The Price of Freedom: From Concept to the Collapse of Reality

Preface: Some places never lost freedom — because the moment freedom appears, they cease to exist.

People always think that China's problem is the deprivation of freedom, but the opposite is true. China exists precisely because freedom has never been allowed to exist.

It is not a country that lost freedom, but an illusion manufactured on the premise of unfreedom. It requires human fear, the illusion of order, and castrated will to maintain its shape. The moment freedom appears, it will disintegrate.

What is called "China" is merely the form Asia took after its failure. After Pan-Asianism was destroyed, Asia lost its own political language. Japan was forced to bow to the West, and the colonial techniques left by the Soviet Union took root in East Asia. The massive political entity thus born was not a national revival, but an inheritance of colonialism. It inherited the Soviet organizational methods, propaganda logic, and human domestication techniques, yet cloaked itself in national garb. People call it a nation, but it is actually just a ghost of colonial structure.

This illusion remains stable because people fear freedom. Freedom means bearing responsibility for reality, and in this system, bearing responsibility is dangerous. People would rather believe in fate, in the state, in that voice that is always right, than acknowledge their own previous submission.

Thus the illusion persists. People transform humiliation into belonging, silence into wisdom, survival into meaning.

What is called the "price of freedom" is actually the collapse of this illusion. When people begin to think independently, when they no longer need a greater name to maintain their existence, the concept of this nation loses its foundation.

The emergence of freedom is not the result of reform, but the end of this entire system.

"China" is not an obstacle on the path to freedom, but a landscape formed in the absence of freedom.

Its existence proves Asia's failure, and also proves humanity's ability to create illusions even when deprived of choice.

This is its deepest tragedy: Not that it oppresses people, but that it makes people believe there is no alternative to unfreedom.