[Zheng Yongnian: If the intellectual circle continues to "decline", then China will soon face an era of total mental retardation] Abstract: The intellectual circle is on the downside, and knowledge is also down. Although the predictions are dangerous, one can be sure that if this direction cannot be reversed, then China will soon face an era of complete "colonization" of knowledge, an era of total mental retardation. The reason is very simple, people can no longer return to the era when the tradition does not need so much knowledge, knowledge is needed, but because people do not have their own knowledge, then they have to take the "colonial" route, that is, borrowing and hyping the knowledge of other countries.
Author: Zheng Yongnian
Source: China Education 30 Forum
The great practice of this great era needs to be explained, enhanced, conceptualized and theorized to create a Chinese social science system based on the Chinese experience. Obviously, this is the responsibility of the Chinese intelligentsia. This responsibility could have contributed to the great era of Chinese intellectuals, but the reality was extremely cruel, and when China became the world's largest experimental ground in the social sciences, China's intellectuals entered an era of sadness.
It is not only because of the unprecedented contempt of power, money, and the masses for knowledge, nor because knowledge is often used to embellish and become dispensable, because knowledge has always been and should be humble. The fundamental reason for today's intellectual tragedy is that the creator of knowledge himself has lost his identification with knowledge, and the creator of knowledge has lost his own subjective status, and has willingly become a vassal of other things. There are many Chinese universities, and there are many celebrations every year, but each celebration is a humiliation of knowledge.
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Every time the school celebrates, everyone is proud of how many politicians and rich people they have cultivated, but it is impossible to say that no university has cultivated a "master" that Qian Xuesen said before his death. In fact, today, the various public forums and even academic seminars held by universities and research institutions are aimed at inviting great officials to become rich, and knowledge itself is a secondary and dispensable foil.
The knowledge system is the core of any civilization, without which it is difficult for any civilization to survive and develop in the world, and at most become the site of future archaeologists. From the perspective of knowledge creation, it is the great creation of knowledge that creates civilization. In the West, from ancient Greece to the modern Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment, this is a glorious age of knowledge, without which it would be difficult to have the Western civilization that people see and experience today.
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As far as knowledge creators are concerned, knowledge creation has always been an individual act. Although sometimes it is also manifested as group knowledge, such as the "hundred schools" of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras, group knowledge is still based on the individual knowledge system, and it is only when some scholars have a consensus that it forms a mutually reinforcing group knowledge.
At the same time, in China's political environment of "learning and excellence", knowledge is ostensibly created by the government intellectuals (that is, "scholars"), but it should be pointed out that the government has never been the subject of knowledge.
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Whether it is being invited to give a lecture to the Politburo or the article is instructed by the leadership, this can be an indicator, but it is not the only or even the most important one. Knowledge has its own indicators. If intellectual people measure the value of their knowledge by these things, then not only is it already greatly alienated, but it is also difficult to call it knowledge.
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A notable example is the real estate industry. China's real estate has come to such an absurd point today not only about real estate developers and local governments, but also about a large number of intellectuals who are "captive" in this industry, because these people are proving the correctness of the government's real estate market policies at every step, contributing to the trouble, rather than correcting the mistakes.
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This phenomenon can be seen everywhere in the so-called "Chinese studies", and the essence of Chinese studies that people expect has not appeared, and those "cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods" have become flooded. This is true in middle school, and so is Western learning. Marx, for example. In the world, China today has the largest group of Marx research institutes and Marx researchers, because Marx has almost become the official "Chinese studies". But if you carefully read the products of these institutions and scholars, how many people understand Marx. Marx is just their politics, just their job.
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None of the true scholars of ancient and modern times in China and abroad are vying for fame and fortune, and many have even paid with their lives for their intellectual dignity. Historically, there are many examples of intellectuals being persecuted by power and capital. Only in modern times has freedom of speech been gradually guaranteed. For most scholars, fame and fortune are not pursued, but merely a by-product of the knowledge they create.
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Once in Vanity Fair, intellectual people lack the imagination of knowledge. How can a group of knowledge without intellectual imagination create knowledge? How can a nation without knowledge creation rise? It is precisely because of the importance of knowledge to the rise of nations and nations that the creation and innovation of knowledge have been called for from top to bottom. To this end, the state has also invested a lot of financial and economic resources, cultivated key universities, built new think tanks, and attracted top talents. But the reality is extremely bad, because the more the country invests, the bigger the Vanity Fair; The bigger the vanity fair, the more corrupt the intellectual people are.
Recently, Qian Yingyi, dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, said that China has not yet established a modern university, which is very reasonable. It can be added that not only has a modern university not been established, but it is also far behind the traditional college system. In fact, whether it is a modern university or a traditional academy, what matters is not the university system or the academy system itself, but the main body of the university and the academy, that is, the intellectual person.
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