Lu Xun's works: first and last

"Han Feizi" said that the magic of horse racing lies in "not being the first, not ashamed of the last". This seems very reasonable from the perspective of laymen like us. Because if you are desperate to run at the beginning, the horsepower is easily exhausted. But that first sentence applies only to horse racing, and unfortunately Chinese is enshrined as a golden hammer for human life.

Chinese not only "not for the sake of the head", "not for the beginning of the disaster", and even "not for the blessing of the first". So everything is not easy to reform; The pioneers and intruders are probably afraid to do it. But how can human nature really be as idyllic as the Taoists say? But there is much to get. Since they did not dare to take it, they had no choice but to use conspiracies and means. In this way, people will see their cowardice day by day, and since they are "not the first", they naturally do not dare to "be ashamed of the last", so although a large number of the masses, when they see the crisis, they "scatter one after another". If a few of them refuse to turn back and thus suffer, the commentators will speak in unison, calling them fools. The same is true for the "perseverance" people.

I also occasionally go to school sports. This kind of competition, unlike the war between two enemy countries, is hostile, but it will also be scolded or fought because of competition. But these things are different. When the race walks, the fastest three or four people arrive at the decisive point, the rest slacken, and a few lose the courage to run the preset number of laps, and squeeze into the crowd of spectators halfway through; Or pretending to fall, causing the Red Cross to carry him away on a stretcher. If there is a person who is backward, but runs, and runs, everyone laughs at him. Probably because he is too unintelligent and "not ashamed of the end".

Therefore, China has always had few heroes who failed, few resilient rebels, few warriors who dared to fight alone, and few hangers who dared to cry traitors; When they saw the signs of victory, they gathered, and when they saw the signs of defeat, they fled. The Europeans and Americans, whose war tools were more refined than ours, and the Mongols and Manchus, whose war tools were not necessarily sharper than ours, were like entering no man's land. The four words "collapse" are really self-aware.

There are many people who are "not ashamed of the last" people, no matter what happens, I am afraid that it will not suddenly "fall apart", and every time I watch the Games, I often think like this: Although the winner is respectable, but the competitor who is backward but still does not run to the finish line, and the spectator who sees such a competitor and does not smile, is the backbone of China's future.