What exactly is a literati
Let's start with the beginning, thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago.
The essence of human beings has basically been determined after the evolution of the brain. Based on the basic attributes of human beings, we have the basic attributes we are now. To mature and improve, there is only one way: to experience things repeatedly, to use thinking, and to gain experience. Even in the future, things can only go this way.
An important factor for human beings to surpass animals is the invention of language and writing, so that the experience of predecessors can be passed down. The predecessors went through things on your behalf, thought about it, and then came to a conclusion. After generations of accumulation, human beings established the current society.
The meaning of reading a book is to acquire the experience of others. For example, we can see that by simulating an "experience", thinking in this "experience", and obtaining nourishment, when you simulate the same thing ten or eight times, you are finally met. When it comes to a real thing, you can at least have a number in your heart.
So what are ancient literati
Through reading, you have gained more experience than others, and thus become a ruling class, you will naturally have a sense of superiority and look down on others. It has been criticized in modern times. What is more worth mentioning is that the "literati" has more social experience and understands the cruelty of society. When things are overwhelmed, he knows how terrible the follow-up is, and it is easy to be weak and roundabout. Literati has no bones, it is a true and undeniable attribute of thinking.
But what is the modern literati
In the past, we have called "the people's eyes are sharp and stinky old nine" too many times. Suddenly, as long as there are people, it is better to have no literati, but in modern society, information explodes, books are everywhere, and none of you have read it. Have a book? Who can't read books? Who can make a real class difference after reading a book
But the basic attributes of people have not changed. To be more mature and sensible, you need more experience, more thinking, and more horizontal comparisons of life.
Why hate literati
People who hate literati in modern society, IMHO, are the kind of really lazy people who don't read books or improve themselves, but still think that when they face certain complicated things, they can be naturally correct, and they are more I like the feeling of not brainstorming, not trying hard, but still comparable to those who are smart, hardworking, and constantly enterprising.
But not comparable.
Modern society has destroyed the classes of the past, but the class of wisdom still exists, and will still exist in the foreseeable future. It is manifested and promoted in this matter.
If you want to be smart, you need to think and read. In the past 30 years of development, classes have emerged. After realizing the importance of education, the concept of "winning at the starting line" has also emerged. The rich put their children in good schools and find good teachers. The so-called "good" ”, which must be reflected in the ability to help children absorb nutrients from books faster, these children will become better people, they can essentially crush stupid people, and stupid people will become the real bottom of society. But compared to the past, this class is not very fixed, because books are all over the world, it depends on whether you have a sense of urgency.
There are several qualities about reading:
1. You can represent "experience", but the income must be multiplied by thinking, that is to say, smart people can get more from the book, which is unavoidable.
2. It cannot completely replace "experience". You have a certain experience in the book, and you keep thinking about it. If this thinking is implemented, it will be beneficial to you in reality. You still have to experience a certain event. In this event, You may still be scrambling, but without reading, you may be scrambling ten or eight times before you get the right lesson.
3. Based on the difference of each person's personality, there is such a thing as enlightenment. For example, if you read a book aimlessly and have experienced it a hundred times in the book, the shortening of the experience that needs to be experienced in reality may only be shortened two or three times, but through the purposeful horizontal comparison of different books, we may find it easier to find the correct one. Life lessons, mature faster. Those elite schools, universities that teach students in accordance with their aptitude, can do this kind of thing, but as long as they are willing to study, there is still hope of transcendence.
4. The essence of modernity is a tricky method to replace "experience". It takes ten days and a half months to experience something, and you may not be able to find the insight, but ten days and a half months, you can take a fancy to it. More than ten books. In this process, the process of facing the world and improving ourselves is to constantly "experience" and constantly think, and constantly use each experience to make cross-comparisons, and finally find the methodology of this world. There is a truth in this book, and another in that book, why the two exist at the same time, you can find more detailed solutions and explanations, and after more comparisons, you can find the laws that apply to the world.
5. A little personal experience: determine the goal and solve the equation. For example, when we look at Confucius' "The Analects of Confucius", we must make sure that Confucius' goal is to "cultivate a gentleman and establish a Datong society", and he faces the status quo of the Spring and Autumn Period. Some assumptions”, in the solution of this equation, there is the logical structure of Confucius’ whole person. If he can understand these, if he is facing a modern society, in “some assumptions about how to achieve Datong society in the modern era”, the solution will inevitably be different. . Reading books and extracting the way of thinking and logical structure of the writers, then when facing things, we will have countless horizontal comparisons. This is the most fundamental purpose. It is not to learn the bowing and bowing of predecessors, but to learn theirs. logical core.
These are some of the most basic things. Originally, I didn’t need to say it, or even considered it so shallow. But even now, there are still so many people who despise “literati” unconditionally. You really despise “humanities” to gain a little sense of superiority. , Or really despise "culture"? The future is a professional society. When facing things, do you rely on your innate genius mind, or do you rely on the interpretation of professionals? But the pros have no bones. Culture, people do not think that culture supports the framework of a society, people regard it as a tool to make money only for themselves, then, when it is possible to make money, it is nothing to be distorted. When professionals in the whole society are doing this, one day he said that waste oil is not harmful, do you have to eat it
"The eyes of the masses are sharp" does not mean that the masses are unconditionally correct, but the masses have the purest understanding of personal things. . When the masses make demands, the masses always make demands, experts make solutions, and the government implements them. After such a cycle, the society can achieve a virtuous circle. But in the hearts of some distorted people, they feel that they are sharp, that they are right about everything, even if I have never read a book in my life, if I say how society should do it, others have to believe it, is it nonsense? We have long been close to the truth if we can govern the country by the middle school and second school. I have also passed the middle school.
In the end, society relies on wisdom to point out the direction. This direction is very narrow and far less wide than we think. But the way to acquire wisdom will not change any more, that is, let our brain "experience" again and again, constantly "think" and cross "contrast", and finally obtain a basic logical framework that can fit the world. People's innocence and cuteness will never come close to the truth, you hide at home, don't think about it, and then despise "literati", you will never prove that you are smarter than a scholar. To become a good person, you can go through experience, you can read a lot of books to replace part of the "experience", but after calculating it, no one can take advantage of it, and the bones of literati are our bones.
To despise the ancient literati is to despise the class that came from it. In modern times, it is real stupid to despise others for reading too many books and using their brains too much.
These things were originally the basic knowledge of enlightenment, but I have seen that there are indeed such people among my readers. In a modern society, they hope that by despising "literati culture", they can prove that they are just as brilliant if they do not read and use their brains. Great, get a little bit of superiority.
It is human nature to gain a sense of superiority, but I hope my readers will not be left at the bottom. Books are always a shortcut to strengthening oneself.