中国式励志故事怎样毒害人的心智？How do Chinese-style inspirational stories poison people’s minds?｜心理｜张献忠｜历史｜权力｜内卷｜教育

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Hello everyone, I'm Anthony

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Today I want to talk to you about Chinese education

I remember last year I watched the Japanese movie "Ah, Navy"

Told such a story

Ichiro Hirata, a young man from the countryside before World War II

Because the family is poor

I had no choice but to go to the Naval Academy to study.

Under the high-pressure and authoritarian management model of the Naval Academy

Hirata's remaining free thoughts were eliminated bit by bit.

He gave up his original concern with domestic politics

Eventually became a loyal naval officer

His friends, teachers and classmates

One after another died on the battlefield

Originally I thought

this movie

It's just a portrayal

one

The mental journey of young people distorted by militarism

As a result, I read movie reviews online

Feeling very unexpected

Many people think Hirata is a success story

The reason is that if he had not gone to the naval school

In the end, there is no future

It was the Naval Academy that gave him the chance to succeed

opportunity to move up

made him a senior officer

Although Hirata will most likely die on the battlefield in the end.

But at least it was once glorious

so

This movie tells an inspirational story

There is a section in the video that talks about

late war

Hirata is already an officer

Declined the marriage proposal from the daughter of a landlord in the same village

in my opinion

The meaning of this plot is to show that

Hirata already felt that the situation was over

He may die in battle at any time

I don’t want women to suffer any more

But many people think

This is because

Hirata has shed his original class identity

I no longer look down on the daughter of a landlord who was once higher than me.

Many people also calculate based on Hirata’s position.

He was in Japan at that time

What kind of woman should he deserve?

The tone is similar to those aunts who do blind dates for their children.

exactly the same

These interpretations make me

Very unexpected

But it also gives me a sense of familiarity

We can name it Chinese inspirational narrative

There are many inspirational stories that Chinese people have been familiar with since childhood.

Generally speaking, it has the following two characteristics: First, worship of the bottom

The protagonist lives a very miserable life at first

Full of shame, hatred and pain

But this only inspired his fighting spirit

And the experience at the bottom

also gave him a moral legitimacy

That's because I was humiliated in my early years

So later I turned over

Whatever you do is just

The second is the protagonist’s lofty ambitions

It completely coincides with the order of power

On the surface

Chinese society promotes a Confucian personality

Emphasis on dedication and sacrifice

But in the process of operation of the system

What is oriented is the Legalist personality.

that is, unreflective identification with the hierarchical order.

Consider “climbing up” as an inspirational standard

In this inspirational narrative,

All value and meaning of life

It depends on your position in the worldly sequence

It determines your marriage, relationships, and happiness

and posthumous evaluation

As for individual spiritual pursuits

Those ideals and wishes beyond the level of physical desires

It's all meaningless

Even an obstacle to success

in Chinese history books

To portray a person with great ambitions

He often talks about his heroic words when he was young

to hint at his future success

for example

Liu Bang saw Qin Shihuang's chariot

He said enviously, "This is what a real man should be like."

Chen Ping, Liu Bang’s counselor, had a poor family in his early years.

Once I was sharing meat with everyone in the village

Everyone praised him for getting a fair share

Chen Ping lamented: If I rule the world in the future

It will be divided equally like meat.

Liu Bei also said when he was young

You must take the Yubaogai Car in the future

That is, the emperor’s chariot

The most famous inspirational story should be Gou Jian's story of "suffering hardships"

For thousands of years

Countless people sang and praised this story

For example, Pu Songling who wrote "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"

He once wrote a famous self-encouragement couplet:

Hardworking people, God will not let you down, sleep on the salary and taste the courage

Three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu

Many high schools in China today

Still using this sentence as an example to motivate students

Mao Zedong had even more rhetoric in his early years.

