1. 人的本能不是孝敬父母輩。人的本能是自我求生+有限期照顧親生骨肉。骨肉是「自我」的一部分鏡像。

2. 如果人順從這一本能, 結果是父母輩失去照顧、親生骨肉獨立後遠離自己, 隨後父母的生活陷入不便或者困難, 最後是自己陷入生活不便, 兒女無所蹤。

3. 陷入生活不便是人開始不適應環境的表現, 是退出社會 (滅亡) 的前兆.

4. 但是, 人類特有的智慧傳遞和文化氛圍, 使得人類有情感的訴求。情感的訴求包括懷舊、忠誠、血統 (血緣) 維護、排斥孤單、感恩、愛情等等。

5. 因此, 「孝」要特別提出來教育世人, 使得人類有同樣的情感訴求、文化傳承和道德標準, 使誕生我們的父母、我們誕生的骨肉以及誕生骨肉過程中亦付出很多辛勞的配偶不那麼輕易的退出社會, 讓他們的生命得到最大程度的延續 (因為自我求生是最大的本能, 所以把「生」的能力賦予給別人就是對這個人最大的情感使命)。

6. 「孝」字的下面是「子」字, 即：孝就是人要把自己和子嗣的位置放低、置後考慮。

7. 呼吸是人類本能, 所以永遠不會變成行動準則, 也不需要強調。但「孝」的確是在人類本能之外的事, 如果沒有社會文化和道德的約束, 履行「孝」的人將會越來越少, 人類的軌跡將是：出生、被父母輩照顧到生理成熟、遠離父母、發情交配、生產子嗣、有限期照顧骨肉、孤獨前行、繼續發情交配、生產子嗣、有限期照顧骨肉、孤獨前行、死亡。這和一般的動物無異。

8. 因此, 「孝」連同對配偶的「忠誠的愛」, 都是需要人類自我約束自我規範才能實現的情感訴求。若順從本能, 每個人都是會忘掉父母、放任子嗣、不斷尋覓交配對象的一點都不怎麼高級的動物。

9. 孝順是必須, 但不能愚孝。愛子是必須, 但不能溺愛。愛配偶是必須, 但不能博愛。

“落雨聲” – 江蕙

Steve Jobs, King Jong Il, and next, the year 2011.

This is a withering year, when a huge number of events have been taking place with most of them being negative and unpleasant. Monmilk, China Internet censorship, data leak, … What a busy world they (we) have made the globe!

Make it or not? A question that’s frequently asked to each of us. Success cannot be deprived of  nobody but yourself and yet you are the only person to decide whether to eliminate the others or not while pursuing what you want. Don’t be so determined when you stab at the good. Think twice before you move. You are a human. The rest, too.

For goodness’ sake, every enterprise, entrepreneur, government, official, and single natural person, should and must take a long step off the evil carpet under their feet. Don’t laugh at the 2012 rumor or just take it as a fee- faw-fum. Doom and gloom for the world are there for ever, no matter if it’s 2012 or 2021.

Be good.

“悟” – 黄思婷

There’s nothing more exciting than to “create”. But almost everyone depicts their happiest time as it when they are enjoying a gorgeous concert or sipping on a fantastic coffee. I used to ask why people always “enjoy” more than they “create” and they do so as a matter of course. I also wondered why they stint on attempts at creating new things even though part of them have got a talent. It really hurts when you know that someone’s able to create a thing but he refuses to. It’s kinda like losing a nice gift you have been told to get.

Then I started to search for the answer in my real life. I summarized the reason in the four letters TTMM (TRAINING, TIME, MOTIF and MOOD). According to the dull “interviewed” tokens, uncreative people simply lack the TTMM factors.

When I took a further step looking for ways to remove the barriers for them to create, I was told the same answer: “My job just doesn’t allow.”

That’s OK. A job makes a man too busy to have the time to be on any kind of training, even the one he would like to go for. Also the job deprives him of a light-hearted mood if it’s too terrible. The motif of his life subconsciously becomes “more breaks, more money”. No wonder the creative part of brain goes dead.

Now I’m reminded of several occasions when I invited friends to have fun or a meet and some of them told me they couldn’t though they strongly desired to, of course, because of their jobs cruel as hell. What does the globe need? A creative population, or a stupid group of machines of flesh?

Sometimes we got to admit that we feed our bodies as we bury our souls. I hope I’m not on the same way.

“Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” – Don McLean