Chapter 261 (1/2)
All of them are self-centered and daily life is self-centered. Of course, we can't realize the value and importance of literature. What we can experience is only superficial and childish pleasure and utilitarian instrumental rationality.
But sooner or later, life will not be so childish. Your friends will be far away from you, your parents will be old, you will have your own partner and children, and your responsibilities will not only be your own life, but also your family's life. These different responsibilities are often contradictory.
How to deal with the conflict between your career development and your life values, and how to deal with the conflict between your career and your family? What if you have to work with people you hate? What do you do when you realize the coldness, ruthlessness and darkness of the world and can't go on?
For example, this is the best era of information dissemination in history. The literacy rate, education level and leisure time, energy and money that can be used to receive information in addition to livelihood are all at the highest stage in history.
The Internet also brings the increase of geometric multiple of information content and the convenience and cheapness of communication in various senses. But is our understanding of something, especially those complex and important events, really closer to the truth than in the past?
Now we really have more conditions to approach the truth, which is the benefit of material development objectively. But if we really want to pursue the truth, we still need to actively invest a lot of time and energy.
If we want to pursue spiritual freedom, healthy and independent personality, we need great courage, hard work and overcoming numerous difficulties. From this point of view, it is not easier now than in the past.
The reality is that most people don't have this kind of pursuit subjectively. So if you think you have this kind of pursuit, I encourage you to insist on it. At the same time, I advise you to have a clear understanding soon.
Most people don't read literature books, not because literature books can't make people successful or practical, but because they have lost the ability to read literature books and the pleasure of reading long texts.
Because you think it's a waste of time to do something meaningless, and it should be canceled. If you think it's a waste of time, but it's very interesting, how can you persuade others not to do it?
You know if you try to persuade people not to do things that are interesting to them, they will be killed. Let me tell you, if you want to pretend, you think literature books are not for entertainment, but for conversation. You can listen to them.
If you listen to pride and prejudice, it is very likely that the speaker will introduce the background knowledge, and then introduce the plot, how the hero misunderstands, how to reconcile, and how to reflect.
Modern people have been in the fragmented entertainment, losing the ability to read long texts and the pleasure of feeling literary books. On the contrary, it is strange that literary books can neither entertain themselves nor provide social value.
Why don't you think it's your problem? If you can't feel something good, you have to say it's useless. Now you don't have these in your life. Of course, you can't feel the power of thinking. You can't feel the significance of these to whether you can have an honest and upright life.
But it's just that you are still young today. Sooner or later, you will face the difficulties of life, the contradictions that everyone has to face from ancient times to modern times, and you will have to think about the meaning of life. Only then did you know how naive you were to say that today.
No one can really do not encounter a bit of tribulation, when you face the tribulation, many other things can let you out of the predicament, but only serious thinking can understand the meaning of life from the predicament and get more things.