Li Shengli, a native of Fuping, Shaanxi, is a scientific researcher in colleges and universities. Committed to medical research, he has published more than 100 papers, won a number of provincial and ministerial scientific research achievements, and is a member of the editorial board of many professional journals at home and abroad. Dozens of essays and poems have been published on online platforms such as "Ode to Joy in the Three Qins", "Chinese Poetry Classics", and "Fuping Ren".
Private cars
Text/Lee Victory
Nowadays, private cars have become the biggest highlight of today's society, and the daily traffic congestion news broadcasts in large and small cities, the daily TV broadcast notice of motor vehicle limits, and the announcement of the policy of exempting highway tolls for holiday travel have become the most concerned issues for office workers, young ladies who go to school, shop for too little milk, and tourist punch cards. In the past, the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai sighed! Shu Dao is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky. Today, Chinese people often complain! It is difficult to walk, it is difficult to go to the blue sky. With the shenzhou series of large rockets to send astronauts to space quickly and conveniently, it is not difficult to go to the blue sky, and it is difficult to walk, but the difficulty is becoming more and more prominent.
The fundamental crux of the matter is that there are too many private cars. The development of urban roads simply cannot meet the needs of the rapid growth of private cars. To some extent, if it were not for the lottery restrictions of big cities, the mainland would have already become the world's largest automobile power. State enterprises and institutions, government administrative departments strictly prohibit buses exceeding the standard configuration and private use of buses, and the fleets that have been popular for decades have been completely dissolved. Therefore, on the road street, it has become a parking lot for private cars.
The outbreak of the epidemic for three consecutive years, taking public transportation has become the main way to spread and spread the epidemic, in the past has been emphasizing the people, to take public transportation green travel policy abruptly stopped, the government ordered to promote private car travel, avoid taking public transportation, this is good, the epidemic paralyzed the society, and the development of private cars is booming. During the epidemic lockdown, I looked at the empty road, the hustle and bustle of the past, the congestion of the horn, no trace, yes! It's time to give the road a break.
These days, I went out for a walk, passed in front of the kindergarten door, and saw that many children's "private cars" were also placed at the door, all kinds of colors, nobles and lowly, there were bicycles, scooters, small bicycles and yo-yos, a long walk, they went up and down the nursery, and they had driven their own small private cars. It seems that the concept of private cars has taken root in the future next generation of the motherland early, and their ideals for the development of private cars, I can't imagine, but I can brag that it will definitely exceed the current scale and grade of private cars.
Not only does The Broken Baby have a "private car", but also a "loving" person walking his dog in the street park, and also equips his pet with a "private car", and the dog also travels worry-free!
Private cars are something that our generation could never have dreamed of. When I was young, I saw that I was sitting in a small car, which was the special car of a big official, which was only available to the public, and private people could not even afford to buy a bicycle, and you had to rely on the ticket to buy it. At that time, for many years, the biggest highlight of the dowry of the daughter's marriage was the bicycle, and then it was replaced by a motorcycle and an electric car in the 1990s, and in recent years, the dowry car has become normalized, and now it is more luxurious than the private car. My wife often said, "I didn't expect that I could drive such a good private car, as if it were a dream."
No way, you go to the kindergarten, primary and secondary school entrance to see, the children out of school to pick up the parents, grandparents, basically drive a private car to go, bicycle pick-up and drop off people are very few.
A few years ago, I heard my sister's baby complaining about her mother, people's parents drove a BMW to pick up her baby, you rode a broken bicycle... lose face. It is no wonder that children know that good or bad is a fortunate thing, to encourage and support, so parents should keep pace with the times, constantly update the private car, so that children and themselves have face.
Speaking of face, who doesn't want bigger face. The development speed of the mainland in recent decades has exceeded the development process of capitalist society in the past hundred years, the people's living standards have been greatly improved, people's sense of gain and desire are constantly expanding, and the pursuit of private cars is constantly improving. The great temptation of material life and the great satisfaction of luxurious life allow all sentient beings to enter heaven at once, and the restrictions of social development and the severity of the national conditions of the mainland, who can pay attention to it? The Russo-Ukrainian war has thrown the whole world into chaos, with an energy crisis, rising food prices, and food shortages. And the aircraft missiles in the sky, the tanks and tanks on the ground, the world is fully supplied, and I have not heard that the country is running out of ammunition.
Faced with soaring prices every day, the market that used to buy vegetables for six days is now only enough to buy one day, and watching the epidemic and the war continue, it is impossible to have no reserves at home. Looking at the Russo-Ukrainian War, the main result of the negotiations between the two sides is to open up a humanitarian green channel, and the passage is crowded with private cars of refugees fleeing, no matter how big your house is and how much reserves you have, what is the point?
