序言 · Preface
【中文版】
此时此刻，在某个角落，一个委员会正在对一项早已决定好的议题进行表决。
在某个角落，一个人正在向空旷的房间宣读法案，没人倾听，因为在场的每个人都心知肚明它做不到什么。
在某个角落，一位老师正在向孩子解释公平，而那个孩子早已从这位老师身上学到了哪些孩子才会被叫起来回答问题。
你见过这些。你或许未曾大声说出来。
这本书不是揭露。没有什么需要揭露的。文件是公开的，演讲有录像，法律可检索，价格写在收据上。
问题从来不是真相被隐藏了。
问题在于，它就被摆在光天化日之下，却被包裹在一种精心设计的语言里，让你直视它时显得不够体面。
中国古代有一个字专门用来形容这种现象：偽（Wěi：人為）。
它指的不是简单的谎言。谎言是微小的，且通常受到惩罚。偽指的是更庞大、更古老、也更难被起诉的东西：它是社会有意识地建造出来的制度，看起来是一回事，运行起来又是另一回事。
法院保护财产，却称之为保护人民。
选拔程序巩固权力，却称之为挑选领袖。
工资租赁了生命，却称之为赢得生活。
教室分拣孩子，却称之为教育他们。
每个社会都有它的偽。我们的社会并不特殊，只是声音更大。
这本书刚落笔时，一无所有，唯有一腔对真相的直视。如今，它已化为七卷完整的制度解局蓝图，中英文版皆已立于世间。它依然不会替你下判决，它只做一项更持久的工作：给你语言，把位置摆出来。
一旦你掌握了这些语言，剩下的就不再是这本书的问题了。那是你的问题。
准备好了，就翻开下一页吧。不用急。这套制度已经这样运转很久了，它会等的。
【English Version】
Somewhere, right now, a committee is voting on something they have already decided.
Somewhere, a law is being read aloud in a room where no one is listening, because everyone in the room already knows what it will not do.
Somewhere, a teacher is explaining fairness to a child who has already learned, from that same teacher, which children get called on.
You have seen this. You may not have said it out loud.
This book is not an exposé. There is nothing to expose. The documents are public. The speeches are on video. The laws are searchable. The prices are on the receipt.
The trouble was never that the truth was hidden.
The trouble is that it was placed in plain sight, wrapped in a language designed to make looking directly at it feel impolite.
There is an ancient Chinese character for this: Wei (偽: Human-made).
It does not mean a simple lie. A lie is small, and usually punished. Wei means something larger, older, and harder to prosecute: it is the institutional architecture a society builds, by design, that looks like one thing and functions as another.
A courthouse that protects property and calls it protecting people.
A process that validates power and calls it selecting leaders.
A wage that rents a life and calls it earning one.
A classroom that sorts children and calls it teaching them.
Every society has its Wei. Ours is not special; ours is only loud.
When this book began, it possessed nothing but a commitment to see clearly. Today, it stands as a complete seven-volume blueprint, with both Chinese and English editions freely available to the world. It still will not tell you what to do. It performs a smaller, yet more enduring task: It gives you the words, and sets out the positions.
Once you have the words, the rest is no longer the book’s problem. It is yours.
Turn the page when you are ready. There is no hurry. The system has been this way for a long time. It will wait.
功劳归老祖宗，错误归小雷。
Credit to the ancestors; the mistakes are mine: Tiger Lyon