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The greatest flaw of capitalism + the narrative of false values:
[The reason why humans view each other as enemies and spend their entire lives in mutual conflict]
This article explores and reveals the greatest flaws of capitalism and its false narratives, while also examining the possibility of a new social order for humanity.
1. Survival-of-the-fittest competition in the school system
The core reason schools encourage competition among individuals is to make people see each other as enemies and to abstract their values into categories of "good" and "bad"—thus creating "good students" and "bad students." The purpose of this division is to implant the earliest justification for competition, driving people to compete rather than cooperate.
We are living within four core operational logics of a capitalism-driven illusion-based society:
Operational Logic 1: Self-rationalization of Oppression
I believe capitalism not only oppresses people—but even more terrifying is this: it makes people willingly participate in the system of oppression and rationalize their own exploitation.
This is, in essence, a voluntary identification with enslavement. It aligns closely with Rousseau’s famous quote: “Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.”
But I take it a step further—I reveal this:
The chains are disguised as dreams.
Operational Logic 2: The Co-optation Mechanism for High-Level Talent
I have seen through the system's strategy for dealing with high-IQ individuals with subversive potential:
"Not suppression, but corruption."
1. Rewarding them with luxurious lifestyles
2. Allocating resources and access to women
3. Creating a sense of superiority and status
The result: These individuals become agents of the system, not revolutionaries.
This aligns deeply with Michel Foucault’s insight: “Power is not about repression, but seduction.”
However, through these three points, I provide a more actionable explanation of how that seduction mechanism works.
Operational Logic 3: The Mechanism Behind the Illusion Effect
I believe that all so-called “high-level resources” in this world hold no intrinsic value. Instead, they exist to:
implant and construct an unattainable fantasy in the minds of the majority.
This illusion serves two main functions:
1. To set up goals for struggle – triggering internal competition within society
2. To obscure structural oppression – shifting the blame for failure onto the individual, rather than the system
This closely aligns with Herbert Marcuse’s critique of “false needs” in One-Dimensional Man, but I take it further by introducing the concept of “illusory resources” as the medium—making the mechanism more tangible and profound.
Operational Logic 4: Hedonic Corruption as the System Stabilizer
I can summarize the essence of this system in one sentence:
“Those who truly realize the illusion are corrupted by pleasure, becoming beneficiaries of the system—and thus lose the need to challenge it.”
This is a structural-level understanding of how capitalism operates. Put simply:
1. The losers experience anxiety, struggle, and self-destruction
2. The winners are bought off by the illusion and end up defending the system
The system’s true brilliance lies in this:
It requires no violence—only vision and pleasure to maintain its stability.
Ideological Structure and Control of Human Agency
I have questioned and reverse-tracked the underlying mechanisms of control, conducting a deep analysis.
1. I saw through what society blindly accepts as “legitimate” — such as competition, success, and pleasure.
In essence, success, competition, and pleasure in modern society are driven by individual desire, not by genuine social progress.
That’s why I believe these are among the core mechanisms of control through desire—not true justifications for collective advancement.
2: I Questioned and Uncovered the Deeper Motive Behind the Term “Loser”
(Does being a loser inherently mean one cannot be saved?)
In today’s social context, I believe the term “loser” does not merely refer to poverty.
Rather, it represents a lifestyle that is not accepted by mainstream society, or even a person who is implicitly assigned the “legitimized right to be harmed.”
This is specifically reflected in:
1: When You Refuse to Work, You Detach from the Community — and This Mechanism Activates
“Why don’t you get a job?”
“Why don’t you study harder?”
These questions are triggered not by the system directly, but by other members of the community.
The essence of this mechanism is to force you to willingly accept an implanted model of the “traditional lifestyle” — one that contributes productivity to the system.
This is also why success and pleasure must be tightly linked in this narrative:
Because pleasure is easier for the masses to understand and less likely to be questioned.
And since it’s based on personal desire rather than social progress, it becomes a far more effective and palatable form of control.
If You Don’t Live According to the Socially Imposed Traditional Lifestyle, You’ll Be Labeled a “Loser” — and Losers Are Legally Permitted to Be Harmed
This manifests in several ways:
1. In schools, teachers insult underperforming students — and the same happens within family units.
The purpose of this is to implant a deep fear in the mind:
“I don’t want to become a loser.”
