Chapter 3 Give political economy a good weekend
More than a month ago, Dai Tian wrote "Small Knowledge of Civil and Military Affairs", saying that "Ming Pao Monthly" has added a lot of new content recently.He also said: "The so-called literature includes history, culture, thought, art, etc., focuses on in-depth development, and traces back to the source and flow, so as to know the direction of the trend, and shape the right from wrong, the principles, the prioritization, the distinction A complete personality that is beautiful, ugly, and reasonable." He thinks this is "a categorical speech and behavior" and "although there are tens of thousands of people, I will go to it"!
Xiao Dai's ink was still wet, and Jin Hengwei from Taipei wrote to say that the new publication they planned has taken shape. It is a comprehensive journal with ideas, knowledge, literature and art. The first issue includes Michel Foucault's album.I was very happy to hear that, and felt that a magazine with a broad cultural vision finally appeared in Taiwan. I also thought that intellectuals in mainland China should be able to hold the same ideal and create a magazine with wisdom and vision.Yesterday, Hengwei's "Contemporary" really came out, and the inside page of the cover is "The First Hoe to Rediscover the Source of Culture" by Mr. Yu Yingshi.Mr. Yu's short few hundred words, like evening drums and morning bells, make people rejoice that the noise has not been drowned out in this era.He said: "Taiwan's economy has already entered the stage of modernization, and the education of ordinary citizens has reached the level of a developing society. However, the depth, height and breadth of culture and thought cannot match the economy and education. Most journals They seem to pay more attention to specific practical issues, and don't care much about many transcendent and ethereal issues that actually touch the deepest soul of modern people."
Mr. Yu's laments are not unfamiliar to anyone who is sober in Hong Kong society: the sporadic cultural wellsprings that have been unearthed in Hong Kong were first polluted by uric acid from the colonialists; It has become a pool of stagnant water; now, the last garden of roses transplanted from London is beginning to wither, and the dead leaves are floating on the surface of the pool of Hong Kong culture, and the marble and ebony cut out by sickles and axes cannot be built into small bridges and gazebos, and they are piled up around the pool in vain. Sloppy!It is also a picture of a cultural crisis.It is not difficult for cultural people to understand the human mood of "doing nothing when working hard to make a living". However, they are still not willing to rely on the worldly state of "picking melons in the morning and reading at night".
I have never doubted the practical significance of politics; I have always affirmed the power and value of economics.However, political and economic calculations are about how to sustain until one o'clock at noon on this Saturday; cultural ideals create a spiritual world that can be extended to the next century! "All the prosperity of the world is for profit; all the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit": From Monday to Saturday at one o'clock at noon, politics and economics might as well compete for some applause in the midst of adversity; Do it, it's time to listen to the ethereal sound of flower sellers in the deep alley after the rain.In this way, what Mr. Yu Yingshi said about "our spiritual pain of being homeless" may not have to be so profound and ridiculous.
May 1986