Humanity has a tyrant, that is ignorance --------Germany
The son of wisdom makes his father happy, but the son of ignorance brings shame to his mother. -------Solomon
It is a foolish nature to only see the faults of others but not one's own faults. ——Cicero, Ancient Rome
Ignorance is more terrible than wealth
People say: "Ignorance is more terrible than poverty." Isn't ignorance not terrible when you are rich? Countless facts have proved it , Ignorance is more terrifying than being rich. When a person is poor, in order to get rid of poverty, he can be determined and determined, and he can endure and bear any hardship. Wang Bo said in the "Preface to Tengwang Pavilion": "Being poor makes you stronger. "The ambition not to fall from the green mountains" is the so-called "people who are poor but have ambitions are not poor", so people often say that poverty is not terrible, but ignorance is terrible. Ignorant people often have "hearts as high as the sky and lives as thin as paper", and will inevitably be swallowed up by ignorance and poverty in the end. Even if you get rich for a while, you may not be able to escape this bad fate.
After the reform and opening up, some poor people did become rich. What happens after you become rich? My knowledge is relatively narrow, and I don’t have many opportunities to meet this kind of rich people. However, I can always get a glimpse of it from other people’s mouths, from TV, newspapers, the Internet, and from observation of various phenomena in society.
Currently, there is a popular saying in society called "If you have too much fun, you will die." I have never seen it dead or not, but it seems true that some people "have fun" there every day. What kind of addiction do you have? It is said that there is an addiction to eating and drinking (banquets), gambling (spending a lot of money), addiction to prostitution (overt and covert), addiction to play (going to karaoke bars and nightclubs), and in some cases drug addiction (smoking opium, heroin)... and so on. , deeply indulged in the "enjoyment" of feasting, feasting, and extravagance. I don't think it's wrong, but I think that's how wealth should be. Not only that, they also engage in feudal superstitious activities such as raising dogs, repairing tombs, building temples, burning incense, worshiping Buddha, performing fortune-telling, and fortune-telling. There is a saying: "The south spends a lot of money to buy cemeteries, while the north works hard to choose wreaths." It is said that Wenzhou City, which has only seven mountains, one water and two fields, builds more than 30,000 graves every year. He is famous for his exquisite and novel tombs. Dog breeding is a problem in many cities. It is said that the price of a so-called "Shih Tzu" dog ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan. There was a lady (let’s not mention her profession) who kept a dog and usually fed it meat. One day when the owner was out, the dog got hungry and bit the owner’s own son to death... These behaviors and phenomena are all Those who are rich do it, so does it show intelligence and civilization, or stupidity, ignorance, and unreachable stupidity?
An overseas Chinese came back and was shocked to see similar phenomena. He said: "Many patriotic overseas Chinese intend to fund the economic construction of the motherland and benefit the elders in their hometown, but they feel sad about this." Yes, on the one hand, it is a selfless donation, but on the other hand, it is absurd and extravagant. How can it not be shocking? If things go on like this, it will be like this overseas Chinese said: "If a person is squandering, extravagant and corrupt, no matter how big his property is or how deep his foundation is, sooner or later he will be ruined in his hands..."
In fact, even in life, there are probably many examples of people who are materially wealthy but still in a state of ignorance. For example, parents who have become rich may give their disease-free and healthy children medicines such as "Ginseng Royal Jelly" and "Xiaocongcong Mother Jelly" for no reason, turning an innocent child into a precocious child. Sir, some people are squandering natural resources, regardless of the ecological environment, hunting rare birds and animals indiscriminately, and then exchanging them for money to make a fortune, or putting them on the dining table for gourmets to feast on. After they chew it with relish, they will never say "shouldn't", etc. For these people, doesn't "rich" become scary? Why is it scary? Caused by ignorance. Therefore, ignorance is more terrifying than wealth!
So I thought, while curing poverty is important, curing stupidity is even more urgent.
It seems that trying every possible means to strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization and strive to improve people's quality is indeed an arduous, glorious, long-term and urgent task!
