Once, there was a great city that lived under the shadow of a dragon. The dragon coiled around the tallest tower, its smoke drifting through the streets. People walked with lowered heads, learning to live with fear as if it were a season that never changed. One day, a young dragon-slayer rose from among them. He did not lift his sword for himself. The people placed their hopes, their wounds, and their dreams upon his shoulders. They marched behind him — and together, they fought. The dragon f...

Once, there was a great city that lived under the shadow of a dragon. The dragon coiled around the tallest tower, its smoke drifting through the streets. People walked with lowered heads, learning to live with fear as if it were a season that never changed. One day, a young dragon-slayer rose from among them. He did not lift his sword for himself. The people placed their hopes, their wounds, and their dreams upon his shoulders. They marched behind him — and together, they fought. The dragon f...

Note This text is a structural analysis. It makes no moral judgments and proposes no policy solutions. All numbers are symbolic. They describe relationships, not empirical measurements.Introduction | Why a Minimal Arithmetic ModelPublic debates across countries often isolate phenomena such as declining birth rates, weak domestic demand, burnout, or individual "failure". What is rarely asked is a more fundamental question:Under existing institutional arrangements, can an ordinary worker comple...

Note This text is a structural analysis. It makes no moral judgments and proposes no policy solutions. All numbers are symbolic. They describe relationships, not empirical measurements.Introduction | Why a Minimal Arithmetic ModelPublic debates across countries often isolate phenomena such as declining birth rates, weak domestic demand, burnout, or individual "failure". What is rarely asked is a more fundamental question:Under existing institutional arrangements, can an ordinary worker comple...

I. When Constitutional Meaning Drifts from Public OwnershipIn modern polities, constitutions are often described as the foundational social covenant grounding public authority and collective legitimacy. Yet, in institutional practice, constitutional meaning tends to become centralized, technocratic, and interpretively enclosed, drifting away from the citizens whose lives it is meant to orient. This raises a structural question:If constitutional interpretation becomes increasingly monopolized,...

I. When Constitutional Meaning Drifts from Public OwnershipIn modern polities, constitutions are often described as the foundational social covenant grounding public authority and collective legitimacy. Yet, in institutional practice, constitutional meaning tends to become centralized, technocratic, and interpretively enclosed, drifting away from the citizens whose lives it is meant to orient. This raises a structural question:If constitutional interpretation becomes increasingly monopolized,...

Why “Truth” Without Lived Experience Becomes a Closed SystemIntroduction｜A Question Rarely Asked ClearlyModern political systems often claim to possess “truth”: the correct theory, the right direction, the inevitable path of history. Yet a strange pattern appears across ideologies and regimes: this truth is constantly asserted, but rarely defined. It is seldom presented as a testable claim. It rarely specifies failure conditions. And it is almost never subjected to continuous verification thr...

Why “Truth” Without Lived Experience Becomes a Closed SystemIntroduction｜A Question Rarely Asked ClearlyModern political systems often claim to possess “truth”: the correct theory, the right direction, the inevitable path of history. Yet a strange pattern appears across ideologies and regimes: this truth is constantly asserted, but rarely defined. It is seldom presented as a testable claim. It rarely specifies failure conditions. And it is almost never subjected to continuous verification thr...

This essay does not begin from the question of who betrayed which ideals, nor from a moral narrative of “faithfulness versus deviation.” Instead, it approaches modern Chinese political history as a long arc in which revolutionary spirit and institutional structure gradually separate, until structure absorbs and neutralizes the very ideals that once animated it. By reframing these transformations through a spirit–structure political-economic lens, we can trace how participation, egalitarianism...

This essay does not begin from the question of who betrayed which ideals, nor from a moral narrative of “faithfulness versus deviation.” Instead, it approaches modern Chinese political history as a long arc in which revolutionary spirit and institutional structure gradually separate, until structure absorbs and neutralizes the very ideals that once animated it. By reframing these transformations through a spirit–structure political-economic lens, we can trace how participation, egalitarianism...

Introduction: Between Instrumental Rationality and the Crisis of SubjectivityWe are standing at a critical threshold in the history of education and technological civilization. On one side, algorithms grow increasingly sophisticated—managing attention, optimizing cognition, generating answers, simulating dialogue, even shaping emotions. On the other, the echo of Socratic questioning still resonates across millennia, insisting that education is not about answers, but about how and why we ask. ...

Introduction: Between Instrumental Rationality and the Crisis of SubjectivityWe are standing at a critical threshold in the history of education and technological civilization. On one side, algorithms grow increasingly sophisticated—managing attention, optimizing cognition, generating answers, simulating dialogue, even shaping emotions. On the other, the echo of Socratic questioning still resonates across millennia, insisting that education is not about answers, but about how and why we ask. ...

