People always mistakenly think that knowledge and thinking are synonymous, and that people who have read books and studied are intellectuals. Now that I think about it, to be more precise, they should be called intellectuals, who know a lot of knowledge and history, and know many concepts and theories. . . . In fact, independent thinking does not require a lot of knowledge. Many people in the countryside who do not read much will express impressive and unique views on the world just by observing their own lives. It is obsessed with the highness of material things, obsessed with fighting each other in a small space, and judging the lives of others and this big world with a narrow interpretation of one's own selfishness. Independent thinking and fair and objective stance are seemingly simple but actually difficult things. When it does not affect their own interests, everyone is a righteous Spider-Man. Once they hurt themselves, I am afraid they will immediately become the Avengers. Even in the seemingly incomparably righteous Nazi trials, people more or less biased the blame to an individual whose crime may not have been so deep, and let him bear too much the burden of the victims for the weakness and the past. The anger generated by fear, perhaps this is the most complicated and tangled point of human nature. How to achieve the unity of knowledge and action requires great rationality, restraint and profound self-examination. Maybe only a saint can do it!
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