The ignorant and dark Middle Ages
The martyr of science - Giordano Bruno (1548-1600 AD) was born in the town of Nola near Naples, Italy. Probably he lost his parents when he was young, or he came from a poor family and was raised by priests. This poor boy was eager to learn since childhood, and became a monk in a Dominican monastery when he was 15 years old. Thanks to tenacious self-study, he finally became a knowledgeable scholar in the contemporary era.
This diligent, studious, bold and brave young man immediately aroused his fiery enthusiasm as soon as he came into contact with Copernicus's "On the Revolution of the Celestial Bodies". From then on, he abandoned religious ideas, only recognized scientific truth, and fought for it throughout his life.
Bruno believed in Copernican theory, so he became a religious rebel. He was accused of being a heretic and excommunicated. In 1576 AD, Bruno, who was only 28 years old, had to escape from the monastery and drifted abroad for a long time in Switzerland, France, England and Germany. He was at home all over the world, living in Geneva, Toulouse, Paris, London, Wittenberg and other countries. Lived in many cities. Despite this, Bruno remained unswervingly promoting scientific truth. He gave lectures and articles everywhere, and often attended debates in some universities. He used his pen and tongue to actively praise the Copernican theory without fear and ruthlessly attacked the obsolete dogma of official scholastic philosophy.
Bruno’s major was neither astronomy nor mathematics, but he greatly enriched and developed the Copernican theory with superhuman foresight. In his book "On Infinity, Universe and World", he proposed the idea of ??infinite universe. He believed that the universe is unified, material, infinite and eternal. There are countless celestial worlds beyond the solar system. What humans see is only an extremely small part of the infinite universe, and the earth is just a tiny speck of dust in the infinite universe.
Bruno further pointed out that thousands of stars are huge and hot stars like the sun, and these stars are rushing in all directions at huge speeds. There are also many planets like our earth around them, and there are many satellites around the planets. Life exists not only on our earth, but also on distant planets that people cannot see...
With a brave blow, Bruno smashed the "ball shell" that had restricted people's thinking for thousands of years. Bruno's outstanding ideas made his contemporaries feel confused and shocked! Most people think that Bruno's ideas are simply "appalling". Even the astronomer Kepler, who was revered as the "legislator of the sky" in that era, could not accept it. Kepler felt dizzy while reading Bruno's works!
In the eyes of the Catholic Church, Bruno is an extremely harmful "heretic" and a heinous enemy. They used cunning intrigues to bribe Bruno's friends and lured Bruno back to the country. They arrested him on May 23, 1592, imprisoned him in the prison of the Inquisition, and interrogated and tortured him continuously until For 8 years!
Since Bruno is a scholar with a high reputation, the Catholic Church tried to force him to repent in public and gain notoriety. However, they never expected that all the threats, inducements and threats would not shake Bruno's belief in the truth at all. . Some priests talked to Bruno and said that based on his talent, if he returned to religion and studied dogma painstakingly, he would definitely improve the Holy See in Rome. He said frankly: "It is difficult to reconcile my thoughts with the Bible."
The people in the Catholic Church were desperate. They showed their viciousness and suggested that the authorities burn Bruno alive. Bruno seemed to have expected it. After hearing the verdict, he said contemptuously to the brutal executioners without changing his expression: "Your fear when the verdict was read was much greater than when I walked into the fire." AD 1600 On February 17, 2011, Bruno died heroically in the Plaza de Fiori in Rome. A great scientist was burned to death.
Due to Bruno's vigorous propaganda, Copernicus' theory spread throughout Europe. The Catholic Church knew that this kind of science was a great threat to them, so in 1619 AD, the Roman Catholic Council decided to list "On the Movement of Celestial Bodies" as a banned book and was not allowed to promote Copernicus's theory.
Bruno was not afraid of the punishment of fire, fought unyieldingly against the church and theology, and contributed to the development of science. His scientific spirit lives on forever! In 1889, people erected a bronze statue of Bruno in the Flower Square where he was martyred to forever commemorate this warrior who dedicated his life to science. Bruno was later called "the astronomer after Copernicus". Not only that, Bruno became more and more respected, and the church also felt sad for his behavior at that time...