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This book is a diary written by Guo Shi in 1994.
Panda read this book mainly to observe , to see if he could have an awareness of his own understanding from the perspective of the other , and at the same time if he could have a certain degree of resonance with the national teacher.
After reading it, I did not expect that the national teacher is actually a person who is keen on the Seven Laws. At the same time, I found that the national teacher does not refuse entertainment activities, and at the same time, he will also comment at a certain height in the diary. I just can’t enjoy entertainment at all, because this has actually completely eliminated the purpose of entertainment hahaha.
The following quotations are all original texts, which are excerpted by Panda, and Panda’s own comments are attached in the form of the text. The serial numbers are in the order in which they appear in the original text and do not represent the original title.
1. People living in this world: some are weak; some are strong; some need others to set goals, some set goals for others; some need emotions to support life, and some need will to support life. I probably choose to be the latter in every pair of concepts.
Nietzsche’s so-called superman , Chairman Mao’s so-called person who has broken away from vulgar tastes, and Panda’s so-called new human being are not the same.
2. Confucian thought has a reason for its existence, and it cannot be eliminated by human forces. It is not only a system of thought, but also a reflection of a way of life. In Chinese society, people have always emphasized the coordination of the relationship between people from the inner world of people, rather than from the external world. All order, whether political, economic or social, is ultimately a spiritual order. No external order is secure until a spiritual order is formed. This is also the most valuable part of Confucianism. A world cannot be without order, nor without ethical order. Confucianism emphasizes this. The question is not what content to use to construct order, but the need for order itself. Content always has to evolve with history.
This is what Lao Siguang calls the subjectivity of human beings in “New History of Chinese Philosophy”. In the philosophy of conduct, Pang Da legislates for nature by man, relying on people’s absolute moral value judgment , that is, absolute law. The so-called order is the opposite of chaos, that is, negative entropy . In fact, it is the purpose of Pang Da’s emphasis on going out of the circle in the philosophy of conduct. Everything is to break the fate of the closed system ‘s heat death.
3. When there are too many people, it is easy to form a dissipative structure, and the power is consumed in this “black hole”. The characteristics of Chinese culture are probably like this. In fact, foreign countries are the same, not as simple as imagined. In order to solve this problem, only small departments and large colleges can be established, and the main energy of the department head is to focus on teaching, scientific research and management. Simplify complex personnel relationships. The simplification of personnel relations is sometimes accomplished by organizational construction. Human relations should be simple, simple, and simple. This will free up productivity.
People who do not have a unified belief will cause internal friction. It is the same in China and abroad. There is no inferiority of the Chinese people at all.
A person with a unified belief, we call him a comrade .
4. There is always sustenance in human life. After losing your parents, you will suddenly feel that such sustenance is important. Without children, without the warmth of a family, the only sustenance is the place where life is consumed. There may be many people in the world like this. This is the structure of life.
This is the belief that Pang Da said should be practiced until death. It is deeper than life and longer than life. Life is just the carrier of thought. A life without thought is worthless . The willpower to live out your beliefs is the truly precious part.
5. What is a politician? They should have unswerving beliefs, foresighted vision, indomitable perseverance, open-mindedness, and the ability to see the overall situation, etc. China’s democratic revolution relied on a prominent group of leaders. Need it now.
Same as Article 1. The key is still belief , and the last few are just the ability to realize belief.
6. The power of psychology has always been the basic driving force of a society, and sometimes it is the most powerful driving force. This power source, once activated, is extremely powerful, but it can also become a destructive force. When it is not activated, there is no power, silent and invisible.
This is the long-term driving force of social change, the change in people’s ideas, as explained by Jin Guantao in “Axial Civilization and Modern Society”. It is not a tree without roots, it is a real power. Most people don’t realize it.
7. Can a person without spiritual pain and happiness exist as a person who has come to this world? Is it a man who has had a real life? Why not? Why is it? A creative joy is required.
Human value, reflected in the practice of generation , is creation , not consumption. People without a spiritual world are just animals, with animal nature and no humanity.
8. In the process of social development, one of the important tasks is how to keep beauty from being involved in the process of increasing wealth, and to maintain beauty and beauty. But such a scenario is often difficult to occur, because wealth often cannot grow without good intervention. Wealth is also a double-edged sword, it can create beauty, or it can kill beauty.
Capitalist society is the alienation of all good things into the value of money , and the growth of wealth caused by the intervention of all good things is actually the dissolution and nihilization of good things themselves . If there is no absolute value law as a value judgment, wealth will not actively create beauty.
9. The pursuit of modernity is more and more manifested in people’s ideas in modern society, rather than at the material level. When matter does not constitute the difficulties of modernity, ideas are extremely important. And when the material has not developed to this stage, the concept cannot stand out. All matter is possessed, and the final competition is the concept, which is the ability to transform natural matter into humanized nature.
Now that China already has some of the material conditions of the United States, the Sino-US dispute will inevitably be implemented in the concept, in the vision that the two sides have described and prepared to realize for the future of the world, and in the unity of the people of the world .
10. Every group of a nation often has only cultural, economic, and artistic connections in its daily life, and the grand ceremony of the whole nation can tell people something more important, which is the connection between spiritual entities and politics. Therefore, many countries in the world pay great attention to the rituals of their own nation, and the National Day is the best opportunity.
The imagined community is not nothingness. The existence of a nation is not a burden. We emerge from society and history and create new societies and histories for the future .
11. People like us have become accustomed to a life without happiness, that is, a dull life. Without the desire for happiness, there is no pain. Pain often accompanies the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself. So the question is not happiness itself, but the hope in each person’s subjective state. My question is still: “Why do monks recite sutras?” If this question can be answered, everything will be trivial. It is called peace raising the infinite heaven. Happiness is something that can be desired but not sought, and something that can be sought but not enforced. After practicing for so many years, there is enough space in my heart, and there is no such thing as happiness. Of course, I am not against other people’s pursuit of happiness, because it is impossible for people to live the same life.
