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Painpang.com took its name from the play tittled D/R PAINPANG (1926-1966): A Tragedy of Small and Great Importance. And briefly, the play is about a fictional political dissident—a Chinese professor named Dr. Painpang—who was imprisoned in a Communist Chinese psychiatric hospital for reeducation and rehabilitation, then exiled, and finally assassinated for his opinions and his work to further the democratic aspirations of the Chinese people. As you may have noticed, Painpang.com's logo flashes a rendition of that well-known image flashed across the world's television screens and newspapers of the young unknown man who tried to face down a column of tanks from the Chinese army just as the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre was being unleashed. No direct mention is made in the play of this incident with the young man. And neither the pro-democracy movement that he was a part of nor the Tiananmen Square Massacre that crushed it are mentioned in this play. This is because the events in the play take place in 1966, when Dr. Painpang is assassinated in the play. Nevertheless, these events were a source of inspiration for this play. Thus, Painpang.com likes to acknowledge the importance of these events to this play from which Painpang.com took its name. And we are posting two newspaper articles (WSJ, January 18, 2005) about China's continuing hopes for democracy in the aftermath of Tiananmen's bloody crackdown, listed at the bottom of this page for you to reference if you are interested.
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what is
the origin of
your pain > pang > name
shocking pain creates the indelible
sounds, images, ideas... burned into your brain
What is the pain > pang > origin > name > ?
ORIGIN > PAIN > PANG > NAME > ORIGIN
everyone wants to burn their name(s) into your brain
branding... branded... brand names
marketing the indelible
indelible marks:
the mark
$
How question marks form
deutsche marks
? = $
The birth of pain leaves its mark.
Pain's impression is a question mark.
The mark becomes a marked man.
Marked men choose their marks.
Marks become marked men.
A mark is good as gold
for those who know
how to work it,
milk it.
"The Mark is my friend. The Mark is my enemy.
The Mark is the Score...........and I want to win.
For the Mark is good as gold ONLY if you win.
Make your mark, take it to market, keep score."
How pain forms products
and productivity
? = A+
High marks, low marks,
good marks and bad marks
all mark the utilization of pain—
pain's poorly measured productivity
being equal to its sad lack of productivity.
kiss up... kick down
"I am your mark and you are mine.
I use your pain and you use mine.
I use my pain and you use yours.
So how is it that you seem
to have so much more
to show for it all
than I?"
Drink this bitter cup, grow strong
Money is... the damn telltale heart, the mark,
on all scores; the ugly that just won't die;
the ugly old man in every soul;
the grey beast
that quickly ages
the helpless young
and vitalizes the strong.
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How
how how
truth forms lies
and lies form truth
The weak lie about the strong.
The weak must lie about the strong.
For truth, like money, is wielded by both
the strong and the weak to devalue and destroy
the weaker...while the weakest do not even have the truth,
their own truth, to buck up, defend, fight with, fight for, delude and
console themselves.
How pain tries to keep score
"Money is the most useful scorecard
for measuring the utility of pain."
Pain is a profitable utility
for those who know
how to work it,
use it and
milk it.
Yet
proud
to say I
will never
be a strict
by-the-books
digits utilitarian
long...as I believe
in the infinite worth
of individual suffering,
of individual love and life.
O keeping up with
the real world of love
How questions form answers
Q = A
What a painful question needs is a concept,
a plan, a process: a way to make meaning:
a system for converting, transforming
useless pain into desirable passion.
How pain forms pleasure
How can anything so sad be true?
The wisdom of suffering says
pain answers questions
in order to form
pleasure.
There
is no utility
or validity to truth
beyond this formation
of whatever is necessary
to make life bearable, enjoyable.
How to use painful truths
The Raw and the Cooked
(cooking the books)
Raw
pain...
is inedible
until talent cooks it up
when pain fires up the body, soul, mind.
Marketing the indelible is eating the inedible.
For when you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.
You will put a name to it, create a name for it.
Then use it to make a name for yourself.
USE YOUR PAIN, use it or lose it.
Use it in order to lose it.
Use it... or lose.
Profit from...
pain.
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The Payoff
a spade may be a spade
but god is forever my ace in the hole.
When god slaps you, the sweetest revenge
is to take "It", take it all, and make it pay off for you.
make a memorable, lasting, eternal name for yourself
make a valuable, reputable, worthy name for yourself
a good name for yourself, a supremely good name
meaning is my business and business is good
if god owes you
for all your troubles,
never count on others
to make your pain pay off.
Yes there is a god
(sweet recognition)
The sweetest revenge whispers to me:
"When Life hurts,
Make a Name for your Self."
