Chapter subtitled: The Lost Generation

Our Master Yuan waved his arms and said impassionedly, "Why did the seniors here come to this new continent that is still wild on an immigration ship like 'Mayflower'? Isn't it because the medieval church not only manipulated the power to bestow grace on the faithful, but also deprived the faithful of the opportunity to seek salvation? ”

"Aren't state-owned enterprises manipulating the power to determine the cost of production, depriving the free market of the opportunity to form a price mechanism?"

Well, in fact the Puritans on the Mayflower called themselves so, the God-blessed kings of Great Britain, France, and Ireland - loyal subjects of His Majesty King James, the defender of the faith and the Church. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, true Americans three hundred years later often say that my father taught me only two things: to love God and to hate the British.

Yuan Yanqian saw that everyone present showed a trance expression, and seemed to recall their ancestors...... Killing Indians, robbing the Spanish, civilizing Africans, and smuggling Hibiscus to China to transport tea back to evade taxes by the way.

What should the listener do after reminiscing about the glory of the past? The mustache teaches everyone and makes them feel the panic that they will lose this glory.

"What's more......" our Master Yuan said in a deep tone, "don't forget that the United States of America is not the only successful industrialized country on this planet. The sun never sets, but Germany does not add ...... Well, it still retains the foundation of an industrial country. ”

Before World War I, the major powers accounted for 38 percent of the world's industrial output, Germany 15.7 percent, and Britain 14.1 percent. 6.4% for the fourth French and 4.7% for the fifth in Tsarist Russia. Then came Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Japan.

But don't look at the British and French are only the third and fourth, but they are indeed qualified to "be the third and the fourth" (the dialect of the magic capital, saying that a person is self-righteous and likes to put old qualifications. ）”。 Because in addition to industry, these two countries have a large number of colonies, and the resources are much richer than those of Germany, and the standard of living of the people is better...... So then the fight began.

With the master ball system, Yuan Yanqian's famous aphorism comes as soon as he opens his mouth: "There is a famous proverb in the ancient East, sailing in the reverse current, even if it is the old ...... Well, Captain, if you can't move forward, you can only go back. The Bible says, "Whoever has it, give it to him, that he may be superfluous; and he that hath not, even what he hath shall be taken from him. ”

He summed it up earnestly: "Even if we in the United States of America are already the largest industrial country in the world, we cannot slack off and give up our own advantages!" ”

He secretly said in his heart, if you Yankees can really listen to this sentence, how can there be such a as "deindustrialization" in the future?

After saying this, Yuan Yanqian bowed slightly to everyone and sat back in his seat. He stole a glance to the side, and Vice Principal James B. Conant looked at him in amazement, with a thoughtful look on his face, and it seemed that the words were having the effect they should have.

In fact, Master Yuan's words cannot be said to be undedicated, not bitter, and untiring...... He's really thinking about my America. A hundred years after this world, his disciples and grandchildren in China and the United States remembered his words when they thought of the terrible situation in which the industry of our great United States was out of balance and a certain great power in the East took advantage of it.

It's a pity that a genius like him is always ahead of his time, and he is always not recognized by his contemporaries, and someone immediately refutes it.

I saw Mr. Louis-Baker raise his hand high, and after getting permission from Chandler's professor, he stood up and said, "This ......"

He probably ...... Well, I definitely didn't think about which onion this Chinese is.

Master Bird wasted no time in standing up and said, "My-name-is-Neo-Yuan." ”

In the end, they are the children of a big family, and they said politely: "Well, Mr. Yuan, I am glad to meet you." ”

However, he immediately said loudly with full emotion: "Mr. Yuan, the Bible also says: All the laws in the world are within the sentence of loving your neighbor as yourself!" ”

She turned around and said, "Love your neighbor as yourself...... Ladies and gentlemen, while we are talking here, the workers are toiling in the dark pit at the risk of dying at any moment. ”

"Shouldn't we, the people of America, share in the mineral resources that God has given us?"

