By Mu Bai
In the past year of 2025, while chatting with some old friends, the biggest feeling for several of us was that “anti-intellectualism” had taken over the mainstream, especially as anti-intellectualism was no longer concealed and was considered reasonable.
It’s as if everything is upside down, with beauty becoming the antonym and ugliness becoming the praise.
Look at the following post, which says that Ukraine attacked Russia during the Chinese people’s Spring Festival in the Year of the Horse. What does this mean? It’s purely challenging the bottom line of the Chinese people!
This post doesn’t need to talk about reason or reality. At the town’s old Liu’s daughter’s university entrance banquet, the Wang family and the Li family had been at odds over parking spaces for the past year. On the day of the banquet, the Li family and the Wang family quarreled again. Would old Liu feel offended?
If old Liu feels offended and even angrily condemns the Li family outside, then it means that old Liu’s brain has a problem and he is also a failure in life, because you spend all day thinking about things to find trouble for yourself.
Such a person will not have a good life. In my life, there was such a person. Two people got into a fight after drinking, because one person mentioned that a certain community was arguing every day. As a result, someone I knew from this certain community came out to join the battle. In the end, the two people who were arguing reconciled, and this certain community became the worst person. I don’t like both sides, and even extremely dislike them.
There is also the following phenomenon: the atmosphere of the Chinese Spring Festival is not very strong in China this year, but it is full of atmosphere abroad. Many countries are celebrating the Chinese Spring Festival, such as the United States, France, the United Kingdom, etc. The streets are filled with singing and dancing,
The Empire State Building in New York, USA, lit up in Chinese red. Many people don’t know that this is the Empire State Building’s operation for the Spring Festival for 21 consecutive years. No one will think this is a cultural invasion.
The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia also specially sent videos to wish the Chinese Spring Festival:
What kind of behavior is this? It is cultural tolerance.
But on the domestic internet, it’s outrageous,
Some people say that when you become strong, you will get more respect.
But what I want to say is that people with a strong heart will embrace everything. In reality, you see that those powerful people never show off. Why don’t they show off? Because they lack nothing.
Another concept is that people who know how to respect others are basically very excellent.
Of course, I guess I will still be scolded for saying this during the New Year. But it doesn’t matter, it’s already the third day of the lunar new year.
There are even more bizarre people who say that these foreigners are really interesting, the Spring Festival is not yours, what are you doing there to join in the fun.
This kind of fresh and refined remarks is also common in reality, just like a child. Mom bought me a very beautiful toy, and I am sharing it with my friends to gain some psychological satisfaction. But as a result, another child also has the same one, and then this child is unhappy.
Why be unhappy?
This toy is not exclusively yours! Shouldn’t healthy people make better friends on the same occasion of this toy? See, we all have the same hobbies, we can discuss the performance of this toy together, and how to play it to better exert its value.
I remember Munger once said a sentence, tolerance is the starting point of your wealth.
Your heart is so torn, narrow-minded, you are filled with jealousy when you see others are excellent, and you want to resist when you see people around you accepting other people’s festivals, such as Christmas, etc. You accuse others of being bought when you see excellent law lecturers quoting the theories of legal experts from other countries.
How can such a mentality become wealthy?
Why talk about wealth? Because I found a phenomenon, that is, almost few people send red envelopes this year. On the first day of the lunar new year at the temple in Lushan, an aunt took her father to Wuhan by high-speed rail to pray. On the way, the aunt said that the biggest change this year is that the family group is silent, no one sends red envelopes, except for her second aunt, everyone else is silent.
A child sent me a message asking for a red envelope. I sent it over and then asked how things were this year. As a result, he sighed and said, I listened to you and stayed at home during the New Year, but I didn’t even get half of the red envelopes from last year.
What am I thinking at this moment?
Poverty is the source of resentment, and resentment cannot eliminate poverty. When your heart begins to be open-minded and tolerant one day, your starting point of wealth will be in place. If you are torn and narrow-minded every day, and want to destroy others when you see them doing well, then the people around you will be those who are in such poverty.
During the Spring Festival, I talked about writing “慎”, (shèn) which means caution. What is caution? It is details, details at all times.
Thank you!
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