From the dictionary, the definition of mediocrity is ordinary, ordinary but not prominent, mediocrity. I believe most people are familiar with this word, and no one wants to be a mediocre person. They will have great ambitions in their hearts, but in the end they will all live as ordinary people.
When writing this topic, I was thinking about how to interpret the evil of mediocrity from that angle, so as to make people clear at a glance, and then arouse people's reflection and bring some positive guidance to reading this article. I suddenly have a sense of responsibility when I think of this place. If I say that I can write some articles that can guide readers to think, it means that my thinking has a certain depth. Isn't this a sign of being unwilling to be mediocre?
In fact, it was just a flash in my mind. If you really want to get rid of the bondage of mediocrity, you need to resist those evil thoughts in human nature for a long time and get rid of the pursuit of desire. If nothing else, a greedy word is enough to crush those who want to keep their mouths shut and open their legs, not to mention their demands for greater desires.
In human history, there are very few people who can overcome human weakness. Why do you say that? Because most human behaviors are instinctive reactions, only those who can often reflect can accept the titles of these saints and sages. Even those sages will be regarded as synonymous with pedantic preaching by mediocre people. This is why some advanced ideas are always distorted by some people, and some rationality is often defeated by irrationality.
In the final analysis, this is the direct influence of those instinctive reactions in human nature. We can see why Hitler's Nazis can arouse their own people's hatred of Jews, while the originally kind people are bewitched by Nazi ideas and become their killing machines. Why are some people so easily deluded, while others can stick to their posts and save people who are dying regardless of their personal safety?
There are many things worthy of our reflection. Confucius said that I should check my body three times a day, and Socrates said that an unchecked life is not worth living. Wang Yangming's theory of mind guides his understanding of the world by learning from things. It can be said that when we came to this world, we didn't want to be a meteor across the sky, but we all wanted to leave something behind.
I remember hearing a friend say this a long time ago. If you can leave a name in history, good or bad, it is a success in life. I remember at that time, I thought what he said was reasonable. Isn't this a distortion of values? It is undeniable that such a view represents the values of some people.
If such values have a place, then it is understandable that right and wrong in history are inseparable from loyalty and treachery. Sacrificing the interests of others for one's own benefit is called egoism, which is against the theory of relativity. This is also the fairness of this world. Where there is positive, there is negative, and where there is mediocrity, there is Excellence.
The evil of mediocrity that I want to talk about today has a more thought-provoking question, that is, why those Nazis did not feel any guilt when they hurt innocent Jews, so that they didn't realize it was a crime when they were tried. Let's take a look at those followers who were crazy about Hitler, including many excellent intellectuals at that time.
In the same group, there is no difference between Excellence and mediocrity. They cling to Nazi Germany founded by Hitler and dream of conquering the world. Today, they are synonymous with evil, but at that time, they didn't realize that this was a wrong act, which is why people are still trying Nazi war criminals many years later.
If there is no justice in this society, then evil will become the mainstream. In such a society, it is possible to pursue the shelter of sin. Look at those video clips, Hitler's inflammatory remarks, and the crazy people below. They didn't have their own thoughts at that time, but they were full of sensibility and became slaves to the environment at that time.
Let's look at Wei Zhongxian in the Ming Dynasty. Today, he is considered a villain. At that time, there were ancestral temples built for him everywhere, and countless officials worshipped him, so that after Emperor Chongzhen cleared his power, many places were left unattended at that time.
Those virtuous people often use "people-oriented, taking history as a mirror" to warn themselves and remind future generations to avoid repeating the mistakes of their predecessors. But some mistakes don't make people feel painful, on the contrary, they feel that doing so is beneficial to individuals, which is why people seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
The result of pursuing advantages and avoiding disadvantages is to get the benefits I want, but I didn't think so much about whether those benefits are what I deserve and whether there will be adverse consequences in the future. Look at the behavior of Nazi war criminals. They did something that seems crazy today on the premise of believing that what they did was right.
The evil of mediocrity is the expression of the loss of conscience and moral sense. These invisible things exist in everyone's heart. When they are artificially deceived, their behavior has no bottom line. What can they do if they lose the bottom line?
I believe that careful readers have the answer to how to avoid the evil of mediocrity. They should establish their own bottom line thinking, and when they touch that bottom line, they should be as disgusting as a fly lying on their bodies and react immediately. We should not only be diligent in thinking and action, but also have the motivation to pursue new knowledge and constantly update our cognition. Only in this way can we constantly improve our personal thinking system, enhance our independent thinking ability, see things around us more thoroughly, get out of the mediocre thinking mode and avoid those evil behaviors.