2,300 years ago, at the end of the Warring States period, there was a famous thinker named Han Feizi. In his writings, he said these two sentences: "Those who are small but not humble, those who are weak but not afraid of the strong, those who are rude and insult their neighbors, and those who are greedy and clumsy can die." "Those who rely on the aid of their neighbors and insult the country they are forced to save by the powerful can also perish." After reading it, I feel that Han Feizi is worthy of being a person who has influenced future generations for more than 2,000 years, isn't this what I am talking about today's Israel, the Philippines and other countries?
Han Feizi was a famous thinker in the pre-Qin period, he first studied under Xunzi, a representative figure of Confucianism, but in the end he did not inherit Confucianism, but became the master of Legalist thought. His idea of the rule of law is tinged with materialism, and King Yingzheng of Qin respects it and enshrines it as a program for governing the country. Qin was able to unify the six countries in the end, and Han Feizi's thoughts contributed a lot.
Later generations compiled his works into the book "Han Feizi", many of which are still relevant today, such as "The Death Campaign".
The so-called "Death Sign" is a sign of the death of the country, there are 47 articles, and these signs indicate that the country will be very dangerous. In Han Fei's words, it is "perishable".
For example, the paragraph above. "The country is small but not humble, the strength is small but not afraid of the strong, the rude and insults the neighbors, the greedy and clumsy friends, but also perish. In today's parlance, it means that a weak country does not understand its own situation, does not know how to lower its posture when confronted by a strong country, and is doomed to perish if it has a weak national strength but is determined to provoke a strong country, especially a powerful neighbor, which is stubborn and greedy in international exchanges.
2,300 years ago, Han Feizi seemed to have cleared the fog of time and directly saw today's world. Isn't the world just as he predicted?
During World War II, India and Vietnam, and now Israel, the Philippines, and South Korea, weren't they all "small countries but not inferior, few forces but not afraid of strong, and rude and insulting their neighbors"? Japan has suffered two big bombs, India and Vietnam are almost about to move their capitals, and the Philippines is still stubborn, but the end is also predictable. Ignoring the opposition of its neighbors, South Korea insisted on engaging in THAAD, but the neighboring powers became angry, and South Korea's economy shrank at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Some people will say, no, Israel is not an exception. This country is small and rude, greedy and clumsy, but he's fine. Not only has he won all four wars in the Middle East, but now he is becoming more and more arrogant, and it seems that Han Feizi is not accurate.
No, Han Feizi wouldn't be wrong, he had expected it a long time ago, so he said in "The Death Campaign", "Those who rely on the aid and simplify the neighbors, and the powerful save and insult the country they are forced to do, can also die." ”
This passage translates to mean that if you rely on the assistance of other countries, you will snub your neighbors, and if you have the support of a strong country, you will bully your neighboring small countries, but you will also die. Isn't this Israel?
What Israel is doing, the whole world is watching. Even the reputation of the art students who failed to make the list has slowly changed from a stench for thousands of years to a mixed reputation, which shows how outrageous their behavior is. Relying on the support of the United States and Europe, they have done wrong, and now the support of Europe and the United States has begun to waver. They are self-excluding from civilized society, and in the end they will lose all their morality, and the end will be extremely miserable.
There is nothing new under the sun. More than 2,000 years ago, our ancestors saw through the rise and fall of the country and the operation of all things in the world, and wrote books to warn them. But for more than 2,000 years, such ups and downs have been repeated, and they have never changed.
Should we lament that our ancestors were too advanced and predicted today's operating laws more than 2,000 years ago, or should we say that future generations will not be able to jump out of this trap for 2,000 years, or should we struggle in the rise and fall of destruction? It's not dead yet, it's just that the time hasn't come yet.