You are too rustic--Level and Value of Civilization: Level and Value of Civilization

Author: Wei Xinhua
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book addresses two questions: First, why are poor people hardworking and brave yet often exhibit negative traits? Second, why have the four ancient civilizations, which have a long history, now fallen behind in development? Over thousands of years, philosophers, writers, and politicians have swung between praising the poor and criticizing them, and between praising tradition and condemning it, striking themselves in the face repeatedly without ever forming a coherent theoretical explanation. Wei Xinhua divides human civilization into three levels, refining this idea and supporting his new theory with rich, real-life stories from everyday life, making it highly readable and engaging. This book argues that the earth is a person's instinct for narrow-mindedness, a sign of low-level civilization and a vile value system, and that all the bad habits of the Chinese people stem from this cause. The general introduction and the postscript of the third part elaborate on the theory, addressing the two questions above. The second part, the detailed discussion, is divided into eleven chapters, summarizing a wealth of small stories from daily life from eleven perspectives, revealing negative behaviors that people have already seen but often overlook. When the social background and psychological processes of these behaviors are measured by a rational scale and put on trial by the times, it can be chilling to realize how much we need to change!