Here you can refer to Panda’s series of articles on pleasure and happiness , pain and negative emotions . The concept of happiness in the original text here should be similar to the happy solution in Panda’s article. People cannot blindly pursue happiness, otherwise they will become slaves of desire. Human happiness, after all, must be implemented in one’s own subjectivity . My nature is self-sufficient and does not seek outsiders.
12. The development of social morality under the condition of market economy. This topic is very worth studying. Under the tide of the market economy, the position of morality is erratic, and people do not have a clear identity. The inner value core of morality also needs to be updated. This task is always not ranked in the early stage of economic development, but by the time it is ranked, it is probably too late.
The purpose of the market economy is to eliminate all morals, so if we want to surpass the market economy, we must establish our own moral system , the sooner the better.
13. The training of students is the product of our teaching unit, and finally we must compete in the market. Human competition is probably the most intense and essential competition in all market competitions.
Yes, man is the end of everything, not the means.
14. People know that self-sufficiency is sometimes the greatest source of happiness. Peace of mind is better than all satisfaction.
Same as Article 11.
15. Pay attention to establishing your own position in history, so that you can study the problem more deeply. We all come from history, and no one can look beyond history. But, sometimes, going beyond a little history makes sense for the depth of one’s thinking. Since the 19th century, we have entered the historical period of the invasion of Western civilization to the East that Marx said, and the frame of reference when we know our society has become Western. This is not something we can get rid of alone, but a precipitation of historical development. We live in this world and receive. The real breakthrough is to go beyond them. Hasn’t Western civilization also been influenced by the civilization of Asia Minor? Therefore, hundreds of years of time can be “flirted”, and the problem can be really analyzed from the perspective of science and reason. In this way, there will be a more thorough understanding of China itself.
The West holds the right to speak, which is the so-called cultural hegemony . If we want to break this hegemony, we must first establish our own value system and establish our own cultural discourse power. The recently mentioned enhancement of historical consciousness and strengthening of cultural self-confidence refers to this.
16. The matter of knowledge is all about contributing to the society, keeping out of oneself, and not caring what others say.
My nature is self-sufficient and does not seek outsiders, and practice is the essence of everything .
17. People’s Congress is an animal that pursues immediate interests, and long-term interests are often not rational, but accidental.
For most people it is accidental, but for those who master the law , the realization of long-term benefits is inevitable.
18. How to pass on the leading values and principles of society to the next generation is a basic political project of the society, because the biggest weakness of human beings is that they cannot pass on the political ideas received by the previous generation to the next generation, and there must be a socialization process. This process can only be accomplished through education. What China needs is such a complete education. Of course, in order for education to achieve such a level and function, it must first have basic beliefs about education, which may be a more difficult problem.
I think there is an urgent need to combine the pursuit of values and morality in Chinese culture and Confucianism with socialist and communist ideology .
19. Under different social conditions, people’s thoughts are always affected, and it is impossible not to be affected. Many of today’s theories are actually products of the times. If you don’t look at things in this way, you won’t be able to see them through.
Therefore, to see through, we must transcend the East and the West, transcend history, stand on the perspective of human nature and evolution, and settle on the general human subjectivity. Selfishness is animal nature, not human nature .
20. When we analyze this problem, we must first “clean” our value system. Since modern times, the Western value system has gradually entered China, and with the entry of Western material civilization, Western learning has spread eastward. These values have an influence that cannot be underestimated in Chinese society, and even our people today are more or less influenced by them when we look at problems. Especially in political analysis, our frame of reference is more or less “radiated” by the Western value frame of reference. We often do not have a clear awareness of ourselves. Although we may try our best to clean up the values of the West, we “use it every day without realizing it”. The development of world politics and Chinese politics today shows that each society has its own development logic. Leaving this logic to talk about the political and social development of a certain society cannot reach objective and appropriate conclusions. What we need more today is to discover new political values from our own cultural traditions, so that development can be closely combined with social and cultural characteristics and the quality of the people.
As mentioned above, cultural hegemony and so on.
21. In the ardent and colorful changes in society, the subjectivity of people also changes. The environment changes people, and people change the environment. Living in today’s China is probably the period when individual subjectivity is most prone to change. Because Chinese society is undergoing the most profound changes in history, the environment China is in is also undergoing unprecedented changes.
Thirty years ago, and thirty years later. Thirty years ago, China joined the world. Thirty years later, it is not China leaving the world, but China returning to its rightful place in the world .
22. People’s greatest fear comes from the consciousness of life. There is nothing to fear without awareness of life. And the existence of life is the final condition of human fear.
At the same time, the greatest happiness of man also comes from life. Without life, there is no happiness. The existence of life is the final condition for human happiness.
All people who live in this world actively or passively need to find a balance between these two conditions, so there are different divisions of people. Whether happy or afraid, life is always going to be lost. In the process of losing life, try your best to realize your own thoughts and will, and complete people’s choices. This will be a valuable life. History is passing by year by year, and life is decreasing day by day.
This is true for individuals, but for humanity as a whole, history is lengthening year by year and life is increasing day by day.
The individual decreases in the increase of the whole, and the whole increases in the decrease of the individual. Our understanding of ourselves and society, without this understanding, will reduce the happiness we should have.
Live towards death, and the prophet seeks life after death . The meaning of life is how you spend your life , not how you die. The meaning of life ultimately rests on your own subjectivity. Although life is not yours to choose, you can always choose the meaning of life, not the other way around .
A valuable life lies in the will to practice one’s own beliefs , and Pang Da shares with everyone.
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