Facing My Friends' Trial: A Personal Defense
Please notice: All conversations were conducted in Mandarin Chinese with cultural context This post is written in Chinese and AI-translated to English You can toggle between Chinese and English using the buttons above Abstract When I shared my philosophical hypotheses with friends, they dismissed me as “crazy and demonic.” This essay employs Foucault’s framework from Madness and Civilization to analyze how rationality has become the new orthodoxy that defines and excludes heretics. I argue that the labeling mechanism replaces substantive dialogue, and defend the fundamental right to introduce complex ideas into conversation without immediate exclusion. This is not a defense of my theories’ correctness, but a defense of thinking itself against the modern witch hunt of dogmatic rationalism. 当我向朋友分享我的哲学假说时，他们以"疯魔了"否定了我的观点。本文运用福柯《疯癫与文明》的框架，分析理性如何成为定义和排除异端的新正统。我认为标签化机制替代了实质对话，并捍卫将复杂思想引入对话而不被立即排除的基本权利。这不是对我的理论正确性的辩护，而是对思考本身反对教条理性主义现代魔女审判的辩护。 Introduction: Philosophy Grill Party Philosophy grill party is a weekly routine with my friends. We share some key insights on anything we are interested in, especially philosophy, during the conversations. A few days ago, I shared my Original Sin Theory and Reversed Cause & Effect Hypothesis with two of my friends, J and Y. Unfortunately, we were unable to have a deep discussion. The conversation ended with my friends concluding that I had gone crazy and demonic. I will not attempt to prove my theories here, but I will analyze why they made such a hasty and harsh negative judgment about me. 哲学烧烤派对是我和我朋友的每周固定活动。通常我们会在烧烤派对上讲自己感兴趣的话题，通常和哲学有关。几天前我跟我的朋友 J 和 Y 分享了我的原罪论和因果倒置假说。很不幸，我们没能进行深度的讨论，这个话题以我的朋友们认为我是疯魔了告终。我不会在此证明我的观点，但是我会分析为什么他们如此草率地对我做出如此负面评价。 The Accusation of "Crazy": A Clash of Cognitive Frameworks We first analyze why they said I had gone crazy and demonic. “Crazy and demonic” is a serious accusation. “Crazy” and “demonic” convey two different messages. “Crazy” is a judgment on one’s mental state, the opposite of normal, indicating an irrational condition. When J called me crazy, it meant he thought my views had gone beyond the normal range of his cognition. ...