Chapter 202: Magnificent Chang'an
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Compared with the building built with the aid of the Chinese State behind the door, the history of this embassy must be very long.
It is conceivable that in the countless years of time, the human beings who ruled Huaguo have not communicated with the people of the White Emperor's Secret Realm and the major secret realms, and even just looked at the old layout of this building, I am afraid that there will be communication for many years.
This is also a very normal thing.
And the carved fence and jade masonry should still be there, but Zhu Yan changed, and when he and others arrived here, didn't there be any change.
With a little hope, I watched the gold wire glasses slowly walk back, with a little chagrin.
He was holding a bunch of gadgets, snacks and miscellaneous items in his hands, because he knew that there were no metal mines in the secret realm, and naturally there was no gold, so he simply didn't bring gold.
This is a very simple truth.
There is no gold, so there is no concept of gold, so it is difficult for gold to bribe.
He shook his head, a little weird, and said: "The servants here are really well trained, they don't talk to me at all, and they don't even have any reaction, I think, they still have families, is it threats and coercion?"
The leader of a certain country and the leader of a certain country are more loyal than whose bodyguard, the leader of country A ordered the bodyguard to jump from the 10th floor, and the bodyguard knelt down and said: "Don't do this, I still have a family." ”。 So the president of country A relented. The leader of country B ordered the bodyguard to jump, and the bodyguard of country B jumped without saying a word. The president of country A was so frightened that he hurriedly grabbed him. Country B's bodyguard said, "Don't do this, I still have a family." ”
Usually similar to the secret realm of this extremely terrible oppressive regime, the control of relatives is tighter, and it is very normal to report each other, similar to the control of a certain country for the people who come to China to live temporarily.
For example, a manager who opened a restaurant in Huaguo relied on the power in his hands to win down the beautiful little girl in the whole restaurant under his own management, and he was proud.
Wang Jian was not surprised by this, and knew that the gold wire glasses would not gain anything, but there was no reaction?
That's a bit weird.
But as a human being, it's always a little curious.
If you don't eat it, it's always okay to see.
Judging from the costumes, the people in the secret realm can be divided into two types.
A kind of old clothes, the style is respected by many ancient fans as Hanfu ancient costumes, of course, looking at the fabric, it should be sold by Chinese people.
The other kind of person is wearing the cheapest vest pants of the Chinese, which looks like the life of labor.
This is also in line with some people's impressions, but in Wang Jian's eyes, it is indescribably weird.
It's a living, oppressive regime, everything is so natural, everything is so harmonious, well, really harmonious.
The man downstairs was dying, and the family in the next room was singing on the gramophone, and on the other side was playing with children. Upstairs there were two people laughing maniacally, and there was the sound of cards. There was a woman on the boat in the river crying for her dead mother. The joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same, I just think they are noisy.
No one thinks these people should be sympathetic, or rather, they themselves take it for granted.
Under the slavery system that he saw with his own eyes, Wang Jian wanted to go out and see it even more.
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
Freedom itself is a slavery, or rather, freedom itself is a burden. A free man needs to decide for himself what he thinks, what he does, what he likes and hates, in other words, freedom that enslaves the man to do one tiring thing: independent thinking. Second, the freer the mind, the more physically enslaved he is. The "proletarians" have more freedom than the members of the foreign party, but they are more enslaved and exploited. Members of the internal party are apparently largely free from exploitation, but they have lost all their freedoms, especially freedom of thought. He pointed out that members of the Inner Party are skilled in "doublethinking" and "sinning" – they have lost the ability to think about ideas that are contrary to the theories and policies of the British Society. Third, the freedom of the minority is based on the enslavement of the many. "Freedom" here has a different meaning from "freedom" in the second point, which refers to the freedom of material life.
"Freedom means that two plus two equals four" refers to being able to have one's own right to interpret and express the truth. It is true that if the world's 7 billion people were to think for themselves, there could be 7 billion answers to the same question, and everyone could consider their answer to be the truth. Freedom is the ability to keep what you think is the truth, and to use what you think is the truth to oppose what others think, and even what the majority of society thinks. I can say "two plus two equals four", and others can say "two plus two equals five", and that's freedom. Voltaire said, "I disagree with you, but I defend to the death your right to speak," referring to this freedom. From this point of view, such freedom is incompatible with slavery. If everyone had the ability and the right to think for themselves, they would find the exploiting class riding on their own neck inherently unnecessary. All slavery will be overthrown under such freedom. And to establish slavery, this freedom must be eradicated.
A principal cause has the ability to perform or pause a particular action in accordance with one's own mental decisions or thoughts. Freedom consists of three elements: ability, will, and the scope of power corresponds to the scope of desire.
A sleeping man is tied to a strange room, and the door to the room is locked. When he awoke, he saw a person in the room that he had been thinking about for a long time, and he was talking and laughing with him. So is it free for this person to stay in the room? Locke thinks that this person is voluntary, but it cannot be said that he is free. Freedom is a two-way choice of the subject, and there is no way for the locked person to choose to escape, his ability to choose is limited, and the scope of his will does not match the scope of his ability, so it cannot be said to be free.
First of all, competence is indispensable if you want to be free.
Consciousness itself goes from "nothing" to "being", and if you don't know the concept of "freedom" and what it means to be "free", it doesn't matter if you are "free" or "unfree". There is "consciousness" and then "freedom", and "consciousness" is accompanied by the repression of "desire". In a sense, when human beings are indoctrinated with some ideas and knowledge, their intentions cannot be regarded as free.
