I couldn't sleep, so I carefully looked at it all night and finally saw the words through the cracks: the whole book is written with two words - 'cannibalism' — Lu Xun.
The on-chain PVP market is anxious. When lost in direction, I turned back to revisit Master Weituo's open-source sickle and carefully chewed on it, just like what Mr. Lu Xun said: the whole book is written with two words - 'cannibalism'.
Think about it, the so-called white papers, governance frameworks, and DAO charters are just the scriptures of the new era's so-called moral teachings — every audit report boasts transparency, and every liquidity pool claims public, but upon delving into the cracks of its on-chain transaction flow, it is clearly just the two words 'cannibalism'.
(In the Madman's Diary) the elder brother asks the doctor to prescribe a 'long-standing flow ledger' as a medicinal guide for the patient, while contemporary project parties brew spiritual chicken soup using total locked amount (TVL) and other data, yet remain silent about on-chain cannibal phenomena like MEV sniping and scientist targeting.
History writes on every page about cannibalism. When we are in PVP, look at your own PNL, whether it flows like a river or shines like a rainbow. Every transaction on the chain is a cycle of capital: the profits of the previous address must correspond to the losses of the subsequent address. The so-called 'value internet' is merely a distributed ledger of zero-sum games.
To put it bluntly, the cannibalism of past feudal times needed the cover of a patriarchal system, while the harvesting in the chain era has been legitimized by mathematical models. Just like Master Weituo's three plate theory, when the dividend plate encounters Monte Carlo simulation, insider information evolves into the scientific art of 'expected value management'.
The ending of the Madman's Diary sends out a cry for 'save the children', while today's crypto awakeners face an even more paradoxical situation:
When you see through the essence of zero-sum games, you must make a choice between 'becoming the harvester' and 'withdrawing from the game'.
The moral dissolution in structural dilemmas: the PVP generation scoffs at traditional morals, not out of innate coldness, but from seeing through the essence of the system: under the macro 'cannibal machine' constructed by the Federal Reserve's printing press and various countries' QE policies, on-chain harvesting is merely a micro-level response.
Just as Lu Xun said, 'the one who is eaten will eventually become the eater.' When a certain college student uses $300 SOL as principal to earn ten times the profit in a Meme coin gambling game, he completes the transformation from 'the harvested object' to 'the harvesting collaborator'.
But 'there was originally no road in the world; when many people walk, it becomes a road.'
We must break old concepts, allowing everyone to participate equally in the wisdom and gaming of PVP. Such change not only subverts traditional ethics but also re-paves the path of human civilization — pushing it towards new heights. The role reversal between sickles and chives will ultimately depend on who can adapt faster to the survival rules of the 'dark forest'.