Life is good
(open for business)
"The blues is my business and business is good."
Meaning is my business and business is damn good.
Being important is my business and business is
... O so damn good.
How to succeed... without really trying
(will work for luck)
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the mark...
the quest...
the question...
the answer...
the name...
the mark...
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Painpang.com does not believe in honoring the dead unless it serves the purposes of the living. But honoring the dead always serves the purposes of the living. And we like the professed purposes of the living being served in the two articles below. They come from the Tuesday, January 18, 2005, Opinion page of the Wall Street Journal. Being writers ourselves, Painpang.com knows that talk is cheap and that bullshit is even more ubiquitous than political violence and coruption. Nevertheless, we found the insights and idealism expressed by a student who survived the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre in China, Wang Dan, worthy of repeating here. And the other brief article was equally well-received here because it was not credited to any specific author. Something writers and ghostwriters everywhere credit as being hard to do if the work is any good. No matter how well-paid you are, there is always a good chance you still crave more public recognition... even if only to be respected and appreciated by others for being well-paid and well-off. Of course, it is also useful not to identify yourself in order to enjoy the freedom from external pressures and personal consequences that goes with expressing your views anonymously. Many at Painpang.com prefer to remain anonymous in order to maintain their freedom and independence.
(Note: We do not know if there is some procedure we are supposed to follow to buy or obtain permission to re-present these two short articles. So we do not know how long we will be able to keep them posted for your benefit. We are using them here in accordance with whatever fair-use principles writers still have on their side for the purposes of debate, research and quoting.)
"The Future Is Zhao," from The Wall Street Journal's 1-18-2005 Opinion page.
"The Old Man of Tiananmen," by Wang Dan, from the same Opinion page.
The Most Misunderstood Man In The World
Everyone fights for their very own sense of importance. And the most dominant, powerful and influential sense of importance at any given time and place will always be the politically correct sense of importance for that moment in time and space. When it comes to judging the importance of living beings, this sense of importance is our sense of morality. And there is no clear scientific consensus in matters of morality. For there is no clear scientific consensus about the importance, value, worth, of individual beings. All we have is our own moral instinct that the life of every living being is important. And when this instinct is worn down by every animate and inanimate form of cruelty, all we have left is our instinct that our own life is still important. Beyond that, all we have here are the changing winds of popular opinion, personal opinion, private opinion and public opinion shaping the most powerful opinion at any given time and place. And the most powerful opinion at any given time and place will always be the politically correct opinion for that moment in time and space.
This is not to say that eternal truths, especially eternal moral truths, do not exist. It is only to say that moral truths cannot be proven scientifically, and that all matters of faith can be described (perhaps irreverently) as matters of opinion. Even the scientific faith that the world can be understood by man... controlled by man... perfected by man... healed by man... is an opinion. It is far from certain that giving scientific man the power to understand, control and perfect will not turn out in the end to unleash even greater forces/powers he cannot control and hasten his end.
"Our whole modern world... proposes as its ideal the theoretical man equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge, and laboring in the service of science, whose archetype and progenitor is Socrates. ... Now, we must not hide from ourselves what is concealed at the heart of this Socratic culture: Optimism, with its delusion of limitless power!" — Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
Nevertheless, illusions... delusions... can be powerful. And these compelling illusions... delusions... whatever you wish to call them... may very well be our most steadfast source of strength —the supreme perpetual unreality and eternal daydream that gives most of us the power to go on in this unimaginably difficult, miserable world. In reality, everyone who possesses hope is delusional. But there is no denying the powerful reality of hope for most if not all of us. Delusional opinions can form powerful opinions. And powerful opinions, powerful hopes, powerful dreams, rule world opinion... and keep everyone hustling.
Only the influential rule of major opinions and majority opinion keeps everyone's private struggle for their very own sense of importance under control. Everyone's struggle for some sense of importance is a struggle for one's very own sense of importance. This struggle for importance is everyone's personal faith, cross and crusade. It is everyone's holy war. Only the dominating influence of Public Opinion over all keeps the sceaming, raging, righteous, self-righteous and unrighteous little mein kampfs in every man, woman and child in check. Majority rule is far from perfect (justice). But public opinion in totalitarian regimes hardly ever originates with the majority and is often far more brutal and unjust than that public opinion which originates with mature and robust democracies.
—from the secret journals of Private Painpang, "the most misunderstood man in the world"
Double-Speak
Truth vs. Propaganda... or Truth = Propaganda?
Truth About Manipulation
"What is your manipulation is my explanation and education.
Manipulation, like truth, is in the eye of the beholder."
(mantra of political image consultant and marketeer)
A clear scientific consensus says you can trust us.
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