For example, in "Letter to Li Jinxi"

Just imagine: China needs a man of magnanimity

Fundamentally reform and transform the thinking of people across the country

Once the thoughts are unified

Such a country is invincible

But read these words carefully

you will find

Their lofty ideals and lofty ambitions

Regardless of apparent motives

How noble and beautiful

For example, to save the common people, save the country and save the people

But they are closely bound to secular power.

for example

Mao Zedong's "Fundamentally Transforming the Thoughts of the Nation"

Such an ideal

Without huge coercion

is impossible to achieve

However

In a Chinese-style inspirational story

This kind of story is absolutely mainstream

Chinese-style lofty ambitions

Always inseparable from a strong desire for power

Of course the power here

Should not be understood only as political power in a narrow sense

But domination and control in a broad sense

The fight for power is a zero-sum game

This is different from business and intellectual innovation

Commercial trade can create value for both parties

progress in knowledge

It can also broaden the boundaries of cognition between both parties.

But power cannot be shared or divided

struggle for power

It is often a life-and-death process

But in Chinese society

The ambition to pursue power

It is often easier to gain recognition

Chinese inspirational stories

There is often such a psychological mechanism hidden:

a baby

Have suffered malice from the world

He has accumulated a lot of hatred in his heart

So he decided to do whatever it took to

become a worse person

Finally pour out his malice to the whole world

Successfully realized the idea of ​​revenge against society

For example, King Gou Jian of Yue wanted to avenge his previous shame.

The measures adopted are even more bottomless

Gou Jian will conquer the country

It turned into a military camp where all the people were soldiers.

In order to defeat the state of Wu

Not hesitate to create a famine

To prevent soldiers from running away

Taking soldiers' families hostage

Gou Jian also created

Possibly the earliest military prostitute system in China

Gou Jian himself was also very suspicious.

After he succeeded, he forced his wife and ministers to death one after another.

Of course, these operations were later used in Chinese history.

It's pretty commonplace

But in the Spring and Autumn Period when there was still a certain bottom line

Gou Jian's overall war ideas

It still greatly lowers the level of civilization.

Lord Fu Yan in the Western Han Dynasty

Poor family in early years

No one around him wants to see him

because of an unexpected opportunity

He was received by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

and gain appreciation

then

The father-in-law went around exposing the ministers

Acting as a thug for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

Everyone is in danger for a while

The ministers bribed their father Yan one after another

Some people say he is too domineering

But Zhufu Yan said: "In the early years,

Brothers refuse to take me in

My parents don’t recognize me as their son

My friends also abandoned me

The days of poverty have been too long

It's okay, it's impossible to survive.

Then when you die, you will be cooked by Wuding

I have reached my twilight years

So we have to go against the grain. "

certainly

Zhufuyan has a poor reputation in history

But think about it carefully

His and Gou Jian's mental state

Actually there is no difference

Dictators who have come back from the past and present

This is also mostly the case

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang, Qin Shihuang, Huang Chao, Hong Xiuquan

Abroad there are Stalin, Saddam, Gaddafi, etc.

They may be from the lower class

Or there was it earlier

very difficult experience

Moreover, the people who are harmed the most after taking power are ordinary people.

The so-called "peasant leaders are anti-peasant"

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Xianzhong and others who were born as farmers

The control and hatred towards farmers are also the most ruthless

But people tend to worship them

and behaved cruelly to them

Show generosity and understanding

Because they identify with each other emotionally

The "Emperor" realized what they wanted in their hearts

That primitive almighty fantasy

make them feel that one day

Can also release that anger

Chinese inspirational narrative thinking

A person from a humble background

and later power

If there is a greater contrast

The more it explains

There is something holy and righteous about this man

This person must represent the interests of the people at the bottom

So whatever happens afterward is for the benefit of everyone.

This narrative worships abstract class mobility

Even this liquidity

By doing so to the detriment of everyone's interests

It is also worthy of aspiration

For example, on the Chinese Internet

The beautification of Qin has long been popular

Think that Qin’s reforms

It is to provide Qin people with a channel for class mobility.

They put the Qin State, which had a military merit title system,

Imagine it as a place with clear rewards and punishments

As long as ordinary people work hard

An ideal society that can continuously rise

Of course this is completely unrealistic

They believe that Qin’s unification war against the six kingdoms

It was the revolution of the lower class people of the Qin State against the aristocrats of the six countries.

