, and will inevitably, with great self confidence, say all manner of half truths to try and get a decent price for what they sell. In these circumstances, how then do those people who can’t tell a lie to save themselves now expect to get by? All we can hope for is that one day, once we’ve made our riches, we will be able to buy ourselves back; and then will no longer have to continue to engage in charades of “self confidence”, and will never again have to commit shameful actions in the name of money.

Julien Leyre website

Tan Gong (Teil 2)

Übersetzung James Legge

Calling (the soul) back is the way in which love receives its consummation, and has in it the mind which is expressed by prayer. The looking for it to return from the dark region is a way of seeking for it among the spiritual beings. The turning the face to the north springs from the idea of its being in the dark region.

Yue Ling

Übersetzung James Legge

In this month orders are given to the four inspectors to make a great collection over all the districts of the different kinds of fodder to nourish the sacrificial victims; and to require all the people to do their utmost towards this end - to supply what is necessary for (the worship of) God (who dwells in) the great Heaven, and for the spirits of the famous hills, great streams, and four quarters, and for the sacrifices to the Intelligences of the ancestral temple, and at the altars to the spirits of the land and grain; that prayer may be made for blessing to the people.

Übersetzung James Legge

In this month there is the great festivity when they drink together, and each of the stands bears half its animal roasted. The son of Heaven prays for (a blessing on) the coming year to the Honoured ones of heaven; sacrifices with an ox, a ram, and a boar at the public altar to the spirits of the land, and at the gates of towns and villages; offers the sacrifice three days after the winter solstice with the spoils of the chase to all ancestors, and at the five (household) sacrifices; thus cheering the husbandmen and helping them to rest from their toils. The son of Heaven orders his leaders and commanders to give instruction on military operations, and to exercise (the soldiers) in archery and chariot-driving, and in trials of strength.