Chapter 10 a prejudice

Prejudice can be said to be a vacation of the mind.It is the household use of the unthinking man, but the Sunday entertainment of the thinking man.If we can't hold prejudices and must be objective, fair, and serious anytime and anywhere, it's like building a house with only a living room and no bedroom, or like looking in a mirror in a bathroom and having to pose in front of the camera.The devil claimed in the twenty-seventh sentence of Dante's "Inferno": "It is best for the devil to be reasonable in his life." It can be seen that the establishment of hell is for this generation;Of course, the so-called righteousness and axioms are fundamentally prejudices.According to the common sense of physiology, the position of the human heart is not in the center, but a little sideways, and it is very fashionable to lean to the left.The ancients called the remote way "left way", which has quite a scientific basis.However, having said that, there are many opinions, such as academic theories, which still do not lose the so-called "biasing the center" in Zen Dongshan's "Ode to the Five Persons".Only the essays on the edge of life, the love letters when you are in love, etc., are the honest and happy one-sided views.The world is too vast. We keep our eyes open and look straight at the head, but our field of vision is still pitifully narrow. When a dog is staring at a fleshy bone, how can it be that there is a dog next to it?As for the so-called prejudice, it can only be compared with aiming at a target, looking at it with one eye.However, some people think that this is the view of aiming at the heart of things.For example, Plato defined human beings as follows: "Man is also a biped without feathers." It can be said to be extremely objective!However, according to the second chapter of the sixth volume of "Philosophical Words and Deeds" by Diogenes laertius from Greece, someone took a plucked (or bird) to question Plato.The clown in Beaumarchais's "Mariage de Figaro" ((Mariage de Figaro)) said: "People drink when they are not thirsty, and they are animals with sexual desires in all seasons." We know that it is a drunken and lustful little face. And I have to admit that this kind of paradox really speaks to the root of a part of human beings. The two words extreme are originally connected; , no matter the cold or heat, the animal that makes a sound." So why not?

Birds chirp in spring, gnats sing in autumn, mosquitoes thunder in summer, insects wake up at night and birds sleep, wind and rain don’t come every day, dogs don’t bark when no one comes, and don’t report if they don’t lay eggs (and birds).Only humans use language, actions, and machinery to make sounds anytime, anywhere.Even when he is alone in a room and has nothing to answer, he can play the phonograph, listen to the radio, and even snort like thunder when he sleeps.Of course language is not just sound, but in languages ​​that are not pleasant to the ear, unwilling to listen to, or hard to hear through walls and distances, the words lose their angles and outlines, and become a mass of noise that rises and shrinks, following ( And bird) Ming dog bark also lacks meaning.This is the so-called "human sound"!It kills sleep, shakes thoughts, and fosters neurasthenia.

