Let’s take a look at the five personal qualities and occupations listed in the book:
1 Abnegation, for the selfless; selflessness, self-control (politician)
2 Amity, for the peaceful; friendly, peaceful (farmer)
3 Candor, for the honest; frank, honesty (justice)
4 dauntless, for at the brave; fearless, brave (military police)
5 erudite, for at the Intelligent erudition, wisdom (research).
from the professional point of view, according to the idea physiocrats, the main producer only farmers, Workers, capitalists, and businessmen (professional managers) in the secondary and tertiary industries were directly ignored, and they avoided falling into Marx’s revolutionary routine of class struggle. The villains are designed to be learned, that is, intellectual elites, and the victims are designed to be selfless, that is, politicians. This is very useful when the Democratic Party is in power after the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States; but it is a bit funny when it comes to China. It is often the intellectual elite who occupy the moral commanding heights of public opinion in China, and the government is often the villain and the verbal criticism. Of course, the constant is that ignorant and fearless people are used as guns, that is, the protagonists of the story, angry youths. If you consider the neglected professional classes, the "hardworking" of workers and the "thrifty" of businessmen should also be good extensions.
From the perspective of human nature, the quintile method is considered an innovation in the West. Whether it is four blood types, seven deadly sins, ninth-type personality or twelve constellations, it is difficult to find a theoretical system of the five advantages of human nature. This exists in China. We call it the "Five Constants"-"Benevolence, Justice, Courtesy, Wisdom, Faith", and it is the core value system of Chinese ethics developed from Confucius and Mencius to Dong Zhongshu. But to match the five above, you have to move out the old ideas of "benevolence, courtesy, courtesy, wisdom, honesty, gentleness, courtesy, frugality, loyalty, courage, and honesty". It just feels that some of the bull's heads are wrong. It is considered that Chinese thinking is beyond the limit of foreigners' dystopian imagination. The five indicators of "ethics, ability, diligence, and integrity" of our party's investigation and evaluation of cadres are quite relevant. If we say that the core values of socialism are "prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, patriotism, dedication, honesty, and friendliness", it would go high.
Science fiction and ideals are one thing, reality is another. In reality, officials are accused of being corrupt because they are not selfless; in reality, the proletariat has more wild bandits and hooligans, which is unkind; in reality, lawyers are often equated with liars and brokers, and they are dishonest; in reality The police city management has also been criticized for only bullying the weak and fearing the hard, because it is not brave; in reality, the intellectuals are not academically corrupt bastards, or clenbuterol genetically modified Frankensteins, who are unwise.
But regardless of the East and the West, ideally people call for heroes, whether it is Mao Zedong, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, or Obama who is now sitting on pins and needles and Putin who is not to be outdone. Our expectations are actually not high. Can the heroes have all their advantages? Whether it is a political leader, a business elite, or an academic master, can he be calm and intelligent, firm and courageous, and at the same time be frank, be kind to others, and be selfless? But it turns out that such people often don't stand out at all, or even have no merit. Isn't they just ordinary people? Maybe it's a rural teacher, or even the old scavenger on the street...
Sartre commented that Chevagra is "the most perfect person in the twentieth century." He has both the wisdom of insight into the world, the bravery of persevering in struggle and the selfless kindness of compassion and compassion. He is just such a typical "different." Marx said that our ideal is nothing more than to eliminate alienation and realize the all-round development of human beings. It is already the 21st century. Most of the sci-fi plots in the 1950s have become common reality today. After the ninety and zero generations who grew up in the Internet age, have your personalities expanded? Have you maintained a divergent attitude to the imperfections of the twentieth century? When you are applying for a volunteer in the college entrance examination, when you are choosing a major, when you are applying for a job after graduation, when you are making major choices in life when you are promoted, quit, or start a business, please remember those imperfect people The bad choices we made have brought us prolonged sorrow. Even if Wagra did not die well, even if the perfect person was destined to be thorny along the way, I believe there will always be such people who can bear the fire and go their own way.
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