Chapter 7 7. Micro power

Disturbance: Highly centralized power is extremely backward politics, and the dictator is closer to the monkey king among the monkeys than to man himself.A great man is someone who advances civilization from the age of monkeys to the age of humans, such as Washington.And the tyrant who drags civilization back, no matter how many people he has deceived, no matter how many people who do not know the rules of power are willing to be enslaved, human civilization will eventually move forward. This is the most troublesome thing for dictators . Commonality: During World War II, Captain Kennedy's ship was sunk by the Japanese in the Solomon Islands.He was rescued by two locals - Kumana and Gaza.After that, Kennedy ran for the presidency of the United States based on his qualifications, and sent invitations to Cumana and Gaza to attend the ceremony in the United States.When local officials received the invitation letter, they believed that Cumana and Gaza were not handsome and would damage the national dignity, so they sent their relatives and friends to the United States. The common feature of power is shameless embezzlement, and there is no difference in national conditions.

System: Queen Elizabeth II, one of the richest women in the world, but she was not satisfied, she still applied to the Poverty Fund for low-income families, asking for subsidies, but was rejected - there is no difference in human nature , the heads of developed countries are no more enlightened than the rulers of dictatorships, and there is no difference in the degree of greed.However, the reason why developed countries are developed is that the people have the right to refuse in terms of system design. Power: Zhu Yuanzhang hated corrupt officials the most, and stipulated that all corrupt people should be stripped.In the nineteenth year of Hongwu (1386), almost all officials were killed, so 364 officials were sent out.In the second year, 6 of these people were killed for corruption, which seems not too many.Wait a minute, there are still 358 people who died in vain and died in vain—it adds up to exactly 364, and all the officials are not afraid of your cramp and skinning, and they are determined to embezzle—just because the essence of power is grabbing, and no one can change it. .

Freedom: Former Argentine President Kirchner, after leaving office, his wife Cristina became president again.So Kirchner bought 6 pairs of leather shoes for his wife.Unexpectedly, the Animal Management Bureau came to the door and identified the female president's shoes on the spot. They were indeed made of protected animal turtle skin and ostrich skin.Although the president and his wife didn't know these things when they bought the shoes, they still had to be fined, and the integrity investigation still needed to be done. Powerful: Hitler occupied Denmark and ordered Jews to wear special symbols.The Danish king ordered the whole country to wear special symbols.Germany was furious, arrested the king, and then sent the Jews to concentration camps.Denmark started a big rescue, and some people were killed in the process of protecting the Jews.After the end of World War II, the surviving Jews returned to find that their houses and lands were protected by their neighbors—powerful and rooted in national justice.

Little people: In 1933, the great British writer George Bernard Shaw came to Shanghai, and was greeted by Shao Xunmei, the secretary of China PEN. Because Shaw was a vegetarian, the two had a meal at Gongdelin on Nanjing Road, which was personally treated by Shao Xunmei.Newspapers learned of it and reported that: Bernard Shaw came to Shanghai for dinner, and the diners included Cai Yuanpei, Soong Ching Ling, Lu Xun, and Lin Yutang...not mentioning Shao Xunmei.Why not mention him?Is it because he is an inconspicuous little man? Civil rights: The old man Fisher, who lives near the largest airport in New Zealand, had a tree with branches extending into the airport runway. The airport asked to cut it off, but the old man flatly refused, saying: You can't harm the tree for the sake of people.The airport sued angrily, and after nine years of litigation, the court ruled that the trees were Fisher's private property, and he had the right not to cut them.The mayor also voiced his support for Fisher.But what about the airport?You can do whatever you want, as long as you don't infringe on other people's rights and private property!

Politics: Painter Wu Guanzhong said that if he lived again, he would engage in politics... Is politics so easy to engage in?In the early years, there was Plato, a philosopher, who wanted to engage in politics. He did it twice but failed.The third time he took the upper route and found the king. The king took him into a boat. As soon as the signal was given, the big ship sailed away with him—he had been sold as a slave.Fortunately, his friend desperately chased the slave ship and bought him back... The original ecology of terror politics is not done by decent people, so Plato can only engage in his philosophy in the end.

