Rational discussion drifts far away from reality, the way certain abstruse talk detaches itself from people’s actual lives. Looked at this way, you could say it’s all empty words and nonsense, a way of evading the real world. But why is it that politics, the state of the world, China, human nature, reality — why do these things so bitterly trouble certain people, and yet fail to trouble the “numb ones”? I say: since the outside world already makes people suffer so much, all the more reason to keep enriching one’s inner self — otherwise you suffer both inside and out.