Not related to movies: Some associations from "The Wind" and "The Founding of the People's Republic of China"

1. Espionage warfare requires all grass and trees, or sowing beans into soldiers. In fact, there are far more failures than successes. In troubled times, the cost of obtaining and using intelligence personnel is very low, and people can’t work with peace of mind, so they all have to join the party. And in the struggle, chickens and dogs are restless, and there is no peace in troubled times. At that time, the national complex and the country's survival were in danger, the social environment, turmoil and chaos created generations of victims who charged into battle, and selfless people who were willing to remain anonymous behind the scenes. In fact, it is not the credit of one party or faction, or how charismatic its leader is. At that time, the cost of using spies and training soldiers was very low. As long as you give the opportunity to participate, you will get people who work for you. The mission attracts many selfless people. Today, the cost of employing people is very high, and it is even more difficult in peaceful times.

2. There are good and bad parties in a party, and every regime has its dark side, whether it is ruthlessness, violence or greed. Just because a person has a cold, he should not be euthanized at every turn. In any case, unless a regime has become so evil that it is intolerable, to the point of forcing the people to have breakfast and rising up, then we should treat him like a doctor, saving the dying and solving the problem through reform rather than revolution. Our ruling class is far from the point where it needs to be denied, and those with a real understanding of politics and history will learn to tolerate because power and despotism are better than weak democracy and chaotic freedom. For individuals, "I would rather be a dog of peace than a person in troubled times" is really the cynicism that should be present now.

3. In troubled times and a system that is so rotten to the point of life, those rebels are heroes and people who sacrificed their lives for the righteousness of the nation, but in today's era, acting as a reactionary is only for fame, personal ambitions cannot be realized, laziness and cowardice, evasion The result of reality, personality distortion. Injustices exist in any era, and we should not limit ourselves to the flaws of a system. The so-called freedom, democratic state and the truth of its politics and society also have unknown darkness. Or, according to a Nietzschean, the relationship between democracy and autocracy is essentially a pseudo-opposition. There are good systems and bad dictatorships, and there are good democracies and bad democracies.

4. To adopt an attitude of reforming rather than overthrowing a regime is in the best interest of the people at any time, unless the regime itself cannot be reformed, the state machine has reached its end of life, and the vast majority of the people have no interest in reality and the future. Delusional and a complete loss of confidence in life, the ruling class degenerates into believing in an unsustainable vicious circle.

5. Prejudice against different political systems is like an act of racial discrimination, a manifestation of lack of knowledge of political science and extreme ignorance. Liberalism is actually a kind of nationalism in immigrant countries, because a country like the United States cannot produce a kind of nationalism. Therefore, people who do not believe in their own nation today mistakenly believe that there is an intermediate state, and finally believe in the result of other people's nationalism. Today's "democratic superiority theory" is actually a variant of "white supremacy" and "Christian superiority theory", and democracy and freedom have become their proud gospel.

6. There are many things that are just, but justice is not necessarily right, nor is it necessarily the best solution, and the same is true for the student movement in history. Politics, as a ruling science, has the fundamental characteristics of amorality and anti-morality. It cannot be viewed from the perspective of morality and good and evil, and cannot be understood by itself. Just like the Confucian scholars who wrote history books in the past had to use benevolence, righteousness and morality to explain history, they basically wore colored glasses rather than a scientific point of view.

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