Power Worship Maniac: It is precisely the person who suffers from power in real life. They are hurt by the violence close at hand, but somehow believe that there must be a politician who has nothing to do with him in the high place to save him from the sea of ​​suffering.If they are disappointed in space and find that there are greed and violence near and far, they will seek a breakthrough in time and firmly believe that the previous tyrant is his savior. They will always put their hope on others, but they will not believe in themselves. When Shakespeare was 16 years old, he was sent to learn slaughtering techniques from a butcher because of life, but what he learned was extraordinary speech skills, because every time he slaughtered, the butcher had to give a long speech to the animals , Persuading him to accept the fate of being slaughtered... I guess what Shakespeare realized is: what you say is not important, what matters is the right to speak.

Archives: Qing palace archives, Jiuqing Hanlin Department members have lifelong forbidden to see a word, these materials, researchers can't break into the sky even if they go to the earth.However, the eunuchs in charge of these materials secretly sold sacks of waste paper to printing plants and turned them into pulp... Blocked information is no longer information, monopoly means deprivation of the right to know, So power has a natural desire to monopolize information. The law of power: the characteristics and size of power depend on the people who worship it. If there are many people who worship power, then the person who holds power will become the boss of the gang, and they will be surrounded by people wherever they go.At this time, power will evolve into violence, because the boss of the gang must return enough benefits to those who support him-as long as possible, power will reject all responsibilities, obligations and supervision.

The right to speak: Ellison, president of Oracle Corporation, said: It is not enough for me to succeed, there must be failures of others.And Ellison claims that these are the words of Genghis Khan.However, according to historians, Genghis Khan never said this sentence at all. This is the benefit of the rich. You talk about money with him, and he talks about knowledge with you.You talk to him about learning, and he takes money to kill you. Curse: There was a Zhang Yicheng in the Ming Dynasty who won the first prize, so his father and brother fiercely went to rob the neighbor's property. The local officials didn't dare to take care of it, so the neighbor wrote to Zhang Zhuangyuan to complain.Zhang Zhuangyuan couldn't control his father and brother who were acting out of control, so he said to the neighbors: "Curse me, curse me to death, and see who they dare to bully you...

Wasting: The protagonist joined Budyonny's cavalry, and Budyonny has a hobby of getting a huge wine barrel, filling it with wine, and jumping in with a beautiful woman in his arms... As a result, the soldiers suddenly shot, Killed the woman in the barrel, but Budyonny escaped.Therefore, Paul Korchagin said: A person's life should be spent in this way. When he looks back on the past, he will not regret it because he wasted his time... Flea market: When King Louis XI was in power, a courtier caught a flea from the king.The king was very happy.Since then, courtiers followed suit one after another, eager to catch fleas from the king. A flea market quickly appeared in the local area, and the price of fleas soared. Finally, one day, when a large group of courtiers showed the king with fleas in their hands, the king went mad, and the flea market began. It quickly disappeared... Power culture will inevitably develop flea citizens.

Let me talk about the traditional culture that I understand personally. This traditional culture is not Confucianism, Buddhism, or Taoism, but a culture of power.There are three characteristics of power culture: one is the pursuit of unlimited power.The second is the unrestrained pursuit of women.The third is the unrestrained pursuit of food.Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism at the ideological level, after deconstruction and reorganization of power culture, are no longer compatible with themselves.Unless the impurities of power are removed, the origin of culture and thought will emerge. Juntong: During the Anti-Japanese War, the Juntong chose the Hou’s courtyard in Zhangjiabao as the third telecommunications station.There are three old ladies living in Hou's courtyard.Juntong said: We want to rent your yard.Three old ladies said: no rent.The military command said: How much money do you want?The three old ladies said: No matter how much you pay, you don’t rent.Juntong Road: During the Anti-Japanese War, the military was the most important.The old lady immediately complained everywhere, Song Meiling expressed her support for the old lady, Chiang Kai-shek stepped forward and asked the military commander to find another place to respect the rights of the old lady.