"Is our world's largest industry in the United States built on the bones of workers?"

"Is it that we in America are going to build a new world of civilization in this way?"

Yuan Yan pursed her lips and said secretly in her heart, could it be that the land owned by your American people is really given by God?

Isn't your America's world's number one industry built on Indians and blacks...... Is there anything else on the bones of our Chinese laborers?

Isn't your future global hegemony in the United States built on the blood and corpses of the Second World War?

Now that the American capitalists and propertied cubs are so too young, too simple, these international column reserves should go to the Spanish Civil War sixteen years later to wake up.

There were so many masters in that international column: Hemingway, Picasso, George Orwell (author of 1984 and Animal Farm), Neruda (the great poet of the South American country), Abel Camus (the master of French existentialism on a par with Sartre).

In fact, these young Westerners of the same age as Yuan Yanqian are the "The-Lost-Generation." So why are these post-90s and post-00s confused?

It is because the "unjust war" of the First World War hit the Western civilized world too hard, and the conservative old people are okay, but their brains can't turn anyway. But young people, especially young intellectuals, who are receptive to new things, have great doubts about the old set of values.

Sometimes technological development is really not necessarily a "good thing". Although the queue for shooting is cruel and bloody, it can also be called magnificent and romantic. It's a pity that the young soldiers of all countries in World War I did not face flintlock pistols, Napoleonic cannons, and enemies who were also dressed in magnificent military uniforms; It's machine guns, howitzers and barbed wire, and the "trench feet" that watch themselves rot little by little...... Later in the war, they even felt that the enemy on the other side was much cuter than the commanders who forced them to die.

In "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy", Schumpeter once quipped that young people "can't wait for a good opportunity, hope to save the world in one way or another, and are disgusted with the monotonous textbook, and cannot complete a synthesis by their own efforts, so they find in Marx (and others) what they desire, where there is the key to all extreme mysteries, where there is a magic wand that can command big and small." (note 1)"

I have to say that the reason why the socialist theories are so good for these post-90s generations is that the capitalist theories that led to the First World War are so unappetizing. Is this a blue world after all?

So much so that even the third generation of a well-established seniority like Louis Baker has been speaking for the working class, and it can be seen that people still applaud him in a place like NYU Stern College, which specializes in training Wall Street vampires.

For the neoclassical liberal masters, this is, of course, too much of a stretch.

When Yuan Yanqian was slandering here, Mr. Baker's speech was indeed recognized by most of the students who were doing it, and some even applauded him.

"Slap, slap, slap...... Syllable! Syllable! Syllable! ”

As soon as our Master Yuan rolled his eyes, he immediately stood up and slapped vigorously, shouting, "Bravo!"

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At your request, longer notes are placed at the end of each chapter; If the comments are brief, I'll use parentheses. If you have any comments, you can put them in the book review area. It's a pity that the author's testimonial can't be put in it, and to be honest, Murong doesn't want to count this kind of annotation as a word count.

Schumpeter's words are thanks to a certain forum ID Comrade Yi Baipao, he didn't say that I ...... I really haven't seen it yet. But since it comes to Joseph Alois Schumpeter, this guy is really interesting, and Murong can't help but spend a little pen and ink to introduce it.

The Austrian Minister of Finance in 1919 was also a well-known "guru" in the field of economics, as well as a well-known ...... BAT without man.

This "bat" claimed to be a member of the Austrian school, and that he was studying under Mises, and he also looked down on his fellow disciple Hayek. Curiously, Schumpeter completely abandoned the roots of the Austrian School, namely Menger's theory of individual marginal utility, and adopted the methodology and equilibrium philosophy of the German Historical School. As a result, his theories were completely contrary to the mainstream of the Austrian School.

Unfortunately, the results of subsequent research often proved that his original view was completely wrong. Therefore, for the economics community, it is a very headache to put the tablet of this benevolent brother in which temple, and in the end, no school accepted him, so he became a loner in the economics field.