"I won't go into the detailed performance process. To summarize, the father of the sheepherder played by Huang Xing insists that he and his children do not need to go out of the mountains because they do not feel that they are poor, nor do they feel that life is boring.
, on the contrary, they have lived very peacefully and happily these years, but the children from outside the mountains find it incredible. He feels that everything in front of him is unacceptable poverty, everything is painful, and cannot be equivalent to happiness, and I
As a child in the mountains, I was contradictory. I was very curious about the world outside the mountains, but I was afraid to go out of the mountains. I was ignorant, and in the end I chose to believe in my father who gave birth to me and raised me for more than ten years, instead of following the people from outside the mountains.
She left with her children, and as for the reporter...she said a lot of strange things, some puzzling and contradictory words..." Zheng Beichuan briefly recalled it and then coughed twice.
Xue Jianian's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she glanced at Zheng Beichuan in disbelief, because in her eyes, this mysterious old man did not seem to have a body that could catch a cold.
"What is the significance of this topic?" Xue Jianian asked.
"Meaning? Yes...meaning..." Zheng Beichuan was silent. After a long time, he asked Xue Jiannian a strange question: "What do you think is the purpose of us humans being born on this planet?"
Xue Jianian grinned: "Such a profound question, philosophers have pondered for so many generations but still have no answer. How should I answer it?"
"Just answer it as you think."
"My thoughts? Hmm..." Xue Jianian thought for a while and then said: "Probably just to pursue some kind of comfortable state to make myself feel at ease, or in other words, just to make myself happy, have food to eat, and clothes to wear.
, you won’t be cold or hungry, your family will be with you, and you will be happy?”
Zheng Beichuan smiled when he heard this: "Yes, it's actually that simple. No need for any profound and complicated answers. At least for all living beings, we hold our heads down while rushing to the next customer on the subway.
The purpose of watching videos and reading novels on mobile phones is to seek short-term and precious spiritual pleasure and physical rest. But more fundamentally...the purpose of all living beings busy all day long is obviously not to make human society great out of instinct.
It’s about giving yourself a place to sleep, a bowl of delicious food, an intimate person you can talk to, a group of friends and family you can trust and even rely on, that’s all…”
Xue Jiannian fell into a long silence after listening to Zheng Beichuan's words.
"However... in fact, from the birth of mankind to the present, what we pursue and what we do are often contrary to each other... At least many people who were born in the war years, or a depressive era after the explosion of the economic bubble do not have this kind of
A spiritual experience that seems simple but out of reach..." Zheng Beichuan raised his head and looked at Xue Jiannian and said, "Just like the topic we just discussed, children outside the mountains think chocolate and airplanes are happiness, but the sheepherders in the mountains think
You don’t need to get those things to be happy, so which one is right or wrong? I think there is actually no right or wrong here, or we shouldn’t distinguish between right and wrong... Whether it is herding sheep, or living in a prosperous society, in the end,
The purpose is to add luster to personal life experience. The problem is that many times we don’t know what we really need, or
Said...we don't have time to think, our thinking is guided and controlled..."
Xue Jianian frowned slightly when he heard this: "I agree with this."
Zheng Beichuan smiled slightly: "Oh?"
"I feel like I was led astray by you. At least at a certain moment, I was inadvertently led by your thinking to the point of your consciousness. So, where do your thoughts come from?"
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
"From myself."
"So sure?"
"Yes, that's for sure." Zheng Beichuan said confidently.
Xue Jianian shook his head with disdain: "You are still quibbling."
"What are you quibbling about?"
"You are sophistical about letting thousands of ordinary people die in order to keep yourself alive. You are sophistical that you can't even save yourself, but you keep saying that all living beings are all for a greater cause...
..." Xue Jianian did not continue because she found that Zheng Beichuan just looked at her calmly.
"My child, I did do a lot of wrong things, but I still have a secret here. Once I tell it, no one may be able to accept it or be willing to accept it. This secret is enough to absolve me of all my crimes, but
I can't say it yet, at least not until the real trial comes." Zheng Beichuan said very calmly.
Xue Jianian frowned: "Are you threatening us?"
