Futures
Access hundreds of perpetual contracts
CFD
Gold
One platform for global traditional assets
Options
Hot
Trade European-style vanilla options
Unified Account
Maximize your capital efficiency
Demo Trading
Introduction to Futures Trading
Learn the basics of futures trading
Futures Events
Join events to earn rewards
Demo Trading
Use virtual funds to practice risk-free trading
Launch
CandyDrop
Collect candies to earn airdrops
Launchpool
Quick staking, earn potential new tokens
HODLer Airdrop
Hold GT and get massive airdrops for free
Pre-IPOs
Unlock full access to global stock IPOs
Alpha Points
Trade on-chain assets and earn airdrops
Futures Points
Earn futures points and claim airdrop rewards
Promotions
AI
Gate AI
Your all-in-one conversational AI partner
Gate AI Bot
Use Gate AI directly in your social App
GateClaw
Gate Blue Lobster, ready to go
Gate for AI Agent
AI infrastructure, Gate MCP, Skills, and CLI
Gate Skills Hub
10K+ Skills
From office tasks to trading, the all-in-one skill hub makes AI even more useful.
GateRouter
Smartly choose from 40+ AI models, with 0% extra fees
Under totalitarianism, how does ideology come into being?
Many people think it is a group of crazy individuals who create extreme ideas.
But the real issue is: the disconnect between people and the real world.
When a person no longer belongs to any community, no longer trusts human relationships, no longer believes in experience, facts, or the future,
they will begin to crave a "solution that explains everything."
But there is a type of person here who is easily misunderstood: the so-called "sober-minded."
Truly sober-minded people do not easily fall into extreme ideologies.
Because they still retain perception of reality, the capacity to bear complexity, and a stable self-structure.
The ones truly at risk of being engulfed are those who have lost both connection to reality and internal support.
The greatest temptation of ideology is never correctness, but certainty.
It compresses the complex world into a single logic:
All problems have enemies, all chaos has causes, all suffering has explanations, all history has direction.
Thus, people no longer understand the world through reality, but through theory.
Eventually, it even develops into: if reality does not conform to theory, then it is not the theory that is wrong, but reality.
Totalitarianism relies not on mad people, but on those who have lost their sense of reality.