There are three kinds of people in society, the sleeping person, the awake person, and the pretending to be asleep (Mr. Black and White)

There are three kinds of people in society, the sleeping person, the awake person, and the pretending to be asleep (Mr. Black and White)

Lu Xun once wrote, "There is a group of people locked up in a dark iron room, sleeping, and will eventually die unconsciously. When a man woke up and tried to push open the window and let in fresh air from outside to wake up the sleeping people inside, they were scolded by the men and disturbed their sleep. "The world is so interesting, some people can wake up through communication, some people are stubborn or good-looking and confused enough to fight hard, some people know that they are in the iron house, but rely on the iron house to provide them with a sense of security for the benefit." In fact, no one can wake up people who deliberately pretend to be asleep, nor can they impress people who are obsessed with it, so why does Lu Xun still shout? I think it's like a chicken chirping in the morning, nothing more than an instinct after the [thought] matures.

There are three kinds of people in society, the sleeping person, the awake person, and the person pretending to be asleep. In fact, it is also the three attitudes of life to problems: conformity, solution, and escape.

Sleeping people belong to the optimistic and obscene faction, just like Bai Yang said, the Chinese people have a common disease, that is, self-righteousness, arrogance, daydreaming all day, hiding in the quilt fantasy, self-intoxication, self-obscenity. In their view, such as martial arts, Chinese medicine, painting... As long as your own culture, it must be good. As long as it is not its own culture, it must not be too good or very barbaric. As the saying goes, "You have found in your own deeds the best weapon to justify your cowardice and incompetence, and at the same time you have found a platform on which to establish an advantage that does not actually exist." (I copied it in the book, but forgot the source)

The greatest sorrow of man is that he does not admit his shortcomings and is self-righteous. When he heard how bad he was, he scolded and denied that he was not. To put it bluntly, they dare not face the problem and dare not face their hearts squarely, all stem from their ignorance of themselves and their cowardice in the future. As Lu Xun once said: "As long as it is always like this, it is a treasure." Even if it is nameless and swollen, if it is born on Chinese, it will be red and swollen, like a peach blossom; when it festers, it is as beautiful as cheese, which is wonderful. "People who are intoxicated in their own world are reluctant to wake up from their dreams, and they drink a lot of chicken soup for the soul every day to enhance their courage to live." But when you open your eyes one day, sooner or later you have to face reality.

Sober people are pessimists, this is what Mu Xin said, he said, "Modern Chinese don't understand pessimism." At the end of the day, pessimism is a vision. People with rat eyes cannot be pessimistic. For all great ideas come from pessimism. The truly great people are pessimistic and desperate at the beginning, and they are put to death and reborn. ”

One of my favorite quotes: "Strength always arises in despair, advances in doubt, and dies in optimism." "Pessimism does not equal sinking, sinking is just numbness." The ancients said, "Born of sorrow, died of happiness." So social change depends on pessimists, because only in sorrow and calamity can we strive, and in comfort we can only go to extinction. Desolation is a feeling of life, a lament for the real thing. Mr. Lu Xun has a saying: "What kind of mourners and happy people are really mourners and happy people who dare to face up to a bleak life and dare to face up to the dripping blood?" ”

Finally, I am talking about people who pretend to sleep, why do they never wake up and pretend to sleep? It is because it is meaningless for people and people to discuss problems at different levels of values, which is equivalent to playing the piano to the cow. If pretending to sleep brings more benefits, who will choose to wake up? Man, after all, is an animal of desire. Once there is a lack of faith, the heart is filled with endless desires, and it cannot recall the cow that swore to hit the south wall and was obsessed. Sometimes I think that since I am powerless to change, and I don't want to fall together, and I don't want to go with the flow, then I should return to myself and keep my bottom line and conscience.