"Where did you just go? Just now? Confucius asked. Then he complained: "It's all you! Sub-road! You? You interrupted me! Where did I just go? Where did I just say that you interrupted? Pander to! Speaking of each! ”

Confucius remembered, and when he said that he was taking care of each other, he was interrupted by Zilu and Min Ziqian. How did Fang Zhong go from "taking care of each other" to regrouping into a complete strength team?

Originally! Society is made up of "each taking care of each other" and forming an independent group of individuals. Society is still this society, the world is still this world, and it will always exist. Differently: the country!

Sometimes! The words state and society mean the same thing. But! No! Society refers to this world, and it is a phenomenon formed by the combination of people. Society generally refers to human society, with human beings as the main body and all things as subordinates. And the country! It refers to the combination of a group of people in a society or human world. The state is a small society relative to society.

In a nutshell! A state is an organization or group formed by human beings in order to protect themselves. It is used not only against nature and beasts, but also against human aliens.

How did the state come to be? Nations are formed spontaneously out of the need for human self-preservation. And then! Elect and nominate the best people as leaders. Under the leadership of these wonderful people, we will lead all of us against the natural world, against the beasts, against the aliens of man.

So! When a state apparatus fails to protect the security of its people, the state exists in name only. When a state apparatus not only fails to protect the safety of the people, but also becomes a shackle that binds the people or oppresses the people, then! This state apparatus is coming to an end.

Now the situation in the Great Zhou world is like this: the Son of Heaven is weak, and the Great Zhou exists in name only. The princes were divided and went their own way, forming small countries one after another. On the surface, everyone abides by the weekly etiquette and the weekly system. In fact, the observance of weekly etiquette and weekly system is just a show, and there is no observance behind it. But! They all use weekly etiquette and weekly system to demand and restrain others and override everything themselves.

When you are stronger than them, you can stand up and accuse them. But! They don't necessarily listen. If they find that they can't fight you, they will bow their heads and admit their mistakes. Of course! It is an admitting mistake on the surface, but behind it is still doing its own thing.

Or! They admit their mistakes on the surface, but behind the scenes they contact others to form an alliance against you.

When you are weaker than them, if you dare to stand up and accuse them, they will immediately conquer you by force! Beat so that you don't dare to speak. Even! Kill you directly. If you are a prince or a king, you will destroy your kingdom directly.

This is the original appearance of today's Great Zhou world! The reality of the big week.

Surviving in such an environment, the people have no sense of security and will naturally look after each other. But! It is clear that they will not be able to stand up to the king and those in power. So! In order to survive, we will inevitably spontaneously form our own alliances, strengthen our abilities, and resist the oppression of kings and powers.

Such! There is no such thing as taking care of each other.

So! Zilu, Min Ziqian, and Confucius, as well as many people who did not see the essence of society, all understood in an extreme way that after each took care of each other, the society collapsed and became a plate of scattered sand.

Including those who thought they understood Taoism in later generations, they also understood Taoism in this way: Taoist thought is to take care of each other. Only sweep the snow in front of your own house, regardless of the frost on the tiles of others. Only care about yourself, and don't care about the life or death of others. Seclusion in the mountains and forests, isolation from the world, and so on.

These are all misunderstood!

There are also some people who understand it this way, but they may be academic spies who deliberately say so in order to confuse the public and misunderstand others about Taoism.

In fact! Taoism talks about taking care of each other, saying that human nature is selfish, and so on, all of which are talking about the essence of human nature. That's how people are! To each his own and to be selfish.

But! Taoism is about survival, if you have a little brain, have you ever thought about it: everyone is taking care of each other, can you fight against others? Isn't it? Can you fight the king? Can you stand up to the powerful? Can you fight the invasion of other vassal states? Can you fight against the cavalry of the Northern Hu?

Under the nest, Ann has finished eggs?

Anyone with a little brain will know this! So! In the social environment, it is impossible for people to always take care of each other. It is the instinct of human nature to take care of each other, and selfishness is the instinct of human nature. But! In order to survive, we had to work with people.

So! Taoism criticizes Confucianism and administrators: if you only teach others how to unite and so on, but do not explain the nature of human nature and the nature of the state and society, you are comparing the world to fools.

You're so smart that you see the superficial phenomenon of the need for unity.

Do you fail to see the nature of human nature and the nature of society and the country, or do you deliberately not say it? Deliberately educate others as fools in order to achieve your ulterior purpose - to live a better life than others?

The world is stupid, then! You smart people can live a better life than foolishness. Isn't it?

The essence of human nature is to be selfish and selfish, but! In order to survive, human beings will spontaneously group together to fight against foreign enemies. In the past, the external enemies against each other were nature and beasts. Later! Not only against nature and beasts, but also against aliens among humans.

The aliens in humanity are those who treat others as fools and slaves. Others are born to serve them, and if you don't serve them and want to be self-sufficient and independent, others will force you to comply, and if you don't comply, you will die. These people who do not give others a way to live are aliens of human beings.

So! In order to survive, human beings cannot be selfish.

Selfishness is the essence of human nature, and if you don't see this essence clearly, and blindly ask others to unite and be courteous, you will never achieve this goal.

So! Confucianism is to educate others from the perspective of the state and managers, which is very advanced and wise on the surface, but in fact it is to impose public opinion. You think you're well-intentioned, but others think you're nosy!

Taoism believes that only when we spontaneously combine together can we be powerful.

If you force others to put together, how can you be cohesive? On the surface, it looks powerful, but in fact it is a false shelf.

So! Fang Zhong said: Confucius lived in a small world created by himself, and his set of doctrines and ideas could not adapt to the current environment of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In the general environment of the world. If Confucius did not take his students and the small world he created with him, he would have died quickly and miserably.

In this troubled world, if you want to survive, you have to put survival first. And then! When you have created your little world, you can promote your doctrine and ideas.

(End of chapter)