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In the student movement of 1910, Beijing sacrificed two college students and a military policeman, and the society poured a basin of ice water on the fanaticism of young people, and many young people were disheartened. Many celebrities, such as Liang Qichao, Gu Hongming, Yan Fu and others, also began to write articles to reflect on this fanatical movement, and many pointed the finger at the young "mentor" Lu Xun, accusing his ideas of poisoning a generation of young people, reprimanding him for "smearing China", and for the utilitarianism he once advocated. He was violently attacked by individualism and ideas such as justifying money, and criticized him for being unpatriotic.

Lu Xun angered almost all of China: leftist intellectuals, liberals and conservatives. They belittled his ideas, saying that "only teenagers were intoxicated with his doctrines." Politically, Lu Xun also seems to be a loser, and liberals don't like his self-centered posture; Conservatives don't like him utilitarianism; Both sides at the same time objected to his justification of money. The only person who supported him was President Song Xiaofei, who did not remove Lu Xun from his post as deputy director of the Ministry of Education. Lu Xun sighed with emotion, "My article, as long as the president reads it alone." ”

However, even this sentence was criticized in the newspapers by some immoral and shameless pseudo-public knowledge: "Lu Xun dressed himself up as a lonely traveler with revolutionary feelings and artist temperament, a scholar who had the world in mind and was trapped in trivialities, a hero who mingled in the rivers and lakes and will be famous in the court, and now he himself showed his fox tail, and it turned out that he was just 'the only emperor in the heart of the slave family'", and some people said that Lu Xun was "licking chrysanthemums" - like the eunuch An Dehai who licked hemorrhoids for the Empress Dowager Cixi.

These attacks completely angered Lu Xun. What brought Lu Xun was excitement. In retaliation, he set up a "Lu Xun Thought Research Institute" and launched a new youth movement to defend his ideas. Lu Xun often traveled to various universities to give lectures and respond to various criticisms of him. One of the things he often said to his young students was that "one cannot give up the world to those he despises."

Lu Xun's first lecture was held in the lecture hall of Peking University, and the title was "The Fatal Conceit of Chinese Intellectuals": "Since the time of Confucius, Chinese intellectuals have been emphasizing what the world should be, not what the world should be, the moral utopia in the minds of intellectuals. It has confused China for thousands of years, and it has also misled China for thousands of years! This fatal conceit still exists today. Now the young people of China. It is important to realize that our society is inverted from the society conceived by intellectuals, that is, it does not exist according to their ideas. People in reality. It's all selfish and profit-based. Young people should always remind themselves: How can the world exist the way you think it is? For two or three thousand years, our intellectuals have emphasized morality and ignored that human nature itself will change with the social environment, that is to say, good people will also do bad things, and bad people can also do good things, so that the construction of our social system is simply rubbish. Young people should always remind themselves: the world has its own rules, which are not subject to your will! The wind is up. You have to go forward, the wind has stopped. You still have to move forward. You have to understand that individuals have the right to choose their own personal happiness for the sake of their own lives and to work for the realization of such happiness. In this choice, each person is the sole and final decision-maker, and no one else has the right to decide his happiness. So, selfishness is a virtue. A man should exist as a hero, with his own happiness as the moral goal of his life, and creative achievement as his noblest activity! The so-called civilization is the process of development towards a society of individuals. The barbarian's entire state of existence is open, governed by the laws of the tribe to which he belongs. Civilization is a process of gradual emancipation of the individual! Our new youth need to have this new sense of morality! There is no reliable authority in the world, including me, you can only rely on your own independent judgment! Human beings are the true heroes, who take their own happiness as the moral code of their lives, with substantial achievements as the noblest actions, and with reason as their sole master! My philosophy, in general, is the idea that man is a heroic being, who regards his own happiness as the moral purpose of life! ”

More than 1,000 students in the audience applauded warmly after listening to Lu Xun's words. After the speech, there was an interactive session, at this time, Liu Bannong, a bespectacled student at Peking University, stood up and asked: "Mr. Zhou, no, Mr. Lu Xun, I recently saw in the newspaper that you wrote an article before, saying that 'no money is the root of all evil', but I saw that many students are also very poor, but they are also very moral, and would rather starve than do evil, how can this be said?" ”

