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Back to the Beginning, the Ideal Remains
A video salon marking Vistopia's first anniversary
Completed · 35 episodes
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Video in Chinese
1.1 Beginning with the Individual and the Banality of Evil 1.2 Should People Be Responsible for Surrendering Their Agency within Evil? 1.3 Distance and Humanity in the Banality of Evil 1.4 How Long Can the Causal Chain of Evil Become under Globalization? 1.5 Without a “City of God,” How Can We Gain the Power of “God”? 1.6 How Can We Conduct Ourselves within an Evil System? 1.7 How Can We Guard against the Herd Instinct? 2.1 Why Make A Short History of Chinese Rock? 2.2 What Happened to Chinese Rock from 2012 to 2019? 2.3 Must Rock Music and Commerce Be Enemies? 2.4 Modern Sky after Twenty Years: Where Next? 2.5 What Can a Record Label Offer a Band? 3.1 The Story of The Life of Confucius 3.2 Perseverance or Stubbornness? 3.3 What Others Cannot Take Away Is Called “Aspiration” 3.4 How Do We Balance Commerce and Art? 3.5 Is “Outdated” a False Proposition? 3.6 I Clearly Love This, So Why Am I No Longer Happy? 3.7 Today, It Seems Impossible to Tell Whether Something Counts as “Perseverance” 3.8 How Do We Face Regret? 3.9 Is There a Proper Order for Studying Chinese and Western Classics? 3.10 Does Our Understanding of History Always Waver and Reverse? 4.1 Why Did Fake News Become a Major Topic? 4.2 Expecting Everyone to Be Objective Overestimates Human Nature 4.3 Can Emotional Rhetoric Change the Direction of Politics? 4.4 Can Political Figures Still Maintain “Decency”? 4.5 Sharing Jokes Only Makes Foolish People More Famous 4.6 Everyone Wants Society to Become a Little Better 4.7 Does “Decency” Still Have a Place? 4.8 Is the Rise of Populism a Dangerous Trend? 4.9 How Can We Defend Public Space against Technological Encroachment? 5.1 Xiaohan: I Grew Up Reading Yan Jun's Music Criticism 5.2 Yan Jun: Maybe It Isn't Music 5.3 Experimental Concert—Improvisation by Houwei 2020 Lunar New Year Special | Greetings from Vistopia Presenters