Are you lame?

When Zhou Xingxing and Wu Mengda met on a crowded street in the movie "Shaolin Soccer", Zhou Xingxing used unreasonable confidence to eagerly promote his successful learning of martial arts. Uncle Da, who had touched the most painful nerve, suddenly said angrily, "What kind of lame, do you have any lameness?" As soon as the words came out, it shocked the world, and the "Are you lame?" into the cloud. It turns out that lameness can also be a necessary weapon for home travel and "killing people". People often say that when you are confident, no one dares to look down on you, and we know that self-confidence mostly comes from the sense of accomplishment in the past, and most of the sense of accomplishment comes from achieving high-sequence achievements among the crowd in mainstream affairs, so, It's not that you can be confident when you say you are confident. To put it bluntly, if you are lame, it may really be just the masturbation of the weak, although the cry is very confident. Wait, what is a higher sequence, who stipulated that the sense of achievement must be linked to a higher sequence? You will say, the mainstream, but the mainstream also fails at times. For example, the irrational exuberance of the stock market in 2007 looks beautiful. But you may say, most of the time, yes, this time there is no way. Let us conclude that people's self-confidence comes from achieving a sequence of grades that most of the time people feel can be called advanced among mainstream people in mainstream affairs. Is this the only way of living for humans? Do only those at the "top" live like individuals?
A French painter, Paul Gauguin, abandoned his family when he was in his thirties and started to learn painting from scratch. As a result, he died of a disease in his forties. Looking at Gauguin's paintings, you will feel that his painting methods have become more simple day by day with the passage of time, and slowly bid farewell to some of the mainstream techniques when he first entered the industry, especially the few paintings he painted in Tahiti, which are more mysterious. with religious meaning. In the later period, the bohemian painting method was too unsuitable for mainstream appetite (it can be said to be too advanced), so that no one cared about it, and the material income was almost scarce, and he soon passed away from this world. Ironically, in February 2015, Gauguin's "When Will You Marry" was sold for $300 million, setting the world's most expensive price for an artwork. He did not cater to the mainstream, but blindly sought new painting methods, and strived to innovate, even if he did not fit in with society, even if he was far away from social civilization, he went to live on an indigenous island. I think maybe the worldly time has no meaning to him, because he has found the value and meaning of his own existence, without the affirmation of others.
In "The Road to Serfdom" Hayek discusses the following two passages, "The fundamental point for us is that there is no such complete ethical code (the various values ​​of human beings have their place) ', an attempt to direct various economic activities according to a single plan raises countless questions, the answers to which can only be provided by a single moral code, and which existing morality cannot answer at all, much less about what people ought to do. There is simply no consensus. "To the extent defined, individuals should be allowed to follow their own values ​​and preferences rather than others, and, within these domains, the individual's system of goals should be paramount and not be subservient to the dictates of others." "
A person of ordinary talent (he was a stockbroker in Paris, France in his 30s, he didn't know how to paint until he was 30), he did non-mainstream things, and found his own sequence in non-mainstream affairs (although I I think his paintings are ugly), and then live freely (spiritually), what reason do we have to deny his life choices and values?
When the BBC interviewed the British philosopher Russell in 1959, he asked if this video was like The Dead Sea Scrolls are like the Dead Sea Scrolls, seen a thousand years later, what do you think should be said to their generation? In terms of morality, Senior Russell said: "Love is wise, hatred is stupid. In this increasingly connected world, we must learn to tolerate each other, and we must accept the fact that there are always people saying things we don't want to hear. Only in this way can we live together, and if we want to live together, not die together, we must learn this kind of tolerance and forbearance, because they are crucial to the survival of mankind on this planet. "It's not 100% that we can decide whether to be lame or not, and not everyone can treat a gentleman like Russell in a friendly and kind manner. There are always some people with a strong sense of hierarchy who like to look at other people's unhappiness to find happiness. , if some people have to be stubborn about their own values ​​and ignore others, then you can also say out loud, "Hey, boy, are you lame? ! "

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