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Author: Ren Wu Ai

It is said that Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionary parties debated with Kang Liang and other royalists, and debated whether China should be a republic or not, and one of the points of contention between the two sides was whether the "people's wisdom" was opened or not, Kang Liang thought that it was not opened, because there was no republic, let alone any democracy, Sun Huang and others said that it was opened, and there was no pressure on republican democracy.

The establishment of the Republic of China is a great progress in China, but even the most staunch republicans in the debate with the royalists at the beginning do not necessarily believe in the wisdom of the people at this time, the Republic of China was founded in 12 years, and the New Culture Movement broke out in 19 years, and this movement is called China's modern enlightenment in the history of literature and thought, and a large number of thinkers such as Lu Xun and Hu Shi appeared, sometimes I am angry when I think about it, nearly ten years ago you said that the people's wisdom has been opened, and now the Republic of China has been established for 7 years, and you are particularly enlightened. Are you still a? To this day, as a liberal arts student, many teachers tell us in class: The modernization enlightenment of the Chinese began in 1919, and was later interrupted by the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and 45 to 49 years were intermittent, and as soon as New China was founded, enlightenment was completely finished, so an important mission for us people is to continue the cause of enlightenment in China.

As far as I know, the teachers of the Faculty of Letters, but those who are slightly active, most of them have no good impression of the Communist Party, and even hate it, and they open their mouths to implement the policy of fools to consolidate their rule, this kind of argument is more common on the Internet, in the mouths of those people, it seems that they are all fools, and occasionally there are a few who are not stupid, that is the same as the heroes, Of course, people who think this way will never put themselves in the ranks of "fools".

However, the reality is often contradictory, and those who criticize the Chinese government for implementing a policy of fooling the people often advocate the practice of Western-style democracy, and most of them regard themselves as representatives of the people's will of the Chinese, saying that the Chinese have enough wisdom to choose the path they take, and do not need the government to choose for the people. So the question arises: It is you who say that the Chinese are a group of foolish people who have not yet awakened, and it is you who say that the Chinese people's wisdom has been opened, do you think the Chinese's people's wisdom has been opened?

Just like I often see a passage on the Internet: "Do you want to be a coward for a lifetime, or be a hero, even if it is only for a few minutes, you need not only courage, but also a revolutionary cry from the bottom of your heart, just to wake up a few people." ”

Many people like to use this sentence as a signature, in order to show how different they are, how everyone is drunk and sober, among them, "the revolutionary cry from the bottom of the heart, just to wake up a few people" This sentence can be described as the finishing touch, this sentence is very clear to position itself as an awakened rebel, with a compassionate preacher tone to his eyes of the foolish people to teach, especially "just to wake up a few", but also a kind of moth to the fire like tragedy, it is really ...... Hypocrisy to the extreme. is like the sentence in "Lingao Qiming": Everyone is drunk, I am awake alone, and democracy are a pair of contradictions. If a country wants to practice democracy, the premise is that the country's people have opened their minds, just like the law stipulates that the 18-year-old adult can enjoy various social rights, if a child is mentally incomplete, you let him play what "independence", that is irresponsible and harmful, in the same way, let a group of people with low intelligence be the masters of the house, that is also ill-intentioned.

People who are mixed with the Internet,It is estimated that none of them admit that they are immature.,Even if the whole world is stupid.,The only smart guy has to be yourself.,There's nothing wrong with this mentality.,It's very normal.,The question is:Do you think that the people around you are stupid.,Think you're the smart ghost who everyone is drunk and I am alone.。

Some people think that they are similar to the majority of people, while some people really regard themselves as outstanding enlighteners, and always feel that they are surrounded by a group of numb and sleeping fools, this kind of person, no matter how much he calls for democracy, is anti-democratic in his bones, because he does not recognize the wisdom of ordinary people at all, always thinks that his own views are the truth, and always wants to use his own views to "wake up a small number of people".

Since the beginning of the debate between the revolutionary party and the Republican Party, I don't know how much has been said about the topic of "people's wisdom", but as far as I am concerned, in the entire period of the Republic of China, whether it is the ruler or the intellectual, anyway, there are few social elites of all strata who think that the Chinese "have opened up the wisdom of the people" in their hearts, and Sun Yat-sen will not talk about him. Among them, the most representative and the most familiar to us is Lu Xun, we have all studied his articles, look at the little people in his pen, it is really the most accurate representative of the "foolish people".

The whole Republic of China is basically like this, the rulers want to monopolize power, and then twist and turn to make a bit of democracy, intellectuals claim to be the conscience and wisdom of society, and feel that they are the first to enter (""" "See the latest chapter"), but look at their words and deeds, especially the word "enlightenment", they really treat the people as little children who don't understand. My personal understanding is that the so-called democracy of intellectuals during the Republic of China period is just to let these people be the masters of the country, and their so-called "people" are actually themselves, from this point of view, before the establishment of the Republic of China, they shouted vigorously that "the wisdom of the people has been opened" There is some truth, obviously many intellectuals like them have opened their eyes to the world, since the "wisdom of the people" has been opened, it is a matter of course to let these "people" participate in politics and enjoy various political rights, which is also the foundation of the Republic of China.

