It’s a dense collection of political opinion essays with the first two section focusing on 2019 and afterwards, third section on 2016ish and forth section on broader chinese topics.
I like how作者用不同框架來思考社運的可持續性:無大台不一定等於無秩序,他以「獨立戰工群」(Autonomous Swarms)去描述分散而自主的運動形態,像市場的無形之手,把抗爭想成一種結構與分工,complex and intelligent system arises from separate entities, a little bit like the idea of emergence. 對海外翼,他那篇「淋六桶冷水」很刺痛,但也最真:人權說帖不是符咒,游說會有收益遞減,流亡也可能泡沫化 therefore憤怒越大,越需要知識與策略作引子。It reminded me to keep reading and thinking.
I also found his essays on 道德價值判斷 from an econ standpoint interesting. 個體層面的去留張力(留下值得敬重,離開感到內疚也自然)不應被混淆成公共道德審判;因為整體上去留皆無救,真正重要的是兩翼如何互補、如何把較寬鬆的海外環境轉化成對本土的長期支援。他也把「文化獨立」提出為一條更長命的路 eg語言、圖騰、共同記憶與敘事,更能保存一個共同體。He also believes that 抗爭不必是吞噬人生的職業,但可以是一種需要韌性、需要知識、也需要長跑心態的承擔, therefore seeing it as an interest will be a much healthier option.
果然係「香江第一健筆」,he has the perspective of a historian, economist, journalist, and most importantly a 中國知識分子.