Chapter 293 Falling into a Dream 4(1/2)
No matter how much Wu Ling dislikes the church, since the superiors have agreed to enter the church, then the other party can enter the place they want to completely occupy. Even because they are outside monks, among ordinary people, they also
Enjoying many privileges...
Such situations are clearly divided in terms of taxation, place of residence, and even law. If an ordinary person commits any crime, no matter what the reason is, they will definitely be punished by law. Of course, behind the scenes
I don’t bother to talk about those dirty things. But in the land of China, there is a group of people who enjoy the privileges of being beyond this law. These people are not the second generation.
Although the second generation is a dandy, although the second generation enjoys privileges that ordinary people cannot imagine, it is because their ancestors earned it, not to mention that it is their own family's business. After closing the door, they are members of the same nation.
.And even in a family, some people must be valued and some people are despised, and the same is naturally true for a country.
So those privileged people, those second-generation dudes, are just the dudes of their own families. But in addition to these people, there is a group of people who do not have the hard work and hard climb of their ancestors, but they have also obtained a series of privileges, and
These people are naturally foreign monks.
There is almost no country in the world that has accumulated such a profound culture like China and the Chinese nation. It is precisely because of such profound historical and cultural accumulation that in addition to the essence of traditional culture, it has accumulated more cultural heritage than any other country in the world.
They are all profound and entangled cultural garbage. This cultural garbage is the culture of power.
Through the previous systematic discussion, we have been able to clearly see that, whether from a historical perspective or a realistic perspective, power culture is a huge political and cultural legacy inherited by the Chinese nation. This legacy is huge.
It is at the institutional level, as well as at the ideological and cultural level, and at the spiritual and psychological level. It is widely precipitated in our previous history and in our real life, so it is also comprehensively precipitated in our traditional culture.
China's power cultural system is a hidden and hidden cultural system. But it is a cultural system that always determines China's social form and social life. It is the only existing oldest and most complete ancient system in the world.
The core part of civilization, because of its stubbornness and changeable appearance
It has its unique structure. In today's world, the universal civilization concept of independent legal system and free human rights has become a trend all over the world. However, China's power culture completely deviates from this concept system, and
It has become the spiritual shackles and ideological cage in the process of modernization of the Chinese nation!
Legalism's political philosophy uses [***] as its main means and its purpose to consolidate totalitarianism, and it has always been the legal part of China's autocratic system. Confucianism, on the other hand, is a political ethics whose purpose is to deceive, to educate the people, and to deify the imperial power.
, has always been the orthodox part of China’s autocratic system. These two mutually reinforcing systems have always been the supporting force and main force of China’s social system.
After more than 2,000 years of social life accumulation, this double helix structure essentially composed of violence and lies has long become the DNA of the Chinese nation’s political culture and is attached to the body of the national culture. Power culture is a kind of power that enables the people to
A culture without self-esteem is a culture that causes dictators to lose themselves, and a culture that distorts the personality of the official class.
The foundation for the existence of China's power culture is the autocratic system, and the long-term existence of the autocratic system depends greatly on the soil of power culture. This is an interdependent relationship. The education of power culture for more than two thousand years has been immersed in
Silver has made people from all walks of life in China, whether in mainstream society or marginalized society, form a kind of ideological form and subconscious of power worship around power. It is such a system from system to spirit to subconscious that constitutes it
ultra-stable structure.
It is this totalitarian cultural system, with its unique completeness, conservativeness, and stubbornness in the modern history of China, that has rejected the influence of the world's advanced culture on the Chinese nation, hindered the progress of China, and determined a precocious and
The suffering fate of a great nation with a high degree of civilization.
China's hidden and hidden power culture system is the foundation on which China's totalitarian political system depends. Through the previous series of discussions, we can already draw a three-dimensional dynamic structural model for it. Its first level
The existence is at the level of social life. The second level of existence is the most authoritative and core existence, which is at the institutional level. The third level of existence is at the ideological, spiritual and psychological level.
The existence of the first level will change through the collision and integration of cultures, as well as changes in economic and social life. When huge changes occur on the first level, it will promote overall changes on the second level. As the first, second
With the huge changes in the third level, the existence of the third level will also gradually change. This is an expected deduction from the perspective of history and culture.
Because what we are facing is the most complex and complete totalitarian culture in the world, it can even be said to be a totalitarian political demon religion that has a profound impact on the entire nation. Faced with this reality, we must conduct a comprehensive review of the entire traditional cultural system.
, comprehensive criticism, cleaning and stripping. This is neither a "decade of turmoil"-style clamor, nor is it national cultural nihilism. It is an attitude that dares to face history and reality. It is a brand-new rational understanding and a brand-new
The overall grasp and positioning of culture is actually a process of cultural reconstruction. The reason why "reconstruction" is used here instead of "reconstruction" is because the word "reconstruction" can easily be misled into the structural adjustment of national culture.
