Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 522 The Classroom of Civilization

On the Canglang Island, Wang Xiaolie and Wang Yan chatted while drinking.Talking about their respective experiences and perceptions in the past few years, discussing the situation in the world.Before I knew it, it was afternoon.

In recent months, Wang Xiaolie has been deeply touched.Talking to Wang Yan today, I feel much more relaxed.

From the very beginning, I was full of confidence, thinking that with the knowledge of the previous life, there is still a place in the world where I can be difficult for myself?Later, when I really did things according to my own wishes, I realized that it was not the case at all.It wasn't until a few days ago that officials were recruited to let them understand the folks that they suddenly had a different feeling.This feeling is very strange, so Wang Xiaolie didn't say many things that he wanted to say, and didn't do what he should do.

When people live in this world, there are many things that cannot be deeply thought about.Once you think about it deeply, you will find that this world is very different from the world you knew before, as if you don't know it at all.If you can't break through this barrier, you will fall into confusion.

The current Wang Xiaolie clearly felt this barrier, and he hadn't broken through yet if he wanted to break through.

When Xiangyang's forces developed and became more and more independent, and Wang Xiaolie really started to manage a country, he suddenly discovered some problems that he hadn't noticed before.The more I think about these issues, the more complicated they become, and I can't figure them out for a while.

When thinking about and arranging a regime as a person, as time goes by, you will find that this person becomes clearer and clearer.When we attribute the country's policies and destiny to the destiny, even if we insist that the destiny must come from the people, we will feel that the destiny is becoming more and more realistic.

This feeling is getting more and more oppressive, sometimes making Wang Xiaolie a little at a loss.In the end, I decided not to think about these problems that are too far away from myself in a short period of time, but to focus on reality.

If our understanding of the real world is pushed towards the two directions of the minimum and the maximum, or if we add time, we will go to the end of time according to our understanding, and we will find a different world.The world is so different that it is often unacceptable.

For example, when quantum mechanics emerged, Einstein firmly refused to believe it, saying that God would not play dice.Because this quantum world is too far from Einstein's understanding of the world, it is unacceptable.

This is true of natural science, but how much of it is true of human learning?Don't say that at the end of time, a set of theories, pushed down to everyone, pushed up to the country or civilization, will change its appearance.

When a set of theories reaches the end of time, it is discovered that it has a different face from the real world.So, is the world wrong, or is human understanding wrong?Most of the time, humans can't give the right answer.

When the correct answer cannot be given, don't force the answer, but move forward steadily.Forcibly give the answer, just like the God of European civilization, only asking you whether you believe it or not.This is not the attitude that Chinese civilization should have.

Most of the knowledge of past lives is shrouded in the influence of European civilization.In the universe, how far have humans traveled, and how many places have they known?How can you give an answer?In fact, whether it is the theory of the big bang that occurred in the universe, or the theory of evolution of human beings' self-knowledge, they are all hypotheses.Wang Xiaolie does not object to this hypothesis, but now realizes that it must be clearly stated that this is a hypothesis rather than the truth.

This is true for natural science, and even more so for human learning.No matter what theories are, if you say you have explained the past of people clearly and also predicted the future of people, this kind of theory is unreliable.

The study of people must be done around people.How are the people living, are they doing well?What dissatisfaction do they have, what hope do they have, and what kind of life do they want to live.What people thought in the past, what they think now, and what they will think in the future.

Human learning cannot revolve around God.No matter what people are like in reality, they make various assumptions, set up various logics, assume many preconditions, and then explain the past and look forward to a future.Finally, let me talk about how comprehensive my knowledge is, how thorough I am, and how bright the future is.If you can't do it, say it's the people who can't do it, and you should reform the people.

When there is a God in all theories, there is no problem in man's learning around God.If not, there is a problem.

In Chinese civilization, there does not exist an all-knowing and omnipotent God, and it is impossible to do this kind of learning.If you study history, you have to study how people in the past lived, what they were thinking, and how did they live?What kind of life do they want to live?If we study the present, we need to study how people live in reality, what are they thinking, and how are people living?What kind of life do people want to live.

During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Chinese civilization fell to the bottom, and almost everyone in the world bullied it.At that time, it was no problem for intellectuals to stand up bravely and clamor to transform the spirit of civilization and our culture.Because it is such an era, because we are facing such a predicament, and because we are facing such a desperate reality.But are these people right?That's not necessarily the case.

