Chapter 473: The Difference Between Wars

It is undeniable that since the two modern wars, China's international status has plummeted, from a great empire that came to congratulate thousands of dynasties in the early days, to a backward country that was almost colonized. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This kind of international status is not only an impression of the West, but also other countries in East Asia, which have been influenced by Chinese civilization since ancient times, and the status of countries such as Goryeo in the east has plummeted, and it is even inferior to that of countries such as Vietnam.

For a while, when it came to China, everyone would scoff at it and look at it with a demeaning attitude, and the status of China changed from a state of etiquette to a representative of backwardness and feudalism.

This stereotype has influenced generations, and the textbooks of many countries that introduce China are all images of backwardness.

In the era of peacetime, in the industrial age with highly developed information, what can quickly attract a wide range of attention, then there is no doubt that it is popular culture, the export of soft culture based on movies and pop music, and the reason why Western developed countries can maintain an advanced posture of 'superiority' is sometimes not because of the development of science and technology or military, but the export of this soft culture.

Hollywood has been in movies since the last century, creating a highly developed, technologically prosperous image for the United States, as well as advanced ideas, and this image has been shaped from the children of all mankind, which can be said to be deep-rooted.

If you ask a teenager to tell him what advanced technology the United States has in the United States, he may not be able to say it, but if you ask him if he knows who Michael Jackson is, he must know, even if he doesn't understand it, he will be familiar with the name, and this is the result of a communication effect in communication.

And this kind of result for the current 70% of the world's people, they may never go to the US imperialists to see for themselves, what kind of country the US imperialism is from movies, music, and other people's mouths.

There is no way to verify, and it becomes a 'fact' in disguise.

In this one-way propagation, it is easy to create an effect called a 'spiral of silence'.

The spiral of silence theory is somewhat similar in that three people become tigers, but the explanation is more thorough.

Its proposer, Noel Newman, believes that when people are under the information of the media for a long time, they will naturally have a quasi-statistical function over time, that is, the ability to perceive the external atmosphere, to perceive the mainstream opinions presented by the media, and these opinions will be transformed into personal perceptions of the main values of society.

However, the premise is that the reader must be exposed to media penetration for a long time, that is, the exposure of media information, before it will affect the level of attitude and change behavior.

The modern pop culture and media methods laid down in the West have been in place for almost a century, and it can be said that they have basically penetrated into all levels.

In this deep penetration, where only a small part of the entire public can be directly observed, the media plays an important role in determining what constitutes the mainstream opinion of society.

As mainstream opinion dominates the media, minority opinion is less likely to express its views. Conversely, if a person feels that his position is being accepted by the public, he will become more courageous to express himself.

Its logic is to make use of the 'herd mentality' in human psychology, when you find that your opinion is not the mainstream opinion, it produces a sense of isolation, because human nature is afraid of being isolated, so it tends to suppress its own opinion, so as not to express it.

And this kind of non-expression, over time, will make human beings lose the ability to judge things independently, or be silent, or go along with it.

And this silence has caused the growth of the mainstream opinion of the other side, and this advantage will become stronger and stronger, so that more people are silent, so new love, it has become a spiral process.

The direct result of this psychology is that there are no more voices that can provoke human beings to think, and when there is no other opinion on an issue, this opinion is mostly considered a 'final opinion', and for the 'final opinion', human beings often do not delve into it further.

If it is a correct 'conclusion', then there is nothing wrong with it, but if it is a wrong 'conclusion', then it will lead to tragedy.

China's international status has gone through a 'spiral of silence' for many years.

In this spiral, many Chinese people have also passively accepted the 'label' given by the outside world over time, resulting in a sense of inferiority, which is very unfavorable to the development of a nation.

This kind of inferiority complex will make people of their own nationality have a sense of disidentity with the nation.

And if Wang Yao wants to break this spiral of silence, he needs to let the world start a real formal Chinese civilization, truly understand this country, this nation, and not blindly stereotype China because of the evaluation of the mainstream media.

At least when a Chinese person goes abroad, he will not be asked by the white people why he does not have big braids, nor will he walk on the streets of Longguo in Hanfu, and no one will regard it as a kimono or Hanfu.

What's more terrifying than outsiders not knowing themselves is that they don't even know themselves.

