Interesting article on the "lying flat" movement in China:

Disenchanted Chinese Youth Join a Mass Movement to 'Lie Flat' (insider.com)

The Lying Flat manifesto:

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躺平即是正义
两年多没有工作了，都在玩没觉得哪里不对，压力主要来自身边人互相对比后寻找的定位和长辈的传统观念，它们会无时无刻在你身边出现，你每次看见的新闻热搜也都是明星恋爰、怀孕之类的“生育周边”，就像某些“看不见的生物”在制造一种思维强压给你，人大可不必如此。我可以像第欧根尼只睡在自己的木桶里晒太阳，也可以像赫拉克利特住在山洞里思考“逻各斯”，既然这片土地从没真实存在高举人主体性的思潮，那我可以自己制造给自己，躺平就是我的智者运动，只有躺平，人才是万物的尺度。

Partial Translation of the above found on Reddit:

I can sleep in my barrel and bathe in the sun like Diogenes, or like Heraclitus I can live in my cave and think about Λόγος. Since there has never really been a school of thought in our land that championed human subjectivity, I’ll make one for myself. Lying flat is my philosophical manifesto. Lying flat is the measure of all things.

Machine translation:

Lying flat is justice.

I haven’t had a job for more than two years, and I’ve been playing and didn’t feel anything wrong. The pressure mainly comes from the positioning that people around you look for after comparing with each other and the traditional ideas of the elders. They will appear around you all the time. Every time you see the hot news, the hot searches are also It's the "fertility surroundings" like celebrity love and pregnancy, just like some "invisible creatures" are creating a kind of thinking to force you, the NPC needn't be like that. I can just sleep in the sun in my barrel like Diogenes, or I can live in a cave like Heraclitus and think about "Logos", since there has never really been a trend of thought that exalts human subjectivity in this land. Then I can make it for myself, lying flat is my wise movement, only lying flat, talent is the yardstick of all things.