Chapter 62 Anti-wisdom is not as good as adultery

The fall of idols has always been the most exciting historical moment. One of the happiest things people did during the French Revolution was to destroy the equestrian statue of Louis XV. Napoleon occupied Egypt and bombarded the Sphinx. When the U.S. military entered Baghdad, the most impressive scene for TV viewers around the world was that the statue of Saddam Hussein was dragged, and the boss reluctantly fell to the dust.The common people often say: "There is no big tile-roofed house that will not leak for ten years!" Similarly, I am afraid that there is no idol that will never fail, especially the big brother who will soon conquer the world.Since the establishment of modern civilization, authoritarianism has declined, and the teaching of "no idols" has been basically implemented, but there is a ceremony of raising and lowering the flag to replace it.People's emotions always need a little symbol, something exciting.

Today's idols have changed their minds, often referring to cuties who are good at entertaining people, just like heroes are often referring to guys who achieve success but do not display high spirits.Arsene Wenger, the head coach of the Arsenal club, said: "In the Premier League, you only need to play well for two weeks, and they will tout you as a star, but once you become a star, they are ready to tear you apart." The words make it clear: people need idols, just like rich people need yachts.Buying a yacht can be fun for two days. The day you buy it and the day you sell it, there are two times when people really enjoy spending on idols. The first time is to set up idols, and the second time is to kill idols.For example, Britney Spears suddenly gathered hundreds of millions of favors and was suddenly ridiculed by the world. Did someone actually hit the glass in your house?

The piety of idol worship seems to be in direct proportion to the fanaticism of destroying idols.my country is a country with an ancient civilization, and countless sculptures were killed during the "Cultural Revolution".France is also a country with an ancient civilization. During the Great Revolution, the citizens of Paris adhered to "Vandalism", which is actually barbarism. They destroyed churches everywhere, and the statues in Notre Dame de Paris were smashed to pieces.The Library of Alexandria was once a relic of Western civilization, and it can be regarded as one of the holy land idols. Its destroyer also came from an ancient civilization. The general once left a famous sentence: "If the books here conflict with each other, they should be burned. Or if it is consistent with it, it is useless and should be burned."

Breaking something, burning a house, just think about it, and you know it must be very cool.I've always suspected that couples who throw things around during an argument actually enjoy it.But we have already entered into civilized regulation, and basically have a little common sense, knowing that it is boring and stupid to specialize in destruction.So, what else can one destroy, and enjoy it without the consequences? In my experience of living in the world, the answer is: intellectual or intellectual class.Generally speaking, people respect intelligence when they can discern what it is.The problem is that people don't always discern, and intelligence tends to get entangled with other things.For example, in a normal society, knowledge and authority are integrated; in an abnormal society, knowledge will be suppressed by authority.What is the attitude of people toward authority, or something like that?I think that's often the source of people's opposition to intellectuality at certain times.

In the past two years, "elite" has gradually become a bad word in the Chinese context.If someone says, "Your family is an elite", it is almost equivalent to saying that your family is a shit family.I think this is really a muddled account.If public opinion sees real estate developers as greedy and the economist "elite" speaks for them, I have no objection to the idea that they are complicit in certain instances.However, if it is concluded that the elites have read their books into the minds of dogs, and their intelligence is completely a tool for committing crimes, I absolutely cannot agree.Or the common people said it well: "You can't knock down a boat of people with one pole!" After all, the house is not said to be expensive by several people, right?

As for some people who especially hate the "elite face", it is even more far-fetched to criticize them from time to time.What kind of face do you do to you?In my great hometown in the Northeast, many years ago, fighting was a common occurrence, and one of the most common reasons was "You pretend to be B!" This matter has nothing to do with me. To be fair: Pretending to be B is a human right.The crux of the problem still lies in the one mentioned above: did he hit the glass in your house? All of these can be collectively called "anti-intellectualism".If it is anti-mentally retarded, I support it.Knowledge and authority are two different things, and so are authority and authority.If someone goes against the sky, against the ground, and against the air in the middle, I don't think he is a grassroots spokesperson, he is a dictator.

It is worth calculating what we have lost and what we have gained because of anti-intellectualism.If we start with the liquidation of the elite since the end of the Qing Dynasty, and take the most popular literature as an example, we have lost that kind of great works, but what we get seems to be a bunch of rubbish on the Internet, or some people have become famous, Just because he wrote about sleeping with everything.The ancients advocated "prostitution without evil". I really can't understand this statement. People with IQs over 80 will be evil when they are promiscuous. What's wrong with being evil?The problem is, that alone is not enough.Like anti-intellectualism, adultery is just an instinct, not a skill.