But the reason for this is the rejection of oneself caused by an inferiority complex.

Once the inferiority complex in human nature is aroused, then it must be oneself that hates oneself more than the enemy.

But if you want to change this situation, you can only start from the outside.

Use the theory of the spiral of silence to break this spiral of silence.

For example, the country of Goryeo uses the outside world in every possible way to stimulate national self-esteem, although it often comes out of oolong, but in terms of effect, it is indeed effective.

However, the difference is that Goryeo's cultural foundation is weak and it does not even have its own cultural history, while the civilization and history of China are enough to shake the entire modern civilization.

The prosperity brought by modern science and culture is real, but after all, it has only been a hundred years, and it should only be a child in front of Chinese civilization.

Hegel said that China is a country without history, and the history in it is the history of philosophy, which refers to the evolution of human nature, the history of progress from natural cognition to rational cognition.

Hegel believed that the emergence of science was a historical progress of human civilization into rational cognition, and that the development of China, a magical country, in the past 5,000 years, except for the change of dynasties, has not had such historical changes, which is also very terrifying.

This terror refers to the stability of the nation.

All the great progress in history is brought about by war and persecution, or forced to be helpless, and survival drives progress.

And the Chinese nation, a stable nation, has basically not experienced this kind of 'forced helplessness'.

Even the chaotic period of Wuhu Rebellion did not cause much cognitive change later, which is because of the stability created by the strong culture of Chinese civilization.

And this kind of stability cannot be said to be a correct way of civilization evolution, but at least it is not wrong.

Hegel believed that a stable state like Huaxia was 'not free' if it belonged to a state in natural cognitive evolution, and he believed that in ancient China, only the emperor was 'free'.

This sentence in itself exposes Hegel's ignorance of ancient China.

That's why Russell ridiculed Hegel, who knew nothing about Huaxia except for the name.

As long as you know a little about Chinese history, you know that in the history of imperial power, the emperor, as the spokesperson of imperial power, is the most unfree person, and all his ideas will be subject to other rights, such as the 'phase power' or 'gate valve power' in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the 'scholar power' that gradually took shape after the opening of the imperial examination in the Sui and Tang dynasties is also a check and balance on the imperial power.

Not to mention that there was Confucianism, which restricted the emperor's freedom.

The ideal of freedom is a height that cannot be reached by human beings at present, because as long as it is progress driven by desire, it is not the progress of freedom, and many of Hegel's theories are contrary to freedom, or his definition of freedom is single.

But it is precisely because of Russell's anti-Helge voice that the whole philosophical community has developed to the pomp and circumstance it is today, because these have accommodated more voices and have not formed a spiral of silence.

When Wang Yao wants to break the spiral of silence about China, it is more important to express a voice, a voice that belongs to the Chinese civilization for 'evolution'.

Confucian culture, the main cultural system in Chinese civilization, has a 'disdain' attitude towards science and technology, so in the ancient occupation ranking, 'Shinong and Industrialist', and Gong ranked second to last.

This is because Confucian culture is 'people-oriented', Confucianism believes that all external forces are to serve people, and the quality of a person can determine the basis of other cultures, so Confucianism believes that only by educating people well, can we develop other cultures, such as science and technology.

And if you don't do a good job of 'people', then the development of science and technology is not necessarily a good thing.

The wall is not guilty, but it is guilty.

Many historians believe that Confucianism restricted the development of science and technology, and that the conditions for entering the budding industrialization already existed during the Song Dynasty, which is correct.

But this is not wrong, there is no doubt that the largest and most brutal war since the industrial age of the West brought mankind to human civilization at the very beginning.

China has not been an aggressive country since ancient times, which is the objective factor of freedom and self-sufficiency of the agrarian nation and the national characteristics brought about by the highly developed humanistic culture.

Since the beginning of history, all wars have been self-defense and counterattack wars, and the expansion of territory has also been slowly expanded in this kind of self-defense and counterattack war, rather than the aggressive invasion method of the West.

There is a good criterion for distinguishing wars of aggression, that is, the attitude towards culture, in the glorious Greek era of Europe, culture was the peak, and then the Roman Empire was also very powerful, but it ushered in the dark Middle Ages.

The glorious culture of Europe has not been completely inherited and integrated, and this is the invasion war.