Anyway, so there was some business to settle. And they just lied through everything as if it’s nothing.
Do you understand now?
All right. So yesterday I finished a long overdue course on Mainland China! In four hours or so. There were 12 chapters. Well it started with chapter 5, the first four were in a separate course from 2016 or so <Edit: October 2015 it was>. I finished those back then (An introduction to Mao Zedong Thought).
The remainder took four hours or so. Every chapter has it’s own test at the end (10 multiple choice questions). The fifth chapter went horrible, it took 1.5 hours or so and I scored 6.25/12, but by the twelfth chapter it took only 10 minutes or so and scored 10/10. Now don’t get me wrong, they grade very leniently, but still I’m rather satisfied.
So no, this was the first time I went through this other than some kiddo stuff in Leiden and my high school years (this was specifically an introduction into Socialism with Chinese characteristics versus just general Chinese history). If you thought all kinds of hallelujah then I can safely tell you this:
You just invented it and went on a rampage that you are never going to forget about.
Anyway. So what’s the big secret?
I don’t know. There is no big secret to begin with. It’s just not too hard. It’s just called ‘basic decency’. And I’ve genuinely listened to the stories of people, with all their hopes and their dreams and their problems.
And I feel pity for them.
So this one was for the outcasts, the abused, the mutilated, the wageslaves, the folk who suck dick to send money to their moms and little brothers, the people being abused by the mother in laws, the mentally unstable, the addicts, the other slaves, the people with no voice, the disabled, the discriminated, the marginalized, and I don’t know what else.
They hopefully have learned their lesson.
Anyway, I’m gonna transfer to doing ‘chill translation’. It’s just translation, but in my own way, which is a bit more chill. I have to put more effort into it, but it is slowly starting up, so we’re gonna get there.
And I will have to figure out what is real and what isn’t. I hope the list of ‘very unlikely things that could have happened, are unlikely to have happened, but would be really bad’ is completely empty.
And even some other stuff. Strange things have been going on.
I mean I got tortured for a decade to begin with as part of a completely made up bullshit story.
That’s not entirely normal, is it?
