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23 April 2023 (Sunday)
OPINION EDITORIAL/SATIRE
Fight or Flight?
Taiwan’s Asymmetrical Anti-Predator Strategy
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - After daunting research, I figured out why Taiwan is in denial about a Chinese invasion.
When danger approaches there is the Fight-Flight Response, but Taiwan has chosen the third strategy rarely discussed in military academies: the Anti-Predator Strategy (playing dead).
It is odd that the answer to Taiwan’s lack of interest in defending itself from the Red hoard raping and pillaging from the beaches to Taipei City would come from paralysis analysis by four obscure Hong Kong academics in the 1990s.
Their findings indicate that nightmares emerge from the Chinese unconscious at both the self and societal levels.
These are known as 鬼壓身/鬼压身 (guǐ yā shēn) or 鬼壓床/鬼压床 (guǐ yā chuáng) "ghost pressing on body". 夢魘/梦魇 (mèng yǎn) is the modern term.
When the Night-Mare reveals itself the body goes into paralysis. Also known as the Night Hag in the West, the apparition is normally an old woman or demon that crawls along your bed then onto your chest where it pushes the life out of your body.
I thought it was the Woke Ideology seeping into the minds of Taiwan’s chattering political elites in the Democratic Progressive Party.
It is not the conscious self at all, but the unconscious that seems to be the problem for civilian support for Taiwan’s military.
We must give thanks to the Taiwanese deity Zhu Bajie that we do not have to blame post-modernism and anti-patriarchal fantasies from America.
The nightmare is indeed real and Taiwan is playing dead.
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To read more about Zhu Bajie’s legacy, check out Taipei After Dark - 50th Anniversary Edition (1969-2019).