Xiaoguan | there are despicable small potatoes in the world. I want to be mean.
Human nature interpretation
one
There are about three kinds of people in the world: great people, mediocre people and small potatoes.
Greatness is always in the minority, and they can sacrifice themselves. Most people are mediocre, stay in peer-to-peer transactions and get along with others in a balanced state of mind: if you respect me, I will treat each other politely.
But there are still a lot of people who belong to small potatoes, and they will be met everywhere. In retrospect, they were not a small group. In the long river of history, small potatoes abound among family and friends.
The selfishness of small potatoes is beyond the scope of ordinary people, probably beyond the scope of ordinary morality and rules, and their selfishness is overbearing and unreasonable.
two
Everyone has the right to take self-interest as a matter of course, and most people can do it if they sacrifice a little and give up a little profit. But small potatoes are not allowed unless they are forced to do so or have other advantages.
Not only that, they even like to possess other people's things. There is no gratitude in their hearts, and they do not know how to be grateful for the generosity of creation and others after acquisition.
They also do not have a proper "ruler", that is, gifts from God or others are their own blessings, and without these gifts is not a loss.
On the contrary, if the export gift is not realized, they will blame it and feel that they have lost too much. Unlike normal people, they acquiesce in their private belongings before they put them in their pockets.
They have their own philosophy of dealing with the world, which is reflected in the arrogant and calm talk. In the speech, the hidden central idea closely revolves around their own self-interest, but what they say is for the public and for the people.
three
Children can also see the privacy of small potatoes, but even steady adults can hardly handle them. Because it doesn't make sense, they know better than you.
If you have such a small potato around you, don't be sad about it. The ancients had a more miserable experience than you. If they were small, they would lose their jobs, and if they were big, they would destroy nine ethnic groups. By comparison, your little experience is like smoke and dust.
In addition, even if you avoid this small potato and there is another small potato waiting for you in the next scene, deal with it with peace of mind and reduce the resentment and sadness in your heart.
To put it more cruelly, after all, we live together, and it is not entirely personal will to separate people from each other.
Great people, mediocre people and villains live together, they are symbiotic, and no one can leave each other (I'm not talking about dependence, but natural or social rules).
four
Now, we probably know that, too. The minds of small potatoes are harder than steel, and it is difficult for us to change anything fundamentally.
There is no way to be reasonable; to treat each other with courtesy, not to receive it; to convince people with virtue, there is no way to follow. Therefore, we should not treat the villains in a courteous and moral way, otherwise they will be angry with those scholars who only know how to read and understand benevolence and righteousness.
Benevolence and righteousness is for one's own heart, but it is not necessarily subject to the restraint of benevolence and righteousness. In that way, one can only be afraid of shrinking and hypocritical, instead of benevolence and righteousness. If you treat a villain, you have to do the opposite, and I will be cunning if you are selfish.
There may be several ways to deal with villains as follows: hooliganism, dominance, inducement and scheming.
When normal methods are ineffective, we can only deal with them in a cunning rogue way.
In addition, you can not be submissive, small potatoes almost have a bully character, when you are weak, they will ride on your neck.
Inducement is also a kind of strategy, which is used in special circumstances to deal with villains who are too arrogant.
In the face of stubbornness, we are not vicious, but we are not merciful.
five
I do not want my children and grandchildren to become small potatoes, only know their own self-interest, and even be complacent in possession of other people's belongings.
I want to tell them:
It's easy to imagine the world in your head, but it's hard to do things.
People are not absolutely good or bad, sometimes cunning is an act of wisdom and benevolence.
People who are good people are fragile, even rotten.
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