The so-called "ruling the country by home" makes the world flat. If a person can govern the world, then everyone will think that this person is a talent! Ten years of cold window is only for one day, official standard, giving full play to what you have learned all your life, governing the country and reassuring the people, and making a name for yourself in history.
This view is good, but it ignores an important point, that is, the "ruler", that is, the ruler Rulers have armies and rights. In feudal society, who wants to provoke them easily? However, although intellectuals are officials, they never have real power, and their rights are in the hands of careerists, military commanders, greedy ministers and treacherous officials.
In times of peace, it is easy to say that the literati have a good life and can display their ambitions. For example, the period of "Zhenguan rule".
But once the government is dark and the rule is fatuous, intellectuals will not be satisfied with this situation because of their lofty and upright nature. Some passively avoid the world, such as Tao Yuanming's Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest, and some actively resist, such as the disaster of parties.
Intellectuals have been choosing between "being born" and "joining the WTO" for thousands of years. On the one hand, I want to be an official and realize my life ideal of governing the country and saving the country. On the one hand, the rulers refused to bend their knees and wanted to safeguard their dignity as literati.
This is a contradiction, but whether it is "living" or "joining the WTO". Their fate will be different. They born this way. Because they are literati, they have a sense of responsibility to society that others can't match. They are responsible to the society, and they are responsible to the people at dawn. So you can't be smart!
It looks bitter and cold, just because they bear too much social weight! And particularly responsible, particularly self-esteem, particularly lofty.
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