In short, history progresses through killing.

The more you kill

The greater your chances of advancement

Even if you are also a victim

But as long as I can climb up

Just win

Among the voices praising China’s exam-oriented education online

The most typical view

Just put the Hengshui model

Said to be backward areas fighting against big cities

The only channel to achieve class mobility

As long as I can go to the city one day to buy cabbage

No matter how much suffering you endure today, it is worth it

These

can be regarded as products of Chinese-style inspirational narratives

So how did this narrative come about?

in Chinese history

As the degree of autocracy deepens

The cultural mentality of the entire society

are also gradually changing

After the Song Dynasty

A large number of homeless people are pouring into the city

and spawned various popular literature

One of the most popular themes

This is the story of "Change to Thailand and Fortune"

"Becoming Thai" here does not refer to a person's psychological abnormality

But it means to be successful and noble.

The classic pattern is this:

The protagonist is a poor man from the market

Gaining appreciation from those in power because of speculation

From then on, his official career was prosperous and he returned home in fine clothes.

To avenge one's shame

Even become an emperor

There is an article in the Ming Dynasty vernacular novel collection "Awakening the World"

Writing about the homeless man Zheng Xin when he was in poverty

Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, Tokyo

Survived after being rescued by Wang Yuanwai

Later, he received divine help and achieved military success.

Finally, he was promoted to the Jiedushi of Liangchuan.

Such a story

At that time, it could reach more and more audiences

explain him

Hit

The feeling of powerlessness deep within the hearts of the vast majority of the people

and provides an outlet for omnipotent fantasies

After the Song Dynasty

Imperial power over society as a whole

From the deepening of political, economic and cultural monopoly

The space for people to grow freely is shrinking day by day

Lack of market economy and rule of law

so that people can

Increasingly falling into a zero-sum game

one person's benefit

always at the expense of another person's deprivation

between people

will have to live with each other in a more vicious way.

And this mutual harm

further deprives others of their survival resources

forcing more people to get involved

Chinese inspirational narrative

and disregard for human values ​​and spirituality.

It is the product of this environment

This is a collective psychological trauma

and are often passed down between parents and children.

even if alone

Physically far away from that mutually harmful social environment

But his broken inner world

But it may not be possible to re-establish it

I have posted two videos in 2022

It’s about intergenerational trauma in Chinese society

Interested friends can click on the upper right corner to watch

Polish scholar Krakovsky once said

Totalitarianism poisons the human mind with hatred

in hatred

People become more self-centered

Became an atomically isolated self

So live in hatred

Just living in death

Chinese inspirational stories

In fact, this is also the case

it breaks a person

Possibility of building deep connections and trust with others

It also denies the value of one’s own existence

living alone in the world

There are always various worries about

And the religions of various ethnic groups

will cause mental pain to people

Propose a redemption plan

in western history

religion as individual

provides a

independent from secular power

and extra-political value systems

Man is considered to be created by God

This is separate from the exercise of secular political power

enabling individuals to temporarily withdraw from the secular order

If he fails in secular society

He can also learn from religion, art, philosophy

Seek resources that affirm your personal worth

And can also gain recognition from others

But in Chinese society where politics and religion are integrated,

There is no such option

In "Chinese New Year"

Why is it so suffocating?

In this video

we have discussed

Chinese people’s anxiety during the New Year

why so strong

And Chinese-style inspirational stories

To some extent, it has a religious function

for chinese

mental dilemma

Offer some kind of salvation plan

If you have feelings of worthlessness

You can also add more volume by

To overcome these problems by identifying more with these external standards

certainly

This plan itself is unlikely to succeed

"Salvation" itself is a religious concept

But if we express it in ordinary language

then i think

its basic meaning

It is to free the soul from darkness

so called darkness

It means relativism, nihilism

A life of confusion, confusion, and no reflection

Let your instinct drive you

to get rid of these things

Only by relying on a strong self to organize the heart

To reconstruct those external customs, concepts and standards

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