Furthermore, once an academic becomes a way of life, various factors related to life naturally and sometimes inevitably penetrate into theoretical interests or knowledge interests, and even dominate these interests. The balance of interests, the grab of power, the temptation of fame, and even the direct introduction of wealth, in this network structure, it is inevitable that scholars sometimes use academics as a means to study for victory and write books for occupation of territory. So all the way down, writing books, over time, can also become a master, into a big pattern. In layman's terms, this is called "eating academic meals".
There is another kind of learning, which is also about rules and theories, and at the same time, it also has considerable response and attention to the problems of the times. However, their concern, or their "problem consciousness", depends on external conditions to raise and stimulate. They are just like some "enthusiasts" or "yes-men", one period is like this, and the other period is like that. This is hardly a real "problem consciousness" and "sense of existence". Because these things don't grow from the roots of their lives, this kind of scholarship lacks a long-term will, and the desirability of "delving into a few things" as Xiong Shili said is, in the final analysis, the lack of "lonely spirit" as Xiong said.
Xiong wrote "Ten Words" and said: "People call me lonely and cold. I think people are not lonely, they are extremely indifferent and cannot be in harmony with the world. " He compared Wang Chuanshan with Li-Shugu: "Chuanshan is isolated from the world for the sake of the university. After more than a hundred years, the spirit of Chuanshan has finally poured into the world. ..... But I forgive Gu for being a macro scholar with a wide voice, and I don't care. As a bureaucrat in the imperial court and a famous scholar in Chen Hu, although he has made many achievements, he is evil enough to learn this. " Xiong believes that behind "I can't help being lonely" is actually "an unconscious evil desire to be angry." So "Pardon Valley" is just too small to be as lonely as a mountain. ..... Anyone who is interested in fundamental academics should have a lonely spirit (Volume IV) ".
Mr. Shili advocates "the spirit of loneliness", which is a sharp criticism of his time. He added: "China scholars have a bad habit. They have no choice about what they want to learn. Therefore, in what he has learned, there is no interest in the spirit of hard work, which is willing to be left out and lonely, rich and self-sufficient in the world. In this way, it is extremely difficult and difficult to make some academic innovations than Mencius' so-called "seeking fish from the edge of a tree" and "leaning on Mount Tai to cross the North Sea". Scholars in China are always eager to pursue this trend. If you are in a good mood for a while, you will attack them in groups and go their separate ways, such as the smelly wife at sea, which is puzzling. For a moment, the atmosphere changed, but the odor chaser returned to his original place. This habit has two serious defects. First, everyone has no firm and permanent career, and there is no way to go deep into things, so they can only go with the flow. Second, everyone * * * prefers a road to the world, but the rest are thousands of roads, all abandoned, and no one asks. Both serious illnesses were caused by the death of an economist in China. The following examples are the wind of textual research in the former Qing Dynasty, new literature, scientism, etc. , omitted here. Those who hate smell, tend to be fashionable and seek to flatter the world are indifferent. With the flow of the public, I am fortunate to be famous, so I can't be lonely. The heart that dispels odor floats like a flying canopy, so it can't be single-minded. Since there is no choice, we have to go with the customs. Nothing can last forever. Therefore, the students of a country, those who have learned badly, have no knowledge in their country, and the signs of their country's decline have long been written. China people like to deodorize, but they refuse to exhaust their talents to seek truth from facts, to be whimsical, and to abandon me. This is very worrying "(vol. 1).
After careful consideration, Mr. Xiong's words are a sobering agent of our times. "It is particularly foolish to be surprised by its reputation, shocked by its authority, dazzled by the legends of thousands of ignorant people in society, and intoxicated by it. It is better to be a teenager and learn. The only person in the world who admires is the most powerless and will never seek truth. I don't want you to do this. You have a good reputation, you are competitive, you are ambitious, and you are not step by step. One day is no longer morning, life is no longer short, and travel will be full of excitement. This is sadness and sadness (Volume IV) ". Young people who are really interested in learning today should think twice about this warning.
Academic independence and freedom, in the final analysis, is a question of inner freedom. China's traditional rhetoric is called "full of ambition", which has a long meaning. After deconstructing the external dogmatic expression of power, there are other pluralistic values and voices, which sometimes converge into a noisy cocktail party. In the meeting, everyone held their glasses in a circle. Can you sit in the corner?