Lu Xun: The human world is inherently difficult, and when turbidity becomes the norm, that kindness is a kind of fault

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The Southern Dynasty Shen Yue recorded such an event in the Book of Song:

Once upon a time there was a small country with a river called "Wild Springs". It is said that anyone who has drunk the water of the Wild Spring will become crazy.

All the subjects had drunk the water of the wild spring, and all the subjects had gone crazy. Only the king had not drunk it, so he was particularly sober. However, the people around him thought he was sick, so they kept giving him acupuncture and medicine.

Later, the king could not bear it, and went to drink the water of the wild spring. As a result, the king also went crazy.

This, in fact, is a very ironic story. If everyone is crazy, then calm people will be seen as outliers. Slowly, this calm person will also become crazy.

A white swan, mixed in with a group of crows, believes that it will eventually become a crow. There is no way, because all the aliens cannot escape the result of being assimilated.

In fact, Mr. Lu Xun wrote such a sentence in the short story "Changming Lantern": "When turbidity becomes the norm, innocence is a sin." ”

Is the "madman" in the novel really crazy? I can't see it. All the crazy people are not crazy, they just think they are crazy. But in fact, who knows who is crazy?

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When you think of "crazy people", you can't help but think of today's shrewd and honest people.

In the past, we all felt that honest people were particularly good, down-to-earth, and there was no bad mind. However, today, we all regard honest people as "fools."

When it comes to honest people, we all cast contemptuous glances, thinking that he is not good enough, has no ability, and is doomed to achieve no great cause in his lifetime.

We may wish to think about a question, why do honest people who adhere to morality and kindness be rejected by people, while those who do things without principles and unscrupulous means have become the darlings of life?

In the words of Mr. Lu Xun, when turbidity becomes the norm, that kindness is a sin.

Honest people are very innocent, very kind, and even cautious and meticulous in their dealings with the world. But all that awaits them is endless pain and bullying.

For example, employees in the workplace are focused on "calculation" and not on work. As a result, honest employees are carrying the pot, thankless, and even need to be responsible for them.

The more material society develops, the more the evil side of human nature is revealed. It's like Pandora's Box, unleashing countless sins and misfortunes. It is not those who are assimilated into sin, but those who are innocent.

There is no way, in the face of complex rivers and lakes, all goodness will be regarded as weakness.

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When goodness is abandoned, it is the sorrow of this world.

The human world, because of the goodness and the light, has become full of warmth and hope. But if we all abandon goodness, won't the winter and night come unexpectedly?

I remembered a case from the previous year, a girl with depression, who couldn't think of it, just live streamed drinking pesticides on the Internet. What about the people who can watch in the live broadcast room? He also kept advising her to drink quickly.

As a result, the girl unfortunately left, and the people below dispersed after watching the play.

After the incident, some people said that the girl's psychological quality was not good, some people said that this girl was too stupid, some people said that those who were watching were not good, and would not be kind enough to persuade ...

Things like this have happened too much in recent years. Tragedy has always been all around us. Life seems to have become a cultivation field, without the warmth of the past and the goodness of human nature.

A famous person once said: "This is a magical world, and everyone is doing worse than beasts in human skin, but they are still happy." ”

The matter of eating human blood steamed buns has appeared in the past and is now happening. This only shows one point, that is, what Du Mu said in the "Treatise on Passing the Qin" that future generations mourn and do not learn from it, and also make future generations mourn later generations.

This is where the real sadness lies.

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Why is it that the evil of human nature is constantly developing, while the goodness of human nature is slowly declining?

I think there are three reasons for this.

First of all, the cost of kindness is too high and the benefits are too low. Conversely, the cost of doing evil is too low, and the cost of goodness is too high. Man is an animal that seeks profit and avoids harm, and naturally chooses the latter instead of the former.

Second, when goodness becomes a derogatory term, the brilliance of human goodness disappears. Today's kindness, like luxury, is too precious. Life, on the other hand, is full of anger and irritability. This is the root cause.

Third, mercenary interests have become the pursuit of the vast majority of people. In the face of interests, some people will format their own morality, will format their conscience. In the end, everyone is hurting each other and suffering together.

Keigo Higashino wrote in "White Night": "Human nature is a thing, don't have any hope of moral purity for anyone, everyone in this world is half-human and half-ghost, and no one can see it if they get too close." ”

Human nature is too complex and too fickle. This moment, maybe it has a moral side to the light. The next moment, perhaps it is contaminated with dirt and sin.

But it is still necessary to say that it is better to be a person and still be worthy of your "conscience". To persevere in goodness is not to gain anything, but to preserve the only light in this world, so as not to disappear.

I hope that you and I will not let the turbidity pollute our lives.

Wen/Shushan has deer