AbstractThis thesis presents a central postulate: the 3,000-year-old "Hypocritical Dichotomy" and the phenomenon of "Power Rent-seeking" in Chinese culture originated from the "Rites and Music System" established by the Duke of Zhou in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Duke’s primary failure was the "Substitution of Truth with Falsehood" (去真存偽)—replacing the constant, binding "Divine Covenant" (The Truth of Shang) with the capricious "Words of the Ruler" (The Virtue of Zhou). This shift prevented the establishment of a stable Nash Equilibrium, leaving social rules in a state of permanent plunder. Consequently, a collective disdain for "Plunderable Knowledge" emerged. Without deconstructing this hypocritical source—the Duke of Zhou—one cannot understand why the Sinitic world failed to produce independent systems of logic and science.________________________________________Thesis OutlineChapter I: Introduction—The Shielded Crime Scene1.1 Problem Statement: Why does cultural critique often stop at Confucius or the Qin system while remaining blind to the structural violence of the Duke of Zhou’s "Rites and Music"?1.2 Core Hypothesis: The Duke of Zhou was the master architect of the Sinitic "Hypocritical Dichotomy"—the institutionalization of the political lie.1.3 Research Framework: Integrating Character-Rooted analysis, Game Theory, and the logic of knowledge production.Chapter II: Substituting Truth with Falsehood—The Fall from "Divine Law" to "Human Proclamation"2.1 The Essence of the Shang-Zhou Transition: The "Gods" of Shang, though mythical, provided a "Constancy" of external restraint; the "Virtue" of Zhou, though beautiful, provided only the "Randomness" of power-based interpretation.2.2 The Unpredictability of Human Words: Analyzing how the Duke of Zhou redefined the "Mandate of Heaven" as a subjective "Virtue" interpreted by the ruler, depriving social contracts of objective standards.2.3 The Surge in Trust Costs: When rules depend on the "Master’s Mouth" (君之口), the foundation of mutual trust between "People" (人) collapses.Chapter III: The Collapse of the Game—Malignant Equilibrium and Short-termism3.1 The Impossible Nash Equilibrium: Because the rules (Li) possess a "Hypocritical Dichotomy," participants can only choose short-term opportunism, preventing the formation of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts.3.2 Economic Analysis of the "Min" Trap: Defining the populace as "Min" (民 - blinded slaves/managed subjects) maximizes the plunder efficiency of power rather than establishing fair play.3.3 The Cycle of the Lone Man and the Slave: A capricious ruler and a shameless populace together maintain a "high-entropy, low-trust" death loop.Chapter IV: Disdain for "Plunderable Knowledge"—The Wilderness of Science and Logic4.1 The Plunderable Characteristics of Knowledge: Under a rule-of-man system, empirical knowledge (Science, Mathematics) is the most vulnerable to direct seizure or destruction by power due to its objectivity.4.2 Collective Scorn for "Practical Arts": Why ancient China despised "Cunning Skills and Devices" (奇技淫巧)—in a capricious environment, only "Deception and Political Maneuvering" serve as hard currency for survival.4.3 The Tragedy of Hidden Algorithms: Using the I Ching as a case study of how computational logic (potential for horizontal governance) was packaged as mystical oracles to evade direct plunder by power.Chapter V: The Confucian Legacy—The Systematization of Hypocrisy5.1 The Unreachable Dragon: Reinterpreting Laozi’s departure as the ultimate farewell to a civilization that "Substituted Truth with Falsehood."5.2 Confucius’s Patchwork: How Confucius encapsulated the Duke of Zhou’s "Master-Slave Logic" into a sacred, untouchable cultural gene.5.3 Modern Mutations: From Sun Yat-sen’s "San-Min" to contemporary slogans, analyzing how the "Hypocritical Dichotomy" reincarnates in modern language.Chapter VI: Conclusion—Dismantling Zhou, Restoring Truth6.1 Diagnostic Summary: Ignorance of the Duke of Zhou is ignorance of the flaw; without dismantling the Duke, human dignity cannot be restored.6.2 The Path Forward: Transcending the lexical cages of "Min" (民) and "Zhu" (主); reclaiming the status of the Lao-Bai-Xing (Ancient Stakeholders).6.3 Final Statement: Only by establishing objective rules independent of the "Ruler's Virtue" can the Sinitic world produce truly "Confident Thought" (人人如龍).________________________________________KeywordsDuke of Zhou, Hypocritical Dichotomy, Substituting Truth with Falsehood, Nash Equilibrium, Plunderable Knowledge, Min (Slave), Lao-Bai-Xing (Ancient Nobility), Horizontal Governance (眾治).