Posted on 07/04/2021 10:12:32 AM PDT by springwater13
Fed up with work stress, Guo Jianlong quit a newspaper job in Beijing and moved to China’s mountain southwest to “lie flat.”
Guo joined a small but visible handful of Chinese urban professionals who are rattling the ruling Communist Party by rejecting grueling careers for a “low-desire life.” That is clashing with the party’s message of success and consumerism as its celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding.
Guo, 44, became a freelance writer in Dali, a town in Yunnan province known for its traditional architecture and picturesque scenery. He married a woman he met there.
“Work was OK, but I didn’t like it much,” Guo said. “What is wrong with doing your own thing, not just looking at the money?”
“Lying flat” is a “resistance movement” to a “cycle of horror” from high-pressure Chinese schools to jobs with seemingly endless work hours, novelist Liao Zenghu wrote in Caixin, the country’s most prominent business magazine.
“In today’s society, our every move is monitored and every action criticized,” Liao wrote. “Is there any more rebellious act than to simply ‘lie flat?’”
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China continues to rot from the inside out. Infrastructure, buildings, people...
Soon these people will find themselves in the PLA.
Understand the difference between needs and wants. Just be sure you can provide for your needs when you get old.
It almost sounds like it is year 1964 over there and the Chinese hippy movement has discovered Henry David Theoreau. And maybe it is OK if you misspell an occasional word cause perfection is not necessarily completely important.
“Is there any more rebellious act than to simply ‘lie flat?’”
In China, especially, I would think that act of rebellion might lead to premature death.
“Careers”
Factory work with very little pay. Not quite slave labor(unless you’re an Ughyur), more like crop-share farming pay.
I guess they’re not liking the “you’ll own nothing and be happy” thing?
Same thing as the Japanese and hikkikomori, but worse.
Thoreau. There, I spelled the name properly. Now, if these Chinese hipsters can create a vacation cottage industry for the over-worked city people, the authorities may let the lie-flat types live to old age. Just plant lots of pretty trees and bushes and grow lots of herbs for tea. Craft beer and vine and Chinese medicine for relaxation. Botanical gardens and outdoor picnic tables. They could just about create a new form of Asheville, NC. Add a convention center and the Chinese Government could go there for rest relaxation and central planning meetings.
No women to bang. Why show off success?
I'm absolutely no expert in the Japanese language, but I think they have a word spelled in Romaji as karoshi which is supposed to mean death from overworking.
Or facing the PLA.
Thanks for making me aware of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
Huh?
This is FR, not the Howard Stern Show.
Liao should disappear in 3...2...1...
Not news. They call them Buddhists.
—”Understand the difference between needs and wants. “
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Said some old Greek guy.
DIRTYSECRET is right. 35 million more males than females in China. So what’s the point? This is going to be a huge problem for the CCP. My suggestion is that they look somewhere for a colony. Australia and New Zealand would be great targets. Both countries are underpopulated and they have a lot of natural resources. Will Joe Biden be willing to use nuclear weapons over Australia? I doubt it.
Sounds like China’s going to need more Uigher slaves.
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