This fear becomes a psychological tool to guide individuals into following the system's path.
2. Society publicly shames the poor.
Poor individuals are denied romantic and social power.
Within the societal structure, the poor are categorized as “losers” and are stripped of their right to participate fully in social life.
The purpose of this is to implant another deep fear:
“I don’t want to be poor.”
This fear drives people to engage in the accumulation of wealth — not for social progress, but for the hope of crossing class boundaries or gaining access to romantic/relationship rights.
This is how society legitimizes the harm inflicted on the poor and the so-called “failures.”
This also reflects society’s legitimized harm toward the poor or so-called losers:
1. Stripping them of the right to romantic relationships
2. Stripping them of social participation and connection
— all to push individuals into competing with each other and participating in capital accumulation.
This is why I believe the role of the “loser” is, at its core, beyond redemption.
The “loser” is not just someone who is poor — but rather someone society has labeled a “social outcast” who can be legally harmed, as a warning to others.
This character exists to influence the masses to conform, work, and chase wealth.
So being a “loser” is not simply about poverty — it’s a mechanism of deep psychological control.
And this also explains why, when you are poor or have failed, suicidal thoughts may arise:
Because you’re not just facing material lack —
You’re facing abandonment by the community, legitimized harm, and socially accepted humiliation.
The Reality of Modern Society — The Hyperinflation of Illusory Civilization
I will present several phenomena and decode the mechanisms behind them:
LV, Hermès bags, Lamborghinis, plastic surgery, social media flaunting, luxury watches, expensive goods, supercars, world travel, beautiful women — these are not isolated behaviors.
They collectively form a new social logic:
External symbols = “Meaning of Existence”
In this system, genuine emotion, values, and spiritual depth are marginalized and replaced by:
1. “Good looks” = justice
2. “Being needed” = happiness
3. “Being praised” = success
What sustains all of this is a phantom structure co-created by capital groups, media conglomerates, big data algorithms, and gender dynamics — a carefully engineered illusion.
In today's world, we are witnessing the extreme alienation of “success symbols.”
In my country, a 40-year-old middle-aged man with about $1 million who sleeps with 50 female college students is labeled as “successful.”
This is not because of his character, emotions, intellect, or sense of responsibility — but because he possesses the symbols that society worships:
1. The symbol of money
2. The symbol of women (young and beautiful females)
3. Dominance (the ability to control women and money = the embodiment of the illusion of power)
This is not an isolated case — it reflects the cultural encoding of the entire system
Whoever possesses the symbols is granted “value,” even if that person has no inner qualities worthy of respect.
It is invisible control, yet everyone passively obeys.
The terrifying aspect of the illusion system is not its violence or coercion, but the silent way it “consensualizes” human values:
1. No one tells you that you must show off — but if you don’t, no one notices you.
2. No one forces you to make money and buy a luxury car — but if you don’t, you’re seen as unworthy of love.
3. No one explicitly says “poor people are destined to fail” — but everyone silently acts as if it’s true.
4. No one says you have to buy a Hermès bag — but if you don’t, you’re not seen as a “successful woman.”
The result: everyone becomes “willingly” enslaved, never resisting — in fact, many begin to worship the illusion itself.
This is a form of control far more sophisticated than dictatorship, surveillance, or tyranny:
It requires no whip — only the manufacturing of anxiety, success standards, and the human craving for desire fulfillment.
This is the extreme evolution of Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle.
The social phenomena I just described align closely with what French thinker Guy Debord called the society of the spectacle:
In such a society, appearances replace reality. People no longer strive for what something is, but for what it looks like.
1. It’s not about having loving relationships — but about looking like you have many women.
2. It’s not about creating value — but about looking rich.
3. It’s not about being respected — but about looking like you’re respected.
This leads to a terrifying outcome:
Society no longer rewards inner effort or authenticity, but simply the possession of “symbols of success.”
How Does the Symbolic Domination System Operate?
