Not long ago, I watched "Wonderful Sayings", and the "goddess" Gao Xiaosong talked about a point of view, that is, after World War II, when the West reflected on the rise of the Nazis, there were basically two schools: one group believed that it was necessary to beware of dictators like Hillet, thinking that they were too bad, and that as long as Hillet was not allowed to take power, the country would not be chaotic; the other group believed that it was necessary to beware of the people, who were all mediocre people without brains, too easy to be instigated, so they could not simply hand over power to the people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

We usually hear a lot of the former voice, but the latter voice is a bit ruined.

In fact, in some contexts, the latter point is not new. I once heard Professor Lin Yusheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, say something similar, saying that without so many people cooperating, the game cannot be played just by a dictator performing on stage. In other words, as ordinary people, shouldn't we all reflect on the position of the individual in the dictatorship, and how he somehow became an "accomplice"?

Looking back at Hitler's "successology", at the beginning he made his fortune by countless sweet words.

The first round of sweet talk is nationalism. At that time, Germany had not completely shaken off the shadow of defeat in World War I, the country was devastated and the nation was humiliated, and Hitler claimed that he could revitalize the German nation, so he won a round of applause.

The second round of sweet talk is the welfare state. Hitler caught up with a "good time", that is, the global economic depression, and Germany was naturally affected, with a poor economy and high unemployment. Hitler promised that as long as he came to power, he would be able to solve all these problems. So, you may have heard that Hitler was elected supreme leader in a democratic voting system.

How did he get the votes? It was these seemingly beautiful promises.

Well, in fact, the story really begins after Hitler sat on the throne of power.

Why does he keep waging wars and invading neighboring countries? Because he wants to fulfill his promise and achieve national rejuvenation. And why did he keep persecuting the Jews, sending them to the gas chambers, and pulling out their last gold teeth? Because he wanted to fulfill his promise to turn the whole country into a welfare state.

Welfare needs money, and money doesn't grow on its own. Where does it come from? It is only possible to snatch it from some people and subsidize others -- this is the essence of the so-called "welfare". In this process, do not forget the role played by the people. They cheered, they rejoiced, they felt that Hitler was the sun in their hearts, a reborn parent, a great Führer.

The result of Hitler's game was written at the beginning, and the more you played it, the crazier it became. Because the mediocrity of the so-called "people" will not be satisfied, and since you have given them a taste of sweetness, then please send more sugar.

It's like a street performer who breathes fire, and the fireball gets bigger and bigger, and the audience applauds. In order to make the audience more satisfied, the artists constantly push the limits. Finally, with a "bang", the fireball turned into explosives and exploded, and even the artists and the audience were all wiped out.

Beware of the mediocrity, not to please the mediocre, let alone incite the mediocre, is the common bottom line of all wise people. Otherwise, you must play with fire and set yourself on fire.

It doesn't matter if you think you're not a mediocrity, I'm a mediocre anyway, so I'm reminding myself every moment that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and don't be fooled by anyone's sweet words.

---------- excerpt from "Phoenix.com"

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The words at the corner of Pandora's mouth: In fact, the mediocrity has not disappeared since ancient times. But what I want to say today is that if you can learn to see the world in numbers, you will not be blinded.

Most of the truly intelligent people look at the world in mathematics (I can't do it) and it will be an incomparably real and indifferent world, and everything is put on the table with cold numbers, which will make people feel chills in their hearts, but this is the truth.

And mediocre people see the world with subjective concepts.

To take the simplest example, those online circle of friends who have broken out who has happened to what has happened to what kind of disease, a series of pictures with sensational words, how much love can be raised in an instant? Hundreds of thousands of funds written in advertorials can be raised in a few days.

According to the latest estimates released by WHO in December 2015, there were 214 million cases of malaria and 438,000 deaths in 2015. Between 2000 and 2015, the global incidence of malaria among at-risk populations fell by 37 per cent, and malaria mortality among at-risk populations fell by 60 per cent over the same period. Since 2001, an estimated 6.2 million lives have been saved globally as malaria mortality rates have fallen. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to account for disproportionately large amounts of the global malaria burden. In 2015, the region accounted for 88% of all malaria cases and 90% of all malaria deaths. Fifteen countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, account for 80% of malaria cases and 78% of deaths globally. Since 2000, 15 countries have experienced smaller declines in malaria incidence (32 per cent) than in the rest of the world (53 per cent).

The problem may be far away, but this is the truth, data is never as shocking as pictures and advertorials, so the role of data is only for those who are really intelligent to use as bargaining chips for operation, regardless of whether the starting point is good or bad. This is the basis of public relations, macroeconomics and group psychology.

Let's see, then, who is responsible for the poverty in Africa today? More than 90 percent of the people in this continent, which has abundant reserves of natural resources, live below the poverty line, and they send huge amounts of natural resources to the world, and the return is just to fill their stomachs? The poorest and most chaotic places in the world: Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Central Asia, you can see which places are not rich in natural resources and still have a long history. I can say that much of the current prosperous world is built on the heads of the people in these impoverished areas. To put it mildly, developed countries are a group of vampires, and if they don't suck enough to fill their stomachs, they will increase their efforts to suck them, even if they make the lives of the people of some countries miserable.