Europe was also ignorant and backward, but in 1306, the French king clashed with the Holy See, sent troops to arrest the Pope, and imprisoned the Holy See in Avignon.With the leader gone, Roman artists took advantage of the Renaissance.The art has been revived, why not the industrial revolution?Because the Pope has been released, and the leaders are present, of course no messing around is allowed.However, most of Britain is Puritan and does not recognize the Pope. As a result, the Industrial Revolution happened... Social progress is incompatible with power. In 1774, Thomas Paine said in his book: Despotism is founded on a miserable civilization, the main feature of which is the degeneration of human minds, and the misery of large numbers of people.Such a government regards man as an animal, and thinks that the exercise of intellect is not a peculiarly human talent...rulers maintain their power by allowing poverty to destroy the spirit of the people, without fear of inspiring the wrath of the people. Let’s talk about the law of young people taking over power, such as Zhang Xueliang, who suddenly took power, and this power structure was left by his father, and adapting to his father may not necessarily adapt to him.What should I do if I am not used to it?Only integration.What kind of integration method?Just kill the old guy who feels like getting in the way.After Zhang Xueliang took power, he killed old courtiers Yang Yuting and Chang Yinhuai for a lot of reasons, which were actually the integration of power.Whether this is the law depends on whether history will repeat itself. Hayek mentioned in his book: Some people questioned: Are you opposing totalitarianism because you want to gain power yourself?I couldn't help laughing when I saw this. It turns out that brain damage knows no borders, and even Lao Ha will encounter this problem.But the explanation in the book is more brain-dead than the question itself. Lao Wu explained it here for Lao Ha: opposing totalitarianism is to protect civil rights.Totalitarianism will harm the people, but civil rights only protect the people and do not harm them. Power politics is opaque and characterized by ambiguity.For example, when Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty came to the throne, he was the only emperor in history who had been imprisoned.When he became emperor, the ministers demanded that the daughter of the general Huo Guang be named queen. Emperor Xuan did not express his opinion, but issued an edict saying that he had lost a sword when he was a child, and asked everyone to find it for him.All together, what do you mean by this?Doesn't that mean he's nostalgic?So it was requested to enlist Xu, the wife of Emperor Xuan in distress, as the queen, and it was passed. Alexander said that in the world of swords, laws are useless.Our society is a society of power, and power is the embodiment of violence, which means ruthless and cruel, so power must be severely restricted.Power without any restraint and supervision not only leads to tyranny and corruption, but also leads to rampant violence.The disempowered are often the targets of violence. ——Excerpt from Du Junli: "Institutionalization of Hooligans and Violence of Power". Lin Dazhong wrote: In the depths of American history, there is deep distrust of the government, especially the distrust of the federal government. Its essence is the fear of centralization and the fear of thought control.President Clinton once suggested a unified examination, which Americans cannot accept. The unified examination will inevitably lead to unified teaching materials, and the government cannot prevent the day when the government will instill unified thinking in children.Americans put freedom first, and would rather not be so powerful, but there must be freedom. Foreign guests: Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, announced that he will impose a congestion charge of US$16 per vehicle on the convoy of US President Barack Obama when he visits the UK.The U.S. embassy believes that this tax can only be collected from the British, and insists that it will not pay fines, nor will it pay the congestion charge for the president's car and other vehicles... Whether this money can be collected, it is moot. But this lets us know a truth: foreign guests are not more valuable than domestic grassroots. Politics: On May 23, Obama visited Ireland and gave a speech on the lawn of Dublin College. A girl in red went up to touch his face.Obama smiled and was touched obediently.There is a politics in which the power of politicians is limited and the power of the people is sacrosanct.There is also a kind of politics that limits the power of the people, and politicians who were originally ordinary people are deified.Which of the two politics is better, a rational nation will naturally make a rational choice. A fire broke out in the palace of the State of Lu, and the animals in the forest and garden fled. People chased the escaped animals one after another, but refused to put out the fire.Lu Jun asked Confucius for help. Confucius said: There are two ways to control others, punishment and reward. The former stimulates the fear in human nature, but it can be effective in a short time. The latter stimulates the kindness in people's hearts, but it takes time.Lu Jun was enlightened, and immediately ordered that those who save animals but not fire will be severely punished. The order was issued, and the fire in the palace was immediately extinguished. Reflection: The progress of thought is bound to advance to the reflection of power culture, questioning its legality and justice, so as to liberate people themselves.Western culture, represented by Acton, demonstrated the natural corruption of power.However, the oriental culture has always remained in the era of the divine right of kings, exaggerating the virtues of power wantonly, and the humanistic concept remains in the victor, the prince and the loser. reflection. Aristotle said: Giving power to people is like attracting wolves into the house.Because of the animal nature of desire, even the best, once in power, tend to be corrupted by the passions of desire.The law, therefore, is reason without passion, and is therefore preferable to the individual.