Chapter Twenty-Nine: Fang Guang's Philosophy of Life

A man named Fang Guang was transferred from the Rich Bank by the Executive Bank, and he was temporarily arranged by the unit to live with Wu Wei in a room in the guest house. Wu Wei once heard his second brother Wu Gui talk about this person. Wu Wei also wondered, how could such a person provoke so many people to hate and hate? In this case, how can you still be transferred to the superior line? Insidious and cunning, quiet, slow and soft, catch up with the moment to say a sentence or two is enough for you to breathe. When everyone comes up to be emotional, he adds a fire to help burn it, and it is easy to burn anyone to ashes; On the basis of other people's discussions about right and wrong, he followed up and slipped two more sentences, which is enough for you to see; If he doesn't squeak what he should say, he is a silent opposition; Everyone said that this person was good, and he said that it was a little bit worse, and you didn't feel comfortable listening to it; When the leader was originally very good to him and couldn't be any better, he himself looked at the future successor and secretly crossed Chen Cang, and the future leader was almost very hot; Seeing that there is a new leader who is not familiar with the situation, he will immediately approach the vassal. When such a person encounters an opportunity for something good, everyone does not go to fulfill it, but comes forward to dismantle the stage, making him unable to do anything. Wu Wei listened to his relatives, that person, is amazing, divides people into relatives, distance, and thin, and is clear, how to deal with it clearly, we can't do it, but then again, how tired it is to distinguish people so clearly, and how refreshing it is to treat people.

Fang Guang's philosophy of life is also cultivated in reality, and it is manifested in people-to-people exchanges, for himself, isn't it self-protection and self-realization? It is a coping reaction to being rectified, although such a response may cause him a greater disadvantage and a deeper predicament, and he will be unable to extricate himself from it, and at the end he will be eliminated from the competition for no apparent reason.

One night, Fang Guang didn't know who he had just returned to the guest house after drinking, his face was flushed, and his already quiet and calm personality seemed more and more dignified. That night, he opened the conversation box and talked about it with Wu Wei, from society to life, from work performance to how young people grasp it, talking eloquently, asking and answering, Wu Wei recalled mentioning that conversation many years later, Fang Guang said without emotion, and he also drank some wine at that time. The transcript of the conversation is here.

Now it's anxious at both ends and cold in the middle. The central authorities have issued repeated orders, one meeting on the left, and one policy on the right, and the policy is supported by the masses, but there are too many cross-cutting cars in the middle, and they cannot be implemented to the end. For what? The implementation of the policy should violate the interests of the middle-level people. The ideological line has not been implemented to the end, the truth tested by practice cannot be carried out in all work, and as a result, the organizational line and political line cannot be implemented. Originally, it was not a small unit, there was an old cadre, 62 years old, who was no longer useful, incompetent, and could not open the situation at work.

As for the masses, there is a movement on the left and a movement on the right, and they are not engaged in movement, but they are not used to it, and they are waiting for movement. What if exercise comes? You can do what you see people doing, whether it's right or wrong, there's nothing wrong. When the movement comes, there is always a speculative opportunity to seize the opportunity to run to the front, and if something goes wrong, it is also a shot to the first bird, and it is no problem to be in the middle and back. In this way, people's minds are rigid, there is no flexibility, and everyone's minds are poured out of a mold.

From a personal point of view, what can you do when you look at it? Even if you have the ability and the means, but you can't make it, you have to do nothing but ignore it, but in that case, you will be in a dilemma, up and down, left and right, how can you do it? So as I did it, I watched it, and there was still more of this attitude.

You don't live in a vacuum, you always have to deal with the people around you, and as a result, you have no interest in the mass movement and the mass life, and you don't want to participate, so you do something else, of course, everyone is not satisfied with you, and they can't get used to you, so the masses do the masses, and you go to do your own thing, which is called a clear line and does not interfere with each other. The result? The masses are not affected by this, but you are isolated. You can't get along emotionally with everyone, it's difficult to combine in action, and you walk around, making people stay away.

As for young people, they should always have ideals and aspirations, and the result may not be realized, but after all, it is not as demanding of people in their twenties as they are asking for people in their forties. This is called understanding. However, the ideal needs to be realistic. Marx-Lenin talked about the armed seizure of power, and it started from the cities, and Chairman Mao came to the countryside, which was in line with the specific conditions of China, and it was successful. The same is true for a person to realize his ideals, take the path that suits him, what is the path that suits him? Proceed from the objective reality of your own situation, and look at the conditions to do things. It can't be divorced from reality. To deal with reality, we must talk about strategy. If you want to transform reality, how can you transform it? Polarization, each doing its own thing, you see that the masses are not satisfied, and people see you as an alternative. What else to transform? Let's go to the confrontation!

I am dissatisfied with everything in reality, there are right and wrong, there are indeed bad things, bad habits, bad habits, you should not learn, you should not get used to it, there are also good people and good things, you can't get used to it, isn't it bad? Isn't it just that you read it wrong? So discern things and don't look at everything without analysis. For example, some people are mixed, some people are out of necessity, and some people are active, enthusiastic, and motivated.

The main thing in dealing with reality is to treat it differently, and only by treating it differently can we treat it correctly. There are indeed bad things in reality, and we should oppose them or at least not go along with them, but this is true for everything, which can only lead to being isolated in reality, and at the end of the day, nothing can be accomplished.

It's not okay to follow the crowd, and it's not okay not to follow the crowd at all; If you don't distinguish between what you follow and what you don't follow, you will only bury yourself and make you useless.

Wu Wei listened to Fang Guang's remarks and suddenly understood. Fang Guang understood it too well, and couldn't help but feel a sense of sympathy for his situation inexplicably, why did he understand it so well. However, there are some things that must be understood, others have introduced some objects to themselves, and they don't feel it at a glance, and they think strangely, this is a lifelong thing, two people don't see each other for a long time, if you want to think about it, you miss it, and you can live together to be interesting and live for a long time, otherwise, there is no taste for getting married, and it is not early to break up.