Beliefs, ethnic and upstart

2008-07-24

Open a month, National Geographic magazine, I was shocked: red layout, the middle of a dragon, a dragon belly characters: China. This special issue of China. China in recent years was very pushy, whether economic, military, or environmental, political, and frequently appeared as a large country the international arena. Recently, China is extraordinary. From the beginning to promote China to hold high-profile Beijing the most successful Olympics to Darfur last year due to a boycott activities, and then to 3.10 this year to the present, almost every day in China on the cusp of international.

Objectively speaking, the Western world's fear of China is understandable. A small child to accept their assistance, and now have to grow up, and even began to share the world, how terrible. . . As a result, Western countries began to vigorously criticized by the Chinese, and even rumors slander, the purpose is to make people aware of these countries grow in a large country is often gray ash often horrible. They are successful, they are beyond reproach. Countries, are fighting for their own interests, what allows us to receive long-term only "alert to guard against peaceful evolution of capitalism," education, but does not allow the opposing party for their citizens to "patriotic education"? Very fair.

Long-term confrontation is bound to inspire some of the contradictions. Tibet should be digging the Western camp "socialism" corner of the success stories. These temporary not to mention, because errors are not all in the West, our government policies in Tibet do not question it? Not by a national cohesion, but by the political solidarity (or strong rule) of the country, will eventually be abused and lead others to pound into the interior. Because, according to Rousseau's view, if a government is no substitute for the general will, obviously the government will be overthrown, not to mention those eyeing the wild beasts. I have not been to Tibet, I have limited understanding of it. I believe a lot of positive anti-Tibetan separatist who also told me about, and even do not understand the history and culture of Tibet, on a grand scale to maintain national unity, safeguard national unity, ridiculous it? "Patriotism is the rogue's fig leaf", who said that Rousseau does not? So I can not from the perspective of minorities in Tibet (or I have to become a Tibetan separatist), only from the Government's point of view: Tibet belongs to China had to.

Han Chinese is itself large, hidden in a large national consciousness has never been around the corner after the great national unity, otherwise called the United Front Work Department can be made are nothing. One friend made a horizon of thought-provoking question: "Ancient farmers pick up the knife just about military weapons, but the ancient dynasty can continue for hundreds of years was only rebel army to overthrow; and now half of our government was set up More than a century, there have picked up the knife with the heavily armed people against the government. "historians, political scientists continue to prove that society is worse than the modern feudal social system, not to mention more of our human rights to five times better than the U.S. state of Kiribati the. Indeed, the feudal monarchy is not comparable to our perfect socialist drops. . . But one thing the ancient monarchy should be appreciated that, although both rely on the strength of the people rule the country, kings of "divine right of kings" Let the people who believe them to obey them (rather than resorting to violence), and the whole Chinese nation is united together, forming a general will. The openness of modern society and globalization to the "emperor" of these lies nowhere to hide, together with economic development so that people slack, no one actively engaged in public business, because Dajiadoumang "muffled fortune." to go, so, without a belief in the Chinese lost in the money.

China does not like Canada's immigration countries like the United States can accept cultural diversity. In general, the national rule of the many countries more difficult, because people's voices too many and too complex, too difficult to reconcile. But the two most important country of immigration is a common belief: their guide to action is the "Bible." After all, since the Han civilization that has been entrenched in the ancient land of China, North America, this is not like killing with guns to force whites off the land grab: Early North America group of people came out of the shackles of old Europe to achieve their New World dreams of people, they have a common goal, but the combination of the Chinese nation is more like a tradition for thousands of years people generally feel that this campaign of national integration is not in dispute. Form such a combination is vulnerable, if there is external pressure aroused people's concerns, the mood of national division will spread. In the early establishment of our government now, Chairman Mao's presence should make the link between said to be strengthened, but the subsequent words. . . We all know. . . In my memory, I was educated in addition to the monotony of the emphasis on "national unity", "The Chinese nation is composed of 56 ethnic groups," and the names of these peoples outside, I never knew their language, cultural, religious, and so forth , which is a national existence of the most fundamental things. Therefore, the united front door of the ideological control is difficult to truly ensure the unity of ethnic minorities, YY about no problem.

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I think the most incredible is that most of the peers of the Government and the present attitude of the community: does not matter (the vast land of men everywhere soy sauce). The so-called Communist Party (legendary member of China's largest sect), they simply forget how university vowed to maintain its advanced nature (although we all know that they are nothing more than to members of the title to their future "development"), For the present danger of the organization turned a blind eye, always a: not my thing. The so-called non-party members, had political enthusiasm in the school, anxious to go every day demonstrations across the government unhappy on Mama, can be considered to understand the mouth heart, now they crowded bus crowded subway every day dedicated to their future work After returning home to study the stock price is handsome beauty, seems to be castrated bull, even to the last point of Ah Q spirit that have vanished. . .

