But Schopenhauer also proposed the concept of "sage". He believes that although the desire in life is a priori, there is a means of checks and balances, that is, to engage in research in the fields of art, wisdom, philosophy, or science. Schopenhauer's sage thought is similar to Eastern Buddhism: resisting desire, fully entering metaphysical life, thinking like a hermit, can achieve permanent happiness.
The college entrance examination, leaving aside our understanding of the system, is, to a certain extent, a suppression of the desires of young people. We can say this: a healthy young man full of fantasy and impulse, eager to liberate his freedom and realize his certain desires, and this desire includes his own sexual desire, desire for play, desire for association, etc. These desires are a priori, but they are rarely manifested when the consciousness is not yet clear, but they are stimulated in an instant on the road of gradual maturity of thinking. For young people, the most important thing is to experience these new things. In foreign countries, the education system-although there are restrictions, it is generally said to encourage them to experience personally. The advantage of this is that they will not live under the repression of the system, so that they have an earlier sense of experience and innovation. . But at the same time, excessive experience will make them go to the extreme of spirit and thinking. Too much rebellious consciousness makes them start to be jealous of life and even despair. This is the reason why school shootings in European and American society often occur. This is described deeply in the film "Elephant", a film with the spirit of record.
In China, this phenomenon has been replaced by another extreme, and the desire of young people has been replaced by the college entrance examination with life determinism. The general thinking among teenagers is: the college entrance examination is related to my life, and I need to get a good result in the college entrance examination in order to obtain a higher social status and social value. In college, I have endless time and energy to do whatever I like to do. In fact, some teenagers who have not yet matured will relax their nerves in college and begin to endlessly satisfy their desires.
First of all, I agree that the college entrance examination has its positive side. Because at an impulsive age, if there is no balance restriction, teenagers will lose the good time of life due to excessive attention and satisfaction. This is especially true for some people who have no experience but are too impulsive. Although this is a bit unfair-some teenagers also have keen thinking and ideals. But the vast majority of people, even those with a little ideological connotation, can hardly get rid of the situation of satisfying their desires. The first is that the intentions are too strong, and the second is that they are too impulsive.
But the shortcoming of the college entrance examination is precisely that: he told the teenagers: if you pass this level, you can reach a higher state, in this state, you have endless time to realize your ideals. The facts teach us that this is a real obscenity: thousands of college students are squandering time because their lives are too boring, and some are slightly better than them, study hard in order to find a good job to satisfy their desire for money and Social status, few people can touch metaphysical thinking, or this thinking is replaced by reality, they begin to pay attention to earn a living. This is actually a sadly inverted loop.
In Europe and the United States, this situation is also manifested greatly, but the actual reasons for them are different. European and American students experience desire prematurely due to lack of life consciousness. They have developed hedonism and feel that life is nothing but this. Why should we work hard? In China, this is due to long-term depression. The long-term closure of the system completely bored them, and they had to use their bodies to retaliate against this system.
I think the reason for this reasonable system is: in its essence, what the college entrance examination brings is only a change in desire, but in fact a new desire replaces its old one. This desire includes: money, beauty, and social status. , Live for glory. This is all about changing the unfulfilled intention into a more advanced form. I do not deny that there are people like this: they are really realizing their ideals. But in most cases, many people do not have a good understanding of intention after education. They spend more time socializing, playing games, and even having fun. Some people have begun to plan their status and wealth in life, but only a few people have touched on the pursuit of ideals. The general subconscious reaction of college students is: how do we live to pass the time.
This is a very inhumane way of education: it only considers educating us into a new model to meet our various needs, while ignoring the power of metaphysical thinking such as wisdom and art. According to Schopenhauer's theory: if people want to achieve happiness, they need certain checks and balances, because the will is too strong. I think to a certain extent, the function of education is to influence our thinking, so that we have a deeper understanding of art or science, so as to better realize our metaphysical goals in life.
Looking at the so-called online literature and youth literature that are now popular, what they preach is nothing more than the suppression of their spiritual desires by the college entrance examination system. This kind of liberation is also a kind of shallow, hedonistic liberation. Many people also attribute the shortcomings of the college entrance examination to the suppression of individuals by the system, which is quite reasonable. The knowledge I want to do today criticize it from the perspective of intention.
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