The body's quest for unlimited freedom leads to chaos. The maximization of the satisfaction of each person to his own desires will only lead to chaos and disorder, which in turn leads to unfreedom. When people become conscious, from spontaneous to conscious, they gradually have the ability to pause their desires. That is to say, his own intention is still there, but it has been put on hold for the sake of the greater good. When this idea becomes a generally accepted social norm, it is conducive to the preservation of the maximum freedom of the whole. From naivety to maturity, from centering on satisfying one's own desires, to taking into account various factors, taking into account rights and obligations, it is also the process of gradually acquiring this ability to suppress one's desires.
It is itself judged by consciousness. Consciousness itself goes from "nothing" to "being", and if you don't know the concept of "freedom" and what it means to be "free", it doesn't matter if you are "free" or "unfree". There is "consciousness" and then "freedom", and "consciousness" is accompanied by the repression of "desire". In a sense, when human beings are indoctrinated with some ideas and knowledge, their intentions cannot be regarded as free.
Everyone's understanding of freedom is narrow. Each period and each individual has a different understanding of freedom. For black slaves, freedom meant freedom from physical bondage. Nowadays, homosexuals and women are also pursuing "freedom", and "freedom" means being recognized by society and recognized by law. I believe that on a practical level, "freedom" is not abstract, but concrete. "Freedom" can only be based on reality and cannot be divorced from reality, otherwise "freedom" is just an abstract and empty concept, and "freedom" cannot be realized. People have never stopped pursuing "freedom", and "freedom" as a value can be "eternal" and "priceless". In my opinion, the value of "freedom" lies in the fact that there is no absolute "freedom", things are constantly developing in self-denial, and people also find "freedom" in the process of pursuing "freedom".
Freedom is oneself and "freedom is the ability to do what one wants" – these common answers are incomplete and imply a major misconception of freedom, i.e. freedom is equivalent to doing whatever you want, and it is not difficult to understand why it is often argued that "one cannot be too free, otherwise society will be out of order". This misunderstanding has caused some people to shun the word "freedom," but what is wrong with it? If freedom means doing whatever you want, then the result of everyone doing what they want will eventually be difficult to guarantee everyone's freedom. Think about it, some people love petty theft and take sheep by the hand, and some people are keen on violence and bullying the weak, and the behavior of these two types of people is in line with the principle of doing what they want, so are these behaviors practicing their own personal freedom? Of course not; their behavior violates the person and property of others, that is, violates the freedom of others. What freedom is there to talk about when they do what they do actually hurts freedom, not what freedom they have? True freedom is that you do what you like on the premise that you do not infringe on the freedom of others—not on the person of others and the private property that extends from their lives.
In short, in the eyes of classical liberals, freedom is freedom from coercion. Each person owns himself, and his own property acquired through labor and trading. No one else can force you to do something against your will, nor can they take your property without your permission. Philosophically, this notion of freedom is called negative freedom by some. In other words, some people say that people also have so-called positive freedoms, for example, one of the four freedoms proposed by former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is impressive: "freedom from want"; but in reality, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and a person who is idle, unenterprising, and lazy also has "freedom from want"? If so, this kind of positive freedom is in fact a privilege that compels others to provide some kind of benefit out of obligation, which is unacceptable to classical liberals, and which necessarily encroaches on the property of others unless it is a contract entered into voluntarily by the two parties – what is the freedom of others?
Based on the above reasoning, if we continue to reason, freedom also derives a meaning: we have to take responsibility. As mentioned earlier, freedom means that others cannot infringe on your person or property, and you cannot plunder others by coercion. At this time, if you want to get good grades, a good career, and a good life, it means that you need to create and earn everything you want with your personal intelligence and hard work. Of course, that's perfectly fine if someone else volunteers to fund you or fulfill your wishes without your effort, but for most of most people's lives, waiting for pie to fall from the sky is tantamount to waiting to die.
"When you say that you are not free, it does not mean that you have lost the freedom to do anything, but that what you want to do is not recognized enough by others, and that brings you mental or moral pressure, so you feel oppressed, hindered, deprived, with wings on your shoulders, and you care too much about other people's criticism of your flying posture, so you can't fly. ”
So there is no real complete freedom, unless you don't exist in society, but without society you wouldn't be where you are now.
Freedom, like the wind, exists only in motion. People can't catch the wind, because the wind that stops is no longer the wind, it's just a dull wisp of air. It's the same with freedom, either you're in the pursuit of freedom, or you're losing it, and you can only think of the unattainable freedom in these two dynamics, but you can't get it.
Freedom comes only from love. It is not only the love between people, but also the pursuit of all ideals. When people's hearts are ignited with that kind of fire-like enthusiasm, driven by their own will, they pursue it wholeheartedly and regardless of all obstacles, not afraid of others' criticism and environmental obstacles. You want to shake off all your sorrow. But if you really get rid of it, it's not life, it's not normal, happiness is not a single happiness, the happy life we pursue should be a balance, which can be reconciled between happiness and sadness. Many people think that living elsewhere is freedom, and they can be unrestrained, but real freedom is not that there are no constraints, but that they can go out and come back when they want to go out, and they can live well in any circle they want to get out of. The meaning of life is not to pursue answers, the answer is just a question of another answer. Life is about experiencing and experiencing, no matter where you live.
Be true to your will, and that is freedom. You are the border of everything, so there is no more wandering.
A truly free society is: "No one can be a waste without any hero."
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