The Art of Editing Reality
Cultural Note: The original Chinese title is 《人间编辑术》 (Rén jiān biānjí shù), literally “The art of editing the human world.” This is the meta-philosophy: markets, narratives, and your own psychology are all editable — those who understand the syntax can rewrite the script.
Warning:
Do not forget your original intention, do not forget your mission.
Original intention is to be human. Mission is to die well.
Those born human are actually beasts. Having a heart makes you human.
The heart is the fire of civilization, the fruit of society.
Once you have a heart and become human, you transcend the beast that merely seeks survival — and enter the path that seeks death. The mission is extraordinary.
Most people do not die well. Or poor, or bitter, or ill, or premature, or lonely, or self-harmed.
So-called enlightenment is merely seeking a death that is fitting.
Those who know their death-path are called enlightened!
勿忘初心，勿忘使命。初心乃为人，使命乃善终。
Preface:
When fortune arrives, do not consult divination.
Heaven’s Dao is unpredictable, but I have constancy. Human nature is merciless, but I have closeness.
当承运，莫卜卦。
Chapter One: Spatial Faculties
The space we inhabit possesses five basic faculties:
Receive, Exist, Disappear, Transform, Influence.
Everything in this space is generated and destroyed by these five faculties.
The essence of space is the display of information sequences in adjacent worlds.
All matter we know — including ourselves — is information designed by something.
Our five faculties have psychological-level names that are easier to understand:
- Receive → Feel (感受)
- Exist → Remember (记忆)
- Disappear → Forget (遗忘)
- Transform → Imagine (想象)
- Influence → Propagate (传播)
Every person possesses only these five capabilities. Their strength varies.
Feel forms upon encounter. Remember is born after depth. Forget hides beneath focus. Imagine condenses around need. Propagate creates within power.
All five faculties have independent operating systems, but none can operate alone — a living person must run all five simultaneously, without pause, because neither internal nor external environments provide conditions for independent operation.
Human behavioral differences result from changes in the dominant-subordinate structure of faculties.
传播遗忘 — “propagating forgetting” — this is the hypnotic technique. It exploits the fact that human attention is limited. Some people forget the first thing after four attention shifts; others forget the second after seven shifts. This depends on the person’s content and event ordering.
But this is a knowledge too dangerous to allow widespread dissemination. I will not explain too much of this in The Art of Editing Reality. Hypnosis is merely a small tool within the broader art of editing the human world.
The Meta-Concept
In this book’s perspective, the world is a continuously losing massive information stream. We are part of the information, and part of the carrier. Each of us carries the mission of transcribing information. We constantly redefine the world, ourselves, and others. Others constantly redefine us, themselves, and the world.
In this continuous redefinition, everyone’s identity, status, power, and wealth can undergo massive changes at any moment.
人们自以为是的一切，都是一个误会。 “Everything people believe they are — is a misunderstanding.”
When, in some spacetime, the world revolves around misunderstandings centered on you, you can attain supreme power and achieve wishes fulfilled, words becoming law.
This chapter’s content will be the only free content from The Art of Editing Reality.
All Q&A will only take place within the group of disciples who have formally apprenticed to me.
Knowledge Planet will have two additional chapters as gifts, but not the full picture.
Those who come to test the weight of my power — I will bury them.
欲来问鼎轻重者，我必坑之。
感情就像按揭款，早晚都得还。 “Feelings are like mortgage payments — sooner or later, you have to repay them.”
用疑者，善战，善权，善孤独。用情者，善合，善卑，善无敌。 “Those who use doubt: excel at battle, excel at power, excel at solitude. Those who use emotion: excel at union, excel at humility, excel at being invincible.”
— The Art of Editing Reality (人间编辑术)
Original Chinese version: 《人间编辑术》 →