Chapter 99 face nature

Today is the last day of the twentieth century and our last day abroad. The convoy headed from Kathmandu to the border town of Zhangmu. In the car, I thought that Nepal, as the end of our overseas trip, left me with an important topic, which I must talk about before the end. That is: why does Nepal, which does not have much cultural accumulation and does not have its own independent civilization, bring us so much happiness? Aren't we doing a cultural inspection?Why do you love this place with low cultural concentration? Imagine how depressing it would be if our foreign trips ended at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan, or on the banks of the Ganges in India!

This question is actually a question of the overall human civilization.And it can be said to be the responsibility of the century. Civilized people from all over the world like to come to Nepal, not to visit historical sites, but to immerse themselves in nature.The nature here, whether it is the Himalayas or the virgin forest, is much earlier than any kind of human civilization.Unexpectedly, human beings have struggled for thousands of years, and what they like most is not their own creations. Foreign travelers also like the living atmosphere here. They like honesty, honesty, and slow pace. They like the sparse villages, rustic houses, clean environment, fresh air, and clear drinking water.In fact, to put it bluntly, all of this is closer to nature, a nature that is not too polluted.

In contrast, people are reluctant to go to all the important towns of ancient civilization or modern civilization except for work needs.There are huge crowds, dense culture, and convenient life, but if you can escape, escape, escape to Nepal or a similar place. Herein lies a profound paradox.Originally, human beings moved towards civilization in order to get rid of rough nature. The opposite of civilization was barbarism and barbarism. At that time, nature seemed to be closely connected with barbarism and barbarism.But I gradually discovered that things have turned upside down, the crowded downtown may be more barbaric, and the dense crowd may be more barbaric.

Modernist art has written about this kind of inversion, and people finally admit that they would rather accept the barbaric and barbaric nature than avoid the barbaric and barbaric so-called civilized world. If it is willing to give civilization a new orientation, it has moved towards nature.Human nature, too, has turned its sights on its former rival nature. Now it is impossible for us to erase or rewrite the history of human civilization, but we have the right to learn lessons.The important lesson is: human beings should not be too arrogant to their own kind, let alone to nature. This kind of arrogance also includes the creation of civilization, if this creation is not in harmony with nature, it is in harmony with human nature.

The dehumanization of civilization takes many forms.Excessive reproduction, excessive consumption, excessive emission, excessive competition, excessive occupation of space, excessive red tape, excessive knowledge display, excessive frivolity, excessive psychological twists and turns, excessive right and wrong, excessive literal garbage, and excessive ineffective construction. Explosive resistance to all these disasters, It is back to nature. We are rejoicing that the Chinese civilization has lasted for thousands of years without breaking off, but we should also see that it is this advantage that has brought a heavier burden.Good things turn bad here, glory goes negative here.

Therefore, the top priority of Chinese civilization in the new century is to unload the burden and face nature with ease, even if these burdens have the honor of history and the luster of civilization. Even when the pearl baby is overwhelming, you should be willing to unload it, because it is already an inhuman existence when human power cannot bear it. Compared with poverty and chaos, we will definitely have prosperity and order, but more importantly, it is beautiful comfort, which is the poetic dwelling that philosophers yearn for.I predict that the competition between Chinese civilization and other civilizations will also start at this point.

I suddenly imagined that if we stopped a little before the threshold of the century and asked the Chinese philosophers more than two thousand years ago for their opinions on this issue, then I believe that most of them (only Yang Zhu is not sure) There won't be much difference.We will all oppose the phenomenon that the excessive accumulation of civilizations harms the natural ecology. Confucius would say, I have always advocated restrained pleasure and harmony with heaven; Mozi would say, my idea is simpler than yours, and I oppose any unnecessary consumption and useless accumulation; Xunzi would say that human selfishness will destroy the world. Simple, so be sure to turn it around with severe punishment

Smiling and silent were Laozi and Zhuangzi, who seemed to have foreseen everything, and finally said: Putting civilization and nature together in front of us, we only choose nature.What is the world racing about?To talk about the way of civilization, the only way is nature. That is to say, Chinese culture is a culture of subtraction at the highest level, a culture that yearns for simplicity and nature.It is this essence that saves a lot of money and saves life. On December 31, 1999, from Nepal to the Chinese border