Chapter 469: Civilized Classroom
On Canglang Island, Wang Xiaoli and Wang Yan were drinking and chatting. They talked about their respective experiences and insights over the past few years, and discussed the situation in the world. Before they knew it, it was afternoon.
In recent months, Wang Xiaoli has been deeply touched. I told Wang Yan today that I felt much more enjoyable.
From the beginning, I was full of confidence and felt that with the knowledge of my previous life, there was still something in the world that could stump me? Later, when I really did things according to my own wishes, I realized that it was not the case at all. It was not until a few days ago that I recruited officials to understand the people that I suddenly felt different. This feeling was very strange, which made Wang Xiaoli not say many things he wanted to say and what he should do.
When people live in the world, they cannot think deeply about many things. Once they think deeply, they will find that this world is very different from the world they knew before and will not know it at all. If they cannot break through this barrier, they will fall into confusion.
Wang Xiaolie now clearly felt this barrier, and he had not yet made any breakthroughs in order to break through.
When the power of Xiangyang developed and became more and more independent, Wang Xiaoliu really began to manage a country and suddenly discovered some problems that he had not discovered before. The more he thought about these problems, the more complicated they became, and it was difficult to understand them for a while.
When a regime is thought and arranged as a person, as time goes by, you will find that this person is becoming clearer and clearer. When the country's policies and destiny are attributed to destiny, even if you insist on destiny that must come from the people, you will feel that destiny is becoming more and more realistic.
This feeling is becoming more and more oppressive, which sometimes makes Wang Xiaoli feel at a loss. The final decision is not to think about these problems that are too distant from one's own way of life in a short period of time, but to focus on reality.
If we push our understanding of the real world in two directions, or add time, and according to our understanding, we will find another different world. This world is so different that it is often unacceptable.
For example, when quantum mechanics emerged, Einstein refused to believe it and said that God would not roll dice. Because this quantum world was too far from Einstein's understanding of the world, it was unacceptable.
This is the case with natural science, and how much knowledge is about human beings? Not to mention that when we reach the end of time, a set of theories push down to everyone, up to the country or civilization, will change one's face.
When a set of theories reaches the end of time, they find that they have a different face from the real world. So, is the world wrong or is it wrong for human understanding? Most of the time, humans cannot give the correct answer.
When you cannot give the correct answer, don’t force the answer, but move forward steadily. Just like the God of European civilization, you only ask whether you believe or not. This is not the attitude that Chinese civilization should have.
Most of the knowledge learned in previous lives was shrouded in the influence of European civilization. In the universe, how far has human beings gone and how many places they have known? How can they give the answer? In fact, whether it is the theory of the Big Bang that occurred in the universe or the theory of evolution of human beings’ own understanding, it is a hypothesis. Wang Xiaolie does not oppose this hypothesis, but now he realizes that it must be clearly stated that this is a hypothesis rather than a truth.
This is true in natural science, and even more so in human knowledge. No matter what theories are, they say that they understand the past and predict the future of human beings, this theory is unreliable.
The knowledge about people must be centered around people. How are people living and are they doing well? What are their dissatisfactions, their hopes, and their life they want to live. What did people think in the past, what they think in the present, and what would they think in the future.
Human knowledge cannot be done around God. No matter what the people in reality are, they make various assumptions, set various logics, assume many preconditions, and then explain the past and look forward to a future. Finally, they say how comprehensive, thorough, and how beautiful the future is. If they cannot do it, they say that the people are not good, and they should transform the people.
When there is a God in all theories, there is no problem with human knowledge surrounding God. If not, there is a problem.
In Chinese civilization, there is no omniscient and omnipotent God who cannot do this. If you study history, you must study how people in the past lived, what were they thinking, how were they living well? What kind of life do they want to live? If you study the present, you must study how people in reality live, what were they thinking, how were people living well? What kind of life do people want to live.
During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Chinese civilization fell to the bottom, and almost everyone in the world was bullied. At that time, intellectuals bravely stood up and shouted that they would transform the spirit of civilization and our culture were not a problem. Because it was such an era, such difficulties, and such desperate reality. But are these people right? That may not be the case.
