However, the Netflix series based on Liu Cixin's novel, 'The Three-Body Problem', which aired last year, made me realize that despite its stunning visuals and a complex plot that transcends common sense, it lacks the most important philosophical depth.

On the surface, 'The Three-Body Problem' appears to be a narrative of future civilizations based on cosmic imagination.

But upon closer inspection, that world is merely a simulation of communist ideology, devoid of any understanding of the human spirit or respect for religion and belief. No religious values such as Christianity, Buddhism, or Islam exist in this world; only reason, science, and authoritarian political methods maintain order. It is a world completely devoid of ethics or morality, which can be considered the foundation of human inner life.

What stands out the most is the thorough exclusion of the concepts of Christianity or God, and the treatment of the element of 'faith' in human civilization as mere superstition or regressive belief.

This is by no means a coincidence. This novel and drama construct logic and ethics strictly within a communist worldview.

The 'Three-Body World' presented by Liu Cixin is chaos itself. In an environment formed by three star systems, where temperatures change randomly and life repeatedly faces unpredictable crises, this three-body system seems to metaphorically represent the repeated chaos of Chinese society during and after the Cultural Revolution. However, the beings that survive in that world construct their bodies as components of electrical circuits, worshiping only science, technology, and authoritarian collective intelligence while mocking 'faith'.

This resonates with the disappearance of humanity that modern China exhibits.

The Three-Body World is composed solely of extreme scientism. There is no soul, no morality. In this world, religion is merely a psychological fiction created by humans, and it strives to emphasize that God does not exist. For those raised in a Christian cultural context, the repeated mockery of religion and the contempt for human dignity can be quite uncomfortable.

This is not just a matter of simple SF imagination, but a distorted self-projection of contemporary Chinese society. The Communist Party still does not recognize religion and controls historical errors rather than taking them as lessons for the entire nation.

On the other hand, they constantly covet and imitate the science, technology, and culture of the Western world. The setting of 'Earth' seems to be a metaphor for the advanced civilization and morality of the Western world, while the 'Three-Body World' feels like a glorification attempting to justify the instability and chaos of their communist regime.

The greater hypocrisy lies here. The Chinese elite who profess the ideology of communism actually send all their children to study abroad in Western countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, and purchase real estate in New York, London, Vancouver, and even Seoul based on their vast assets. While they verbally claim that there is no God and that faith is superstition, the life they pursue is entirely within the realm of Western values and Christian-based civilization.

The peak of duality is that the concept of 'salvation' in the Three-Body drama is based solely on science and technology. There is no God, no restoration of the human inner self, and no forgiveness. Instead, what exists is only thorough calculation and utilitarian survival strategies. This aligns with the 'system-centered rather than human-centered' thinking that China displays on the international stage.

One incident that reveals the duality of the Chinese people is gaining attention again. Following the global popularity of the Netflix drama 'The Three-Body Problem', there were movements in China to adapt this work into a film, and the chairman of Youzu Games, Lin Qi, who was at the forefront of this effort, was poisoned on December 25, 2020. Lin was the one pushing for the film adaptation of 'The Three-Body Problem', but the one who killed him was none other than his company's vice president, Xu Yao.

Xu Yao, dissatisfied with Lin's salary cut, meticulously poisoned him by mixing poison into coffee, whiskey, and water, as well as giving him poison pills disguised as probiotics. This incident starkly reveals the dark shadows of Chinese society. While vast sums of money circulate and it superficially seems to create advanced industries and cultures, underneath lies extreme distrust, power struggles, contempt for character, and a culture that devalues life.

The concept of 'salvation' in the Three-Body drama is based solely on science and technology. There is no God, no restoration of the human inner self, and no forgiveness. Instead, what exists is only thorough calculation and utilitarian survival strategies. This aligns with the 'system-centered rather than human-centered' thinking that China displays on the international stage.

What I always feel while providing psychological counseling is that humans do not live solely by logic and reason.

True recovery and growth stem from irrational values such as faith, forgiveness, solidarity, and conviction. However, such things do not exist in the Three-Body World. There is only 'calculated survival'. This drama fails to understand that humans are beings who live with love and conviction even in suffering, and instead mocks this reality.

If Netflix presents such a biased, philosophically shallow, and culturally ideologically skewed work to the public under the name of 'future imagination', it leads one to think that the future of human civilization is bound to be bleak.

At this point, we must ask ourselves.

Is the world depicted in the drama 'The Three-Body Problem' truly a 'future civilization'? Or is it a projection of the sick present of Chinese society?

And should we accept the situation where this illusion is packaged and spread worldwide through global platforms like Netflix?