The pursuit of enriching the nation and benefiting the people

Author: Zhao Lingyun
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: What humans cannot do without is a spiritual homeland, because all animals create their own material homes. Even flying birds that flutter in the sky have their own "nests" to return to and rest. What distinguishes humans from other animals is not the ability to make tools, as at least chimpanzees can use branches to obtain honey. Nor is it human social organization, as biological observations have revealed that ant colonies have distinct hierarchies and clearly defined "social" structures. What makes humans the "ruling of all things" is their ability to think, to have a spirit, which is a rational understanding of their existence, their environment, and their way of existence. Therefore, what sets humans apart from other animals is that humans not only have material homes but also a spiritual homeland. This spiritual homeland is not only a spiritual refuge for humans but also their spiritual belonging. What humans might lose is not the environment, because the environment always exists, even if it may become scarce and harsh. However, human science and technology are sufficient to enable them to explore "new continents." It is not material homes either, because the so-called technological limits today are still just Earth's limits. Beyond Earth, there is the solar system, the Milky Way, and the entire universe. Are people not already conceptualizing the colonization of other planets in the solar system? Moreover, scientists have discovered that it is possible to transform certain exoplanets into habitable "paradises" for humans. Despite the scholars of the "Club of Rome" sounding the alarm year after year, and despite the warriors of the "Greenpeace" repeatedly sailing their sailboats "unwittingly" to obstruct nuclear-powered warships, "God" has created humans and will not block their path. Therefore, a shocking conclusion and answer is that what humans easily lose is their spiritual homeland, their spiritual belonging, that is, their "human" nature, ultimately themselves. Although humans have achieved the "parting of humans and apes" by making tools and thinking, separating themselves from the natural world, and have emerged from the Middle Ages through the promotion of humanism and the liberation of thought, freeing themselves from the shackles of gods, their minds may still wander due to the difficulty in building a spiritual homeland to rely on, ultimately placing them in the same situation as other species. Is this the fate of humans, or a tragedy that humans have directed themselves? In the past thousand years, people have liberated themselves from the rule of gods through spiritual strength, restoring human dignity, primarily spiritual dignity. Spiritual freedom has brought about human science and technology, a leap in the ability to understand and conquer nature.