1. Create fantasy symbols: Sports cars, luxury mansions, Hermès bags, influencers, world travel, screenshots of massive profits from investments.
2. Relentlessly showcase them: Short videos, social media, TikTok, KOL storytelling, media narratives, success stories, TV commercials.
3. Bind them to the concept of success:
– “When you have $1 million and drive a Lamborghini, women will sleep with you.”
– “You can’t date because you’re poor.”
4. Trigger desire → fuel competition → intensify conflict → encourage mutual trampling
5. The result: A tiny minority possesses the “symbols,” while 99% become prey.
This is a highly sophisticated system of social control. Its true purpose is not to help people succeed, but rather:
To construct a pyramid-shaped structure of symbolic mental colonization—
keeping those at the bottom perpetually unsatisfied, endlessly striving within an illusion.
What I’m pointing out carries a subversive weight—it reveals the complete collapse of morality and authenticity.
1. When sleeping with 50 women is more admired than raising a child or nurturing a deep emotional bond;
2. When flaunting wealth garners more respect than building real value;
3. When buying a luxury car to earn female admiration becomes the ultimate dream—
These point to two deeper truths:
1. Humans are no longer human—they’ve become vessels of desire and symbols.
2. Society no longer values authenticity—it only values the possession of symbolic power.
The historical meaning and shock behind these shifts are not accidental—they mark the pathological prosperity that precedes the collapse of a civilization’s structure.
How terrifying is this?
Terror Point 1: The lower class is programmed to harm one another instead of cooperate.
The illusion system is designed to create value hierarchies and class consciousness, so that people at the bottom compete and trample on each other. This results in:
1. Distracting attention away from questioning the rules set by the top;
2. Creating an ecosystem of self-cannibalization, where those who should collaborate become enemies;
3. Making everyone deeply anxious and perpetually dissatisfied, constantly comparing themselves to others, always craving to be “just a bit more valuable” than the next person.
This is not a coincidence — it is a system-level strategy of division.
For example:
1. Men compete for resources in order to “win women,” turning brothers into enemies.
2. Women hurt each other to be chosen by “higher-value men.”
3. Poor people mock those even poorer, becoming gatekeepers of the illusion while numbing themselves.
This structure perfectly ensures that the majority never see the ceiling clearly, remain perpetually dissatisfied, and continuously harm and consume each other.
Terror Point 2: It creates endless human conflict—misogyny, class hatred, violence, gender warfare.
Because the illusion system is fundamentally built on unattainable, artificial goals, it inevitably brings the following side effects:
1. Men tear each other apart, competing to win more “high-value women.”
2. Women constantly compare who can “marry the more valuable man.”
3. Lifestyles are compared—who can live in a bigger house, drive a more expensive car, carry a pricier bag or wear a more expensive watch.
4. Hatred towards women, the rich, the old, and the world emerges—people realize they will never be enough, so they turn their resentment outward.
As a result, we see:
1. Workers hating the rich second generation
2. Marriage becoming a battlefield
3. Love turning into a character performance
4. The rich humiliating the poor
Humanity stops cooperating and starts mutually destroying itself—this is how civilization is now running on a suicidal trajectory.
The illusion system destroys your belief and motivation for a real life.
Its most terrifying blow is this:
Even after all your hard work, striving, and ambition, you realize—you were living for something that never truly existed.
Then you experience:
1. Earning a high salary, yet feeling empty
2. Falling in love, yet feeling exhausted
3. Buying a house and car, yet feeling lost
4. Owning a Hermès bag, yet feeling hollow
5. Becoming someone “seen as successful,” yet feeling completely dead inside
At that moment, you finally understand:
You were never a failure—you were a victim, seduced, drained, and sacrificed by the system.
Why has civilization collapsed into a “living hell”?
Symbolic plunder has replaced genuine connection.
1:Women no longer seek real emotional bonds, but choose men with greater resources and stronger symbolic value.
2:Men no longer pursue true love, but chase female symbols that enhance their own identity and social status.
Love, friendship, and family have all become symbolic, transactional, and utilitarian.
