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Chapter 6 revaluation of all

A century of thinking 龙应台 754Words 2018-03-18
What we are encountering today seems to be an era of "anything goes".From the era of unitary value, enter an era of multiple values.But, in fact, everything is allowed, which probably means that nothing is allowed: if you have the right to know, I lose the right to keep secret; if you have the freedom to plunder, I lose the freedom not to be plundered.Liberation does not necessarily mean true freedom, but a disguised bondage.And does the diversity of value mean that there is no need to stick to the value?I think of course not. What we are facing is definitely not a question of giving up value, but a huge test of "all values ​​must be revalued"; the revaluation of all values ​​happens to be the title of a book by Nietzsche, which means that he was confused in his time .What a difficult task it is to reassess value. It must be a mature society, or in other words, the people in the society have the ability to think and make mature value judgments before they can undertake this task.

So back to the starting point of today's conversation.If you can’t see the reflection in the poplar tree, don’t know where the starry sky is, and haven’t seen the desert rose, and you graduated from the Department of Politics; after twenty-five years, you don’t know what literature is, what philosophy is, history What, or worse, you can write poetry, play the piano, have a Ph.D. and yet be superstitious about yourself and worship power, so please, don't go into politics!I think our society needs "sincere and sympathetic" politicians, but it is full of greedy, rude and vulgar politicians.There is a very, very important difference between politicians and politicians. This difference, in my opinion, is the presence or absence of humanistic qualities.

Twenty-five years later, let's meet here again.At that time, I was sitting under the stage, looking at the vast expanse of gray hair and shaking teeth; the high-spirited presidential candidate was sitting on the stage.What I hope to hear is what you think about the world after reading the original classics to the best of your ability. I hope to see how you take our society out of the maze of history with broad-mindedness and foresight—even though we are forever A bigger maze - and identify the location of the starry sky for the next century. This is a very "pre-modern" conversation, but I think, before we have our own "modern", we don't have to catch up with others to talk about "post-modern" for the time being!Go your own way, step by step.

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