If you've ever explored motivational training, you may be familiar with an experiment with fleas. When fleas were placed in a glass jar, of course they jumped out. When a clear glass lid was placed on the jar, the fleas still tried to jump out; however, after repeated failures, they gave up. When the lid was finally removed, the fleas didn't try to jump out.
There are other examples of conditioned behavior in the animal world. Grown elephants have been reported to remain docilely tethered by a lightweight rope, the kind that restrained them when they were babies.
A similar phenomenon has been found among fish. Predatory fish in a large tank were separated from their natural prey by a transparent divider. After a time, the divider was removed; however, the fish still didn't cross to the other side of the tank.
Such stories of the self-limiting behaviors of animals are often used in motivational seminars and books to illustrate the self-limiting beliefs and habits of humans and to encourage people to think and act "outside the box."
It has always struck me as odd that some Chinese people who have experienced persecution themselves, even intense, long-term and devastating persecution, find it hard to believe or care about the persecution of other groups like AIDS activists, villagers deprived of their land, human rights activists, home based Christians and Falun Gong practitioners.
A gentleman from Mongolia who had just described his own ten-year ordeal at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) questioned the reliability of Falun Gong practitioners' reports of torture and incarceration in forced labor camps. This man had been incarcerated and tortured, deprived of medical care after his release and deprived of his livelihood. He and his family were ostracized for years because of one brave act of his during the Cultural Revolution.
At the school where he worked, as well as other schools across China, the Red Guards were targeting alleged "rightists" and other "enemies of the state" among students and teachers. His school had an interrogation room where the Red Guards beat and tortured anyone found lacking in revolutionary zeal.
The gentleman from Mongolia courageously took home the wooden clubs used to beat students and staff and burned them. His punishment was months of incarceration, torture and forced labor, followed by a decade of persecution.
Three decades later, he skeptically asks, "How do you know Falun Gong practitioners are being tortured and sent to forced labor camps?"
The Chinese communist regime uses its propaganda machine to "rationalize" its assaults on various segments of the society. The victims are characterized as "enemies of the state," a "threat to the social order" or some such label. Chinese people who view the CCP from the logic of the CCP demonstrate the effectiveness of Party conditioning. Indoctrination and repression have fostered self-censorship and thinking within the box of Party ideology.
The Nine Commentaries has removed the lid from people's minds. They only have to read the Nine Commentaries to free themselves from the CCP ideology that they have received through the Party and its affiliates, its educational system, the workplace, the state-controlled media and other "branches" of the Party's Ministry of Propaganda.
Reading the Nine Commentaries and reflecting on the true history of the CCP frees up people's minds so that the lid is not only off, but people know it's off and are no longer confined by the habitual thinking that has been instilled in them by decades of CCP indoctrination.
The Chinese people will then be free to step into the 21st century, to take the first steps towards creating a new China, a nation invigorated with freedom and democracy and enriched by China's true cultural treasures—China's authentic values and beliefs—not the continual class struggle, class hatred, paranoia, repression and violence that form the foundation for the CCP's promised "heaven on earth."
China's ancient values of truth, compassion and tolerance were cherished for millennia and nurtured by the three great religions of China—Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism—as well as the spiritual cultivation practices, which today are known generically as qigong. They weren't always known as qigong. China's various self-cultivation practices assumed that innocuous name during the Cultural Revolution in order to avoid being attacked by the CCP.
In the near future, the Chinese people will realize that the lid is off. At that point, the experiment in communism will be over.
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