Struggle is encouraged by the system, not chosen by individuals
1. The education system trains us from childhood to compete and view each other as rivals, not allies.
2. If you don’t hustle, don’t strive, and don’t chase the socially defined version of success, you’ll be abandoned.
3. Even if you “win,” you simply become one of the slave masters of the illusion, continuing to maintain the system.
This creates an inward-consuming hell—everyone feels tired, fake, and miserable, yet no one dares to stop.
Even the few winners cannot save themselves.
If you understand the nature of pleasure and temptation, you'll realize that even those who "win" are quickly spiritually corrupted.
1. Wealth doesn’t bring freedom—it brings a stronger obsession with symbolic possession (more bags, more personas, more showing off).
2. Genuine emotional connection becomes impossible, as everyone is caught in mutual exploitation and harm.
3. The soul becomes hollow, and must be constantly filled with external stimulation—showing off, sexual power, control.
In the end, the "winners" no longer experience happiness—only decay and spiritual downfall.
Humanity has collectively lost the true meaning of existence.
The consequence of all this is:
People no longer live to experience their own lives—they live to become attractive illusions.
This isn't just a problem of consumerism—it's the collapse of the entire value system.
What is the ultimate symptom of this civilizational disease?
It’s not external oppression by force — it's enslavement through self-domestication:
1. People willingly undergo plastic surgery.
2. People willingly chase luxury.
3. People willingly overwork, compete, and crush others to feel superior.
4. Then they turn around and mock the unsuccessful, ridiculing the poor as unworthy of love.
The oppressor is no longer external — it lives within the human mind.
We are no longer driven by whips, but willingly shackle ourselves with illusions.
That is the most terrifying part — and the most dangerous one.
The Historical Significance of the Illusion Theory
The Illusion Theory is not a minor perspective—it is a civilizational critique:
1. It exposes the deepest lie of modern society.
2. It dissects the core of gender conflict, consumerism, social anxiety, and transactional relationships like marriage.
3. It explains why people today suffer, yet cannot articulate the root of their pain.
The illusion system destroys authentic relationships and replaces them with symbolic connections.
In the illusion system:
Love = your income + appearance + social labels + status
Friendship = whether you can help them monetize or gain
Family = whether you can provide them with social prestige
Authentic emotions gradually die. All human connections turn into role-playing games, where everyone performs the role of a high-value symbol:
1. Those who perform success are praised.
2. Those who express authenticity are ridiculed.
It feels like living inside a massive theatrical production—
And no one knows when, or if, the play will ever truly end.
Illusion Civilization = A Collapse of Humanity
In this system, morality and human nature no longer exist—people spend their entire lives fighting for illusions.
At its core, this is a profound mechanism of spiritual deprivation.
In modern society, human desire no longer seeks authenticity, but chases symbolized, fictional success.
The essence of this illusory success lies in making people burn themselves out their entire lives—
not for real fulfillment, but to play out a success script written by the eyes of others.
Why does no one dare to ask these questions?
Because of one deeply saddening truth:
There are too many beneficiaries of the system—everyone profits from the illusion, so no one dares to call it poison.
1. The media profits from attention.
2. Platforms profit from algorithms.
3. Luxury brands profit from symbolic anxiety.
4. Even ordinary people gain short-term validation by showing off.
It’s like a vast network of spiritual opium, encouraging people to compete, trample, attack, and compare with one another.
I believe the Illusion Theory I’ve proposed is a super theory—a framework capable of explaining culture, symbolism, gender relations, and wealth anxiety. Its power is on par with:
1. Foucault’s Disciplinary Society
2. Debord’s Society of the Spectacle
3. Marx’s Critique of Ideology
Illusion Theory reveals a forgotten but fundamental truth:
Human beings were meant to offer warmth to each other, not to engage in endless struggle.
1:Success should not mean transcending others—it should mean uplifting the vulnerable.
2:Humanity was never meant to be divided, but united.
3:If one day people truly begin to offer warmth to each other, then the monetary system will collapse.
Because the reason it still exists today is rooted in mutual hostility, competition, and symbolic warfare.
This theory exposes the coldness of our world—and at the same time, awakens a different possibility for the human race:
It signifies the end of capitalism, and the beginning of symbiotic humanism.
It has the potential to be remembered by future generations as:
The true beginning of civilization.