Structural adjustment cannot solve the problem of cultural construction in the process of modernization of the Chinese nation. What we need is a process of re-construction and re-construction of national culture. This is an arduous systematic project that requires the efforts of several generations to complete.
The German philosopher Hegel once said something shocking. He said, "The Chinese Empire is a theocratic and autocratic empire... From a moral point of view, individuals do not have their own personal names. The history of China is essentially
It is still a non-history, it is just a majestic ruin... No progress can be achieved there." What shocked me was not his cruel frankness, but that as a foreigner more than a hundred years ago, he still
Being able to interpret the history of China in such a profound way. Combined with the history of China
A large number of facts in modern history, especially when combined with the nationwide personality worship and god-making fanaticism that emerged during the "Ten Years of Turmoil", we have to admit that China is still "an empire of theocratic autocratic politics". We have to admit that in the spiritual
The Kingdom of Shanghua is still just "a majestic ruin"! Therefore, it pains me that the Chinese nation needs a cultural enlightenment similar to that of the European Renaissance! To be more precise, it is a movement of free people for the entire nation.
The Enlightenment of Rights Thought and the Enlightenment of the Legal System!
The cultural reconstruction of the Chinese nation has been urgently placed before us as a national historical task. This is a systematic project that challenges the historical and realistic existence of power culture. It should not be just a spontaneous personal behavior of a few public intellectuals.
It should not be an ideological trend led by a few spiritual godfathers. It should become a conscious social movement of the entire nation.
This Enlightenment Movement, with the idea of freedom, human rights and the legal system as its core content, has actually emerged and developed in a latent and spontaneous state. The influence of internal and external factors has made this undercurrent grow. Among them are
The thinking and resistance of the people caused by the development of the evil surname [***]. It will not be less
The will of the political oligarchs who adhere to the totalitarian [***] stance will be diverted. Brainwashing, brainwashing and suppression will all be efforts to block the car. [***]'s evil performances and the people's thinking and resistance will form a historical
The combined force of history. This historical combined force will inevitably stir up into a massive and national-conscious social movement.
The cultural reconstruction of the Chinese nation must start with criticizing the power culture and eliminating the stubborn worship of power and authoritarian political superstition that persist in people's hearts. This is an urgent issue facing our nation, because we have already stood before another historical threshold.
We are about to face a
A new historical opportunity. China is no longer the China of the past, and the world is no longer the world of the past. ** has become the leading trend and a huge spiritual force in the world. The people are far from being stupid. Everything is changing, and everything will change.
!Faced with such a historical opportunity, China’s public
Intellectuals should first stand up bravely and assume this historical responsibility. Facing historical thresholds and opportunities, there is a big difference between whether they are mentally prepared or not. This kind of preparation first depends on the thoughts and concepts of the whole nation.
Morphological preparation. This is a politics of the whole nation.
In the civilized enlightenment movement, every field and every nuanced critical perspective is meaningful. Once the basic work of this enlightenment is done well, we can seize this historical opportunity and avoid falling into another abyss of noise and chaos.
.This will prevent someone from seizing absolute power in chaos!
In this nation-wide political civilization enlightenment movement, the most powerful ideological weapon in our hands is the concept of freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law that are universal to all mankind. This concept is a huge system, and it is
It is the result of the natural evolution of civilized human society in the process of development, rather than the result of inventions and designs in some people's minds. These are the results achieved by discovering and solving problems in the natural evolution, including systems and conceptual systems. The development of this system
to date
, has invested the efforts of many nations, many countries, and many generations, including many outstanding thinkers. To this day, all mankind is still working hard to further improve this system. Therefore, this conceptual system does not belong to any sect or doctrine.
It is not exclusive to that nation or country. It is a huge cultural achievement achieved by human society in the process of market economy and globalization. It can only belong to all mankind. Because of this, we can and should enjoy it with confidence!
Moreover, as the main body of the Eastern segment of world civilization, the Chinese nation, after clearing away and throwing away its heavy burden of inheritance, should become an important element of global multiculturalism among the world's multiculturalism and make its own contribution to improving the universal value system.
.Any behavior that excludes, resists, or rejects this universal value system under the guise of protecting national culture is reactionary and goes against the historical trend! The only thing we can put our hope in to solve the spiritual crisis of the Chinese nation is
This value system!
In the previous history of mankind, there have been many attempts to invent and design an all-encompassing ideological system covering the past, future, and present. They also used such a priori ideological system to create a social life.
To achieve the purpose of replacing the original social life. Many brands of socialism are attempts to do this. Countless historical facts have proved that
Obviously, these efforts are just wishful thinking of trying to act as a savior. No matter how great the impact of this wishful thinking has been implemented, in the final analysis, it has brought huge disasters to mankind. And it itself can never escape the fate of failure.