Yes, the economic base determines the superstructure: When you do every day to run around the base of the basic necessities of life, when, how could it have time and inclination to view a high-ranking bureaucrats of today's behavior? Even if you dare to post something on the network statement, you also worried about being invited to tea, then why do these "dog in the manger" thing? The heavens by the government to fix their own - everyone knows, the real monsters when the day is indeed this piece was so ourselves, the people, to their roots carrying, to repair. Because, what we choose such a government, this is our own form of government, is what encourages the sense of our own government, but finally our own subversion of such government. Until the demise of the government, when government officials became an ordinary member of us. Yes, the error is not the government lies in the people, is our own. Therefore, we must ultimately lead to catastrophe consequences themselves.

Government has never been naturally occurring. Its elected officials are (at least nominally). Even if not our elected officials, we can not escape from a dry system. Since we are not satisfied with this instead of the exercise of their rights, then we determined not to allow him to board the seat: Unfortunately, most people are afraid of retaliation or because of relationships, and so given the choice to endure or concessions. In fact, for example, on a village, if there is more than half as long as the village instead of ordinary villagers to rise up against them to exercise their rights, the general government will be a compromise, but the degree of compromise will be different. Because any regime, it is the people's government, not the people, the regime does not exist. Some people will say: the government will use violence so that we yield! After all, from the outset or because we do not think the government is to exercise our right place, but that the government is our master. In my opinion, ruled by violence the government to remove the tyrant government has only two kinds: either just rely on the success of the interim government riots usurper, or is an early choice by the people but left to its development led to the imminent demise of the government. The former requires violence to maintain political power just to win, which need to slow down its life violence. Therefore, until the violence has been the government can freely use, we say that these have been an afterthought. Therefore, the importance of early awakening, people can grasp the development trend of the government to determine how to improve government. Anyway, that failure comes down to our generation to go on? ? ?

89-year campaign so much movement, as it is a disguised form of assembly. Perhaps the people of that time has finally come to realize: the original state of all is their own. Assembly, but this declaration is the most fundamental awareness that way, but the most reasonable is the most legitimate way. Unfortunately, like Rousseau, democracy, not all nations are ready to match. 89-year storm in fact was the people, or, led by college students, early estimates of the maturity of the political system. Even if the campaign was successful, except with the help of external forces, then the Government can not achieve democracy. However, if there is external help, the right is in fact the whole nation right into the external form of government is not our nation's own government. Therefore, from this perspective, the movement's failure is inevitable and beneficial to us.

So I think that our democracy as unattainable in the near future. Our civilization has been too perfect, so the whole nation's personality in the history of mankind has not been basically changed. That's ugly, that is, feudal society for thousands of years left in our bones servility, in our nation's most prolific in the fertile plains of rivers and lakes, hills or other developed nation to grow, easy, no sense of crisis. Thus, for food and clothing, to meet the basic needs of life, can continue the lifeblood of human enough. As to the king and his royal rule, it does not matter, anyway, we feed the. According to Machiavelli's argument, under the rule of kings, as long as people are not deprived of their property and families, they will choose to accept this rule. However, from the barren mountain desert steppe in remote places such as the nation developed nation on the mainland more than some sense of crisis, because, at least stabilize their material life is not continuous, they are more pressing needs of nature, so this more or less have a trace of the struggle of national consciousness. Of course, this is only the simplest analysis, the formation of the nation have their specific environment, geography and climate is only part of the equation. I want to say is: big on the whole Chinese nation, the realization of democracy in the Western sense is not likely. Democracy requires at least some degree of public awareness before they can reach. Our present society, some people clamor of democracy and freedom every day, every day, some people act as guardians to maintain the current system, and more people chose silence. So, unless our education system can help us change the generation of ideas, it would be difficult to achieve what we want or close to the kind of democracy we want. (Of course, Western-style democracy is not a true democracy, just their own review and improvement of a system, so we could figure out a more fully democratic system to fit the vast territory with a large number of people in the country. )

Nowadays social grievances everywhere, hostility everywhere, whether poor or rich, in fact, are like taut strings and explosive. So if there is a worst outcome, it is a small riot led to massive unrest, eventually leading to the emergence of anarchy. For China, this is the next next next next sign in sign. Because, once the end of the current people in the grip of long-term suppression of a variety of actions are possible, especially combined with our national characteristics and long-term accumulation of geographical, class conflicts and for a long period of time can not expect the emergence of the new government.