With regard to the flight of refugees, we have seen many reports of the influx of refugees from the Lebanese war into Europe in recent years, and we have also seen the situation of Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Poland in private cars during today's Russo-Ukrainian war. The flight of refugees is the greatest humanitarian crisis brought about by the war, and who caused these results is well known to everyone and is known to all, and it is the European and American powers. Look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Lebanon today, a country that is not devastated, with displaced people, uprooted and massively fleeing. What can be done? European and American imperialism has made its fortune by plundering and aggression, and the development of the automobile industry has also accelerated the scope and scale of their plunder. European and American countries have a per capita car ownership, leading the world, so they are a nation on the car.
I have been in the United States, people who have less than two or three private cars, office workers almost one per person. And frequent changes of jobs and cities are the biggest survival characteristics in the United States. Private cars can pull up their luggage at any time to run to new jobs, and office workers, without private cars, can not work, who let the family is vast, people live very scattered, the law of the jungle is fully expressed here, the beasts are hidden in the wildest forest, and the herbivores are crowded on the flat grass. Towns and cities are communities inhabited by the poor, and the rich basically live in country houses. Therefore, luxury private cars are a must for the rich, and people can afford to live. Poor you live in the city and work can be done on foot or by public transport.
Now, the situation on the mainland has also become like this, the work unit is far from the living community, the children are not close to school, and the private car is their indispensable means of transportation. Every day on the city road, office workers, school people and tourist shoppers chase after me on the road, scrambling to squeeze together, watching the congestion parked on the road like Domilo toys in the rows of private cars, is there no loss to them? A large number of resources are spent on the road, is it that the earth's resources are never exhausted?
In the face of the world energy crisis, gasoline prices continue to rise, and people's living costs are soaring. The higher the level of mechanization, the more energy is required. More, the speed of energy depletion is faster. The strange circle in the human world is that the tighter and more expensive things are, the more people pursue and own.
Whenever I see the Scene of the Autobots Wars in children's cartoons, I praise the authors who write and shoot such excellent, once upon a time, the private cars were overwhelming, piling up like mountains of domination of the earth, just like the journey to the West depicted, the millennium white bones became fine, and these cars are no exception, piled up in the ruins of the mountains of cars, maybe, the Flying SkyMaster is being conceived, the real scene of the Autobots War will appear sooner or later, and the era when the Autobots dominate the earth will come sooner or later. Now that the development of smart cars is in full swing, driverless, automatic navigation, I am afraid that cars can completely separate from humans, and I will go my own way.
It is undeniable that the development of private cars has brought the greatest vitality to the social economy, and the leverage driven by the social economy is nothing more than the automobile and real estate industries, and the rapid development of the huge economy is inseparable from them. You have to see what this development model is, you know in your heart, for the vast majority of ordinary people, it can only rely on loans, so now the pressure of mortgages and car loans is more anxious than the oppression of the three mountains. In the past three years, the successive outbreaks of the new crown epidemic have brought urban life to a standstill, lost many jobs, declined economic benefits, and the original plan to repay loans has almost failed, while bank interest rates have risen. I don't know, what is the feeling in the hearts of these lenders who drive luxury private cars and live in skyscrapers? But the torrent of the times has completely drowned out the intentions of individuals, and the mainstream of society is unstoppable.
Why the era of repression is accompanied by prosperity and prosperity. How many years ago, seeing that the suicide rate of Japanese youth is high, I can't figure it out, Japan has long become the fastest growing country in Asia, with a prosperous economy and strong national strength, and Japanese youth have long lived in paradise. Now it seems that the ancients were right: "Sub-fish, anzhi fish music." The development of the continent today has also caught up with the former Japan, the industrial economy has caught up, and the incidence of depression and suicide has also caught up. I never understood how my classmate's baby, who graduated from a famous school in Beijing and was assigned to work in a state-owned enterprise, and whose father was a government official, lived and worked carefreely, but how he suffered from depression, gave up his superior job, and became a migrant worker. And another classmate's baby, from childhood in foreign school, has been reading until college graduation, foreign green card has been in hand, but almost 40 years old people, do not work, do not enter the society, all day hiding at home on the Internet, parents dare not say. A mother on the 25th floor opposite me did not agree to the object her son was looking for, and the son jumped down, and the mother tore her heart and lungs. In the buildings where we work, many college students commit suicide by jumping off buildings, as well as hangings and suicides by jumping into rivers. Looking at the young body lying on the cold cement floor, in addition to my regret and heartache, I am more difficult to understand, life is so beautiful, the future is immeasurable, the pursuit of life has just begun, you have resolutely left. The grandson who is in kindergarten, unwilling to get up in the morning, her words, wake up the dreamer, Grandpa "I want to retire."
