28. The Theory of New Birth

A young man came to Mr. Zhu Zhi's house again with his head down, and looked for Mr. Zhu Zhi to drink alcohol. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info During the banquet, the young man frowned and sighed. Mr. Zhu asked. The young man sighed, poured his stomach full of bitter water on the table, and said, "If only I had a good father!" It's really like what you said last time, Luo Moumou and Lu Moumou in our class, their father has already helped them find a job, and they will get a monthly salary of more than 4,000 as soon as they enter, as well as a house! Now it's not like you have a package allocation back then, nominally a free choice, but only for those who don't have a background! Looking at this poor young man, Mr. Zhu Zhi, who has always regarded himself as righteous, orthodox, and upright, did not refute his ridiculous statement this time, but just sighed deeply and drank a glass of beer.

Mr. Zhu is also a poor and humble person, and he has a deep understanding of this. In the early years, it was still an era when the non-agricultural population and the agricultural population were clearly distinguished, and we, the agricultural population, had to jump out of the farm gate when we broke our heads (not anymore, there is a very popular saying: when we first ate meat, people in the city have become popular to eat vegetables). When we first got married, the people in the city were already keen on divorce. By the time Mr. Zhu and others had become non-agricultural households, the people in the city had already taken it as pleasure to return to nature and live in the countryside). In the past, there was generally a column of "birth component" in the form (I haven't filled out the form for a long time, I don't know if there is still one), and many peasant children like Mr. Zhu Zhi have mixed feelings when filling out the form, but they are helpless.

As I grew up, I gradually learned that where a person is born is a very accidental thing, and that you can't change it. Nobel laureate and American economics professor Daniel McFadden said: Birth is really a matter of luck. If you were lucky enough to be born in Germany, for example, you would have a very good life – better than the children of Africa, anyway. In addition, perhaps you will be lucky enough to have parents who have a decent career and a garden-style home that will take you on a vacation to the seaside. Maybe one day, you will inherit the property that your parents have accumulated, which means that you get a lot of money, but you don't do anything about it. is also said, if Mr. Zhu Zhi was born in the family of the chairman of a provincial government, and now he would have become a big official and made a fortune, how could he have the leisure to write any articles here.

Since I can't choose my origin, I have a beautiful fantasy about my birth. When he was a teenager, Mr. Zhu Zhi was very fascinated by the so-called feng shui and fate (so far, the people of the rivers and lakes call Mr. Zhu Zhi a half-immortal, and friends who are interested in fortune-telling can take the eight characters of birth to Mr. Zhu Zhi to calculate), at that time, I heard some folk legends that said that all big people were born with abnormal conditions. As a result, I also had groundless conjectures about my birth, and repeatedly knocked on my mother: When you gave birth to me, was there anything abnormal? For example, have you seen a red light appear, have you dreamed of Venus appearing, have you ever had a strong wind or auspicious clouds from the sky? To put it more simply, is there a magpie cooing in the tree outside the door? Or, what's wrong with my cry? Is it a sonic boom? My mother said to me puzzled, "I only heard the captain shouting for everyone to go to the fields." This made Mr. Zhu very frustrated.

There may not be a person who does not like to be born into a prominent family (of course, Princess Taiping's lamentation that "why bother to be born in an imperial family" is an exception). Having a good family background will make a person suffer a lot less frustration. For example, I myself will not rack my brains for a small amount of money to buy a house, nor will I work hard for a small position. A good family background will make you feel right and handy. It is undeniable that the influence of birth on people, and even the influence of thoughts and concepts is indelible, as the saying goes, "dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the sons of mice will make holes", do you want to be an official? It depends on whether you have a family background or not, if not, you can step aside! Do you want to do business (not the kind of vegetable market stall here)? It depends on whether you have anything to do with it, if you are not my person, why should I give you this business? Even marriage, we must pay attention to the "right door", and don't think about eating swan meat if you are a toad. Let's just say the young sigh mentioned above, if Luo and Lu don't have their father's background, can they enter such a good unit? All of these examples may be refuted by many, but the reality is that way.

