Yang Chao directly said all the humiliation that the Western powers gave to China back then, but he said it quite bluntly, without too much emotion or anger, just telling a fact. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Look, your country is now at war again. European civilization, in the eyes of us Chinese, is too barbaric. The countries of Northwest Europe have the blood of the Vikings of Northern Europe, but you can't inherit them all without abandoning them, and you have to keep pace with the times, and you can make a fortune by robbing, but it can't last long. ”

Yang Chao criticized the entire Western civilization by the way, and the Germans once again launched a war, and this kind of thing is not a good thing in the real intellectual elite, and the ancient Chinese literati said that soldiers are ominous, and Western literati also do not like war, and high-level intellectuals are all anti-war, such as scientists like Albert Einstein, during the First World War, didn't they all stand up and propagate anti-war.

Riefenstahl apparently did not support the war either, although he did not identify with some of the Nazi actions, such as the war, such as anti-Semitism.

He made two documentaries for the Nazis, one is called the Triumph of the Will and the other is the documentary of the Olympic Games, which created many shooting methods, which was very artistic and won awards, but it indirectly helped the Nazis, and only two films made the post-war United States block her for a lifetime.

But what no one knows is that when she made her films, she still had a bit of an artist's temper, such as his insistence on using Jewish cinematographers, which made the Nazis angry and helpless, because Adolf insisted that Riefenstahl do the films, and she insisted on using Jews, so she was not actually liked by Goebbels and other high-level officials who controlled Nazi propaganda.

As for insisting on using Jews, of course, it is not really inseparable from Jews, which is obviously expressing some of her attitudes.

However, Riefenstahl did not agree with Yang Chao's criticism of Germany and the West.

Riefenstahl said: "You are too biased, although there was a tradition of piracy in European history, but that was a long time ago, and modern civilization was built precisely after getting rid of these defects. Although the British Empire supported piracy in the early days, it was also Westerners who were the first to oppose piracy around the world and establish a world anti-piracy agreement. ”

Yang Chao smiled: "You really don't have pirates, and you have started to fight against pirates, but your behavior has become pirates." India, Vietnam, Africa, South America, you have brought war, plunder to every land on the earth, and now you are bringing war to your own land, which has to be said to be a barbaric tragedy rooted in the bones of Western culture. ”

Riefenstahl snorted, "We're not just about war, we're going to bring civilization. ”

Yang Chao laughed: "What kind of civilization? ”

Riefenstahl said proudly: "Min Lord, freedom." ”

Yang Chao said: "Why don't you say fraternity? I can't go on. Have you asked people if they would accept the things you brought? Is this the minor, is this freedom? Freedom at gunpoint or freedom under the guns of a strong ship? ”

Riefenstahl snorted again: "Mr. Yang? I remember you weren't a radical anti-Westerner, did you? ”

Riefenstahl suddenly wondered, Yang Chao's speech today is too different from the previous style.

Yang Chao sighed: "I was originally a person who was full of affection for Western civilization, but when I saw two inhumane wars, and saw Westerners showing that kind of terrifying and cruel faces, slaughtering each other with the craziest means, and exposing the most primitive barbarism to the sun, I understood that the West is not the beacon of human civilization in my imagination, it is just a short but beautiful wave in the history of human civilization. Whenever I think about this, I think, where is the future of humanity? What bottom line should human beings adhere to, shouldn't human beings talk about benevolence and equality? I am very pessimistic about this, we Chinese have ruled the country with virtue for more than 2,000 years, but we still have not built a moral society, I hope to see a society in my lifetime where everyone has love and cares for each other. Instead of being like Westerners, they only talk about interests, and when interests cannot be achieved, they pick up knives and fight each other. ”

Yang Chao said, Riefenstahl also pondered, as Germany provoked another war, Westerners began to feel confused about the future of their civilization, until the United States liberated Europe under the banner of freedom, Europeans saw a lighthouse again, but that lighthouse is no longer in Europe, has gone to the Americas.

Riefenstahl hesitated, of course Yang Chao did not change suddenly, he did it intentionally, when the Europeans were most confused, he just wanted to tell the Europeans that there is more than one lighthouse of human civilization, and the lighthouse of China is also very bright, we are the lighthouse that has adhered to the rule of virtue for more than 2,000 years, although this lighthouse is not very conspicuous, and has become dim in modern times, but he has never been extinguished, and has always been showing the way to mankind, Europeans, come and walk this road.

Whether it is the lord, freedom, or the benevolence and love of the Chinese people, it is the beautiful side of human morality, and it is very useful to take it out and whitewash yourself.

Of course, criticism of the West is not all about reflecting the high morality that China has adhered to for more than 2,000 years (some people think it is hypocritical morality, but it is ridiculous that it firmly believes that Western morality is sincere). To be honest, it's not very useful, it's just an idealist's dream, or a guise for politicians to fool the masses.

