After writing Chapter 788, I read some book reviews and found that some friends’ perceptions were overly sensitive and wrong. I wrote this chapter to talk about some superficial concepts, but did not publish it. After Chapter 789 was published, I saw it again.
Some book reviews, I think it’s better to publish them.
What exactly is a literati?
Let’s start from the beginning thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago.
The nature of human beings has been basically determined after the evolution of the brain. Based on the basic attributes of human beings-the basic attributes we have now-there is only one way for people to mature and improve: to experience things repeatedly, use thinking, and acquire
Experience. Even in the future, things can only work this way.
An important factor for humans to surpass animals is the invention of language and writing, so that the experiences of predecessors can be passed down. The predecessors experienced things on your behalf, thought about it, and then came to conclusions. Through the accumulation of generations, humans have established the current society.
The meaning of reading is to obtain other people's experiences. For example, when we read novels, we simulate an "experience", think in this "experience", and gain nutrition. When you simulate the same thing ten or eight times, you finally get
When something real happens, you can at least have an idea in your mind.
So what are ancient literati?
Through reading, people gain more experience than others and thus become the ruling class. They will naturally develop a sense of superiority and look down on others. They have been criticized in modern times. What is more worth mentioning is that "literati" have more social experience.
, understands the cruelty of society better. When things come to pass, he knows how terrible the consequences will be. He is easy to be weak and roundabout. Scholars have failed to rebel for three years. Literati have no bones. It is true that he is an attribute that cannot be denied.
But what is a modern literati?
In our past, we have been called "people's eyes are sharp" and "stinky old nine" too many times. Suddenly, as long as there are people, it is better not to have literati. However, in modern society, with the information explosion and books everywhere, who of you
Who hasn’t read the book? Who can’t read the book? Who can create real class differences after reading the book?
But the basic attributes of human beings have not changed. To be more mature and sensible, you need more experiences, more thinking, and more horizontal comparisons of life. As an individual, you cannot take any tricks.
Why hate literati?
Those who hate literati in modern society, with all due respect, are the kind of really lazy people. They don’t read books or improve themselves, but they still think that they are naturally correct when facing certain complex things. They are even more
I like the feeling of not using my brain or working hard, but still being able to compare with those who are smart, hard-working and constantly enterprising.
But it can't be compared.
Modern society has eliminated the classes of the past, but the intelligent class still exists and will still exist in the foreseeable future. Its simple expression is: smart people can find a way to do something faster, and stupid people fail to do it.
It can be reflected and promoted in this matter.
If you want to become smart, you must first think and read. In the past thirty years of development, classes have emerged. After realizing the importance of education, the concept of "winning at the starting line" has also emerged. Rich people put their children
Enter a good school and find a good teacher. The so-called "good" must be reflected in helping children absorb nutrients from books faster. These children will become better people and they can essentially crush stupid people and stupid people.
People will become the real bottom class of society. But compared to the past, this class was not very fixed, because books are all over the world. It just depends on whether you have a sense of urgency.
There are several qualities about reading:
1. Reading can represent "experience", but the gains must be multiplied by thinking. In other words, smart people can get more from books, which is inevitable.
2. Reading cannot completely replace "experience". You read a certain experience in a book and keep thinking about it. To put this thinking into practice, if it is to be beneficial to you in reality, you still have to experience a real event. In this matter
Here, you may still be in a hurry, but if you don't read the book, you may be in a hurry ten or eight times before you get the correct lesson.
3. Reading is based on the different personalities of each person, and there is such a thing as enlightenment. For example, if you read a book aimlessly and experienced it a hundred times in the book, the shortening of the experience required in reality may only be shortened by two or three times.
But through purposeful horizontal comparison in different books, it may be easier for us to find the correct life lessons and mature faster. Those elite schools and universities that teach students in accordance with their aptitude can only do this kind of thing, but as long as you are willing to study, there is still a way to transcend.
hope.
4. The essence of modern reading is a trick to replace "experience". It takes ten days and a half to experience something, and you may not be able to find insights, but in ten and a half months, you can read it.
I have written more than ten books. In this process, the process for us to face the world and improve ourselves is to constantly "experience" and think constantly, constantly use each experience to make cross comparisons, and finally find the methodology of this world. This
This book talks about one truth, and that book talks about another reason why the two exist at the same time. You can find more detailed explanations and explanations. After more comparisons, you can find rules that are universally applicable.
5. A little personal experience: determine the goal and solve the equation. For example, when we look at Confucius's "The Analects", we have to make sure that Confucius' goal is to "cultivate gentlemen and establish a harmonious society". He faced the current situation of the Spring and Autumn Period, then "The Analects"
The essence of it is, "Some ideas on how to achieve Datong society in the Spring and Autumn Period." In the solution of this equation, there is the logical structure of Confucius's entire person. If he can understand these, if he is facing modern society, "How to achieve great harmony in the modern era?"
"Some ideas of achieving a harmonious society", the solutions will inevitably be different. Reading books, extracting the writer's way of thinking and logical structure, then we will have countless horizontal comparisons when facing things, which is the most fundamental purpose of reading
, it is not about learning the bows and bows of the predecessors, but about learning their logical core.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! These are some of the most basic things. Originally I considered not needing to say them, or even thinking about not being so superficial, but even now, there are still so many people who unconditionally despise "literati"
, do you really despise "humanities" to gain a little sense of superiority, or do you really despise "culture"? The future is a professional society. When facing things, do you rely on your own innate genius mind, or do you rely on professionals?
Explanation? But professionals have no bones. Culture, people do not think that culture supports the framework of a society. People regard it as a tool just to make money for themselves. Then, when you can make money, it is okay to be distorted. When
When professionals in the entire society are doing this, one day he says that gutter oil is not harmful, do you have to eat it?
"The eyes of the masses are sharp" does not mean that the masses are unconditionally correct, but that the masses have the purest understanding of the things that are most relevant to them. For example, you are just talking about it. We are seeing more and more smog, and the government must solve it.
. The masses make demands - the masses always have to make demands, experts provide solutions, and the government implements them. After such a cycle, society can achieve a virtuous circle. But in the hearts of some twisted people, they think that they are sharp, and that is what they are.
They are all right. Even if I have never read or used my brain in my whole life, if I say how society should do it, others have to believe it. Isn’t it nonsense? If we can govern the country by relying on the second grade, we are already close to the truth. I have also passed the second grade, so that’s not the case.
It's simple, just kill all the people with bad deeds.
In the end, society must rely on wisdom to point out the direction. This direction is very narrow and far less wide than we imagine. But the way to obtain wisdom will not change anymore, which is to let our brains "experience" again and again, and continue to "experience"
Think about "cross-contrast" and finally obtain a basic logical framework that can fit the world. People's innocence and cuteness will never be close to the truth. If you hide at home, use your brain, and then despise "literati", it will never prove that you are better than scholars.
Smart. To become an excellent person, you can go through experience, you can read a lot of books to replace part of the "experience", but in calculation, no one can make mistakes, and the bones of literati are our bones.
To despise ancient literati is to despise the class that resulted from them. In modern times, it is true stupidity to despise others for reading too many books and using too many brains.
These things were originally the basic knowledge of enlightenment, but I see that there are indeed such people among my readers. In a modern society, they hope to prove that they have not read and used their brains by despising "literati" and "culture".
Just as glorious and great, gaining a sense of superiority.
It is human nature to gain a sense of superiority, but I hope my readers will not be left at the bottom. Books are always a shortcut to strengthening yourself.