Those over the age of 30 with busy families rarely have much time to browse Zhihu. Therefore, most of the people on Zhihu are young people.
On the topic of traditional Chinese medicine, most people born in the 1990s are firmly opposed to it. No matter what the positive articles about Chinese medicine say, they will not choose to believe it.
This is because on Zhihu, the standard answers about traditional Chinese medicine are “unscientific” and “superstitious”. Is this a reference answer? The school told us, do you still have questions? Yes, in the process of growing up, we know very well how to answer questions and how to choose the right one based on the standard answers. Label the incorrect one as "rightist". Students only need to recite and memorize the standard answers and smear them when they see comments that are against traditional Chinese medicine or related to "advocating" traditional Chinese medicine. This is their mentality.
There can be many specific tags, but they are all forms. The fundamental rationale behind them is to seek the psychological mechanism of "reference answers".
Specific tags such as: "one way", "superstitious", "unscientific", "advocacy", "generalization", "I am confused when I see this", "advocating foreign things", "Metaphysics", "IQ tax", etc.
Let’s analyze the deep-seated reasons.
1. The cramming educational thinking has created batches of trolls who have no ability to think independently
Don’t think that this generation of young people have received a lot of scientific education and enlightenment. , I feel that I have the truth. There are too many things in this world that cannot be explained by science, and there are too many things that have no "standard answers". This requires us to develop the habit of doubting and acquire the ability to think independently. However, it is a pity that young people of this generation do not have the ability to think independently. When they encounter something that they cannot accept or understand (they can only accept a set of scientific categories), they will mostly deny it completely and directly attack it. Death, leaving no room. This also laid a big foundation for the continuous growth of my mental model and the continuous broadening of my horizons!
The reason is still caused by strategic mistakes in national education. The direct reason is that the level of traditional Chinese medicine on the market is indeed too poor and embarrassing. Chinese medicine scammers are running everywhere. Therefore, when Chinese medicine is criticized as rubbish and liars, it definitely has its own academic problems! This responsibility must be shouldered by TCM practitioners themselves! However, don’t use the rubbish of modern Chinese medicine to prove the ignorance of the ancients, but the rubbish of ancient classic Chinese medicine. I disagree.
The education given by modern post-90s professors is precisely a low-end education that lacks critical thinking. It is characterized by lack of thinking, independent thinking ability and broad vision. China's education model is exam-oriented, with special emphasis on memory and repetition. This is the nature of the thinking of modern young people born in the 1990s to the 10s, and it will only become more and more serious in the future. This education model lacks creative and critical thinking. If the young people just blindly repeat the descriptions, the so-called scientism, and the knowledge instilled in us by textbooks from childhood to adulthood, then we will become the mouthpiece of scientism. The vast majority of Zhihu trolls and Chinese medicine hackers are These people, following what others say, are waiting for scientism to feed them, but they do not have the ability to think independently. And because they do not have the ability to think independently, these people are prone to being "IQ taxed." If this solidification and rigidity continues from generation to generation, the thinking and creative soil that inspires and encourages will disappear from China. In the end, everyone can only blindly plagiarize (look at today's institutions of higher learning!) and passively accept the consciousness instilled by superiors and authorities. form. In Zhihu, our superior and authority is Zhihu’s “standard answer” and “political correctness” - black Chinese medicine. What the TCM hackers do now is nothing more than reiterating the set of logic and theories instilled by authorities (Western medicine, scientism), without any independent thinking of their own. Retelling is the face of scientism, while exploration, truth-seeking and speculation are more in line with the scientific spirit.
2. The black thinking mode of traditional Chinese medicine is immature and the vision is highly narrow
A person’s thinking habits determine how a person learns. This part is something we sometimes ignore. When we strongly pursue and advocate something, the other side of us will strongly deny the other side. This is academically called binary opposition, but this opposition does not arise from what we agree or oppose. The question itself is whether we are against Chinese medicine or support Chinese medicine. Many times the people arguing have many possibilities: 1. They have never studied medicine at all, and they understand neither Chinese medicine nor Western medicine. ②He is a Chinese medicine doctor, but he does not understand Western medicine. ③He is a Western medicine doctor, but he has never read a book on Chinese medicine or even a popular science article, and he started to draw conclusions about things he didn’t understand at all. Why is this happening? From the perspective of cognitive science, the problem does not lie in the objects in the external world or the objects of debate, but in themselves. The mental models and thinking patterns they have formed since childhood are rigid. Therefore, when traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine appeared, they You will force yourself to choose a side based on your current cognitive level. In the same debate situation, you will also be in the same debate: "Aerobic exercise or strong training? Vegetarian or meat-eating? Rehabilitation or indulgence? Genetically modified food or organic food?" We can see that this single thinking mode shows that our understanding of the world is not deep enough and comprehensive. This part requires us to continue to learn and break the existing boundaries (interdisciplinary). The more disciplines you cross, the better your understanding of the world will be. The fewer boundaries there are, the easier it will be for you to learn a new subject. Learning any knowledge depends on the mental development level of the learner. People with unstable hearts, incomplete understanding, and poor and superficial thinking , he will not be too healthy, this is the research conclusion of psychosomatic medicine.
From birth to adulthood, whether it is the education of parents or school, or the intentional or unintentional input of media, newspapers, the Internet, and educational information, they are actually downloading programs for us. When we download At a certain point, we will think that the world is like this, we will think that this thing should be done this way, that thing should develop this way, especially for those who are born with great energy and good physique, especially when they do this, Things will achieve the originally expected results, and this process will strengthen the self even more. This is a good thing, because in life you must first establish this self. Only after you have established yourself, can you further understand the world. But this process will also form a solidification, which will make us view the world along a fixed and established way of knowing and thinking.
But the reality of the world is often not that simple. As the physical constitution of the post-90s generation becomes weaker and their vision and experience gradually increase, they will not realize that there are many uncontrollable factors in this world and incredible things happen. The older you get, the more you realize the limitations of your previous cognitive methods and thinking patterns.
Definition:
Scientism: (scientism), the belief that natural science is the model of human knowledge, and that the scientific method described by scientists is to obtain the kind of knowledge that can be applied to any reality Faith is the only means.
Quotations related to scientific spirit:
1. If we admit failure too readily, we may not realize that we are very close to being right. (Karl Popper) (UK)
2. The same is true for "difficulty". Facing a cliff, you can't see a crack in a hundred years, but you can use an ax to chisel it, inch by inch. You have to advance one foot at a time, keep accumulating, leaps will come, and breakthroughs will follow. ---Hua Luogeng (China)
3. I really want to invent a feature or machine with such terrible large-scale destructive power that war will become impossible forever. ---Nobel (Sweden)
4. Only by obeying nature can we control nature. --- Bacon (UK)
5. The ocean of truth allows all undiscovered things to lie before my eyes for me to explore. ---Newton (UK)
To sum up,
The essence of the scientific spirit lies in the spirit of exploration and the spirit of doubting the levels that science cannot explain.
It is easy to label something “unscientific”, but the process of exploring unknown areas is difficult.
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