Losing

But, there’s a deeper water in the enthusiasm of talking about core value.

I see it as the whistle of a lonely walker at night – to give ourselves (useless) reassurance in an immense danger.

In other words, people begin to focus on core when they have lost all the flesh and blood.

Maybe the soul as well.

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The shift from enjoying a diversity of culture to the core value of a society actually reminds me of a little story during the Chinese Civil War:

When the Chinese Nationalist Party (中國國民黨) first began what it called the Counter-insurgency War against Communists, they started with what they called a Full-Scale Attack (while the Communist Party took the passive defense strategy).

Later, when the wind changed and Mao Zedong got the upper hand, Chiang Kai-Shek (蔣中正) changed the slogan - in an impressive sequence - to Focused Attack, and then Full-Scale Defense (and, finally, I believed when I was a student, to Focused Defense).

A losing battle, of course.