Chapter 17 walk and reflect

I didn't plan to blog today, but I have two drafts of doctoral dissertations that I'm reading carefully.But I sat in the office of the Chinese Department for a while, talking to Director Yang about my physical examination, and a reader who was looking for me blocked me on the phone. He insisted on writing a review after reading it, and had nowhere to publish it.Well, I'll post it here.In addition, the friend who chatted with me on 114 today, I didn't answer your question well, sorry.It seems that in the future, I will not be able to take the bus anymore, and I am not old, young, sick, disabled or pregnant, but now I have to give up my seat once every four or five times.In the future, I should take more taxis and let my leftist friends call me a bourgeoisie.When I have money, I will buy two professors, one from the left and one from the right, and let them pinch, pinch, pinch, and kill you—gentleness.

Walk on the system, reflect on the walk ——Thinking after reading the anthology of Kong Qingdong Hu Jia we need to walk, Like an eagle that flies in the sky and rests on the ground, It is more like an eagle that is about to go out to save energy. When walking, we first need material supplies - food, clothing, housing and transportation; While walking, we also need spiritual nourishment - culture; In walking, what we need more is to gain energy——knowledge. Where does this supply and energy come from? We keep flying and keep creating. We need to walk on the system, because we want to fly higher and farther.

We need to reflect as we walk because we want to fly longer and longer. A few days ago, I discovered Kong Qingdong's new anthology in a bookstore.I don't read much literature these days. It is said that Kong's masterpieces are very popular among readers, and this is a selection of several masterpieces, so I started to read them on the basis of interest. Although I haven't finished reading it, I don't know what kind of person Kong is, but as a vivid and real person, I like it very much.This kind of liking is much more beneficial than advocating reality. When reading his works, I really don't know whether I am reading the words or the person who read the words.I really don't know if I'm reading the characters in the text, or the reality in the text?The words, the characters, and the reality, just like himself, are vivid and vivid.

That's all?No. Reading his works, I really don't know whether he studies literature—modern and contemporary literature, popular literature, Western literature, ancient literature, or sociology and history?After thinking about it, I define his works as "reflective literature".Reflect on what?Reflect on what he has seen, reflect on everything he can. That's all?no. Reading his works, I really don't know whether he is a leftist or a rightist-focusing on personal freedom and liberation?It is not very clear whether he is a theist or an atheist?When I read "The Moral Identity of Humanities Scholars", "On the shoulders of morality, the article can be written by a skillful hand", and I understood that "morality" is his precious sword.

stop here? No. Reading his "reflective literature", I really don't know whether it belongs to elite culture or mass culture?It is also really unclear whether this reflective literature has influenced us as a public, or has our public cultivated this reflective literature? In "Fresh Fear", there is such a reflection: Fear is the most basic and precious quality of human beings, and only with fear can there be civilization.Today's people, armed to the teeth with technology and "wisdom", are becoming more and more unscrupulous day by day.A world without fear is a world without God, and ultimately a world without people.

Reflection and fear are twin brothers, so the loss of reflection is the loss of fear. It is precisely because of this reflection and constant reflection that the rise of China, which has attracted much attention, has shifted from a one-sided and one-way economic rise to an all-round rise—focusing on cultural connotation, technological innovation, institutional innovation, environmental friendliness, Pay attention to the all-round development of people and so on. However, for a long time, we have to admit that reflection as a culture seems to be only a monograph of the elite, and it is getting farther and farther away from the dining table of mass culture.

Just as "Cai Yuanpei's Contradiction" said, the core of society is the system, and we cannot pin our hopes on the coming of saints.So we rely on the research and improvement of this system, so the chefs in the system are becoming more and more elite, and the public is becoming less and less "chefs". A system is like a delicacy.Those who are used to salty food are said to be bland, those who are used to light food are said to be salty; those who are used to sweet food are said to be bitter, and those who are used to bitter food are said to be sweet. So Hayek said that "an economist who is just an economist cannot become a great economist".

The achievements of Milton Friedman (1912~), one of the most famous economists in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, are the best interpretation of Hayek's words.He is the leader and representative of his academic theory, and he is also a genius writer of popular economic books.He participates in public affairs, expresses his opinion on various matters, and as a citizen.He has written regular columns for "Newsweek" for more than 20 years, and the TV series he hosted and created have made him a household name. People are often unable to distinguish whether he has influenced the public, or the public has cultivated him?It is even more difficult to tell whether he promoted the era, or the public promoted the era?

With regard to this reflective literature, it is best for us not to be able to distinguish whether it has influenced our public, or has our public cultivated this reflective literature?But we must distinguish who is driving the history and the times.