Chapter 6 really lost

In the third year of junior high school, I went to Beijing with my family. That was the first time I saw so many foreigners.In the Summer Palace, in Beihai Park, anywhere, whenever I see a foreigner pointing his camera at a Chinese in ragged clothes, a thought must pop up in my mind: this grandson wants to expose our The dark side!So I immediately turned my camera on the poor tourist with hostility.This kind of confrontation is very effective, and those foreigners usually give up shooting in bewilderment.It was the late Cold War, the President of the United States was still Reagan, and in my favorite readings of all kinds, the interpretation of history is always based on the simplest logic of struggle.At that time, I didn't know what the civil service system was, nor did I know what Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism was, and I knew nothing about the history of my country.But I not only think I know history, but also think that my motherland needs my protection, and every foreign tourist may have ulterior motives.

It took me years to figure out that those foreigners just wanted to take some exotic photos.It was natural to do the same when I went abroad much later.I also realize that nationalism is not an inevitable feature of adolescence, although the backbone of similar trends is always young people.I once photographed a man lying drunk on the street in Tokyo, but no Japanese boy gave me Rotten Tomatoes. The me I am today is completely different from what I used to be.I think that in China, the sign of being noble is that ideals are the same as when you were a child, but the sign of being smart is that the way you understand the world is vastly different from that time.I ceased to be a nationalist, and on the contrary, I became a member of the group most opposed to narrow nationalist sentiments.As I reflect on my past, I feel like I've been pulled from a catastrophe.

Another change I have made is that I have become more cautious when expressing my opinions. Every time I have to think in advance: Do I understand this matter?So I don't like guys who talk too much.A friend started a blogging platform. Thanks to the love, I was invited to play, but I was not very interested. The only reason was that the people there were too talkative.When I was in middle school, I complacently published several "argumentative papers" in some middle school students' magazines. Whether "Chen Fan sweeps the world without sweeping a house" or "Lower Liba people are also art", I have a lot of insights—that is Another disaster I've been through.Now, I have to hide from places with argumentative papers every day.

I don't have a problem with the chatter per se - I just don't want to read it - I just hope there is more common sense and less creativity in the chatter.A basic rule is that the more common sense a society has, the less gossip it will have.If there are fewer false words, there will be fewer false actions.Lying is only disturbing, but acting is worrying. For example, I think all kinds of excessive nationalist remarks are falsehoods, and what narrow nationalists want to do is falsehood.The scariest thing in the world is that in an environment that lacks common sense, some people who lack common sense are confident in their own abilities, firmly believe in their own value system, and are also deeply proud of their moral passion.If these people are in power, it can lead to widespread tragedies, such as two world wars.If these people were ordinary people, then the disaster would be less, and it would only lead to the annihilation of wisdom-we must have wisdom, otherwise why would we always destroy some at will?

What is even more frightening is the combination of the above two. Such tragedies have not only happened once or twice in Chinese history. Sometimes I think pessimistically, when will our level of understanding surpass "boycott something"?When will some patriots stop calling a person who disagrees with them but has not betrayed the interests of the country as a "traitor"?When I think about it this way, I feel that time flies, but we don’t seem to have entered the era of globalization. Everyone is still living in my third year of junior high school, staring warily at foreign tourists with cameras.Sometimes I think about it purely from a technical point of view. In fact, this is just caused by our poor Chinese education level.Quite a few of us here have very little vocabulary, which makes their speech always violent and monotonous.

I don't think there is such a thing as "independent thinking" in this world, unless this "independent" refers to a standpoint, not a way of thinking.We always think about things using some insights we learn from other people - but everyone has good and bad ways of thinking. For example, some people learned their insights from Adam Smith, while others learned from his second uncle. I don’t favor one over the other, and I must think that the former is more reliable in looking at problems than the latter.But I think, if someone learns from Adam Smith and his second uncle, and compares the two, he will definitely become a relatively smart person.If he stubbornly believes in his second uncle, but is unwilling to get close to the wisdom accumulated by mankind for thousands of years, or if he rarely has the opportunity to hear contradictory views in his life, but has a strong desire to act, then in terms of his life , I can't list anything more dangerous than this.