The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
百姓如果没有粮食,就不能供君王役使。所以,粮食不可不努力耕种,用度不可不厉行节俭。
I write to challenge the status quo, to question the given.