Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 293 Wrong is Eternity
The sun has set, and there is a cool breeze blowing on my body, taking away the heat of the day.As the cool wind blows, the whole world seems to come alive all of a sudden.The cicadas on the trees stopped singing, and the dragonflies fluttered in the twilight.A few bats came out of nowhere and flew around.

Wang Xiaolie raised his head, looking at the world, suddenly felt a strange feeling.He ordered the soldiers to take the wine and vegetables, put them under the ginkgo tree, and drink quietly by themselves.In this night, while drinking, thinking about things.

When we are still a child, we learn a little knowledge from school, from adults, and from nature, and feel that we know what the world looks like all of a sudden.From books and learned people, I learned a little thought, and I felt that I knew how to live and how to govern the world.

As people grow up slowly, some people will understand how ridiculous and naive a child's thinking is.Some people always maintain the innocence of children, thinking that the world is so simple.The world is simple, and so are people. It is natural to live happily.

And when they were octogenarians, they sat under the tree at the entrance of the village, quietly watching the sun rise and set.In their eyes, it seems that this world is so novel that they can watch it until they die.If someone asks them what the world looks like, he will say that the world is actually very simple.The so-called complexity is only the complexity of people.

Is the world simple or complex?In fact, the world does not matter whether it is simple or complicated, the world is always like that.Can people change the world?Of course.Man himself is a part of the world, if he changes himself, he changes the world.Is human change important to the world or not?It should be said that it is probably not important.

After drinking a glass of wine, Wang Xiaolie sighed.Recently, I always like to sigh, because Wang Xiaolie found that after traveling through the millennium, there is actually no way to change the world all at once.Is there any way?Of course there are.However, it is very difficult to recognize this method and actually implement it.It is even said that it is no simpler than not knowing such a method.

Compared with this world, this world, sometimes human beings are really like children.You feel that you already know a lot, the laws of this world are very simple, and in your own eyes this world is also very simple.If you think about it like an adult, you will realize how little you know.Only when we are truly mature and able to extend our knowledge and seek the end of knowledge can we discover the insignificance of human beings and the infinity of the world.

In the previous life, someone often told a joke.On a number line, if you take a point, the probability of getting a rational number is zero, and the probability of getting an irrational number is one.In mathematics, you will never get a rational number, you will always get an irrational number.This is not sophistry, this is the conclusion of mathematics.It's just that for human common sense, this conclusion is a bit too incredible.

Things in this world are often like this.It is actually impossible to write an irrational number in a form that can be understood by humans. No matter how it is taken on the number axis, it will always be close to this number that cannot be confirmed by common sense.

A lot of knowledge is like this.A pound of one foot, take half of it every day, and it will last forever.This sentence in Zhuangzi contains philosophy, and sometimes later generations give it a high evaluation.But if you don't consider philosophy, just say what this sentence says.Will it last forever?Will not.Because hammer is composed of matter, and matter is composed of atoms or smaller units, the smallest unit always has a number, and there will always be a time to exhaust it.This is related to whether the world is continuous or quantized.Zhuangzi's words obviously think that the world is continuous, but the world is quantized.Take half of the day, how to take half?To take half, you need to know the exact ends.Even if matter is quantized, the two ends cannot be accurately determined in practice.If the two ends cannot be accurately determined, the midpoint cannot be correct, so it can only be half of the day.Even if the two ends are determined, can the real middle be taken?Practically impossible.The reason is similar to what I said before that it is never possible to get rational numbers on the number axis.

Most of the knowledge we can know, whether it is about nature, about people, or about society, is the same.It seems reasonable, but in fact it doesn't make sense to really diverge and extend.So does knowledge make sense?There are still.This is the degree.

To some extent, under certain conditions, this is true.If the speed is exceeded, or the conditions are not met, this principle is not correct.This sentence may seem like nonsense, but in fact, the vast majority of people do not realize this and cannot understand it.

Degrees are our observations of the world, and descriptions based on our observations.This is objective, it is related to people, and it conforms to both human understanding and the reality of the world.For example, this is red, that is white, this is hard, and that is soft.Degrees have no clear boundaries, and once a boundary is set, it is no longer a degree.The limit, however, cannot be determined.

In the process of understanding the natural world, this point may not be so important.To a certain extent, human beings' research on the natural world does not care too much about whether it is absolutely correct, but about relative correctness.But it is very important to have a clear understanding of human beings and society.

In my previous life, I had to learn a lot about politics, economics, geography, and history when I went to school.Especially in China, it is sometimes called Dragon Slaying Art by some people.Is this knowledge correct?Yes.But it must be noted that this correctness is limited and conditional, and it is not a truth that is truly universal.If you want to use the knowledge you have learned, you must clarify where the degree of the previous life is and where the degree of this world is.If it is not clear, these correct principles can sometimes become life-threatening poison.

It is often said that the economic base determines the superstructure.From the perspective of the long river of history, and from the perspective of human civilization as a whole, it is correct to say this.But when it comes to a certain point and a certain real society, this sentence is almost always incorrect.If the superstructure consciously adapts itself to the economic base and continuously reforms as the economic base changes, the country will be stable, it will develop, and the society will prosper.If we do not reform ourselves, the superstructure will become more and more unstable as the economic base changes.

This is the underlying logic of reform.It is not because we are backward now, we need to learn from advanced countries, we must learn from the experience of others, and carry out reforms.Although the country says that the reform is in progress, many people still don't understand why it is reformed.

In the eyes of many people, it is correct that the economic base determines the superstructure, so what kind of economic base there will be what kind of superstructure.They think this is self-evident, and whoever does not admit it has a problem with their knowledge and vision.But I don't know that the correctness of this sentence is not based on the fact that the real world is like this.In the real world, whether it is ancient or modern, this sentence does not match the truth.

We say that the world advances in waves and spirals upward.In the political, economic and social fields, it is true.However, it advances in waves, and whether there is a big difference between the peak and the trough, and whether the frequency is high or low.The same goes for an upward spiral.The core of the reason why this sentence is correct is actually advancing and rising, which shows that human society is not standing still, but advancing.But the impact on human beings is mostly inspiring at the low peaks, and there are high peaks when there are low peaks.

Why is this so?The paradoxical theory is one explanation, but not quite complete.Another explanation is that the laws we find out, we think that the correctness we find has its scope and degree.And with development, the reality will sooner or later exceed the previous speed.This is dynamic, not static.It’s not about being stable for ten years, nothing will change, and nothing will change after ten years.

To some extent, it is similar to the fact that we know that there must be rational numbers on the number line, but when we actually try to get them, we must get irrational numbers.Most of the truths we know, no matter how true, don't actually exist in reality.If you follow the principles rigidly, you can only do wrong.The teacher once criticized bookism, which is similar to this.

Only by understanding its spirit, drawing on its experience, and combining it with practice will there be a real way out.The principles learned in previous lives are to guide our world as it should be, not as it will be.

Logically speaking, the world is so simple.After hearing these principles, no matter who they are, they can talk eloquently, and they can also laugh at the people who do things from time to time. This is not right, and that is not right.The world is complicated when the truth is combined with the reality of the world.Logically speaking, it should be so, but it is so.It was obviously right to do so, but it backfired.

Wang Xiaolie thought that he had already dug a river in this world, so he should be able to gallop down and rush out of a big river.As a result, the small river hit the dam and there was no way out.This is the time to really test yourself.With this small river, can we break the dam in front and create a big river rushing down.

(End of this chapter)