To this day, there are still some countries in the world that are still burdened by the historical baggage left by this kind of experiment in social and political systems.
Since the May 4th Movement, there has been an Enlightenment Movement of Mr. De and Mr. Sai (** and Science) in our country. However, the influence of this Enlightenment Movement has been almost eliminated by the influence of power culture. The spirit of** and Science
, has never been established in China. We should admit that the vast majority of Chinese people still do not have a complete concept of freedom and human rights, or of democracy and the rule of law. All they have is a
Some fragmented impressions that have been deliberately misled and replaced. For example, "national centralism". For example: the liberalism mentioned in "Against Liberalism". For example, the so-called "right to survival" and "right to development" are strictly defined as gifts.
Human rights, for example, the so-called "law" embodied in the will of the ruler! Faced with this reality, our enlightenment work must start from the enlightenment of common sense, first of all, starting from clarifying concepts that have been consciously misled and stolen!
President of the United States, Jefferson, an outstanding leader during the founding period of the United States and one of the drafters of the Declaration on Reading, once particularly emphasized:
"Liberal government is founded on caution or jealousy, not on trust. It is on caution or jealousy, not on trust, that limited constitutions are prescribed to restrain those to whom we are to invest power.
... Therefore, our Constitution determines the possible limits of our trust. As far as power is concerned, we hope that we will not hear the so-called trust in people. Instead, we will use various restrictions in the Constitution to restrict the authorized people.
To prevent them from causing harm to us”.
This passage embodies the understanding of the common weakness of human beings. It embodies the clear understanding of "power can easily corrupt people, but absolute power will absolutely corrupt people". It clarifies the concept of being cautious or jealous of political power.
, is the basis of constitutional government and the system of checks and balances of power. This is a huge contribution to human political civilization!
In the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, there is almost a complete lack of checks and balances on power, but it is permeated from beginning to end with the worship of state power and the superstition of authoritarian politics! This kind of worship and superstition stems from the long-term stubborn worship of the emperor.
The worship of imperial power began. Although in form, the nominal emperor and imperial power have withdrawn from the historical stage of China, in reality
The worship of the imperial power of the emperor has never ended. The influence of theocratic autocratic politics is so deep into the bones that variants of it can still be seen everywhere. This can be seen from the language and style of officials, from the media and literary and artistic works,
It is reflected in a large number of words in advertising signs in folk language. The key is to reflect it from the absolute power structure that always exists.
By citing only two typical examples here, we can see the deep-rooted psychological impact of theocratic autocratic politics on people's hearts and the ease with which rulers use their methods.
The first is that during the ten years of turmoil, Taizu met with the Red Guards eight times. This was essentially the prelude to a nationwide psychological induction and hypnosis to create a god. It was indispensable for the formation of a continuous frenzy of personal worship.
This modern god-making movement can only be implemented in the cultural soil of China. Its primary role is to unprecedentedly strengthen Taizu's personal superstition and personal dictatorship.
For another example, the intensive bombing of emperor's court dramas that have appeared in film and television works in recent years is nothing more than an attempt to instill into the whole society, intentionally or unintentionally, the concept of the sustainability of imperial power and the sanctity of imperial power. This kind of inducing hypnosis technique used on the subconscious,
It is not difficult for a discerning person to understand the mystery.
All this shows that the Chinese nation is deeply servile! What is particularly harmful is this superstitious worship of power, which gives a huge space for appeasement, connivance, and tolerance for the expansion of evil power and the ability to do whatever one wants, thus seriously hindering the development of power.
It is this kind of resistance to extreme power that leads to the progress of the political civilization of the Chinese nation!
Superstition and worship have caused us to fall into the huge abyss of being harmed by those who hold extreme power again and again! It is this kind of superstition and worship that puts our society in a helpless situation where we are always at the mercy of absolute power but cannot extricate ourselves.
Among them, including those who hold, or have held, absolute power!
The history of progress of human society from a rights-based society to a human-based society. In short, it is the history of the legitimate rights of individuals being continuously recognized and protected by society from concepts to systems. That is, the concept of human rights is continuously deepened and
Fully recognized history.
The legal system is based on the broad recognition of human rights. It is a balancing system of rights and obligations based on respect for individuals, a accountability system, and a contribution reward mechanism. The core part of this system is the truly comprehensive realization of
Checks and balances on public power.
However, in our traditional culture, there is almost a complete lack of basic resources for these concepts. However, there are almost all misunderstandings that conflict with and exclude these concepts.
In traditional Chinese society, faced with the influence of the legal system and the universal value system of freedom and human rights, there is a huge ideological and language barrier. This is a more stubborn barrier system than institutional barriers.
To be continued...