Mr. Shizhi once said, "Where there is any natural truth, you should first doubt it and then believe it." "It is true that if you do not doubt and then believe, and embrace only one, then you may only have a gray world, or only a creeping life.
"Introduce My Thoughts"
Doubt makes it possible to de-falsify and preserve the truth, and to keep people not blindly subordinate to the crowd, but to maintain a critical eye and independent thinking. Bernard alone in Brave New World suspects that "instigating hemp" is just a means for the upper rulers to tempt people to give up their minds, so he refuses to take it, preferring pain to distinguish between right and wrong, true and false. And those who are "ruined by love", lose their judgment and reason, blindly believe in the beauty of the new world, and eventually crawl on the ground like domestic pigs, living a life of slaughter.
"What makes people miserable is not that they replace thinking with laughter, but that they don't know why they laugh and why they don't think anymore."
However, when there is only doubt in the mind, people will go to the trap of "conspiracy theory", treat the world in a cold and selfish way, and stifle all good thoughts. Adorno once wrote: "After Auschwitz, it was barbaric to write poetry. "Because human beings no longer believe that the self-proclaimed highly developed civilization can resist blood and slaughter, when the love and conscience in human nature are abandoned, man is alienated into a mercenary tool under the domination of capital, and the color of life is ruthlessly dissolved by all doubts about beauty, leaving only gray and bleak in the end.
Auschwitz
Not only that, but doubting and not believing will also make the individual lose the foothold of settling in life, lose the faith in life and hope for the future. Li Zheng, who suspected that the fate was unfair, was cowardly and conceited, but Linyuan envied the fish but did not retreat to the net, and finally turned the tiger away; Ren Yongshu, who doubted that the revolution had no way out, Yang Dusheng hastily ended his young life after the failure of the Guangzhou uprising, doubting that there was no light in all the world, and the individuals in it could only self-destruct in nothingness and absurdity.
"Mountain Moon Chronicle"
Therefore, we must learn to believe, and to doubt and then believe, only in this way can we not be afraid of lies, not lose ourselves in the huge "echo wall" effect, but at the same time have a belief in the good, with truth, courage and responsibility to live a life of personality standing tall. "How you are, your country, your world is like." If the spring forest flourishes and the spring flowers sway, the world will not be dark. Like Sartre, even after experiencing inhuman torture in a prisoner-of-war camp, he doubted that people's numbness to their surroundings could not be changed, and they did not lose confidence. In the face of the great shadow of war, he still runs to wake people up. Because he always believes that the sword of goodness forged by the human heart can split the malice of foolishness, and he is willing to give his life for this love and conscience.
Sartre
It has to be pointed out that at present, many people only have one doubt and belief, and have become the people who "believe in unspoken rules more than rules, and believe in power techniques more than academics" written by Professor Lu Xinning. Cynicism and exquisite egoism have been hyped up on the Internet, which is really worrying.
cynic
"Are you finally shining?" At the end of my journey. Mu Xin once wrote in a small poem. He also doubted and hesitated in the bloody storm of the Cultural Revolution, but after thousands of sails, he still believed in a bright life. May you and I all live such a life of "doubting first and then believing", and go to the heights of life under the guidance of the starry sky.
"Wooden Heart: Snow in the Dark"