Wang Jianping: Daily article: "Theory of Perception. Part 10" (49)
The meaning of the new era
What does the new era mean? What is the next era? Why not cross the age, the century, but the era? What does the coming of a new era mean? The epoch is not just a concept of time. The difference between the two epochs is not the span of the same time, but the difference between two different forms of existence. What we are in now is the era of existence, which means that the core concept of existence is the existence of life, and refers to the period of material civilization that we have established on the premise of survival for thousands of years. The end of the survival era and the beginning of the perceptual era are the leap of the two epochs, and humans will transform from the survival form to the perceptual form. Because this is not a change in the human way of existence, but a change in the way of existence. Change in the way means a change in the essential meaning of the form of existence, which means a change in all aspects of the form. That is to say, it is not a minor change, but a major change, not a partial change, but an overall change. This is not the development and breakthrough of human beings on the road to survival. This is the change of course, re-taking a new path, and starting to exist in another concept, an ethical logic, and another form of existence. The word survival can no longer express the meaning of human behavior, so human beings are no longer engaging in survival activities, but are managing existence, constructing the content of existence, not fighting for the right to exist. Therefore, the concept of life existence is no longer used, we are using perceived existence. Our existence is not about survival or not, but about perception or not. What we experience is no longer the process of survival and death, but the process of experiencing the difference between perceived pain and pleasure.
The era of survival does not end, and human suffering cannot be eliminated, because the real cause of suffering is not human actions, but the way of survival determines the existence of disasters and suffering. In other words, survival must be accompanied by the existence of disasters and sufferings. In fact, our survival creates disasters and sufferings. This is not a matter of survival methods. It is useless to generate many wisdom methods to deal with survival problems. It is the way of survival that leads to all contradictions and conflicts, and it is the concept and ethical logic of survival that leads to us being unable to survive. Our survival philosophy fundamentally acts against existence. Our survival behavior not only does not help our existence, but instead prevents us from living for a long time. Therefore, the history of human survival civilization over thousands of years proves that we should not survive like this. Human beings finally realized the fallacy of survival itself in the first half of the 21st century, and thus awakened from the life and death trap for thousands of years. This awakening of the earth and mountains finally ended the continuation of the era of survival. Human beings began to transform themselves, and human beings began to change themselves in an all-round way. From ethical logic to ideas, from human views to all life concepts, people completely overturned all ideological understandings in the past thousands of years. Human civilization turned 180 degrees, from the objective world to human beings themselves, human beings began to transform from material to human civilization, human beings truly became the object of civilization, and human beings truly became the masters of the civilized world.
This is the most important event since human beings. Human beings have set up a new form of existence for themselves with reason and wisdom. Human beings have begun a huge change in changing their ways and forms. This is the birth of a new era of perception. The significance of the new era lies in the comprehensive change of people's ideology . Human beings have changed their way of existence. The new way ends and eliminates all problems in the old way and re-expands all possibilities. This process of transformation and rebirth has enabled human beings to enter a new form of existence and to launch a new life in new ethical logic and ideas. Only then can human civilization and wisdom truly become a tool to achieve the goal, allowing us to enter a rational and ideal life situation, and realize the best state of existence of human beings and everything.
Only by perceiving the new era can the old era end, and only two completely different ways of existence can completely change the form of human existence and life form.The problems we have encountered from the beginning, and problems that cannot be solved for thousands of years, the dilemma that humans can never get rid of in ethical logic, ended once and for all with the arrival of a new era. This is the most thorough and complete solution. Only by changing all of them can we eliminate all the thousands of knots in the old contradictions; only by changing all of them can human beings be reborn and become ideal human beings again. New eras, new ways, new human beings can create a new world and bring us new life and new experiences. All our methods of reform and correction will end with the end of the Era of Survival, all our thoughts, ideas, and spiritual emotions will be abandoned with the end of the Era of Survival, and all our social structures and living systems will be changed with the end of the Era of Survival. The new era brings us new ideas, concepts, spiritual emotions, and new social forms and life systems. The most important thing is that people have a completely new mentality, psychology and mood, and people have completely changed their human nature, personality and human feelings. In fact, what changes in the new era is not things, but people. The world is still this world, but people are no longer the same person; existence still exists, but the master becomes us; life continues, but it is no longer the old model; the future is still coming, but all the coming is joy and happiness.
The meaning of the new era is to allow us to give up everything that we have, be ourselves again, and use the world again. (Continued)
