1. China's prosperous national fortunes
The Chinese nation, which has been bullied and insulted for more than a hundred years, began during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period. In fact, starting from Qianlong and Jiaqing, this nation began to go to the road of decline. Taking another set of methods of calculating fate in China's five-thousand-year culture, it seems to say that fate is caused. After 1984, if it is calculated according to this law, it is good luck for more than two hundred years. For example, perhaps the future will surpass the era of Kangxi and Qianlong.
As for the unity of the country is of course a matter; and the unity of the country is in culture. Thirty or forty years ago, I told young people that you should not be superstitious about English, but quickly learn Chinese, and in the future Chinese will become the second language in the world, and Chinese become the second language in the world. This prophecy I have spoken about has been fulfilled.
You see, from 1984 to the present, it has been more than twenty years of Peace. You young people don't understand, we have experienced too many wars since we were young. For example, although I did not personally see the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, I was on the side; it was followed by the civil unrest of the Beiyang government, and the war of the Northern Expedition, all of which were civil unrest; followed by the war against Japan; followed by the argument between the two brothers and two parties. That's how we live our whole lives.
This peaceful day of more than twenty consecutive years has never been seen in history. When we were young, we also had a peaceful life, but many ordinary people did not have food, and the state of suffering and hunger was very serious. Although there are still poor areas and marginal areas, they are much better than in the past. You can rest assured that it will be unified, depending on how hard we work.
—— "Nan Huaijin's Speech"
2. The importance of future Chinese
I spoke at the Kuomintang Central Party Department thirty years ago, criticizing them, criticizing the Kuomintang, and I said that what you did has ruined Chinese culture. I said that in the future, Chinese culture will begin to develop, and in the future era, Chinese culture and writing will become the second common language in the world, and it will definitely be realized. Maybe the English language will slowly decline. I will say this again now, maybe I am dead, and I will not be allowed to come, and someone will drag me out of the coffin; but I will burn it to ashes so that you cannot find it, hehe, lest I be pulled out and whipped.
Second, I also told my foreign friends that I said forty years ago, if a young man did not understand English, he would not be able to walk in this world. Forty or fifty years later, no matter if you are a white race or a yellow person, if you don't understand Chinese you will not be able to eat.
- "On Chinese Culture"
3. Downhill road in the United States
A key member of the Treasury department in the era of Carter in the United States came to invite me to dinner. ...... This senior Treasury official asked me, what do you think of the United States? I said, just two or three months old, what will you feel?! He said, you must have, our country is very welcome to people like you, it is best for you to live here for a long time. I said, I'm sorry, I'm not going to stay long because I'm Chinese... He forced me to ask, and I said, "You must ask me?" I am a Chinese commoner, born of a countryman, who does not understand, and I have three sentences about your perception of the United States in the past three months: First, you are the richest country in the world. "Hmm! He agreed. "Second, it is the poorest society." He was eating and put his chopsticks down, "Hmm! reasonable. "Because I see that the cars, furniture, televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, and so on, which are all installments, are old in less than a few years, and new inventions are going to be replaced by new ones, and all their lives are in installments, including the houses they live in." That's why I say that your whole society is a poor society. "He said it made a lot of sense, he didn't eat anymore, he just looked at me." Third, you are the most indebted country in the world, and you are simply empty, you owe it to others, you owe it to the whole world, and you deceive the whole world, but the countries of the whole world cannot do anything to you, because you have atomic bombs, so people dare not ask you for money. If we only have duck eggs in China and are in debt, people will come to ask for the account. These are the three points of view, the rest I do not understand. He said: "Completely accurate." I said, "Really? Finally blindfolded me! "But I said that more than twenty years ago, and it's still the case in America today. About forty years ago I said in the Kuomintang Central Party Department in Taiwan that the United States will decline in fifty years, and this is also recorded in my book.
- "Preface and Afterword to the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century"
4. The harm and decline of Western democracy
No matter what political system or period it is created, no matter how carefully calculated, after all, it is impossible to jump out of the evolution of the great principle of "heavy for light roots, quiet for the restless king". Even as the law of Western history is, it cannot escape Lao Tzu, the gossip furnace of Taishang Laojun. Since Louis XIV in France until now, although the monarch is not good, the democratic rule of law has not necessarily been a perfect form of government. The future of the world, precisely because human society overestimates the preciousness of democracy, is finally destroyed in the disguise of democracy. Looking at Britain and the United States in today's domain, the root cause of their future has long been buried in the current system of social welfare and weightlessness and grandstanding democracy and freedom, which are not heavy on quality!
- "Lao Tzu He Says"
It is the consistent policy of "American-style democracy" to separate people's lands, draw their own land, and demand that others implement "American-style democracy and freedom" so that they can close their doors and enjoy material pleasures in a harmonious way. It's no surprise that it was so, it's been so, it's been the same for decades. The characteristics of the so-called "American-style democracy and freedom" are, as one of their industrial and commercial celebrities put it: "The greatest learning in the world is how to get others to send the money in their pockets to my pocket happily." "Learning and excellence is business, and business is excellent." The main force behind the election career has always been inseparable from the capitalists who own industry and commerce and need to win the international market at any time.
——" The Change and Confusion of New and Old Education"
5. The disease of the century in the twenty-first century
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the biggest threat to mankind was lung disease, the greatest threat to mankind in the twentieth century was cancer, and the greatest threat to mankind in the twenty-first century was mental illness. Now is the era of the beginning of mental illness, I found that many young children have spiritual problems, it boils down to the problem of education, the rise and fall of a country, the success or failure of a society, the focus is on culture, in education.
The twentieth century threatens humanity with cancer; I think the twenty-first century must be mental illness. It's true that mental illness will get worse and worse in the future, and it's starting now. Although material civilization has progressed, it has brought many conveniences to human beings, but has not brought happiness to human beings, but has only brought more spiritual pain to human beings. The result of this suffering will in the future lead to psychopathy, schizophrenia and psychosis, which has now begun to increase.
- "Analects of Discourse"