[The reason why humans view each other as enemies and spend their entire lives in mutual conflict]
This article explores and reveals the greatest flaws of capitalism and its false narratives, while also examining the possibility of a new social order for humanity.
1. Survival-of-the-fittest competition in the school system
The core reason schools encourage competition among individuals is to make people see each other as enemies and to abstract their values into categories of "good" and "bad"—thus creating "good students" and "bad students." The purpose of this division is to implant the earliest justification for competition, driving people to compete rather than cooperate.
We are living within four core operational logics of a capitalism-driven illusion-based society:
Operational Logic 1: Self-rationalization of Oppression
I believe capitalism not only oppresses people—but even more terrifying is this: it makes people willingly participate in the system of oppression and rationalize their own exploitation.
This is, in essence, a voluntary identification with enslavement. It aligns closely with Rousseau’s famous quote: “Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.”
But I take it a step further—I reveal this:
The chains are disguised as dreams.
Operational Logic 2: The Co-optation Mechanism for High-Level Talent
I have seen through the system's strategy for dealing with high-IQ individuals with subversive potential:
"Not suppression, but corruption."
1. Rewarding them with luxurious lifestyles
2. Allocating resources and access to women
3. Creating a sense of superiority and status
The result: These individuals become agents of the system, not revolutionaries.
This aligns deeply with Michel Foucault’s insight: “Power is not about repression, but seduction.”
However, through these three points, I provide a more actionable explanation of how that seduction mechanism works.
Operational Logic 3: The Mechanism Behind the Illusion Effect
I believe that all so-called “high-level resources” in this world hold no intrinsic value. Instead, they exist to:
implant and construct an unattainable fantasy in the minds of the majority.
This illusion serves two main functions:
1. To set up goals for struggle – triggering internal competition within society
2. To obscure structural oppression – shifting the blame for failure onto the individual, rather than the system
This closely aligns with Herbert Marcuse’s critique of “false needs” in One-Dimensional Man, but I take it further by introducing the concept of “illusory resources” as the medium—making the mechanism more tangible and profound.
Operational Logic 4: Hedonic Corruption as the System Stabilizer
I can summarize the essence of this system in one sentence:
“Those who truly realize the illusion are corrupted by pleasure, becoming beneficiaries of the system—and thus lose the need to challenge it.”
This is a structural-level understanding of how capitalism operates. Put simply:
1. The losers experience anxiety, struggle, and self-destruction
2. The winners are bought off by the illusion and end up defending the system
The system’s true brilliance lies in this:
It requires no violence—only vision and pleasure to maintain its stability.
Ideological Structure and Control of Human Agency
I have questioned and reverse-tracked the underlying mechanisms of control, conducting a deep analysis.
1. I saw through what society blindly accepts as “legitimate” — such as competition, success, and pleasure.
In essence, success, competition, and pleasure in modern society are driven by individual desire, not by genuine social progress.
That’s why I believe these are among the core mechanisms of control through desire—not true justifications for collective advancement.
2: I Questioned and Uncovered the Deeper Motive Behind the Term “Loser”
(Does being a loser inherently mean one cannot be saved?)
In today’s social context, I believe the term “loser” does not merely refer to poverty.
Rather, it represents a lifestyle that is not accepted by mainstream society, or even a person who is implicitly assigned the “legitimized right to be harmed.”
This is specifically reflected in:
1: When You Refuse to Work, You Detach from the Community — and This Mechanism Activates
“Why don’t you get a job?”
“Why don’t you study harder?”
These questions are triggered not by the system directly, but by other members of the community.
The essence of this mechanism is to force you to willingly accept an implanted model of the “traditional lifestyle” — one that contributes productivity to the system.
This is also why success and pleasure must be tightly linked in this narrative:
Because pleasure is easier for the masses to understand and less likely to be questioned.
And since it’s based on personal desire rather than social progress, it becomes a far more effective and palatable form of control.
If You Don’t Live According to the Socially Imposed Traditional Lifestyle, You’ll Be Labeled a “Loser” — and Losers Are Legally Permitted to Be Harmed
This manifests in several ways:
1. In schools, teachers insult underperforming students — and the same happens within family units.
The purpose of this is to implant a deep fear in the mind:
“I don’t want to become a loser.”