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Our nation since ancient times is a good face good vanity of the nation, have so little success, wait for them to yell over the world. Now we are polluting the environment, cultural decay, and so the price for rapid economic growth is one hundred and seventy years since the Opium War in China's most any decent work. Economic miracle, which is perhaps the top crown of thorns of the crown, but for our people is concerned, it is quite exciting: our socialist economic construction is certainly better than the imperialist capitalist floor ~ ~ ~ our increasingly high America's early skyscrapers into a thing of the past; our increasingly long railway, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are on; our foreign exchange reserves growing, and that the Yankees owe us a debt ass; our students will study the most , where there was Chinese students; our increasingly high quality, but the number of Internet users in the world; our people are getting richer, Paris, New York is full of Chinese tourists generous consumption; our labor more and more women open in North America with the "big dairy village," "second wife Tun"; our society more harmonious, where people are jubilant praises. I do not want to evaluate the impact of these phenomena, I just want to see the future of our society.

Look around us, upstart much? In our society, money can stifle the freedom of others in the cave, the money to buy a lawsuit disregard for human life, money can be driving a BMW hit the workers and then wants to play hit scold scolded, money to play with any female. . . The rich are allowed to exist, it should exist, because there are differences of each individual, a group of people can certainly easier to play than others in order to acquire wealth. However, when a society allows people to defects in the social system and not for profit unchecked, when a society allows freedom of human beings as goods to sell, when the default challenge the social and moral authority of the basic human social behavior, but choose to avoid or ignored, it has been ill. One reason why the man has to do with freedom. When we can not even protect their own freedom, and then consider whether or not contain enough of the government when too late.

The law is no guarantee everything. Even the most robust in the most democratic countries the legal system, not to cover their legal human society, all members of their social behavior. Only morality is eternal. Therefore, the ancient sages have, whether it is Western or Eastern agreed that human beings should continue to develop their own virtue, virtue is the only guarantee the healthy development of human society, the cornerstone. Of course, the high expectations and did not give the people a great impact, because the sages say represents a natural person only, only they are right, then the executing agency: Government respected, people will change. China's feudal monarchs were in a variety of philosophical theories pick to pick the reason: they want to find a best way to protect the rule of the theory, that is, the people become more obedient duller. To the Confucian philosophy of a school led by a variety of sources into our spirit: the rule of filial piety, loyalty to the emperor only; Heaven, only the throne. . . These theories to help consolidate the rule of the monarch, but also by depicting the people to change their ideas, improve their morals, so there will be the ancient "Lubushiyi, do not close the doors at night," the emergence of feudal rule. Whenever the world's people free country, people's morality must be noble. Kind of like India to rely on external forces to imitate the so-called democratic country is a counter-example: defecation in the heart of downtown ethical standards of the people there how much exactly? So I do not think India will realize this system truly universal freedom.

Before I think our country is difficult to achieve democracy, because we do not for democracy. But remember: "The real democracy is the system of God," which the requirements for the moral high that it can not really appear in human history. Since the pseudo-democracy, it is difficult for us to achieve, and the violence the government simply can not control our great country, go back to the feudal society has long been impossible, then we can only think of ways to improve our people's awareness of politics, gradual tightening of government control to change the present government, let it become a truly elite politics. According to Rousseau's view, the country's border, the more impossible to democracy. (See the North American continent, but we can rely on the federal system is very stiff across this problem and achieve their so-called democracy) the complexity of China's internal conflict is beyond our imagination, so we have to rely on the elite system, reducing the dictatorship opportunities; on the one hand but also to reduce the central government and local control, so that the elite decision-making can be smooth. As a result, our Committee is not able to do the NPC vase political voice, but should start as the core of the People's Republic truly represent the people exercise their rights. The emergence of the elite and now it seems we must rely on people's systems. For the latter, we will significantly reduce local agencies, the middle of the government, so the streamlining of big government has become a powerful, fast; rather than the weight of the snowballing snowball-like people breathe: the people too poor to feed the all have cut that part. In my opinion, this is theoretically possible does not lead to a large-scale unrest has continued to maintain our social approach.

The good news is that we never get truly free, we may also rely on the government to improve access to it; if we have a similar free and democratic society, we can only destroy the government to regain. So, I'd hope we Ah Q is not a prerequisite of the latter.