在2011年初，我开通了这个博客。到现在快一年了。新的一年将要开启。借这个机会，我在这里首先衷心感谢各位访客对本博客的支持：你们的支持（我知道，我可能永远不会成为拥有百万、千万粉丝的博主）是一种非常伟大的馈赠和伟大的支持。祝各位在新的一年里心想事成，学业精进，事业有成，生活快乐，爱情幸福。

显然，我的博客和正在发生的社会现实显得有些脱节。过了大致一年以后，我现在可以告诉大家我的博客为什么会是这样的。我之所以这么做是因为我认为（这一观点可能是错误的）：中国其实不缺各种各样的想法（或者“思想”），而比较缺少的是看待复杂世界的办法（这不仅仅是我们通常说的“方法论问题”）。比如，就某些非常大的、笼统的问题，我认为事实上绝大部分中国人都已经有了自己的看法，且大致正确。但是，要解决这些大的问题，却不是“大致的看法”或者“大思想”能够办到的：一切都需要细节上的解决。

因此，本博客希望能够在展现一些更加强大的“看待复杂世界的办法”上做一点点努力。而就对时事和历史的评论来说，已经有很多很好的博客大腕（我也是其中一些人的粉丝），少我一个也不会有什么大不了的。况且，我可能永远都写不出他们的那些博客。

最后，我把我喜欢的一些话贴到这个博客上来，希望各位也能够看看这些话（有些是我自己的，但我不敢和这些牛人比肩）。

另外：我最近做的讲座，“如何做好的理论研究 Doing (GOOD) Theoretical Research”的PPT已经在我的个人网页上发布。这是我对理论研究的粗浅理解。欢迎各位批评指正。

我的人人网：www.renren.com/433512954 。刚弄，还不太灵。多多包涵。

我喜欢的话

The Meaning of Thinking：“Learning how to think” really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. …The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day… It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out. ” [David Foster Wallace (1966-2008), 2005, Keynon, Commencement Speech.]

“Treat my book as a pair of glasses directed to the outside; if they don’t suit you, find another pair; I leave it to you to find your own instruments, which is necessarily an instrument for combat” (Marcel Proust as quoted in Foucault (1977 [1972]), 208)

Enlightenment must be conceived as an attitude, an ethos, a philosophical life in which the critique of what we are is at one and the same time the historical analysis of the limits imposed on us and an experiment with the possibility of going beyond them. Foucault 1984, What is Enlightenment? (My summary of Foucault’s What is Enlightenment?: “Enlightenment is the spirit of Permanent Critique.”)

“An intellectual exists in order to draw attention to the principles of revolution.” Satre as quoted in Kirtzman 1988, xiii

“千山鸟飞绝，万径人踪灭，孤舟蓑笠翁，独钓寒江雪”（唐）柳宗元【本博主认为作为单篇，这首诗是最最有意境的，无法超越。】

“剑动三军气，衣飘万里尘” （唐）李峤

“铁肩担道义，妙手惩凶狂”（某一武侠电视片中的一副对联）

Greater than the tread of might armies is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

“The definition of the alternatives is the supreme instrument of power.” E. E. Schattschneider. The Semi-Sovereign People. 1960.

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."  Reinhold Niebuhr.

"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." Reinhold Niebuhr.

“The past is never dead. In fact, it is not even past.” ----William Faulkner, Requiem of A Nun.

“The best that can be achieved is to know precisely what [the past] was, and to endure this knowledge, and then to wait and see what comes of knowing and enduring.”----Hannah Arendt, Man in Dark Times.

我自己的话

True freedom is not to escape from power (escaping is an impossiblity). True freedom lies with critically examining power (including one’s own) and resisting unjust power consciously.

把每一次机会都当成最后一次机会

我写的（从未发表的）诗中的（自认为）相对好的句子

“我的外婆，在崎岖的山路上，用三寸金莲，丈量人间的沧桑”

“在石化的记忆里，升起一片海洋，我是第一叶扁舟”

“霜叠雾霭，有阳关几曲？龙泉剑气镇天狼，饮马漠北阴山。”