As for those workers at the lower level, they are not included, don't believe you look at the history of the Republic of China, those intellectuals keep fighting for the right to participate in politics, including the right to vote, the right to supervise, the right to vote, how many people will take the coolies on the dock seriously? Say that these people also have the right to participate in politics? In the final analysis, they are waving the banner of "the people are the masters of the country" to gain power for themselves, and as for whether this right can fall on the laborers, they do not care, and they don't even bother to condescend to the nobles and mix with these laborers to discuss countermeasures -- this gesture of refusal is itself a denial of the wisdom of the laborers.

It was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China that the wisdom of the 500 million Chinese people was recognized, and among them, the most advocated was Taizu, who kept emphasizing to his comrades-in-arms and followers: to believe in the people. Working people are the greatest. The wisdom of the masses is boundless. The eyes of the people are bright...... Theoretically, the most ordinary people in China have been given the political status of "the people's wisdom has been opened", and it is logical to let these mud legs participate in politics.

Take a look at the National People's Congress in the Mao era, tens of thousands of deputies, excluding those cadres, generals, and intellectuals in arts and sciences, more than half of the deputies were front-line working people. A certain deputy, who may still be facing the loess with his back to the sky today, will enter the Great Hall of the People tomorrow in a crumpled suit for a meeting, and the smell of dirt and sweat on his body has not been completely eliminated. This was unimaginable before, look at those parliamentarians in Europe and the United States who participate in politics, which of them is not well-dressed, in suits and leather shoes? And who is doing the most menial work? From this point, it can also be understood that Taizu hated those intellectuals for nothing, and intellectuals like Hu Shi, who admired the American system, were never willing to sit with the dung diggers and croppers in his eyes to discuss national policies.

Of course, we all know that Taizu's efforts failed. The buzzing tragedy is the best manifestation of his failure. He constantly emphasized the "wisdom of the masses" and "the strength of the people", and finally put the power to decide the fate of the country in the hands of the people. He formed an alliance with Lin Shuai to prevent the army from being dispatched. Then the power of supervision and judgment is given to the people. According to his original idea, the tricks of officials protecting each other, reversing black and white are all unseemly means, once all this is presented in plain sight, all the villains have nothing to hide, and big-character posters and criticism will come from this. People can talk nonsense in the dark room, but they can't talk nonsense in front of everyone, right?

Then the buzz began, and under the slogan "the eyes of the people are clear", so many unjust, false and wrongful cases emerged. People talk nonsense and slander in broad daylight, and I certainly don't think that those who were rehabilitated when the chaos was set right were wronged, but there were definitely not a few innocent people who suffered innocently. In this new cultural movement led by Taizu, the people used their own actions to declare the defeat of Taizu, and ended the political rights in their hands with their own actions. To a certain extent, the humming failure of Taizu's theory that "the wisdom of the people is infinite" was declared bankrupt, and the "great democracy" he pursued became a shattered mirror, and the ugliness and distortion of human nature displayed in this movement were not Taizu's fault, but were infinitely magnified because of Taizu. The buzzing defeat itself also gave a lot of people ammunition to be able to exploit.

The first is the faction that was defeated in the Communist Party back then. They have every reason to put things right, even overkill, and stingy in sharing power with the people under the premise of "stability".

The second is intellectuals. Under their explanation, the buzz has become an outright political struggle, not only undemocratic, but extremely dictatorial. Proceeding from this premise, it shows the backwardness and barbarism of socialism, and it becomes logical to use this contrast to promote capitalism in Europe and the United States. In their theories, the buzz shows the darkest side of socialism, which European and American capitalism can perfectly avoid. Taking this as an opportunity, like their predecessors in the Republic of China, they constantly attacked the rulers in an attempt to wrest power from them, and in the process, they would continue to pull the people as their own backing, and demand "democracy" in the name of the people.

From the polemics between the revolutionary party and the royalist party in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, to the struggle of intellectuals for political participation in the Republic of China, and then to the people's admiration for the European and American systems today, all the slogans and polemics about "people's wisdom" and "democracy" have not really included the people, and the people are just a front, a prop for those who run for calls, they actually do not believe in the wisdom of the people, let alone really let the people be the masters of their own affairs. They only believe in themselves. Treat the people for fools.

What really made the toiling masses at the bottom get through a democratic addiction was the miserable buzzing decade, which, to put it mildly, was a unique and strange decade in the history of the world. Maybe there will never be such a time in human society again, we can say that when Taizu pushed out the buzz against public opinion, it can be regarded as "gathering the iron of Kyushu and casting this big mistake", but whether this "big mistake" is passed down as some kind of criminal evidence or precious cultural relics is waiting for future generations to be discovered.

Alas, speaking of which, I can't continue on this topic myself, but I sighed for a while, but I didn't expect Luo Luo to say so much, so let's stop.