Chapter 59 Chapter 59 The Realm of Failure of "Understanding"

The two words ignorance have always been used together to express the emptiness and fuzziness of people's thinking and understanding. To be ignorant is to be ignorant, to be blank in the mind.And to know is to know, to be clear.The combination of the two words, ignorant, seems to know, but also seems not to know.Say you know it, but you obviously don't know it; say you don't know it, but you seem to know it. In short, it is a state of intelligence that is very difficult to explain clearly. Take a closer look, to know is to know, not to know is not to know, we are familiar with these two states of intelligence, and ignorance is in between, what is the reason for this?

This peculiar state of thinking means that a person's thinking has matured, but his personality has not yet fully developed.People in this state are just because of the simple truth of how to behave in the world. We have been told by teachers and parents since we were young, and we have repeated it countless times. We have even reached the point where we already know what they are saying to what extent.But this "knowing" is entirely imposed on us from the outside.If we refused to accept it, the parents would make a fuss and the teacher would punish us, and if it got serious, the police would step in and force us to go to jail, so we were forced to know.This state of being forced to know has been going on for a long time, and everyone, including ourselves, thinks we already know.

But actually we don't know. This kind of ignorance is mainly manifested in our personality's reluctance to accept it.The reason why our personalities refuse to accept it is because our ego-personality is built on the overthrow of external authority. A person's growth has no self-personality in childhood.At that time, the child was completely an extension of the will of the parents, and had no possibility of asserting self-rights.When a child reaches the age of seven, his self-personality will be formed, and the establishment of self-personality means that he must first separate himself from the vassal of his parents, so children of this age begin to disobey discipline, and they have already done so physically. I am ready to leave my parents and family, but my mind is not mature enough, let alone the ability to earn a living, so I can only reluctantly rest in the tiger's den temporarily, curled up with my minions and endured silently.

When the child is around fourteen years old, the child's self-personality begins to mature. The physiology book calls this stage puberty, and reminds parents that: adolescent children have a strong sense of rebellion, and they begin to consciously fight against their parents and teachers, with a relatively strong temper.But as we know, still for economic reasons, children of this age are doomed to lose in their struggle with their parents.What's even more frightening is that not only parents are suppressing the formation of children's self-personality, but the entire society is also "killing" children from various angles. The children's self-personality is far from being formed, and they already feel the murderous intent all around them. .

However, a child must form his own personality, which is actually a person's soul. If a person doesn't even have a soul, how can he gain a foothold in this world? Only a very small number of children have successfully established their own personalities at this stage.They are called child prodigies because they have solved their financial problems in their youth and are able to support themselves, so that they have the right to grow up as their own independent personalities.So they can consciously integrate the laws of the world and the laws of society into their personalities, so they quickly "mature".

But for the vast majority of children, their qualifications are mediocre, and they are unable to solve their own financial problems when they are young. Reality forces them to become vassals of their parents, and their personality is advocating self-independence.This helpless reality has led to a fierce strangulation between the self-personality of most people and the signals that are forcibly input from the outside.Rather, gifted children consciously accept social rules because they are part of their personality.But most children have to resist the normal social rules, because these things are destroying their personality.

This leads to a strange and complex paradox among young people.When it comes to the laws of society, they know no worse than adults, and even speak more accurately and accurately than adults.But when they do, it's the exact opposite.Their every move is contrary to the idea they express, simply because this idea is forced to accept, and their ego personality strongly resists. This kind of youthful state that speaks more clearly than anyone else, but acts more confused than anyone else, is ignorance of words.That is to say, you understand it, but you don’t understand it.Say others understand, say you don't understand.You say he doesn't understand, but he understands better than you.If you say he really understands, he really doesn't understand.Do you understand or not? It sounds really ignorant.

This so-called understanding is the deviation between language and action, and the rebellion of desire against thought.Such a person with inconsistent words and deeds, high-sighted and low-handed, has reached the officialdom, and it is even more difficult to succeed in the officialdom. What needs to be explained is that this kind of weird intellectual state of knowing but not understanding, and understanding but not understanding is by no means the patent of young people.No matter how white or long your beard is, how old you are, how old your qualifications are, as long as there are still defects in your self-personality, then you will not be able to get out of this intermediate state.Therefore, in the officialdom, we see as many strange things as possible whose intelligence is at this wonderful stage.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Jishan, who was mediocre in learning, wretched in behavior, mentally dull and not clear-this is the most typical state of understanding.According to the history books, this man was not clear-headed, but he actually made a Zhongshuling.Could it be that the person who promoted him to be an official is also not clear-headed?Seeing such a muddle-headed person occupying a high position, the officials were indignant, saying: "This is a big crow that fell into the Phoenix Pond..." The reaction of the crowd was finally heard by the higher-ups, so the emperor decreed that the king and the good Promoted to prime minister.Now the officials were so frightened that they didn't even dare to say anything against them.If you say that Wang Jishan is not clear-headed, then why did you not become prime minister when you were sober?

In short, Prime Minister Wang, who was not clear-headed, completely denied the IQ of the officials. But what happened next made people lose their minds.After Wang Jishan became the prime minister, he did not manage the country's major government affairs, but squatted at the gate of the provincial government office every day, and when he saw a donkey passing by, he would go forward and drive it away.All the officials gave him a nickname that lasted through the ages, called the Prime Minister of Driving the Donkey. An ignorant person can also become a prime minister, which corresponds to the sentence: princes and generals, would you rather be kind?

Or some people will think that Wang Jishan is a special case.But this view is wrong. Not only is Wang Jishan not a special case, but it is a relatively common phenomenon in officialdom.Half smart, half stupid weirdos like Wang Jishan are all over the history books.For example, during the Yongzheng period, the emperor asked all the officials to take turns to report to the emperor, and in this event, Mr. Nan Guo was played.An official came forward and sincerely suggested to Yongzheng: "The imperial court should issue a decree that coal sellers should not ride horizontally on the back of a camel, because if such a riding method falls off, it will hurt the buttocks. "When Yongzheng heard this, he was stunned for a long time before he realized that his subordinates were all of this level. If Yongzheng thought that the camel censor was low-level, then he was wrong. Compared with the officials in the Shunzhi era, this camel censor was definitely a good leader. During the Shunzhi period, there was a county magistrate in She County who could not read. When the day came to announce the verdict, he was asked by a scribe to teach him to write.When the scribe writes a picture, he will write a picture, and when the scribe writes a vertical line, he will write a vertical line.As a result, when a "seven" was written, the county magistrate bent the hook in the opposite direction. It should be bent to the right, but he was bent to the left.The clerk complained, and the county magistrate immediately became angry, and suddenly turned over the notice, saying: "It doesn't matter if you bend in the wrong direction. If you paste this notice upside down, won't it be right?" After hearing the county magistrate's words, the scribe cried at that time.What is he crying for?He cried because the county magistrate only knew to turn the notice upside down and paste it upside down. The word "seven" was upright, but all other characters were upside down. The prime minister driving the donkey and the censor of camel coal have a very pure understanding, but in the end the county magistrate has surpassed the level of understanding and entered the point of ignorance and stupidity.But what we want to say is that if they can all gain a place in the officialdom, then why should the kind-hearted young people who are only temporarily in the middle of understanding not succeed?