A person who is downcast suddenly appears, and will often be "proud and forgetful". Therefore, Lu Xun said:
When the slave became the master, he would never abolish the title of "master", and his shelf was probably more complete than his master, and he was still laughing.
Slaves used to be "underneath" their masters,
Every day he watched his master do his best, and he fantasized every day that he could be the master again. But suddenly becoming a master, the "slave" is not very adaptable. He either does not know how to be the master, or wants to take revenge on the master, so he behaves more flamboyantly than the master.
It is inevitable in many cases that a person will be rampant after gaining power. Because there are some people who want to gain power in order to one day be rampant. And other people who do not aim at madness are still inevitably rampant, and this is human nature.
First, what is Lu Xun cursing?
Lu Xun's original words came from his "Two Hearts Collection".
The gist is that a person who is a slave, once he turns over and becomes a master, will absolutely refuse to abolish the title of "old master", and will also put up a bigger shelf than the old master.
Judging from Lu Xun's life experience, this sentence of his can be understood as:
A group of "people who want to turn over" want to overthrow "those who oppress themselves", just to become "people who can oppress others" for themselves. Once they succeed, they will only do worse than the original "oppressors".
This is because this group of "people who want to turn over" have not "seen the world" themselves, so they want to turn over, not their ideological changes.
The ultimate purpose of their "turning over" is just to make themselves able to live as well as the "old man". Then, they become "masters", how should they enjoy it? They who have never seen the world do not know.
It's like a joke on the Internet years ago.
An old woman who grew up in a poor mountain could only eat nest heads, and could not even eat white-faced steamed buns. Someone went to ask him, if you buy lottery tickets and win five million, how do you use it? The old woman said: I have a sugar sandwich bun in my left hand and a meat bun in my right hand!
There are actually many examples of this in history, among them
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a typical example.
Most of Hong Xiuquan's men were peasants, they were originally very poor, and after the uprising, they were like a bamboo,
Just after the capture of Nanjing, before half of the country was acquired, the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to build a large number of civil engineering, build palaces, eat, drink and have fun.
The degree of its corruption and degeneration is no less than that of the Manchu Qing dynasty at sunset,
Because that's their ultimate purpose. Therefore, from the perspective of social change, if an old society wants to be reborn, it is absolutely impossible to expect "slaves" whose ideology has not changed.
But
Today, the focus of netizens is not on the deep problem that "slaves" are more rampant than their masters, but on why they must be "rampant" after the "slaves" turn over.
The correct answer is basically those two. First, before the "slave" turned over, he thought of "going crazy." Second, people who are accustomed to being "slaves" do not know how to be "masters" correctly.
He can only imitate the rampant behavior of the "master". And because of the excessive force, the imitation is more excessive, giving people a worse impression.
Second, the limitations of slave cognition
The reason why a "slave" has become more rampant than the "master" is that some people say it is based on a "revenge mentality".
Even if the object of his "revenge" is not the "master" itself.
That's it
Just like the mother-in-law in ancient China, she always wanted to oppress her daughter-in-law. She was abused by her own mother-in-law when she was a daughter-in-law, and after "many years of daughter-in-law becoming a mother-in-law", she turned her head and bullied her daughter-in-law. On the one hand, she vented the resentment she had accumulated over the years, on the other hand, she felt that being a mother-in-law should be like that.
In fact, the problem itself is not just in the body of a certain person.
This is a matter of history.
In the past, when this mother-in-law was still a "daughter-in-law", she was oppressed, no one said half a word for her, and everyone felt that the daughter-in-law should be oppressed. so
She has survived on her own, and naturally thinks that the next generation should also follow the rules of the older generation.
If you want to change this situation, you must have a group of people to take the lead in standing up and making a voice to tell everyone: This is not right! You can't do this. It is the same to exchange this relationship for "slaves" and "masters".
A "slave" grows up in a closed environment and has never been exposed to something advanced. What else could he think of besides hating his master's whipping, fantasizing about himself as the "master", and in turn flogging the "master" and others?
Nurhaci of the Qing Dynasty was originally the Jianzhou Zuowei clan under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Later, he raised an army, and his descendants entered Shanhaiguan to become emperors, which was more ruthless than the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
In the past, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty only had to stand in the court, but when the ministers of the Qing Dynasty had to kneel. Once upon a time in the Ming Dynasty, officials always said bad things about the emperor.
Hai Rui raised the coffin and scolded Jiajing, Luo Yuren scolded Wanli in "Wine-colored Wealth and Qi Four Proverbs", and finally nothing happened. But
In the Qing Dynasty, someone wrote a sentence "Qingfeng can't read, why turn over books randomly" and was killed.
In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang was only the emperor, and in response to the Tang Law, the method of "light crimes and heavy crimes" was adopted to formulate a criminal law.
Through thunderous means, the discipline was straightened out, and civil disputes were handled relatively loosely. afterward
While following the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty adopted stricter measures in management than the Ming Dynasty.
In the past, when we looked at the problems of these two dynasties, we only analyzed them from the perspective of the nation.
The Qing Dynasty punished it more severely than the Ming Dynasty, and in addition to the problem that the Qing Dynasty was a "foreigner", there was also an element of "accumulation". The "masters" of the Ming Dynasty did this, and the Qing Dynasty felt that their ruling experience was successful, so they did more "fiercely" on the basis of "borrowing".
Not just the Ming and Qing dynasties. Looking at the earlier time, China's ministers went to the court in the Spring and Autumn Period, from having seats at the beginning, to being able to stand later, and then not even being able to stand, only kneeling.
epilogue
Why is it that "slaves" become "masters" and are more rampant than "masters"? This is because the "master" is a good example of a "slave". The perception of "slaves" has limitations. He himself did not completely deny the "master".
When the "master" picks up the whip and draws people, in the eyes of the "slave", right and wrong are only on whose body the whip is drawn.
When it hits the "slaves", it is naturally the most heinous crime. But hitting someone else is very effective.
Once upon a time, as soon as the "slaves" were beaten, they went to work in ashes.
So how powerful the whip really is, he knows better than the "master".
Therefore, after he ascended to the throne, if he wanted others to obey, the whip would only be drawn more fiercely.