The first sentence of Mr. Roque's "Theory of Origin" (originally published in the first issue of the "Middle School **** Newspaper" on January 18, 1967) pointed out that the problem of family origin has been a serious social problem for a long time. At that time, Roque was in a very difficult situation because his parents were **** and capitalists respectively, so he had this feeling. But today, if his parents were both officials or capitalists, his situation would not be like that. Origin raises new problems: the unfair distribution of social wealth, the unfair appropriation of social resources. makes people see the helpless status quo: those who are officials, one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven; The children of the peasants continue to face the loess with their backs to the sky, and the children of the workers only continue to be workers. I finally understood why Chinese, especially the low-level survivors, believe so much in the so-called "life". It turns out that in many cases, what kind of person you are has already been decided when you are born. I also know why the fortune-telling that Mr. Zhu is addicted to is still so marketable in today's modernization.

However, many revolutionary books, revolutionary articles, and revolutionary people will not agree with Mr. Zhu's fallacy. Once drinking with friends, Mr. Zhu was unleashed on the theory of origin. My friend, a section chief of a certain district office, jumped out and said sternly: Mr. Zhu Zhi, you can complain about everything, but you can't complain about the parents who gave birth to you and the family that gave birth to you, and you can't change it, and what you can and want to change is only yourself. Background may make a person smooth in some things, but it can't determine a person's fate, many big people were born in poor families, Liu Bang was born in a poor family, Zhu Yuanzhang was a beggar, you look around you, there are many children born in rich families, and they may not have a good future for development in the future. I interrupted him and said, "Tell me how you were transferred from that small place in Bama, Guangxi, to Nanning, the capital!" When the director heard this, his face turned red and he pretended to go out to pee. Everyone in the circle knows that in order to get ahead, he married a wife with a long left leg and a short right leg. And his wife's uncle is a very prominent figure in the district.

But he's right about one thing, you can't choose where you come from, and you can't complain. Mr. Zhu's daughter, when she was still young, once went out on the street, she suddenly said to her father: "Dad, it would be nice if you were a fruit seller!" Mr. Zhu was taken aback, at that time he was already an admirable little bureaucrat, what's wrong with wanting to be a fruit seller? The daughter said innocently, "If this is the case, I can eat fruit every day!" A friend's daughter, who watched the TV series and was obsessed, said to her father: "It would be nice if I were still a bead, what I wanted, I don't have to be as poor as I am now." When his father heard this, he couldn't help but feel sad. The complaints of these children are still understandable. But when she's older, will she still blame you so naively? No, for example, my daughter, this fall, has complained that her father, who has no background, has not been able to help her find a good junior high school. When she is a little older, when she is wronged because she has no family background during exams, studying, and employment, how will she complain? Will she sigh like the young man mentioned above: If only I had a good father?

At the end of his essay "On Origin", Roque appealed: Comrades, can this phenomenon be allowed to continue? Shouldn't we immediately rise up and clean up all this sludge and muddy water? Shouldn't this artificial gap be bridged? During the period when the reactionary forces were in power, the oppressed youth were not only young people from bad backgrounds, but also young people of workers' and peasants' origins who fought against those in power who took the capitalist road, as well as other revolutionary youths. We call on all revolutionary youths persecuted by reactionary forces to unite and organize under the banner of ****** ideology! Victory will be ours! All the repressed revolutionary youth, rise up and fight bravely! The greatest injustice in society today is that many young people from poor backgrounds have to pay several times the price of people with backgrounds in order to succeed (mind you, it is possible). What we need to do is perhaps not to believe in our origins, to rely on our own continuous efforts to achieve success, and at the same time, to face up to the current behavior of relying on our origins to win all illegal benefits.

Young people have been slightly smoked. Mr. Zhu picked up a piece of steak and stuffed it into his big mouth, letting it go with a glass of beer. Then, Mr. Zhu said to the young man inarticulately: Despite this, you should not give up, and the key to a person's success lies in personal efforts. Look at Mr. Zhu, hasn't he changed from a country boy to a successful (male) man with a house (rented) and a car (bicycle), an annual income of tens of millions (Vietnamese dollars), and admired by tens of thousands of people? "We do not recognize any rights that cannot be achieved through individual efforts," Mr. Roque said. "We should keep in mind.