This fear becomes a psychological tool to guide individuals into following the system's path.
2. Society publicly shames the poor.
Poor individuals are denied romantic and social power.
Within the societal structure, the poor are categorized as “losers” and are stripped of their right to participate fully in social life.
The purpose of this is to implant another deep fear:
“I don’t want to be poor.”
This fear drives people to engage in the accumulation of wealth — not for social progress, but for the hope of crossing class boundaries or gaining access to romantic/relationship rights.
This is how society legitimizes the harm inflicted on the poor and the so-called “failures.”
This also reflects society’s legitimized harm toward the poor or so-called losers:
1. Stripping them of the right to romantic relationships
2. Stripping them of social participation and connection
— all to push individuals into competing with each other and participating in capital accumulation.
This is why I believe the role of the “loser” is, at its core, beyond redemption.
The “loser” is not just someone who is poor — but rather someone society has labeled a “social outcast” who can be legally harmed, as a warning to others.
This character exists to influence the masses to conform, work, and chase wealth.
So being a “loser” is not simply about poverty — it’s a mechanism of deep psychological control.
And this also explains why, when you are poor or have failed, suicidal thoughts may arise:
Because you’re not just facing material lack —
You’re facing abandonment by the community, legitimized harm, and socially accepted humiliation.
The Reality of Modern Society — The Hyperinflation of Illusory Civilization
I will present several phenomena and decode the mechanisms behind them:
LV, Hermès bags, Lamborghinis, plastic surgery, social media flaunting, luxury watches, expensive goods, supercars, world travel, beautiful women — these are not isolated behaviors.
They collectively form a new social logic:
External symbols = “Meaning of Existence”
In this system, genuine emotion, values, and spiritual depth are marginalized and replaced by:
1. “Good looks” = justice
2. “Being needed” = happiness
3. “Being praised” = success
What sustains all of this is a phantom structure co-created by capital groups, media conglomerates, big data algorithms, and gender dynamics — a carefully engineered illusion.
In today's world, we are witnessing the extreme alienation of “success symbols.”
In my country, a 40-year-old middle-aged man with about $1 million who sleeps with 50 female college students is labeled as “successful.”
This is not because of his character, emotions, intellect, or sense of responsibility — but because he possesses the symbols that society worships:
1. The symbol of money
2. The symbol of women (young and beautiful females)
3. Dominance (the ability to control women and money = the embodiment of the illusion of power)
This is not an isolated case — it reflects the cultural encoding of the entire system
Whoever possesses the symbols is granted “value,” even if that person has no inner qualities worthy of respect.
It is invisible control, yet everyone passively obeys.
The terrifying aspect of the illusion system is not its violence or coercion, but the silent way it “consensualizes” human values:
1. No one tells you that you must show off — but if you don’t, no one notices you.
2. No one forces you to make money and buy a luxury car — but if you don’t, you’re seen as unworthy of love.
3. No one explicitly says “poor people are destined to fail” — but everyone silently acts as if it’s true.
4. No one says you have to buy a Hermès bag — but if you don’t, you’re not seen as a “successful woman.”
The result: everyone becomes “willingly” enslaved, never resisting — in fact, many begin to worship the illusion itself.
This is a form of control far more sophisticated than dictatorship, surveillance, or tyranny:
It requires no whip — only the manufacturing of anxiety, success standards, and the human craving for desire fulfillment.
This is the extreme evolution of Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle.
The social phenomena I just described align closely with what French thinker Guy Debord called the society of the spectacle:
In such a society, appearances replace reality. People no longer strive for what something is, but for what it looks like.
1. It’s not about having loving relationships — but about looking like you have many women.
2. It’s not about creating value — but about looking rich.
3. It’s not about being respected — but about looking like you’re respected.
This leads to a terrifying outcome:
Society no longer rewards inner effort or authenticity, but simply the possession of “symbols of success.”
How Does the Symbolic Domination System Operate?
1. Create fantasy symbols: Sports cars, luxury mansions, Hermès bags, influencers, world travel, screenshots of massive profits from investments.
