I will make a more in-depth discussion about the lengthy article in the previous chapter, and also reply to the book friends who sprayed Lao Zhu.
The beginning of the previous chapter may seem lengthy and uninteresting. But some readers spray content is. Lao Zhu is only explaining one truth, this truth is not worth spraying. The importance of professionalism has become more and more obvious, and all professional things should be handed over to professional people to do. What we ordinary people have to do is to turn ourselves into professionals in a certain aspect. If the officials are taken out separately and sprayed, it is even more unnecessary, this is just one of the examples that deepen the explanation, provided that the official is worthy of the word professional and can treat the official well. It's like being a good farmer and a teacher. Do your job well.
As for the subsequent talk of governing the country, everyone has opinions and can talk about it eloquently. Everyone has an opinion on the pros and cons of various systems. Lao Zhu is not judging these things.
Lao Zhu is talking about the essence of an elite country no matter which model it is. Voting is also the selection of elites. Competition for promotion is also the selection of elites. Regardless of the method, the formulation of national policies and the decision of major national affairs are ultimately difficult for the people to participate in.
Whether or not there is really a guarantee of 100 percent elite governing the country is not within the scope of discussion. Only to explain the problems encountered by the protagonist, as well as the difficulties.
Finally, the matter of colonization and plunder is too naked. But this matter is also something that you and I see in our eyes, and the essence of the rise of the West in modern times is here.
If you have to talk about what kind of national model is better, Lao Zhu can also talk about it, which is also a problem that a history will face after all. After all, there must be a big picture, the re-establishment of a country. I can't avoid it.
But Lao Zhu couldn't really answer this question, and he couldn't give a complete answer. Because the world itself is not perfect, everywhere is perfect. We are also limited to the vision of this era, and we cannot travel to the future to see if there is a perfect way to see if there is a perfect way in the future.
China has China's problems, and they are all in your eyes, so there is no need to go into details. Lao Zhu didn't want to say more, after all, he still had to write down, and he couldn't talk about this realistic topic.
Europe and the United States also have problems in Europe and the United States, and there are many people who have been to Europe and the United States. The security of most countries in Europe and the United States lags far behind that of China, and even in countries like the United States, women dare not walk on the road in the middle of the night. Shootings under the proliferation of guns, and so on. There are more thieves in France than in China, and this is not Lao Zhu's random fabrication. There are too many business oligarchs in the United States that influence political decision-making, and even the war is serving businessmen, and the lives of ordinary soldiers in war are serving businessmen, which is also an international consensus and an American's own cognition, not made up by Lao Zhu himself.
Which model is better? On the other hand, it doesn't make sense. There is also a suitability question. The European and American model has succeeded in many countries in Europe and the United States, but what about countries in other regions? There have been countless failures, and from Taiwan, which we are familiar with, they have been extremely unsuccessful. Many people don't know the history of Taiwan, Taiwan was not originally a European and American model, starting with Chiang's martial law and until Chiang's son slowly lifted the ban. Taiwan took off at the hands of Chiang's son. Before the death of Chiang's son, he completely changed the model and learned a full set of European and American methods, and Taiwan was divided into society and the economy stopped for twenty or thirty years. If we check the income of the people in Taiwan, the current income level has not changed at all from the past 20 or 30 years. It's even going backwards. This is also what the Taiwanese themselves said, not made up by Lao Zhu.
European and American model, in the Middle East. A few years ago, there was the Arab Spring, and several countries in the Middle East changed their patterns one after another. The Western world rejoiced, calling it spring in the Arab world. Then a few years passed, spring turned into winter, wars, people's livelihoods withered, countries were torn apart, society regressed, and it was not as good as it was a few decades ago.
The foundation of China's model has been successful. For example, China has been relatively successful in the past thirty or forty years. And Vietnam, which has been going on recently, is also taking off. But look at the collapse of the Soviet Union, look at the backwardness of North Korea. There are also failures.
Whatever the model, it's still an elite country. Needless to say. For example, Japan, which has been extremely successful in the past few decades and has been somewhat sluggish recently, is also a model of Europe and the United States. Above politics, it is just a few families going back and forth. The family, three or four generations, is the prime minister. The Hatoyama family, the Koizumi family, the Abe family, the Aso family, and the Fukuda family. The prime ministers of the country have come and gone in exchange for these four families, and there are four of Abe's families, and these families are all relatives. The same is true in the United States, which of the five major families is not a president, governor, congressman, and diplomat, and there are countless and impossible to count. It's a Trump who is also a billionaire with a net worth of many billion dollars, and the person competing with Trump is also from the Clinton family. Bribery in the United States is not called bribery, political donations, or lobbying funds. Or just speaking income. A president can make hundreds of millions of dollars a year from speeches. These families or chaebols in the United States are also partners with each other, and many of them are relatives, and they are also the same interest class.
American politics is actually played by Wall Street, and this is also what the Americans themselves say, and it is also criticized by the American people themselves, not made up by Lao Zhu. The American people are still criticizing their banks, taking back their houses at every turn, and leaving people on the streets with nothing at every turn. These are also things that Wall Street does, and Wall Street and the White House are actually the same thing on a certain level. It's one thing for Trump, an oligarch from Wall Street, to become president.
Therefore, we should look at politics and models more clearly, and see the essence of them. People will be more rational. It is the same in any country, and the major affairs of the country, no matter what the model, are ultimately decided by those political elites. It is difficult for ordinary people to participate.
So how do you go about perfection? How should Lao Zhu's pen be perfect? Lao Zhu is also confined to this era.
Where to live, naturally hope that it can be better, love is deeply responsible, and anger can be understood, but there is no need to use the contradictions and problems in reality to spray Lao Zhu's words. It doesn't make sense. Lao Zhu talks about the essence, but he can't let Lao Zhu take the blame for reality.
Every country is constantly reforming itself. This path of reform is also trying to get close to perfection. It's just that in this world, there is still a long way to go.
The above is just to communicate seriously with the book friends who spray Lao Zhu, and I hope that everyone can talk about things without emotion.