Chapter 25, Lei Tian is not delusional

Why is it said that classical Chinese folk culture is rich in the rational cognitive elements of abstract logic, while the classical Chinese orthodox culture deviates from the formal channel of culture, deviates from the channel of human cognition from perceptual to intellectual and then to rational cognition, and fixes human cognition at the interface of perceptual cognition?

In ancient China, China's classical orthodox culture was basically a culture with political culture as the axis, and there was no clear formal classification of Chinese classical orthodox culture, which was very general, broad and not specific; unlike Western culture, which had a clear classification of classes from the beginning, and each culture developed to a certain extent and formed a mature and clear concept of knowledge, Westerners would divide this cultural knowledge and turn it into an independent study for future generations to learn and recover lost memories.

However, due to the restrictions of classical political culture, China's classical orthodox culture has always been operating in a broad theoretical system of management culture, and can only study, research, and develop around a proposition of management culture, and Chinese classical culture only has four books and five classics that can be provided to young scholars to learn.

For example, if you study mathematics, you will not be officially recognized if you learn calculus, and no matter how well you learn without officially recognized knowledge, you will not be able to exchange for a bucket of rice to eat, so that knowledge has become a tool in China, and it has become materialized.

"There is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book" simply means that if you study the Four Books and the Five Classics, you can get all of this, if you study other knowledge, such as you study mathematics, you may only be a doctor or fortune teller; if you study physical chemistry, I am afraid that if you are not a Taoist priest or a monk, you will be equivalent to no research, because your knowledge is useless, and only by going to the springs and ditches in the deep mountains and old forests to practice the elixir can be recognized by the royal family, because the emperor likes to eat that thing, which is convenient for the aphrodisiac.

It is precisely for these reasons that China's classical orthodox culture is basically equivalent to China's classical political culture, and because China's classical political culture only extracts cultural knowledge from the "Four Books and Five Classics", does not develop or innovate, and only recycles and fixes a single cultural connotation, then such a culture can only be the culture of empirical logic.

A culture that always seeks answers to all political, humanistic, and religious problems in a fixed cultural knowledge, and this culture is a culture that cannot be surpassed, such a culture is inevitably a zombie-like culture, and the culture is full of rigid dogmas.

Culture itself is the spiritual food unique to human beings, but the Chinese prefer to turn it into material food and materialize spiritual things. Originally, culture is the sublimation of human rational cognition, which comes from the ability to judge, analyze, synthesize, compare, reason, calculate and other aspects after perceptual and intellectual. Rationality is an advanced stage of human cognition and exists in the realm of thought. In Western culture, rationality is attributed to the realm of consciousness, but in China, Zhu Xi said, "In heaven is destiny, righteousness is reason, in human nature, the main body is the heart, in fact, it is one." "It's in the material realm.

So what is the ultimate purpose of the ancient thinkers in doing all this? Just for the sake of better rule of the imperial power, to drive people into the sheepfold, to suppress the spiritual self in people's hearts, to let the spiritual self die under material desires, and to turn human nature into sheep nature, so that they can better rule the people.

As for those who want to participate in the rule, of course, they regard "the book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu" as a classic; as for what is material or what is spiritual, what does it have to do with him? As long as they study the Four Books and Five Classics well, are admitted to the Jinshi, become an official and make a fortune and marry a beauty, earn a few more money, and marry a few more beauties, this is the acquiescence of the imperial power, who cares what spirit is not spiritual, material is not material? Chinese people do not believe in God in the first place, and naturally their desire for material things is far greater than their need for spirit. So you will see that Zhu Yuanzhang can't cure the corruption of officials by peeling the skin and filling the grass, and the reason is here.

When a culture is in such an environment, it must be a culture that has no history, no progress, no development, no spirit, no rationality, but only empirical and dogmatic thoughts, and it is inevitable that such a culture will eventually be photographed to death on the beach. Therefore, when a kind of thought is always in a cycle and a reciprocating cycle, this kind of thought is a thought without thought, and the original thought has long been ossified into a form, so how can we talk about thought?

When people need new ideas to improve themselves, ideology imposes someone's thoughts to sway people's consciousness, and emphasizes that everyone must abide by it and must not go beyond the ideology designated by the ideology. And when a certain idea controls all the inherent or previous thoughts, all ideologies become virtual again, and all the rules of the game are also virtual and can be changed at will.

Therefore, thought is not the idea that can influence thought, thought must be sublimated, and only when thought stands on the interface of objective and rational thinking can all rules be fixed, form a long-term trend of forward development, and form a long-term mechanism.

Therefore, all thoughts cannot stay at the interface of thought and not develop upward, because thought is only a reflection of the senses and contains too much subjective consciousness, and subjective consciousness is a summary of experience and history, which can be used to prove one's own correctness to change the already thoughts, and this change of subjective consciousness is the main force to combat the long-term mechanism.

And how to sublimate thoughts to the realm of objective spiritual reason is exactly what human beings must do.