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Chapter 114 I still don't want to say it right away

mental gymnastics 刘心武 939Words 2018-03-18
Conflicts are inevitable among human beings.The way to deal with conflicts, based on the education I received when I was young, the conflict between the enemy and ourselves is "you die and I live", that is, one class destroys another class, and when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, pay attention to the bayonet, that is, if you have no me, I must live and you must die , In very special circumstances, it may be possible to adopt a method of mutual destruction, such as Dong Cunrui's bombing of bunkers, but that is also for the survival of our army and the death of the enemy.In addition, when the two armies are at war, they should not be beheaded, civilians should be harmed as little as possible, and captives should not be killed or abused, etc. These are the most basic common sense.

When I was not in my prime, the way human beings deal with conflicts has been the saying "you live and I live".It was still the so-called "Cold War" period, and "you live and I live" was declared "revisionism" by our side, which is a "survival philosophy" that is contrary to "you live and I live".Having said that, at that time, the ambassadors of China and the United States in Warsaw, Poland, the two enemy countries, had already started secret contacts, and later they became more open, called "China-US Ambassador-level Regular Talks", and this kind of talks were held many times. It seems that they can never agree.But in 1972, U.S. President Nixon suddenly visited China and had a great conversation with Mao Zedong. Mao said that he liked the Republican Party in the United States and not the Democratic Party. Officially established diplomatic relations. Today, just the McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut all over the street, let us deeply appreciate the sweetness of "you live and I live" from the practice of "you eat and I eat". The meaning of this word can be summed up in two words: "win-win".

At the end of the last century, Fukuyama, a Japanese-born scholar who had mixed up in the United States, declared "the end of history."According to him, the "Cold War" is over, and the global value standard has become the same set that the West has implemented for many years, and human beings have entered a way of life since then.Huntington, another American scholar, published the "clash of civilizations theory", saying that although the original pattern of confrontation between the two camps has disappeared, conflicts between different spiritual circles will flourish again.Is Huntington "unfortunately speaking"?Not necessarily, and he himself does not admit that the current situation can be fitted into the framework of "clash of civilizations".The various civilizations he mentioned have human elements in them, and they can all find points of integration with each other.But the extreme wing of various beliefs has caused trouble. After the "September 11 Incident", a method of dealing with human conflicts became popular, that is, "I die and you die too", which means "die with you" in an old Chinese saying.Reports of "suicide attacks" can be seen in the media almost every week. The targets of "meat bomb" attacks are often not armed enemies, but civilians, tourists, including women and children.I have no research on "terrorism", so I don't dare to say too much, but I feel that there is no "ism" and the anger of "just die together" seems to have diffused into the daily existence around us, looking through the newspapers The local news pages are full of such market tragedies: it is not a big dispute, but it has caused both parties to lose or even die together.

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