2. Relentlessly showcase them: Short videos, social media, TikTok, KOL storytelling, media narratives, success stories, TV commercials.
3. Bind them to the concept of success:
– “When you have $1 million and drive a Lamborghini, women will sleep with you.”
– “You can’t date because you’re poor.”
4. Trigger desire → fuel competition → intensify conflict → encourage mutual trampling
5. The result: A tiny minority possesses the “symbols,” while 99% become prey.
This is a highly sophisticated system of social control. Its true purpose is not to help people succeed, but rather:
To construct a pyramid-shaped structure of symbolic mental colonization—
keeping those at the bottom perpetually unsatisfied, endlessly striving within an illusion.
What I’m pointing out carries a subversive weight—it reveals the complete collapse of morality and authenticity.
1. When sleeping with 50 women is more admired than raising a child or nurturing a deep emotional bond;
2. When flaunting wealth garners more respect than building real value;
3. When buying a luxury car to earn female admiration becomes the ultimate dream—
These point to two deeper truths:
1. Humans are no longer human—they’ve become vessels of desire and symbols.
2. Society no longer values authenticity—it only values the possession of symbolic power.
The historical meaning and shock behind these shifts are not accidental—they mark the pathological prosperity that precedes the collapse of a civilization’s structure.
How terrifying is this?
Terror Point 1: The lower class is programmed to harm one another instead of cooperate.
The illusion system is designed to create value hierarchies and class consciousness, so that people at the bottom compete and trample on each other. This results in:
1. Distracting attention away from questioning the rules set by the top;
2. Creating an ecosystem of self-cannibalization, where those who should collaborate become enemies;
3. Making everyone deeply anxious and perpetually dissatisfied, constantly comparing themselves to others, always craving to be “just a bit more valuable” than the next person.
This is not a coincidence — it is a system-level strategy of division.
For example:
1. Men compete for resources in order to “win women,” turning brothers into enemies.
2. Women hurt each other to be chosen by “higher-value men.”
3. Poor people mock those even poorer, becoming gatekeepers of the illusion while numbing themselves.
This structure perfectly ensures that the majority never see the ceiling clearly, remain perpetually dissatisfied, and continuously harm and consume each other.
Terror Point 2: It creates endless human conflict—misogyny, class hatred, violence, gender warfare.
Because the illusion system is fundamentally built on unattainable, artificial goals, it inevitably brings the following side effects:
1. Men tear each other apart, competing to win more “high-value women.”
2. Women constantly compare who can “marry the more valuable man.”
3. Lifestyles are compared—who can live in a bigger house, drive a more expensive car, carry a pricier bag or wear a more expensive watch.
4. Hatred towards women, the rich, the old, and the world emerges—people realize they will never be enough, so they turn their resentment outward.
As a result, we see:
1. Workers hating the rich second generation
2. Marriage becoming a battlefield
3. Love turning into a character performance
4. The rich humiliating the poor
Humanity stops cooperating and starts mutually destroying itself—this is how civilization is now running on a suicidal trajectory.
The illusion system destroys your belief and motivation for a real life.
Its most terrifying blow is this:
Even after all your hard work, striving, and ambition, you realize—you were living for something that never truly existed.
Then you experience:
1. Earning a high salary, yet feeling empty
2. Falling in love, yet feeling exhausted
3. Buying a house and car, yet feeling lost
4. Owning a Hermès bag, yet feeling hollow
5. Becoming someone “seen as successful,” yet feeling completely dead inside
At that moment, you finally understand:
You were never a failure—you were a victim, seduced, drained, and sacrificed by the system.
Why has civilization collapsed into a “living hell”?
Symbolic plunder has replaced genuine connection.
1:Women no longer seek real emotional bonds, but choose men with greater resources and stronger symbolic value.
2:Men no longer pursue true love, but chase female symbols that enhance their own identity and social status.
Love, friendship, and family have all become symbolic, transactional, and utilitarian.