AbstractThis paper proposes a normative and institutional framework that combines deep democracy, free socialism, and a social/collective-ownership market liberal economy as an alternative to both platform capitalism and state-centered socialism. The model seeks to redistribute not only income or property rights, but also decision-making capacity, moral agency, and governance participation back to society itself. Unlike earlier transformative projects that underestimated institutional drift a...

AbstractThis paper proposes a normative and institutional framework that combines deep democracy, free socialism, and a social/collective-ownership market liberal economy as an alternative to both platform capitalism and state-centered socialism. The model seeks to redistribute not only income or property rights, but also decision-making capacity, moral agency, and governance participation back to society itself. Unlike earlier transformative projects that underestimated institutional drift a...

AbstractThis essay revisits and revises the Pain-Visibility Index (PVI) within the framework of Illusionary Financial-Oligarchic Capitalism. Contrary to the popular belief that radical transparency leads to systemic change, this paper argues that rising pain visibility—when detached from structural intelligibility—increases the fault tolerance of the system rather than undermining it. TikTok is examined not as a liberating platform, but as an illusion-entropy accelerator: a system that maximi...

AbstractThis essay revisits and revises the Pain-Visibility Index (PVI) within the framework of Illusionary Financial-Oligarchic Capitalism. Contrary to the popular belief that radical transparency leads to systemic change, this paper argues that rising pain visibility—when detached from structural intelligibility—increases the fault tolerance of the system rather than undermining it. TikTok is examined not as a liberating platform, but as an illusion-entropy accelerator: a system that maximi...

(Written before the interface was completed)Freedom is not taken away. It is architected out.Introduction | When Freedom Becomes a Designed ExperienceContemporary societies continue to educate their citizens around three foundational beliefs: individual choice, autonomous will, and freedom of action. Together, they form the psychological infrastructure of liberalism and the narrative core of political legitimacy. Yet within real-world structures, these three pillars are undergoing a systemati...

(Written before the interface was completed)Freedom is not taken away. It is architected out.Introduction | When Freedom Becomes a Designed ExperienceContemporary societies continue to educate their citizens around three foundational beliefs: individual choice, autonomous will, and freedom of action. Together, they form the psychological infrastructure of liberalism and the narrative core of political legitimacy. Yet within real-world structures, these three pillars are undergoing a systemati...

Modern Chinese political history is often narrated as a series of ruptures — isolated tragedies, misjudgments, or “deviations from the correct path.” But if we read 1957, the Cultural Revolution, and 1989 not as disconnected episodes, but as structurally linked moments in a long, conflicted search for political participation and autonomy, a different picture emerges. What appears as “failure” or “radical excess” can also be seen as the recurring collision between mass political aspiration and...

Modern Chinese political history is often narrated as a series of ruptures — isolated tragedies, misjudgments, or “deviations from the correct path.” But if we read 1957, the Cultural Revolution, and 1989 not as disconnected episodes, but as structurally linked moments in a long, conflicted search for political participation and autonomy, a different picture emerges. What appears as “failure” or “radical excess” can also be seen as the recurring collision between mass political aspiration and...

AbstractThis essay redefines the American system not as a flawed democracy nor a captured liberal order, but as Illusionary Financial-Oligarchic Capitalism. In this model, financial power—not political authority—constitutes the true sovereign core. Democratic openness, media pluralism, and institutional critique are not threats to the system but integral components of its illusionary stability. Governance operates through financial continuity and risk externalization, while freedom functions ...

AbstractThis essay redefines the American system not as a flawed democracy nor a captured liberal order, but as Illusionary Financial-Oligarchic Capitalism. In this model, financial power—not political authority—constitutes the true sovereign core. Democratic openness, media pluralism, and institutional critique are not threats to the system but integral components of its illusionary stability. Governance operates through financial continuity and risk externalization, while freedom functions ...

Homelessness in the United States is often described as an urban problem, a moral question, or a humanitarian crisis. But beneath the visible reality of tents, shelters, and improvised living spaces lies something deeper and more structural. It is not simply the result of individual misfortune or personal failure. Rather, homelessness functions as a visible expression of a social and economic architecture in which distribution is tilted persistently toward capital and away from labor, and in ...

Homelessness in the United States is often described as an urban problem, a moral question, or a humanitarian crisis. But beneath the visible reality of tents, shelters, and improvised living spaces lies something deeper and more structural. It is not simply the result of individual misfortune or personal failure. Rather, homelessness functions as a visible expression of a social and economic architecture in which distribution is tilted persistently toward capital and away from labor, and in ...