Chapter 25 Do not learn from Hong Kong's "housekeeper culture"

Fifty years later, when people look back, the poverty of academic thought in China today, including literature, will be clearly seen.In the past few decades, there has been no one in China, no decent writers, no decent thinkers.Qian Zhongshu, Han Han, what are they?They are blown like this, but in fact there is nothing seriously original, at most a little cleverness!China's academic and cultural circles are kneeling spiritually, so how could there be original characters?Originality needs to stand. I once heard a joke: when Habermas came, everyone was vying for who would shake his hand first, which is really useless.So I sent a group email asking: Who is Habermas?Someone jumped out and said: You are so ignorant, you don't even know who Habermas is!He couldn't see the irony of my words.

What's so great about shaking hands with Habermas?There are always "three ha" - Hayek, Havel and Habermas.Respecting the "three ha" as such an intellectual class, how can they have their own original things? If we look at it in a few decades, our descendants will feel ashamed and shamed by the ideological poverty of this era: nothing!Qian Zhong wrote "Guan Zhui Pian" and "Talking about Art Records". What kind of remarkable thing is that?It's just so-so, so it's praised like this.Han Han is even more ineffective, he just sold a post-80s side door.

Regarding the influence of the system on the originality of thought, I once wanted to write an article called "Hong Kong's Butler Studies".Because I have been in contact with Hong Kong people, I have a particularly deep feeling that 95% of their so-called "academics" are citing foreign sayings, what foreign A said, foreign B said, foreign C said, they have used up all ,not enough.Then 5% of myself say something that doesn't make any sense.But we in mainland China still follow suit, thinking that this is the case with Western academic standards.Let's say with conscience that there is a lot of nonsense in Western academics today, but not to the extent of Hong Kong, including Latin American countries. I have also met some of them. to the key.

Why is it called Butler Science?We know that the salary of professors in Hong Kong is very high, which should be among the highest in the world, much higher than that of professors in the United States.I think this is the result of British colonization—the British are well versed in the way of colonization. They probably know very well that the Chinese respect scholars very much. Even the common people will put away the writing paper for you and send them to the Confucian Temple to be burned. High salaries are well-received by the people.But there is one thing, you are a slave, you can't have your own independent thinking, I support you, I can let you wear bright clothes, but you can't think about things.The British have to do it themselves, this is the job of the master.After thinking about it, the master will tell you that you can translate it into words that Chinese people can understand.But in fact, they didn't even do a good job of translation, and the Chinese couldn't understand it.I met an official who came back from training in the UK and said how Chinese intellectuals translated all the words that the British understand well into incomprehensible.I said this is called playing tricks. In fact, he didn't even understand the very simple truth, so he deliberately translated it in a cloudy way, so that you can't see him through.

The mainland has followed Hong Kong's path. There are reasons for blind worship of the West, and there are also reasons for the Chinese system itself.It's similar to what the British colonists thought, and I think it's really a tragedy.The British colonists are not of the same nation as you, but the Chinese officials are of the same nation as us, so we really shouldn’t turn mainland academics into “housekeeping academics”. Hong Kong's "butler learning" was originally the worst kind of learning, and now the mainland has learned it.99% of the papers written by college teachers are all nonsense, meaningless, they create a bunch of irrelevant concepts, and then put these concepts in this way and that, go around, arrange and combine, it is considered a "paper" .What's even more ridiculous is that some painting critics, who have worked so hard to comment on the painting, after writing the last word, look back and find that they can't understand it.This bizarre phenomenon also occurs in articles written by Chinese university professors. After writing, I can’t understand it anymore, and I don’t know what I want to say, because I didn’t want to say anything at first, it’s just nonsense, cheating money!China's current academic adulteration is much more serious than Sanlu.There is a joke on the Internet that Sanlu mixes milk powder with melamine. In fact, today’s academics in China are mixing milk powder with melamine. In the end, basically no milk powder is mixed, and it is all melamine. It directly sells melamine as milk powder.

In this world, the masters of social science should come from China, because China's social changes are the largest in the world, and it is a big stage.All major dramas are actually staged on the Chinese stage in a very short period of time.I remember that time I scolded Ding Xueliang: "Chinese economists may be very bad, but there is one thing. They are based on actual combat. What are you, Ding Xueliang? Have you ever fought in actual combat? If you say that others are not qualified, you are not qualified That time I said to Yang Fan on Blog China: "We have to scold you if you scold, you are not qualified to scold, because this is a matter between us masters. Masters can scold masters, but you are a housekeeper scolding masters, what do you know? ?”

How many battles have been fought and how many dramas have been staged by the Chinese in the past 100 years? How can the West and the United States compare with China?But it is this group of so-called "mainstream elites" who say that our understanding of the local area is worthless.Even Yu Yingshi (although his own problems are serious) can't stand this point. He said that according to his own experience, the Chinese can make a fortune in the West, and they will definitely be able to solve China's problems and speak Chinese words. Western academics are also very poor, of course they are better than "butler academics".We still remember the "Sokal incident" in 1996 - Alan Sokal, a quantum physicist at New York University, collected a fake paper that was completely nonsense and fabricated a lot of concepts, and sent it to a famous cultural studies journal " Social Text", titled "Beyond the Boundaries: Towards a Transformal Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", wanted to test the academic honesty of the editors, and the editors did.After it was posted, the young physicist laughed and said that I am playing with you. My article is all nonsense and has no meaning at all. It is fake. Do you think your knowledge is true?Do you have discernment?Know which makes sense and which doesn't?

If a nation or a society has a big goal to do big things, you will find that I don't have time to talk about such nonsense.We have to do practical things, one is one, two is two, including some science and engineering academic corruption will immediately go through the gang.For example, the Hanxin counterfeiting incident that caused great shock in 2006.If there is really a big goal, I am not doing Hanxin to announce the good news, but to follow the goal step by step, and to mass produce, then it will be ruined in one fell swoop.In mass production, you can't use American chips to grind out the words, right?That cost is too high.So the big goal is actually very important. If you really set a big goal, this kind of nonsense, this kind of fake and shoddy, will immediately give you away.