"Let's go back to the topic just now..." Zheng Beichuan ignored Xue Jiannian and said softly: "You just said that my thinking is also guided and it is not free, but in fact you might as well ask yourself, in
Before this disaster struck, as an investigator of the First Central Axis, what was the significance of your work?"
Xue Jianian remained silent. She didn't want to talk to this old fox anymore because she found that she was being led by the other party.
"No answer?" Zheng Beichuan smiled: "Then I will borrow a passage from Huang Xing to explain."
…
"The highest pursuit of mankind from ancient times to the present is actually to enrich the life experience of every individual in society. This experience is both spiritual and physical. To put it simply, it means drinking water when you are thirsty.
Feel the temperature and taste of water, eat when you are hungry, feel the taste and saltiness of food, and then go further, the smoothness of silk, the touch of opposite sex skin, laughter, sadness, fear, the ultimate excitement of dying...
We continue to experience, and then / further enrich the experience... But as the number of individuals increases and the channel of experience becomes narrower, the 'free' will begins to move towards complete indulgence, so we let go of experience unscrupulously, so that to the point of
In the end, the gap was too big to be filled..." Huang Xing said, picking up the cassava next to him and asking, "How does this taste?"
The other three shook their heads, not because they didn't know, but because they thought it didn't taste good.
"Yes, it's not delicious, but it depends on who it is." Huang Xing broke off the cassava and took a lick.
: "Hunger will make the experience rich, while wealth will make the experience picky. But I will not criticize abundance here, let alone elevate hunger to seek rich experiences. What I want to say is...if the true purpose of society is
In order to fill the experience gap of every human individual, our common pursuit should go in two directions..."
He put down the cassava and continued: "The first is self-discipline. Just like the ascetics, or the father and son herding sheep in the mountains, they have a sense of strangeness to the world, and then explore it slowly by themselves, or let themselves stay in a certain place, so as to
Keeping the experience at an appropriate level, eating meat once a year at this time will be a wonderful experience worth looking forward to. After all, obese patients in the city certainly don’t like the painful experience of losing weight due to excessive consumption of meat...
The second is complete liberation, but it requires a complete improvement, handing over all the physical experience to the brain, or to the spirit, thereby breaking away from the constraints of reality. This experience will also be the ultimate."
Hearing this, Zheng Beichuan, a boy, couldn't help but ask: "But what does this experience have to do with destroying the earth?"
Huang Xing was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed: "It seems that our little friend is still very sober."
Others also laughed, but Zheng Beichuan looked confused, because from the beginning of the topic to now, he was still confused. He only felt that their thinking might be very profound, but he could only see their outlines from a distance, but not their true appearance.
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Huang Xing stopped laughing and explained: "Society is composed of individuals, so all of us humans can also be regarded as an individual, an individual who constantly goes astray or even confused on the road to enriching his own experience... Throughout
Human history, from the gathering society to the Stone Age, to feudal and industrial civilization, all of this development is ultimately a kind of progress that breaks through the constraints of external factors on human beings' desire to seek experience. I say this, do you understand?
?”
Zheng Beichuan nodded vaguely, but he finally had some ideas.
"But starting from the 20th century, after the world believed that the economy and society could completely realize the subversive progress of human civilization, this kind of continuous exploration and breakthrough entered a 'dead sea'." Huang Xing's tone suddenly became heavy:
"You should know that in the past 100 years, the Great Depression caused by the bursting of the economic bubble has made many people's dreams come to nothing, followed by wealth equalization and blackouts, thousands of
People are dying... but the ultimate goal we pursue seems to be getting further and further away... We have not completely innovated or changed anything, or in other words, we are lost... While the world economic system has suffered heavy losses, mankind is moving forward.
The confidence of our leaders was also greatly reduced, so many philosophers were born who discussed the scale of human civilization. Their consensus is that we have never been great and cannot be truly great. The stars in the universe will not change because of human beings.
The birth of the world shines brightly, and we will not be sad because of the short-lived civilization of human beings that is not worth mentioning. After all, we are just fleeting and unworthy of mentioning in the stars of the ever-expanding universe... Therefore, in this era, everything is calm.
...There is no longer any investment at any cost for innovation, and there are no longer international conflicts with constant disputes...Everyone is very dull now, or in other words, subconsciously, we have reached a consensus, that is, if we cannot
If you find a new mountain, you might as well jump and end this farce."