But many people regard the golden mean as a circle, and those people feel very slippery. Getting along with that kind of people is full of traps, which will make people exhausted and like to stab in the back. Maybe those people are just opportunistic on the golden mean. The golden mean is broad-minded, aboveboard, low-profile, and good at discovering and using the talents of others. Know how to save yourself by retreating. I've been lamenting that there are too many people in this society who like to use cleverness and small means to get quick success and instant benefit, but there are so few people with real wisdom and mind. This is really an irony of China's education.
It's very important for the doctrine of the mean to restrain yourself, even if you have high aspirations in your heart, your appearance should also be restrained. This also represents the social characteristics of China, and you should learn this to survive in China society, because people's hearts are really complicated. Know how to converge, don't be too sharp, and know how to lower your posture. Although the starting point is just to give full play to your talents, people's hearts are often sinister, and your talents can be brought into play, which may endanger the interests of others. It is not necessarily a good thing to shoot a bird with a gun, so it is not necessarily a good thing to be too conspicuous. Therefore, so many aspiring young people with ideals, passion and a sense of justice in China often fail to get good results and just become angry youths. Why are they angry youths? That's because they are disappointed in the society. But if they are in the west, they may do a lot, because the values of western society encourage individuals to exert their individuality to create value. They don't think about what others will think and think about what they do, and they don't mind other people's business. Anyway, they will do as much as they can, and no one will stop you. So many China elites go to the west, which is also a good environment. On the other hand, it is also very important to have such a relaxed social environment, where human nature is most respected and liberated. China society is the place where people are most prone to depression, and few people around me really feel that they are happy.
I have always had an ideal that I hope to live in a harmonious and beautiful social environment simply, but after all kinds of twists and turns, I finally understand that this ideal is simply an illusion in a society like China. Unless you are rich enough to create a paradise for yourself, people abroad say that China people's hearts are the most complicated, and everyone likes to fight with each other. In such a social situation, the philosophy of moderation and low-key convergence is very useful, but low-key does not mean giving up ideals and beliefs. I once had a distinct personality, but I always ran into a wall, and I couldn't figure out why. But I finally understood that I lived in China with western values, which was of course not smooth. And maybe I have no chance to live abroad in my life, so I'd better be rational. Although I'm very disappointed in China, I was born here, grew up here, and will be older than this in the future. I can't escape it. Try to struggle with China's philosophy, and I don't have the capital to build a paradise for myself to avoid the world. Why do so many people want to go to Lijiang the other day? I think it's actually a matter of avoiding the world and thinking of a beautiful and harmonious paradise.