Humanity and destiny

Author: Li Ming / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: It can be affirmed that different human fields have biases. The English-speaking nations are the most important creators of the new civilization of the past three centuries. In terms of creating new content or forms in the human field, market, or emotional field, they have made great contributions to humanity, presenting countless great figures or celebrities who have illuminated human history. At the same time, it can also be pointed out that the English-speaking nations, or more accurately, the Western humanity represented by them, in their great historical creative activities of the past three centuries, have the following biases, and this bias becomes more pronounced as it gets closer to the present. This bias is that Western humanity is basically based on the market, using the characteristics of the market to transform the traditional human field, and using the expectations of the market to influence the emotional field or alienate it. The most important feature of the marketization of the human field is that the pursuit of power is subordinate to the pursuit of money. In such a society, people are often successful in the pursuit of money first, and then pursue power, or in other words, the probability of money becoming power is higher than the probability of power becoming money, or more common. The most important feature of the marketization of the emotional field is that the pursuit of emotions (in the broad sense) is subordinate to the pursuit of money, and the pursuit of faith, knowledge, and compassion is strongly dominated by money, or alienated. This tendency forms a sharp contrast with the cultural bias of traditional Chinese nation over thousands of years. Traditional Chinese people are basically based on the human field, using the characteristics of the human field to transform the market, and using the expectations of the human field to alienate the emotional field. Their market is a human field-oriented market, and their emotional field is a human field-oriented emotional field. It is not difficult to understand that for thousands of years in China, only officials and merchants could obtain safe conditions for survival and development. All other craft-based production, except for agriculture, was based on the premise of first satisfying the needs of the royal family and the government. At the same time, it is not difficult to understand that the knowledge of the Chinese people for a long time has been the so-called "primary education" and "advanced education" based on Confucian classics. "Primary education" means "to teach children the essence of filial piety, fraternal love, sincerity, and respect from their childhood, and to pass on the culture of poetry, books, rites, and music when they are a bit older" (Zhu Xi's words); while "advanced education" consists of three principles and eight items (the three principles are: illuminating virtue, renewing the people, and stopping at perfection; the eight items are: investigating things, extending knowledge, sincerity, rectifying the mind, cultivating oneself, governing the family, governing the state, and bringing peace to the world) (Zhu Xi's words). In short, "those who excel in learning become officials." Learning knowledge is for becoming an official. All knowledge of etiquette, morality, reading classics, writing essays, etc., is learned through the imperial examination. The imperial examination was to select officials. The human field of traditional Chinese society was indeed most human field-oriented. The Jewish nation only gained its own country—Israel—in 1948. Moreover, the majority of Jews still live scattered around the world, with their nationality based on the country they reside in. Therefore, it can be roughly said that the Jewish nation does not belong to any single society. Although most of them live in Western countries. Examining the professions of Jews, most of them are active in the emotional field of the society they live in, although there are no lack of figures in the human field and market, they are more engaged in professions such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, scholars, natural scientists, engineering and technical experts, and social scientists, etc., the "intellectual labor" professions engaged in by advanced intellectuals. Therefore, it can be roughly said that the Jewish nation is different from the Chinese nation and the English-speaking nations, mainly taking the emotional field as its activity venue. But so far, at least, no society has a human field-oriented human field, nor does a human field-oriented market exist. Even in the Jewish state of Israel, due to the severe confrontation with neighboring Arab countries and the Palestinian issue, which remains one of the world's most pressing problems to this day, the Jewish people have shown unprecedented authoritarianism towards other ethnic groups. It can be seen that the national character of the Jewish people is not naturally simple and admirable, and their innate evil is no less than that of other ethnic groups. All mysteries are contained in the process of the nation's historical activities. The above discussion on the different human field biases of the three nations will be elaborated on separately below. P41-42