When morality becomes a performance, it is ugly fraud

Author: Chiang Hsun

morality becomes a performance, that is false, it will become the performance of various forms, most people will not let morality become the most moral people, language and behavior begin to separate.

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I often think of Ruan Ji in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Ruan Ji did not cry when his mother passed away. According to the tradition of Confucianism, even if the parents died, even if they wanted to stab themselves with an awl, they would cry out. Not crying is not filial. If you really can’t cry, you have to ask five sons to cry in the tomb, but Ruan Ji does not cry. Tuan, he was indifferent. When the guests were gone, he suddenly vomited several liters of blood...

This is Ruan Ji's way of expressing sorrow. In his opinion, his mother's death is my own business. Why should I cry for others? He is not without morality, but he does not want moral sentiment to become a performance. When morality becomes a kind of performance, that is, cheating, it will turn into various forms of performance, and the least moral person will become the most moral person, and language and behavior will begin to separate.

But if you look closely, you will find that in group culture, weddings and funerals are all performances and have nothing to do with real emotions.

When the Chinese traditional Confucian group culture encounters individuals, the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest are produced. They are maverick individuals who live so lonely, and even make others feel compassionate, and ask: "Why do you insist?"

There are fewer and fewer Ruan Ji in this society because of this sentence.

02

When I was a teacher, I once said to maverick students: "Why are you doing this? No one else can". After speaking, I suddenly felt so scared.

In recent years, I have been doing confession and review. Having taught at the university for so long, I think I am a good teacher, but he has also played the role of oppressing the lonely. Once I saw female students stacking six quilts on the barbed wire fence at two o'clock in the morning in order to participate in the dance. I told them to be punished for memorizing poems and writing calligraphy, but I would not report to the instructor. In fact, I think they are brave, but I still persuade them to go back, I don't know what I am doing.

What’s more interesting is that this barbed wire used to make the principal proudly tell me at the school meeting that this is a round barbed wire specially used for Jewish concentration camps imported from Germany, which can be guarded on all sides-but girls in their twenties, you You can't shut it down.

"The Peony Pavilion" tells the same story. The sixteen-year-old Du Liniang couldn't shut it down no matter what, so she had a dream in the garden. The dream she was surprised was a spring dream.

03

How did I realize it? Because of a student.

A student posted a notice on the campus, the content was that he was dissatisfied with the school's tree felling. This person was a second dare to be a fool and wrote his name on it. The approving hands applauded, saying that he had done justice, and some people wrote some nasty words scolding the principal at the back, but none of them left a name, only Er Lengzi was arrested. The

school decided to deal with this matter strictly. I was the head of the department at the time and I called the principal. The principal said: "I'm going to a meeting, and I'm about to get on the plane." I said: "You give me ten minutes, or I will resign immediately." I saved the student and he was not punished. But when I called the student, he said to me: "Why are you doing this? Why don't you let them punish me"? I still think about it.

In a group culture, Er Lengzi is very easy to be hurt because they are very upright, and if you can speak frankly, they are hurting him, including me. I used my power to protect him, but as far as he is concerned, he did nothing wrong. Why not let him argue with reason, explain clearly to the principal and the training unit, and let him defend himself?

Whether it is the girl who climbs the wall or the student who puts up the poster, I am protected. However, my self-righteous protection is actually hurting their loneliness and making it impossible to complete-I am trying to make them like the group.

is like Ruan Ji and the others. They were shocked by their crying when they were driven to desperation.This culture, if someone protects them at that time, they will not be able to cry from the sky.

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Ji Kang in the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" married the princess as his wife and was the son-in-law of the emperor, but he never took advantage of his position as a husband and wife to gain fame and fortune. When he was forty years old, he was framed by a villain, saying that he violated social customs. , Was finally taken to the execution ground and beheaded.

What did he do to depravity? But in the summer, wearing a thick cotton-padded coat, I burned a stove under the willow to strike iron. Isn't this maverick? Isn't this antagonizing the rational culture of the group? And is this the law in the judgment or the morality in the judgment?

Ji Kang was imprisoned on the execution grounds as a crime: "You do not minister to the emperor, you do not act as a prince, you are proud of the world, you are not good for the present, you are defeated by the common", this crime remains in history and has become a common crime for all people— -We sentenced a maverick to death.

Ji Kang went to the execution ground at the age of 40. Fortunately, a good friend Xiang Xiu wrote him "Thinking of the Old Fu". When he went to the execution ground, the setting sun was in the sky and the figure was on the ground. Ji Kang is a beautiful man with a height of eight feet and a face like a crown jade. When he walked out, everyone was alarmed because he was a great musician. Before he was tortured, three thousand students still kneel down to ask for advice. , Ji Kang played a piece of "Guangling San" and sighed: "Guangling San is absolutely now!" Some people say at

, why is Ji Kang so selfish that he still refuses to leave the score before his death? But Ji Kang said that not everyone deserves to listen to "Guangling San". If you can't live lonely, if you can't be independent, art and beauty are meaningless, but they are arty.

Every time I read Xiangxiu's "Thinking of the Old Fu", I am always moved by it. My life is lonely, but the whole is shattered on the stereotyped dogma of group culture.

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z17 What exactly are loyalty and filial piety? When we are talking about loneliness, we must rethink these ethical norms that we think are already familiar. Confucian culture has its greatness, and Confucius' philosophy is also very remarkable, but when a thought is dominant and lack of restraint and balance, many problems will occur.

After returning from France, my first job was at a private university. I was one of the 13 first-level supervisors on the campus. If students wanted to record major demerits, they had to hold a meeting. All 13 supervisors agreed to sign To pass.

When I participated in the first year, I saw a case. It happened in 1977. A student from the south went to study in the north and rented an apartment outside. The landlord wrote a letter to the school saying that the student had a bad practice. When he seduce his wife when he was away, the school took it as a crime and asked students to drop out. I think I should understand the reasons behind it. I am not willing to sign at the moment. When I put forward my opinion, I heard a voice next to him saying: "Mr. Jiang is back from France after all, and his sexuality is more open."

I was taken aback. Before I could explain, I was already judged.

Whether it is this case or the self-reflection mentioned above, it is actually unconsciously affected by the group culture. Many things have become "take it for granted". Even if it is discovered afterwards that it is not the case, no one will recall why At the beginning, he would "take it for granted"?

The discussion of loneliness must return to oneself, because loneliness is a kind of moral consciousness, and it is not a starting point to inspect oneself. The moral consciousness of the group often becomes the accusation of others. In the West, morality has returned to the self-examination of the individual. Criticism of others is not moral, but reflection on one's own behavior. Rather than as in today's society, from top to bottom, no matter whether it is a politician or a small person in the market, they are all pointing at others to curse: immorality. Supported by business schools that focus on equity,

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