Episode Details

In 2021, a Chinese forum post titled "Lying Flat Is Justice" was censored and denounced on state television — for advocating nothing more than doing the minimum. This episode takes Daniel's question seriously: is lying flat a viable strategy for social change? We trace the family tree from foxi to tang ping to bai lan, follow the parallel evolutions in Japan's satori generation, Korea's N-po cohort, and America's quiet quitting wave, and dig into James C. Scott's "weapons of the weak" to understand why deniable, low-profile resistance has always been how people without power push back. Plus: the psychological contract, the Hirschman exit-vs-voice problem, and why management had to invent a whole taxonomy of terms for behavior that was always formally compliant. Episode #830499 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/830499