Struggle is encouraged by the system, not chosen by individuals
1. The education system trains us from childhood to compete and view each other as rivals, not allies.
2. If you don’t hustle, don’t strive, and don’t chase the socially defined version of success, you’ll be abandoned.
3. Even if you “win,” you simply become one of the slave masters of the illusion, continuing to maintain the system.
This creates an inward-consuming hell—everyone feels tired, fake, and miserable, yet no one dares to stop.
Even the few winners cannot save themselves.
If you understand the nature of pleasure and temptation, you'll realize that even those who "win" are quickly spiritually corrupted.
1. Wealth doesn’t bring freedom—it brings a stronger obsession with symbolic possession (more bags, more personas, more showing off).
2. Genuine emotional connection becomes impossible, as everyone is caught in mutual exploitation and harm.
3. The soul becomes hollow, and must be constantly filled with external stimulation—showing off, sexual power, control.
In the end, the "winners" no longer experience happiness—only decay and spiritual downfall.
Humanity has collectively lost the true meaning of existence.
The consequence of all this is:
People no longer live to experience their own lives—they live to become attractive illusions.
This isn't just a problem of consumerism—it's the collapse of the entire value system.
What is the ultimate symptom of this civilizational disease?
It’s not external oppression by force — it's enslavement through self-domestication:
1. People willingly undergo plastic surgery.
2. People willingly chase luxury.
3. People willingly overwork, compete, and crush others to feel superior.
4. Then they turn around and mock the unsuccessful, ridiculing the poor as unworthy of love.
The oppressor is no longer external — it lives within the human mind.
We are no longer driven by whips, but willingly shackle ourselves with illusions.
That is the most terrifying part — and the most dangerous one.
The Historical Significance of the Illusion Theory
The Illusion Theory is not a minor perspective—it is a civilizational critique:
1. It exposes the deepest lie of modern society.
2. It dissects the core of gender conflict, consumerism, social anxiety, and transactional relationships like marriage.
3. It explains why people today suffer, yet cannot articulate the root of their pain.
The illusion system destroys authentic relationships and replaces them with symbolic connections.
In the illusion system:
Love = your income + appearance + social labels + status
Friendship = whether you can help them monetize or gain
Family = whether you can provide them with social prestige
Authentic emotions gradually die. All human connections turn into role-playing games, where everyone performs the role of a high-value symbol:
1. Those who perform success are praised.
2. Those who express authenticity are ridiculed.
It feels like living inside a massive theatrical production—
And no one knows when, or if, the play will ever truly end.
Illusion Civilization = A Collapse of Humanity
In this system, morality and human nature no longer exist—people spend their entire lives fighting for illusions.
At its core, this is a profound mechanism of spiritual deprivation.
In modern society, human desire no longer seeks authenticity, but chases symbolized, fictional success.
The essence of this illusory success lies in making people burn themselves out their entire lives—
not for real fulfillment, but to play out a success script written by the eyes of others.
Why does no one dare to ask these questions?
Because of one deeply saddening truth:
There are too many beneficiaries of the system—everyone profits from the illusion, so no one dares to call it poison.
1. The media profits from attention.
2. Platforms profit from algorithms.
3. Luxury brands profit from symbolic anxiety.
4. Even ordinary people gain short-term validation by showing off.
It’s like a vast network of spiritual opium, encouraging people to compete, trample, attack, and compare with one another.
I believe the Illusion Theory I’ve proposed is a super theory—a framework capable of explaining culture, symbolism, gender relations, and wealth anxiety. Its power is on par with:
1. Foucault’s Disciplinary Society
2. Debord’s Society of the Spectacle
3. Marx’s Critique of Ideology
Illusion Theory reveals a forgotten but fundamental truth:
Human beings were meant to offer warmth to each other, not to engage in endless struggle.
1:Success should not mean transcending others—it should mean uplifting the vulnerable.
2:Humanity was never meant to be divided, but united.
3:If one day people truly begin to offer warmth to each other, then the monetary system will collapse.
Because the reason it still exists today is rooted in mutual hostility, competition, and symbolic warfare.
This theory exposes the coldness of our world—and at the same time, awakens a different possibility for the human race:
It signifies the end of capitalism, and the beginning of symbiotic humanism.
It has the potential to be remembered by future generations as:
The true beginning of civilization.
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