Criticizing the West is to undermine the self-confidence of Western civilization, and the reason why the white race is racist is not because they have suddenly found the right path and risen rapidly after being behind for thousands of years in the long river of history. Isn't the reason why there were two world wars because their souls did not keep up with the pace of material progress, and the means of killing far exceeded the moral sense of longing for peace, so there were constant wars and strife?

Criticizing the West, or in order to show the self-confidence of the Chinese, to this day, Yang Chao can still see that in front of Westerners, there are some people with cultural inferiority, and these people are not ordinary people, all are high-level intellectuals, many are intellectual elites with study abroad backgrounds, they can no longer find confidence in traditional morality, so they blindly worship Western civilization, regard Western civilization as a guide, and even have a sense of racial inferiority, feel that the Chinese race is not good, and are ashamed to be Chinese.

The reasons for this are many and complex. The first is that after more than 30 years of efforts by Yang Chao, there is still no service-oriented government, although the efficiency of government agencies at all levels has been quite high, and even ranks among the top in the world, but the interaction experience between the people and the government is very bad, and the feeling that it is difficult to enter the yamen is still very strong.

After all, there has been an official culture for more than 2,000 years, and Westerners do not have this problem, it is not that they do not have problems, they also have a lot of their own problems, such as the problem of aristocratic monopoly of power, such as the problem of social solidification, etc., some of which were solved in the industrial revolution, such as the British imitating the Chinese imperial examination system, established the British civil service system, replaced the way of aristocratic introduction with the civil service examination, and ended the problem of aristocratic monopoly of power. But the social solidification is still not solved, the strong are always strong, the children of the rich are the second generation of the rich, the third generation of the rich, the children of the poor are the second generation of the poor, the third generation of the poor, and even infinite, so the Europeans have an American dream, because in the United States it is easier to realize their ambition to change their social status, because the United States does not have a history of aristocratic bricks, and it is a reckless society that tells the rise, there are a lot of opportunities to belong to the commoners.

It can be said that the reason why these two world wars broke out in Europe was that in terms of culture, some fundamental problems were not solved, and a culture adapted to this system was born in the midst of the rapid development of industry, which produced an inner imbalance.

Westerners do not have this kind of cultural preparation, how can the Chinese have, so Yang Chao hopes that the Chinese will be more confident, let them believe that they can succeed, let them believe that they are culturally superior to the West, at least not to lose to the West.

Only a self-confident nation can hold its head high and move towards a new era, can it carry forward the historical heritage and give birth to a new culture. A nation that is not confident will never have any hope of leading the world forward, no matter how strong its hard power is.

Of course, due to Yang Chao's intervention, the Chinese became strong in advance, and did not experience the greater and more culturally destructive twists and turns of later generations, so they also have a traditional cultural and moral heritage, and the education established under the auspices of Pan Xun has greatly carried forward this cultural morality, from primary school to university, classical moral books are a must-see.

Just as American universities use sociological classics such as social contract theory as general education textbooks for all disciplines, ancient classics such as "Analects" and "The Mean" are also required to be read by every college student, even if he is a science and engineering student.

But this is not enough, as the Americans, despite being the world's largest economy in the 1860s and the largest industrial power in the 1890s, would never consider themselves to be the best country in the world, and culturally have a deep inferiority complex towards European countries like the British Empire.

The reason why generation after generation of political and intellectual elites in the United States have constantly praised the American minus and constantly promoted the American-style miners to the outside world is actually for the purpose of encouraging the people's cultural self-confidence, and at the same time, they are also proving to themselves that the Americans are excellent, at least not inferior to Europe.

It was not until after the two world wars, when the rich and powerful Americans, this time, were finally able to rescue Europe from the crisis under the banner of the supreme civilization of mankind, and stood on this supreme sense of morality, that the Americans finally succeeded in building their own cultural self-confidence.

What Yang Chao wants to do is what the Americans have to do, to step on him fiercely at the time of the greatest decline of European civilization, and finally wave the banner of the supreme civilization of mankind, under the banner of freedom, fraternity, benevolence, and love for others, to liberate Europe, obtain the highest sense of morality and morality, and only obtain the right to formulate a reasonable world order.

Of course, the process is definitely not as easy as imagined, full of difficulties and ups and downs, but Yang Chao firmly believes that it will succeed, because soft power is only auxiliary, hard power is fundamental, and the Americans establish world hegemony by relying not only on the American master, but also on their nuclear stick.

"So I'm really worried that with this war, the fire of European civilization will be extinguished, and all the spiritual wealth accumulated by Europe's hundreds of years of industrial civilization will become a cloud of history!"

Yang Chao cried and lamented like a mouse, as if he really loved European civilization as much as he could. )