A few gossips about "literati"
After writing the last 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 things. I had a concept, but I didn’t publish it. After Chapter 789 was published, I saw some book reviews and thought I might as well publish it.
What exactly is a literati?
We start from the beginning thousands of years ago 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 - which are our current basic attributes - there is only one way for people to mature and improve: repeated experience Things, use thinking, gain experience. Even in the future, things can only do this.
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 gain experience from others. For example, when we read novels, we simulate an "experience", think in this "experience", and gain nutrition. When you simulate the same thing, Eight times out of ten, when I finally encounter something real, I can at least have an idea in my mind.
So what are ancient literati?
Through reading, you gain more experience than others and become the ruling class. You will naturally develop a sense of superiority and look down on others. It has been criticized in modern times. What is more worth mentioning is that "literati" have more social experience and better understand the cruelty of society. When things come to pass, they know how terrible the aftermath will be, and they are easy to be weak and roundabout. The scholar failed to rebel for three years. Literary people have no bones. This is a real and undeniable attribute.
But what are 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 to have no literati. However, in modern society, information is exploding and books are everywhere. Who of you Never read the book? Who can't read the book? Who can make 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. You cannot take tricks as an individual.
Why hate literati?
Those who hate literati in modern society, with all due respect, are really lazy people. They don’t read books or improve themselves, but they still think that they can be effective when facing certain complex things. Naturally correct, they prefer the feeling of not using their brains 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 is reflected and promoted in this matter.
If you want to become smarter, one is to think and the other is to 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 into good schools and find good teachers. The so-called "good teachers" "It must be reflected in the fact that it can help children absorb nutrients from books faster. These children will become better people. They can essentially crush stupid people, and stupid people will become the real bottom of society. But compared to the past, this class is not very fixed, because books are all over the world. It depends on whether you have a sense of urgency.
There are the following characteristics about reading:
1. Reading can represent "experience", but the income must be multiplied by thinking. In other words, smart people can get more from books, This 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 something real. In this case, 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 you need in reality may only be shortened by two or three times. However, through purposeful horizontal comparison in different books, we may more easily find the correct experience. Life lesson, 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 hope for transcendence.
4. The essence of modern reading is a trick to replace "experience". It takes ten and a half days to experience something. You may not be able to find insights, but in ten and a half days In a month, you can read 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 book talks about a truth, and that book talks about another reason, why the two exist at the same time, you can find more detailed explanations and explanations, and through more comparisons, you can find the 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 essence of the "Analects" is, "How to achieve the great harmony of society in the Spring and Autumn Period. "Some assumptions", 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, "some assumptions on how to achieve a Datong society in the modern era", the solution will inevitably be different . By reading books and extracting the writer's way of thinking and logical structure, we will have countless horizontal comparisons when facing things. This is the most fundamental purpose of reading. It is not to learn the bows and bows of predecessors, but to learn from them. logical core.
These are some of the most basic things. Originally I didn’t think about saying it, or even thinking about not saying it so briefly, but even now, there are still so many people who unconditionally despise “literati”. You really despise “humanities” Do you want 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 or the explanations of professionals? But the pros have no bones. Culture, people don’t think that culture supports the framework of a society. People regard it as a tool just to make money for themselves. So, when you can make money, it’s okay to be distorted at all. 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 matter to them. For example, if you say it in a garish way, we are seeing more and more smog. , the government must solve it. The masses raise demands - the masses always have to raise demands, experts provide solutions, and the government implements them. Through this cycle, society can achieve a virtuous cycle. But in the minds of some twisted people, they feel that they are clear-sighted and that they are right about everything. Even if I have never read a book or used my brain in my life, others have to believe me when I say what society should do. Isn’t that nonsense? If we can manage the country by relying on the second grade, we will be close to the truth. I have also failed in the second grade. It is not easy. As long as all the people who have bad deeds are killed, it will be enough.
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. It is to let our brains "experience" again and again, constantly "think", cross and "compare", 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, don't use your brain, and then despise "literati", you will never prove that you are smarter than scholars. To become an excellent person, you can go through experiences, and you can read a lot of books to replace part of the "experience", but after all, no one can make mistakes, and the bones of literati are our bones.
To despise ancient literati is to despise the class that came 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 themselves by despising "literati" and "culture" Even if you don’t study or use your brain, you will still be glorious and great, and gain 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. (End of this chapter)