In this article, Mr. Lu Xun used metaphorical techniques, seemingly talking about three types of people in the title: smart people, fools, and slaves. In fact, he mentioned four people. The rare kind of person is what the slave calls "my master".

This is actually a very interesting pyramid structure.

The slave’s master is at the top of the pyramid, while the slave is at the bottom of Mr. Lu Xun’s pyramid.

As for smart people and fools, they are the middle class in this simple pyramid.

Masters exploit the lowest slaves; slaves are accustomed to doing what they do, and they become smart people due to their understanding of the world. They please both ends and do not offend both;

As for the middle class Those who really want to help the slaves and sympathize with the slaves end up becoming fools who are driven away by the slaves and deeply hated by their masters.

In this structure, the role played by smart people is very important. They are the mediators of conflicts between the master and the slaves. Whenever the slaves encounter any hardship, they cry and tell the smart people, After getting a few words of understanding from the wise man, it seemed as if the conflict disappeared all of a sudden, and he continued to work happily for his master.

But when the real help comes, we also know that the slaves’ desire to be helped is just because Ye Gong loves dragons. Fools are those who do not understand the rules of exploitation.

Mr. Lu Xun’s original text is very short, and it only takes two or three minutes to read, but it is in line with today’s situation: there are too many smart people, too few fools, and slaves are still slaves.

The servility of slaves, the intelligence of smart people

Society has been going on amidst the complaints and labor of slaves. Occasionally, a few smart people feel sorry for the slaves, and then there is no one. No one can continue to enjoy the wealth created by the slaves without any psychological pressure, and there are always some fools who ask for help for the people. After a short period of time, everything continues as usual.

To understand the fate of fools, the key is to understand the servility of slaves and the "smartness" of smart people.

How did the slaves become slaves?

Lu Xun also talked about something in this article. If the slaves just complain like Mrs. Xianglin everywhere, even if they are ridiculed by others, they are not slaves. They are just slaves. Just a poor oppressed man.

The reason why a slave is a slave comes from his contradiction.

On the one hand, they feel that their situation is very difficult, and they can also realize who gave them their miserable situation, but their bad thing is "fear".

They are afraid of fighting, and they are also afraid of others helping them fight. On the one hand, they are not satisfied with their own lives, but they lack courage. In the end, they are just a better slave and deceive themselves.

Lu Xun said that servility is "as long as this is the case, and it can only be this way." It is a common problem among human beings to glorify sacrifice, deceive oneself and then set a comparative target or a grand goal.

This may be what Mr. Lu Xun said in "Nan Qian Bei Diao Ji", "the slaves who find "beauty" in slave life, admire, caress, and are intoxicated".