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After reading Zhuangzi 2000 words

After reading "Zhuangzi", I learned a lot. With the help of the magical power of "Hundred Schools of Lectures", Zhuangzi, who had been silent for a long time, finally began to rise to prominence, and his philosophy of life also became popular. What is "wandering freely outside things," what is "doing nothing, doing nothing, being nameless", pursuing the absolute spirit of freedom. etc. But we must not forget that Zhuangzi was also the creator of cynicism. Zhuangzi's "free spirit" was mixed and seemed vulgar. It is really not the right time to advocate Zhuangzi’s spirit in today’s China. The "free spirit" of "Zhuangzi" seems to have been recognized by everyone for a long time. Its transcendence and imagination are unprecedented and unprecedented. But I would like to add this: There are also a lot of remarks in "Zhuangzi" that reflect a very bad ostrich wisdom and tortoise philosophy. On the one hand, Zhuangzi cursed the secular world, and on the other hand, he repeatedly said that we should "not condemn right and wrong, but stay outside the secular world." In other words, we should not care about right and wrong, but should get along well with the secular world unconditionally. "Serving things," but on the other hand, he also warned people to "travel with things" and "be spring with things." On the one hand, Zhuangzi boldly imagined that his mind wandered above the nine heavens. On the other hand, he also pursued the belief that "those who know the current affairs are heroes." realist strategy. Zhuangzi's imagination is more reflected in Xuan Kong's fugue, but in actual behavior, he agrees with the real world where values ??are reversed. His "wandering" is just a "spiritual wandering" that does not touch reality. In fact, the combination of these two seemingly contradictory aspects is the complete Zhuangzi, and they together form the attitude towards life. The so-called "cynicism" refers to a deformed relationship between individuals and society. Cynicism was born in Greece in the 5th century AD. It refers to a spirit of confrontation against cultural values ??and a deep suspicion. It believes that the world is not worth taking seriously and might as well be played. In modern times, the meaning of cynicism has undergone certain changes, but the attitude of distrust and rejection of the world has not changed. Although cynicism is dissatisfied with reality, it refuses to participate in the social world, or escapes into loneliness and introversion, or turns to Ren Dan's aestheticism is nihilism at heart. They maintain a clear sense of distance from the world, but are afraid or unwilling to confront it head-on. Instead, they express their contradictory positions of dissatisfaction and compromise in a tortuous way with a playful, angry, and sarcastic attitude. Cynicism not only expresses the darkness of reality, or the moral inversion and value vacuum state in the real world, but also people's numbness, acceptance and even positive identification with this inversion and vacuum state. Cynics no longer believe in it even in their hearts. Adhering to the basic concepts of right, wrong, beauty and ugliness not only has no hope for reality, but also has no hope for the future. The core of cynicism is to doubt everything, not only doubting reality, but also doubting the possibility of changing reality. In other words, cynicism is a profound nihilism. This kind of nihilism may appear as lifelessness and a pool of stagnant water, or it may manifest itself as pretending to be crazy, pretending to be a fool, or pretending to be a ghost. Cynicism often appears in historical periods when society is dark and despair is pervasive. The prominent features of this time are the helplessness in the real world and the exhilaration in the imaginary world. The two reinforce each other. In this sense, Zhuangzi can probably be regarded as a mentor in the Chinese spiritual world. He responds to the widespread social indifference in China today and tries to cover up the helplessness in the real society through the so-called "tranquility" of the heart. In the current situation in China, the popularity of Zhuangzi's philosophy of life can only lead to cynicism in the whole society. It may be able to cultivate a group of leisurely people who do not care about worldly affairs, but it will never be able to cultivate actively participating modern people. Citizens, is this what we need?