When China emerges from the bottom of the valley and no longer allows others to bully it, and gains self-confidence, it is of course necessary to re-examine the world.Many things are of course different from the views of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.If it is still the same, then there is a big problem with Chinese civilization.

China has been catching up with advanced civilization for nearly 200 years. It has resisted, hesitated, learned, and even obeyed.But in the end, it is destined to go another way.This road has nothing to do with doctrine or thought, it is a road of Chinese civilization.

In Chinese civilization, there are two words that are not easy to bypass.About nature, about man and nature, one word.About the country, about the people, about the people themselves, a word of heaven.

What is the greatest significance of New China to Chinese civilization?It is to pull the heavens down from the high and illusory, and place them among the largest and most reliable people.Everything depends on the people, everything is for the people, this is the new way of heaven.

New China was established by the People's Liberation Army, not by intellectuals.When Chinese civilization fell to the bottom and Eastern and Western civilizations collided, the performance of Chinese intellectuals was not satisfactory.Most people neither understand Chinese civilization nor Western civilization.They just learned some knowledge from Western civilization, and they feel that they are superior in thought and can come back to enlighten Chinese civilization.

Learn western knowledge, science and technology are better, originally there is not much conflict between European civilization and Chinese civilization.As for human knowledge, it is hard to say.What should be learned is what are the shortcomings of China, what difficulties are faced, understand the humanistic knowledge of the West, which can help oneself to improve, which are irrelevant, and which should be avoided.But the vast majority of people don't know what difficulties China is facing, nor do they know what Western humanities knowledge is about.Instead, they learned it all at once, and boldly said that they wanted to transform Chinese civilization.

What ancient Greek thought is the light of reason that enlightens Europe into modern times, what is metaphysics, what philosophy guides science, what are the city-state citizens of ancient Greece and Rome, democracy and freedom.It doesn't count if you have learned these superficial facts, but you have to use the superficial knowledge you have learned to explain Chinese civilization.Reinterpret Chinese history, reinterpret Chinese thought, aloof, one of a kind, and hideous.

They themselves weaved a set of knowledge of civilization, such as the ancient city-states and citizens, the aristocratic republic, and the many small countries, it was as if it was real.Part of it is painted according to the pattern handed down from ancient Greece and Rome, and part of it is imagined by myself.It is said that if it is like this, civilization will not fall behind.They completely forgot that there was a dark Middle Ages in Europe, where not only witches were burned, but scientists were also burned.

If Wenming were a person, how would it feel to see the students who paid a huge price and sent out with full of hope learn these things after learning these things?Will you be disappointed to say, what have you learned!

If civilization has reached a certain level, a test is required.So different civilizations have different test papers, and of course the content of the test is also different.As a student, the first step is of course to examine the questions.Because the questions are difficult and I don’t know how to answer them, I send some people to study in other civilizations’ examination rooms to see how others answer them.As a result, the person who came back said that the answer to the first question was B, and the second question was C, and so on.What is the use of such an answer in your own exam?Learning should not be about seeing what other people's exam questions are, how they answered, and why they answered in this way.Their answer, why this is right and that is wrong.Only in this way is it useful.

Looking at the establishment of New China, through the various narratives of the left and the right, we can find that if we do not seriously study the reality of China, but only focus on learning from foreign countries, we will always fail.Only those who seriously study the reality of China can succeed.

The teacher's thinking is the Sinicization of Maism, and many people can't understand what is Sinicization.Even fewer people can realize that the most important thing is Sinicization, not the previous content.

If we go back to ancient times, how can we save China?If it was elementary school, he would say the answers in the books.Enter capitalism in advance, and even go one step further, enter what ism in advance.If you grow older, there will be people who want to reform Chinese culture, such as abolishing Confucianism.There are even people who say in a whimsical way that abolishing Confucianism and doing Legalism and Mohism are just like other schools of thought.

When you really grow up, you should understand that the first thing you need to do is examine the questions, and you need to understand what kind of society was in ancient China and what era it was in.Afterwards, the knowledge from the previous life is taken out, the bad ones are reformed, the good ones are carried forward, and the gaps are checked to fill in the gaps.

For Wang Xiaolie, the previous impulse to feel that he knows everything has passed.The first thing to start is to review the questions, to truly understand this era and how your actions will change this era.

Some of the knowledge from previous lives can be used, and some cannot.What I have to do is not to change this civilization, to make this civilization look different.That appearance can't become someone else's civilization, it can only be different.

(End of this chapter)