According to custom, the pursuit of life has three levels: material life, spiritual world, and soul conversion, which are the basic elements of people's lives. I have been in the United States for many years, life can be described as materially rich, but in addition to the large and small academic conferences every day, the most I go to on holidays is churches, seeing towns with spires, Americans are keen to go in and out, from baptism after birth, to ceremonies at marriage, until finally ascending to the kingdom of heaven, all in the church, and many countries in Europe, the president is also in the famous church, hand pressed on the Bible, sworn in, is this not a spiritual pursuit? And where the soul goes, and how eternal, all kinds of beliefs are different, but the fundamental connotation is benevolence, benevolence, and righteousness, and the world is one. I am not a philosopher, nor am I a master, so I dare not comment on this.
At present, I think that material life is rich enough, many things after how many generations of hard work, after many years of hard work, to obtain things, can be achieved overnight loans, such as private cars and villas, open a loan to buy a private car, and then live in a mansion, no one said anything, on the contrary, is considered to be a warrior in front of consumption. Moonlight clans abound among young people, who do not plan for tomorrow, do not consider spiritual pursuits, and do not want to have any mysterious problems of soul conversion. Only to see the street, they drive a private car happy shopping, looking for food, and drunken dreams, in time to have fun. The great satisfaction of material, their inner world is empty, which forms a new pattern of holiday economic prosperity, look, big and small holidays, swarming out of the private cars, occupying the streets and alleys, occupying the famous mountains and rivers, occupying the places of interest and monuments, newly opened amusement parks, resorts are more young people crowded into the sky, alas! No way, the world is so big, I want to see it, it has become the most fashionable call.
I often ring the high and loud natural sound of "Heavenly Road" in my ears, which makes my thinking return to which magical flood world, the private wheels into Tibet are rolling, the red dust is overwhelmingly pouring into the roof of the world, the sky is high and cloudy, the blue sky is brilliant, all the original and barbaric ridges, and the heavenly road is on the ladder of climbing. The wheels of the rolling private cars exceeded the Tibetans creeping forward one by one, looking at their ragged clothes, unkempt faces, and their faces were torn red by the ultraviolet rays of the sun, they appeared resolute and confident, and they completely ignored the private cars that slowly passed by them, turned a blind eye, and crawled step by step, according to Yu Cheng's law, running to the holy place in their hearts. I wonder how the extremely poor material situation created such a firm spiritual belief of the ancestors, the answer may be: the vast and boundless earth, the vast blue sky and white clouds, the gathering of heaven and earth spirits, qi, gods, shaping the human spirit. And people in the bustling world, materialism is rampant, and the rolling red dust has long since drowned the original heart.
Pure and incomparable, the voice of the children's voice reciting the "Three Character Sutra" echoed in the ears again, "At the beginning of man, nature is good, deeds are similar, habits are far away, gou does not teach, sex is migratory...". The true, good, and beautiful education of these ancients also made different trade-offs with the different dynasties, and corresponding to the strengthened education advocated by Xun Zi that "at the beginning of man, nature is inherently evil", which really confused people today.
I often hear the song "prosperity after a dream", which reminds me of the four ancient civilizations, once upon a time, the temples of Greece, the pyramids of Egypt, the hanging gardens of Babylon, and the religious beliefs of India, which shone brightly in ancient human times. But today, why are these civilizations in decline? Historians have given a unanimous answer, that is, war and plunder, no one has exposed its key problems, the key is that they are not strong enough. The strength of the heart, the strength of the national strength, is useless, and it is still bullied by others.
Now the national strength is strong, the growth of national GDP is the last word, there is money to concentrate on doing big things, aircraft carriers go to the sea, astronauts go to the sky, dragons enter the water, nuclear submarines dive deeply, that is not an economic lever.
As for the private cars full of streets and roads, it is the most outward flow of economic development. We in China are one of the four major ancient civilizations in the world, our Chinese nation has never ceased to live, has not been overthrown by aggression by the great powers, is the only country in the world's four major ancient civilizations that has not fallen, and is created by the great national spirit of our outstanding and brave sons and daughters of China who are indomitable, rise up in resistance, struggle heroically, go forward to succeed each other, and rejuvenate victoriously. The national spirit should rise to a higher level, a greater and a vaster universe.
Looking at the per capita ownership of private cars today, the scene of cars seeing no one on the street, who is not proud to think that our motherland is strong. We proudly say: Chairman Mao led us to stand up, Deng Xiaoping led us to get rich, and now the Party Central Committee wants to lead us to become stronger, and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation should be realized quickly!
Source: "Shaanxi Wen tan" WeChat public account