Lu Xun thought for a while and said: "You can go to my original article to read it, I said that money is the root of all evil, but it is just to transfer the evil side of human nature to money." There is no concept of 'original sin' in traditional Chinese culture, so we have to impose "all evils" on money. When we talk about 'materialistic desires', we are actually 'human desires'. Regarding money, I also firmly believe that when you judge someone's virtue, please listen to his understanding of money: people who curse money are often poor people who have no money, and people who respect money will earn money according to their own ability! In addition, let me tell you a harsh truth: in a market economy society, being poor is dishonorable, which means that you are of little value to society! will make money legally and reasonably, that's really called ability! There is no dignity in being a poor scholar. ”

At this time, Li Wenfang, a girl from Beijing Higher Normal School, stood up and asked Lu Xun: "Sir, there have been many newspapers recently scolding you for being unpatriotic and saying that you have smeared China, are you such a person?" ”

When Lu Xun heard this, he smiled and said: "Recently, I heard that a professor at Peking University talked about constitutionalism in the newspaper and was also criticized for 'smearing China', isn't this ridiculous? I have long written public articles to refute these ignorant people: there is no such thing as smearing China. Just like there is no one who is not patriotic. As I said earlier, it is human nature to be patriotic. Some people with ulterior motives always like to criticize others for being unpatriotic out of nothing to show that they are patriotic, in fact, most of the people who think that others have brain problems will be scolded by others for being neurotic, and people who casually take others as fools are usually fools themselves. If a person doesn't even understand what a critical spirit is, and others point out problems and don't think about ways to solve them, but they always like to accuse the person who raised the problem of smearing China, what is that normal people's thinking? A thing that is not black, can it be discredited by others after a few words? Historically, only a powerful person like Zhao Gao could refer to a deer as a horse and confuse right and wrong. Chinese like to talk about patriotism the most, I don't like the word ism, I like patriotism, I also think I am very patriotic, as soon as I add the word ism, there is a kind of coercion and utilitarianism. I believe that patriotism is a kind of human nature, just like loving one's parents and loving one's relatives, it is something that is born and does not need to be deliberately emphasized. Of course, when we talk about countries, they can be divided into three levels: the first is the natural country, that is, the land, which is called country in English; The second word is nation, which is nation in English. Half of the nation is congenital and half is acquired, and there is history and culture in it. The third case is the regime, which is state in this English word. The rulers of this regime always wanted to equate it with the state, and the ancient emperors used to say that I am the state, so they demanded unconditional loyalty from the people. Actually, this regime is not equal to China, but there is a group of people ruling here, and if these people are very bastards, they can also be ruled by another group of people, and if they don't do well, they will get out, so I am just dissatisfied with some people in this regime, and they are not satisfied with some policies, which is also called smearing China, so I have nothing to say. Some officials are too shameless, while eating the common people, they also want the people to sing praises for them, and the people scold their mothers, they say that they are smearing China, isn't this a bitch and want to set up a memorial arch? ”

The students in attendance laughed. One of the boys stood up and asked, "Sir, can you tell us a little bit about individualism?" ”

Lu Xun said: "Individualism is the starting point of liberal theory, emphasizing that man is the measure of all things. The basic tenet of individualism is that each person is the best judge of his own interests and knows how to promote them. How to give each individual the greatest freedom and responsibility to choose his own goals and the means to achieve them, and to enable them to act accordingly, is an important criterion for whether a society meets the requirements of reason. Individual rationality is the realization that man has the right to pursue happiness, and the recognition that man lives not as self-sacrifice, but as self-reliance and self-realization; Reason is a selfish virtue. I will never live for another person, nor will I ask another person to live for my sake. Man does not live for others, man has the right to pursue happiness, and human happiness is not a path to any end, it is the end, its own intention and goal. Man is not anyone's end and means, not a tool of others, not a slave of others. So, young friends, I want to tell you to never give up on those things you want in life, it is worth fighting for them! ”

At this time, Ruan Yiyong stood up and asked one last question: "Mr. Lu Xun, if you have the courage to do things according to your own ideas and are only responsible for your own life, you are called selfish, your independent thinking is called arrogance, your uncompromising integrity is called cruelty, you are called antisocial because you have the vision and ideas of exploration and discovery, your strength and self-restraint in pursuing ideals are called ruthless, and you, the most conscientious person, are ridiculed as 'vulgar materialists', what should you do?" ”

Lu Xun didn't know that Ruan Yiyong was the son of Ruan Zhongshu, secretary general of the Presidential Office, and said with a smile: "In this way, you have to stop and ask others: What are you relying on?" What are the guidelines? What is the standard? Or, you can go your way and be a great warrior and ignore those buzzing flies on the side of the road! ”

Nguyen Yiyong said: "Can you make your meaning clearer? ”

Lu Xun replied with four words: "Stick to the end!" (To be continued......)