October 24 Diary

Today I finally finished reading Feng Long’s book on great men, which I had been putting off for a long time. I gained a little something from it, feeling that Feng Long has a strong personality and unique perspectives when commenting on things, not just following the crowd. However, since it’s just one person’s point of view, many of his opinions are biased, and I personally found it hard to agree with many of his evaluations. But after all, we’re not from the same era, so there’s bound to be some deviation in our understanding of each other.

There’s a great lecture tomorrow night, 人发 is giving it, on Confucianism and modern life guidelines, which sounds very novel and interesting. Indeed, Confucianism once dominated China and occupied the hearts of Chinese people. However, since the May Fourth Movement’s criticism of Lin Biao and Confucius, Confucianism has gradually relinquished its original dominant position. So what has taken its place? I don’t think it’s necessarily Mao Zedong Thought or Marxism, at least our generation rarely truly respects these two great men. I always feel that by our generation, a Western lifestyle, represented by the United States, has been implemented, with a systematic and rational approach, yet often self-contradictory. People have become more open-minded, with new interpretations of sex, marriage, life, and happiness that are completely different from those of a thousand years ago. Is this a correct understanding, or is it just blindly following others? I’m a bit interested in attending this lecture, maybe it can change my values. ~Full of anticipation…

But tomorrow night I have a detestable, extremely time-wasting computer class, listening to familiar content that’s really frustrating. I’m planning to discuss with the teacher whether I can skip her class… actually, I can already stand on stage and lecture everyone myself~~~

Done~