When China comes out of the valley and no longer lets others bully it. With confidence, of course, we must re-examine the world. Many things are of course different from the views of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. If it is still the same, then there will be a big problem with Chinese civilization.
China has been catching up with advanced civilization for nearly two hundred years, and has resisted, confused, learned, and even obedient. But in the end, it is destined to take another path. This path has nothing to do with ideology or ideas, but it is a path to Chinese civilization.
In Chinese civilization, there are two words that are difficult to circumvent. About nature, about man and nature, one word Tao, about the country, about the people, about man himself, and one word Tian.
What is the greatest significance of the New China to Chinese civilization? It is to pull the sky from the highest point, illusion, and put it into the vast and most reliable people. Everything depends on the people and everything for the people. This is the new way of heaven.
The New China was established by the People's Liberation Army, not spoken by intellectuals. When Chinese civilization fell to the bottom and Eastern and Western civilizations collided, Chinese intellectuals were really not satisfactory. Most people neither understood Chinese civilization nor learned Western civilization. They just learned some knowledge from Western civilization, and felt that they were high in their thoughts and could come back to enlighten Chinese civilization.
Learning Western knowledge is better, and European civilization and Chinese civilization do not have much conflict. As for humanistic knowledge, it is hard to describe it. What we should have learned is what shortcomings China has, what difficulties it faces, what understanding of Western humanistic knowledge, what can help oneself progress, what is irrelevant, and what should be avoided. But most people do not know what difficulties China is facing, nor what Western humanistic knowledge is talking about. Instead, they learn it all and speak boldly to transform Chinese civilization.
What ancient Greek thought is the light of reason that enlightened Europe into modern times, what metaphysics, what philosophy guides science, what ancient Greece, ancient Roman city-state citizens, democracy and freedom. It is not counted after learning these furs, but you still have to use the fur you learned to explain Chinese civilization. Reinterpret Chinese history and reinterpret Chinese thoughts, which are high and superior, and are abominable.
They weaved a set of civilization knowledge, such as ancient city-states, citizens, noble republics, and small countries, which was like real. Part of it was smeared according to the appearances passed down from ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and part of it imagined. It was said that civilization would not fall behind in this way. I completely forgot that there were dark medieval times in Europe, not only burning witches, but also burning scientists to death.
If civilization is a person, what would it feel if the students sent out with hope after seeing themselves paying a huge price and learning these things? Will you say disappointedly that you have learned something?
If civilization reaches a certain level, an exam needs to be conducted. Then different civilizations have different test papers, and of course the content of the exam is different. As a student, the first step is of course to review the questions. Because the questions are difficult and I don’t know how to answer them, I send some people to the examination room of other civilizations to study and see how others answer. As a result, the person who came back said that the first question of their answer is b and the second question is c, and all kinds of things are. What is the use of such an answer in his own exam? Studying should not be to look at what other people’s exam questions are, how others answer, and why they answer this way. Why is this right and that wrong? This is useful.
Looking at the establishment of the New China, through various narratives on the left and right, we can find that those who do not study the reality of China seriously and are determined to learn from foreign countries will always fail. Only those who study the reality of China seriously can succeed.
The teacher's thoughts are the sinicization of Horseism. Many people cannot understand what sinicization is. Fewer people can realize that the most important thing is sinicization, not the previous content.
If I go back to ancient times, how can I save China? If I was in elementary school, I would tell the answers in the book. Enter capitalism in advance, or even go further, and enter what kind of ideology in advance. A little bigger, some people would want to transform Chinese culture, such as abolishing Confucianism and abolishing Confucianism. Some even had a whimsical saying that abolish Confucianism and abolishing the Legalists and Mohists, and said it according to the various schools of thought.
When you really grow up, you should understand that you must first review the questions and understand what kind of society was in ancient China and what era. Then you can take out the knowledge of your previous life, transform it well, carry it forward it, and check for omissions and fill in the gaps.
For Wang Xiaoli, the impulse that he had ever known everything had passed. What we should start is to review the topic, to truly understand this era and how his actions will change this era.
Chapter completed!