Chapter 8 superiors and inferiors

One day, a person asked me a question: "Why are people in industry and business, all kinds of people doing practical things in this era, very optimistic about the status quo, while some intellectuals are always dissatisfied?" I replied that I can give you a complex and superficial answer: People in the economic world are interested in money first, and their satisfaction will increase when they get money, just as power lovers will feel that the world is very beautiful when they get power; good knowledge Molecules are not sensitive to money and power, but care about the development of intelligence. If they see that their intelligence is dusty, they will be disappointed.I can also give a concise and profound answer: no matter what industry, satisfaction comes from lack of vision.As the saying goes, appreciate the precision of this sentence but forgive its harshness, a dog cannot raise its head.

This question can also be understood in another way.From a personal point of view, there are two most important issues in life. One is what we want to do when we come to this world, and the other is what we encounter when we come to this world.what do i want to doI want to live in a clean Chinese-speaking place like Japan, surrounded by a bunch of smart and characterful people.What did I encounter?I've run into situations where it's almost impossible to do what I want to do.Then the next question is, if someone gives me hundreds of millions of dollars, will I become satisfied? The only correct answer is "Thanks, no, please go away." A self-respecting person will not accept money that is not his own, let alone allow himself to be bought.You can't call that curmudgeon, in my twenties I was more grumpy than I am now, but I had more distractions than I do now.Innocence does not necessarily coincide with youth, just as Bob Dylan said, "I was so old then, and now I am younger than then."

Character divides people, whether they like it or not, into superiors and inferiors.For example, a person who yells at a child is definitely inferior, a person who wants to fuck a girl but says "I love you" to her is definitely inferior, and most importantly, a person who is dishonest is definitely inferior people.Roughly speaking, if you enumerate 50 characteristics of an inferior person, and none of them match, you are an upper class person.However, the best criterion for distinguishing the two is that the "what do you want to do when you come to this world" of the inferior people can be redeemed, but those of the superior people are irreplaceable.

Vulgar economics often says that "everything has a price", except life. A question designed for this is: If someone bought your wife's night with a million dollars, would you be willing?If not, how about 100 million yuan?To me, this is a typical problem of inferior people. Where does the added value of "Wife's Night" come from?Is this "one night" related to "virginity", or is it related to "self-esteem", or even related to "belief"?If it is related to self-esteem, the value can be multiplied infinitely, but there is a problem for the seller: are you sure you are shameless?There is also a question for the buyer: why buy someone else's self-esteem when you don't have it yourself?

If "one night" is just one night, the problem is even simpler. I don't think anyone's wife is worth a million dollars a night. The price is determined by supply and demand, and free is almost the same.Students who study this kind of topic not only take money too seriously, but also take their wives too seriously.It's a bit like a close-minded family digging up a streamlined object in the yard and thinking to themselves, how much would the rich people in the city pay for this antique?Later, it was identified that there were plenty of this thing in the supermarket, and it was a Coke bottle.

When I was young, my grandfather asked me: "What do you want to do in this life?" You must go out into the world, see the world, and eat popsicles.Now I have discovered that the most delicious popsicles in the world for me are Huanggu ice cream from Shenyang and Beibingyang double sticks from Beijing, both of which cost 1 yuan each.In addition, I have seen a little of the world, not in travel and communication, but at the edge of human intelligence.Year after year, the value of everything in the world is constantly reordered in my mind.I have learned how to be happy in something other than utility.I have read two lines by Wallace Stevens, which describe how useless use overcomes the order of reality:

This is a poem, word for word, taking the place of a mountain. I think what it says is that the human spirit is real and can be as real as a mountain.Perhaps this is what a part of the upper class "want to do in this world".Make them happy with our vulgar world?Never think about it.They may have a certain belief, or they may just be trying their best to do what the Western proverb calls "holding their heads up."All I can report to my grandpa is: This is the world as I've seen it.