After all, this world is ruled by human beings.The human voice trumps everything.The thousands of mouthpieces gathered in nature cannot match the noise of two people talking at the same time, at least from the ears of a third person.The famous line in Tang Zixi's "Drunk Sleep" poem "The mountain is as quiet as ancient times" probably refers to the ancient times before human beings appeared. Otherwise, monks lived on the mountain, tourists came down from the mountain, and restaurants and teahouses were opened in the middle of the mountain. The mountain would never be allowed to be quiet.The sound of man is fatal to silence, but the sound of nature can be integrated with silence.The sound of the wind and the waves are to silence, just as the wind is to the air, and the waves are to the sea, one is two.Every day when the east turns white, we have come back from our dreams but are still sleepy, and we will hear countless bird sounds greeting the morning.Then the night was not yet over, and the silence lingered to shelter the undiscovered sleep.The chirping of countless sparrows is so trivial that it seems to pierce the silence; the voice of the magpie is as clear as a pair of scissors, and the voice of the old stork is stagnant and sharp like a saw. Come try the edge.But the silence seems too thick, too fluid, too elastic, and the floating surface that was broken by the birds is filled immediately.The male (also bird) announced the dawn melodiously, but did not leave a sound track on the silence.Gradually, we forget that the birdsong is destroying the silence; it seems that the silence has absorbed the birdsong and turned it into a silence with sound.At this time, as long as there is the crying of a neighbor's child, the coughing of a sleeping person upstairs, or the footsteps of an early walker outside the wall, the silence is like the morning sun in Cebu, broken and dispersed.The sound of people has risen, and personnel affairs have resumed. You can never think about being more settled.When you are tired at night, or when you are thinking hard, you will suddenly hear the noise of people. The most philanthropic humanitarian may sometimes feel murderous, wishing to silence you with Borgen.All the sounds of nature, such as animals, wind and waves, can live in harmony with silence, and the ancient poets who are good at objects have already realized it. : "Xiao Xiao Ma Ming, leisurely Jingjing", the following will explain "there is no sound"; it can be seen that the horse neighs but no one shouts, and there will be no noise. "Yan's Family Instructions" also pointed out that Wang Ji's famous sentence "the forest is quieter with the noise of cicadas, and the mountain with birdsong is more secluded", which means "there is no sound"; the noise of insects and birds adds to the tranquility.Shelley's poem "To Jane A Recollection" (To Jane A Recollection) describes the woodpecker, and also said that the bird pecks the mountain to make it more secluded.Coleridge's poem "Eolian Harp" says: "The sound of the sea is far and quiet, and it seems to tell me to be quiet." If this sea is a sea of ​​people, the poet must be deaf and have a headache.Therefore, we often compare "crows and sparrows" to the loudness of human voices, and it is still a song that protects human beings three-pointedly.Often comparing the chatter and laughter of a group of women to "Yings and Swallows" is simply an insult to birds.

Silence is not the absence of sound.The absence of sound is death, not silence; so Dante said that in hell, even the sun is silent (Dove il sol tace).Silence can be said to be a transparent state of hearing, just as emptiness can be said to be silent in vision.Silence can make people hear voices that are usually inaudible. It makes moralists hear the whisper of conscience (Still small voice), and makes poets hear the latent movement of twilight or the faint sound of sprouting grass.The more noise you can hear, the less you can hear it.It's just that human beings are so noisy, so when human beings gather together and stay silent, it's not natural.For example, the five minutes of silence before a meeting, or like relatives and friends reunited after a long absence, holding hands and being silent.This stillness is pregnant, full of unspoken movements.

Renlai is also scary.Although the cars and horses are noisy, they are on the same level as you, and only make noise around you.Only people will focus on your mind and make trouble on top of you—for example, you live downstairs and someone lives upstairs.Not to mention anything else, just the sound of footsteps is enough to make you feel like Aunt Zhao in the movie, someone is kicking your head.Every time you can't bear it anymore, you will make two great wishes.I wish that I, who live downstairs, become the so-called "citizens of Xingtian", with my brain born under my chest, so that I won't bear the brunt of being trampled by the leather shoes upstairs.Second, may the people living upstairs become like Christian "angels" or angels, whose body ends at the waist, with two wings on their backs, and walk without legs.You have good intentions, you don't want the man upstairs to suffer like Sun Bin, even though he never cared about your mind, that you are "a soul damaged by noise" as Rodenbach said?

Loudness and heat, quietness and coldness are all related; so in the gloomy hell, the sun also gives people a sense of loneliness.With noisy people, the cold room will turn into a hot pot, which makes people feel irritable.Schopenhauer's "Parerga und Paralipomena" (Parerga und Paralipomena) said in the 278th section that thinkers should be deaf, which is very reasonable.Because the ears are not deaf, you must hear the sound, and the sound is lively, it is difficult to keep a calm mind, and the thinking will not be fair, and prejudice can only be replaced.At that time, you forgot that you yourself are a noisy animal. You also kicked the head of the person downstairs, and yelled so that the person next door could not think and sleep. Another prejudice has been added, and another bet on the edge of life.