Chapter 982: The Great Avenue of the World (3)
This Gongsun Yan seems to be also a lover of personality.
But! Just let him die, and he still hasn't realized the Tao?
Morning news can be dead! What is the point of dying like this, and being enlightened?
Zhuangzi naturally wouldn't let Gongsun Yan die like this!
If outsiders knew, wouldn't it be Gongsun Yan who was forced to death by his Zhuangzi?
Naturally, the world will not know about this, but they can't hide those old monsters in their hearts.
Zhuangzi stretched out a hand, transformed into invisibility, and imprisoned Gongsun Yan's fist that smashed into both ears.
"Let me die! Let me die! Woo woo woo ......" Gongsun Yan's hands were imprisoned, and he was so anxious that he cried again.
It's true! At this time, Gongsun Yan had the psychological experience of not being able to survive and dying.
"My sermon is not finished! Hehehe! Zhuangzi said with a smile.
Lifting the confinement of Gongsun Yan, Zhuangzi nodded towards Gongsun Yan, signaling him to be less restless and wait for him to finish speaking.
Like a child, Gongsun Yan wiped a handful of tears, sobbed twice, stopped crying, and looked at Zhuangzi with a pair of dull eyes.
"I just said that most of the people in the Great Zhou world are family, and that's it. Visible! Your conscience is still there! In fact! It's not a complete family, it can only be said that most people are the same ancestor. After hundreds of thousands, even tens of thousands of years ago, our ancestors mated with each other, and most of us have the same ancestral blood in our veins. This one! It's true!
We can imagine! Don't say it's too far, just talk about it. When we marry our spouses and have children, and our children marry others, we don't know where our bloodlines have passed down after hundreds or even tens of thousands of years. Isn't it?
Because of this! We are the descendants of an old ancestor who has been handed down by hundreds, thousands, thousands, or even countless years ago. So! It is not an exaggeration to say that we are one family in the world.
Of course! There are also accidents!
For example! Those who are isolated from the world, those who have never been in contact with the Great Zhou, are not related to us by blood. Or! The concentration of blood is lighter.
But! Anyway! They are all human beings, human beings.
Don't say that they are not a family with us, they are not related by blood, and they don't care about the lives of others. It's also wrong to do this, we have to compare our hearts with our hearts, and what if others don't care about your life or death? Isn't it?
So! We can't be like that, what do we share with each other! We're all human! Mankind!
We are human beings, we are human beings, and human beings are different from other things, from pigs, horses, cows and sheep, from plants and soil. Furthermore! We are civilized human beings, different from other things. So! We need to use human intelligence to create a new kind of life......"
Ever since humans had an IQ, they have fared better than other animals, becoming higher animals, higher animals at the top of the food chain. Originally! It is a very good thing for human beings to have an IQ and to live the happiest life. Outcome! Not necessarily! Human beings kill each other more brutally than animals, and more brutally than animals fight with each other.
The struggle between animals and the same species is only cruel when it comes to fighting for the right to mate. And more often than not, it's peaceful. Between animals, that is, when they compete for food, it is more cruel, but it is not as cruel as people think. The law of the jungle is a reality, but! The strong have the advantage of the strong, and the weak are not completely passively abused. If the weak were completely passively abused, there would be no such species.
For example! Tigers, lions, leopards and other carnivores are powerful, but other animals are not vegetarians, they all have particularly sensitive nerves and sense the existence of danger. And also! They run fast. And also! They are highly reproductive...... In a word! They all have their own way of surviving and use to avoid danger. Otherwise? They have long since become extinct.
So! Taoists believe that no matter how difficult life is, there is a chance for us to survive, and we can find ways to avoid it.
And humans! Since I got my IQ, not only did I not live happily, but I also lived a life that was worse than a beast and not safe. Human beings have had a peaceful and happy life since they had intelligence, but? In the long history of mankind, it has been very brief. After a short period of happiness, there is a long process of killing each other.
Why do humans do this? With IQ, life is not as good as that of a beast?
The reason is simple!
It's because there is a problem with the way of life of human beings! To be more specific, it means that there is a problem with human beings' outlook on life, worldview, and cosmology. Therefore! Until the problem of ideas is solved, there will be no time for mankind to be happy forever. If there is, it will only be temporary. Even if there is, it is only a few people who have it temporarily. And most people have no chance of happiness.
After talking about the relationship and comparison between humans and animals, and the current situation of society, Zhuangzi began to repeatedly explain the relationship between humans and families, clans, teams, organizations, regions, and countries.
Much like Engels's The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Zhuangzi gave Gongsun Yan a sociological lesson.
Of course! What Zhuangzi said is not exactly the same as what Engels wrote, but! That's pretty much it.
Humans, like wild beasts, were originally single-handed. Afterward! Like wild beasts, the mother assumes the function of procreation, and the father becomes the tool of breadwinner. And then later! The mother is not only responsible for the reproductive function, but also for the support of the family.
Because! Fathers are unreliable. Of course! It's not that the father is irresponsible. Being irresponsible is one aspect, but! More because of the danger. Obtaining food is very dangerous, and many males are injured and killed while searching for and obtaining food.
So! Mothers have taken on more responsibility.
So! Later, there was a matrilineal society in which only the mother was known but not the father.
In order to obtain food, to give birth and raise children, mothers must resort to means. So! In the history of mankind, matrilineal societies have been quite long, much longer than patrilineal societies.
Afterward! As human intelligence increases, males begin to rebel. Males take possession of their natural physical abilities and thus of resources. At last! Successfully counterattacked, forming a patriarchal society.
In fact! Male physique is not born, on the contrary! Born males may not be as good as females in terms of physique. But! Under the long-term "enslavement" of the matriarchal society, the male has developed a strong physique.
After talking about matriarchal society, Zhuangzi began to talk about family, clan, and tribe.
The formation of families, clans, and tribes, like the formation of states, is grouped together for the collective good.
What is the collective good?
Survive! It is conducive to the survival of the members of the collective, which is the collective interest.
The state is the organization of many families, clans, and tribes.
So! The state does not exist by nature, but arises out of necessity later.
So! The state does not exist forever, it is just an institution that will inevitably arise from human beings on the road of pursuing survival. When the state cannot guarantee the survival of its people, the state does not exist. When human beings have lived sensibly, without greater danger, and no longer kill each other, the state as an institution will cease to exist. At that time, it will be the ideal life realm of "small countries and widows" that Lao Tzu said.