Chapter 67 Chinese and Western cultural issues

To make people fear my words is not as good as making people believe my words; to make people believe my words is not as good as making people happy with my words.To abstain from misfortune makes people afraid; to describe it with reason makes people believe; to understand it with heart makes people happy.Discussion on Lu Zuqian's Language in Donglai Bo Mr. Hu Shizhi advocated democracy and science all his life. To some extent, he was a Westernizationist. He said enough words and wrote enough debate articles for this ideal in his life. Until his last official speech, he still talked about this Big topic, this is the consistent greatness for Mr. Hu, and it seems to have a certain number.

Mr. Shizhi's last speech unexpectedly triggered a marathon debate between Chinese and Western cultures. Although it was an old song and a new one, it was far more intense than the old score. Although Mr. Hu is dead, the debate on Chinese and Western cultural issues is not over, but it has gradually left the main battlefield and jumped into the muddy pond to entangle.If Mr. Hu's soul really knew after his death, how would Mr. Hu feel when he saw that this originally academic debate had turned into such a situation and brought it to court? Today is the burial day of this generation of scholars, and it seems that both sides of the debate between Chinese and Western culture should think again.

As an ordinary person, I am not opposed to a heated and extensive debate on our current cultural issues; on the contrary, I feel intuitively depressing about our current cultural form, which is neither dead nor alive.In the process of debate, it is not impossible to tolerate fierce rhetoric. For any issue to be debated, it must always go to extremes in theory, because non-extreme is not enough to fully express one point of view; It is a dual-purpose, because no compromise is enough to abandon the shortcomings of the two extremes and absorb their strengths.If the idea of ​​westernization is correct and inevitable, even if you are talking about total westernization, you can only take half of it when you actually take it into action; Even if we yell that the east wind is moving west, but actually take action, we can only be half-hearted.

The problem is that even though debates are controversial and fierce, the spearhead of academic debates should not be used as a personal attack at the same time. The practice of picking up dung is definitely not advisable, and revenge is not what a wise man should do. Personal gains and losses are trivial. , the influence of fashion paradigms in the cultural world is a big issue, and such an evolution will deter other wise people who are interested in Chinese and Western cultural issues.Just look at today, apart from the two sides who are fighting each other, how many scholars are willing to be in this whirlpool?

Whose loss is this!