Fatal and incurable flaws found in Chinese culture
Fatal and incurable flaws found in Chinese culture
Momotaro (Kenji Asahara)
The impression of Chinese as a hopeless group of rabble or a pile of loosened sand can largely be attributed to the fatal and incurable flaws found in their culture. Few people will disagree with the fact that most Chinese do not emphasize the importance of honesty and independent character. Traditional Chinese culture could not cope properly with modern civilization because it does not respect the basic elements of modern culture, namely honesty, decency and integrity. Chinese culture can be best understood as a non-analytical and non-dialectic metaphysical phenomenon, a senile saga that seems to be a challenge to conventional wisdom. It never formed any systematic intellectual mechanism in which individual thing can be analyzed with rational and logical accuracy. Yet this does not hamper its nasty capability of continuous survival which perhaps could well drag itself into perpetuity.
To the best part, Chinese culture is a moral system aimed at cultivating individual to follow certain ethical value but never treats one as an independent lively being capable of creative thought. Without respect to the individuality of the person, Chinese culture is only a spirit dwelled in a decaying carcass. It never gave a serious thought on the issue such as death or salvation. By playing a word game, Chinese culture, including Confucianism, had unctuously eschewed from answering the most fundamental question faced by mankind and therefore could not established a true rational attitude toward life.
Afraid of taking responsibility is one of the most prominent features in Chinese mentality, it explains why China, even after long struggle and endless suffering, still could not transform into a law abiding society. Chinese people have no problem in accepting Western capitalism because it fits very well into their mentality which is full of desire and avarice. But they have shown no interest in mimicking the habit of taking responsibility and being honest to your purpose. Chinese usually like to label a person as good or bad not on the basis of virtue but on how well they were treated by this person. Without a doubt, this mentality reminds people the attitudes of beggars who are not capable of creating and obtaining but only used to scavenging on the left over by others. For the Chinese are not used to dictate the course of their behavior but are readily inclined to accept the fate determined by external forces. Like the crippled legs of withered muscle incapable of walking without the help of crutches, Chinese are so easily succumbed themselves to the power from outside, and it is virtually impossible for them to go beyond the present mental and material bondage seeking for higher meaning in life.
China, for most part of its long history, has always been a secular society in which religion and faith find no place to flourish. Indeed, the very notion of faith and belief is somehow unknown to the average Chinese mind. On the other hand, Chinese like to worship all sorts of deities, from animals to dead historical figures, hoping this will bring them good fortune and easy gain. Chinese people fail to understand faith is not about how to get fortune without due diligence, but about how to reach an enlightenment and live a productive and meaningful life. They never enjoy the beauty of spiritual independence and have always lived in a collective life style that rejects the importance of individuality. Chinese were comfortably staying at the lowest level in the pyramid of human development. It is safe to say that most Chinese, who existed in this primitive physiological level, can only be labeled as humanoid creatures but not as spiritual human beings. With the strong thirst for money and profit, Chinese may be able to create a society that amplifies the evilness of the capitalism, but relishing none of the benefits and positive features associated with capitalism. Not surprisingly, China’s new born riches are only obsessed with exploiting others but never give anything back. Knightly chivalry or philanthropy has always been a term incomprehensible to the pathetic and selfish Chinese people. Chinese can not live a meaningful life that is beneficial to themselves as well as to others. In order to survive in an extremely hash environment like China, people must adopt a life style of either parasite or that of robber.
Traditional Chinese culture’s attitude toward current situation, no matter how devastating and inhumane it might be, is that of a passive acceptance of destination instead of an incentive of change for better. In other words, Chinese are lazy by their nature because they are used to be acted upon or to be ministered onto by the external force. Explicitly, this temperament of the Chinese people embodies the very basic characteristics of the slavery mentality.
As result, Chinese people were easily satisfied with whatever nature or authority offers to them. They hold an ambiguous understanding of reality, and show very little interest in giving a try to conceive the mechanism of how nature functions itself. They could not conquer anything but can only be conquered by others. The power of rationality and reasoning failed to impress Chinese minds. The decent and elegant attire means nothing to the ill garbed Chinese whose mind was usually overly preoccupied with pitiful desire of how to best take advantage of others. The essence of Chinese culture, therefore, lies mostly in a self concocted delusion or a self beguiled lie. This delusion always inadvertently leads to self inflicted disaster and crime to which Chinese people show indifference and comfortably interpret them as the inevitable fate designated by the power of fate or God. With this kind mind set, Chinese are callous to the suffering of the people other than their direct kin. In a sense, Chinese culture encourages the sicknesses in human nature by denying human the ability to make things better. Therefore, Chinese culture could not have played the role of revolutionary force in the process of human evolution. On the contrary, it could only act as a reactionary force that hampers human’s moral and material progress.
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when a nation is falling behind the others, especially like china which has long long history of prosperity, many other people would always say things like it is finished, incurable, must learn from the western countries...undeniablly which are the common thing and thoughts. I do believe when western countries were not as developed as now, they did learn from the other countries as well, include China. therefore, unsurprisingly, It is common to hold this view nowadays. However, is that right to follow everything with western contries, include culture? i dont think so, everybody konws, if you want to catch up with somebody, you cant just simply copy from them, in that way, you would never beyond them. although we cant deny Japan is a different example, but Japan would never be on behalf of a real civilization. what we can say is Japan is another good copy of US. there is a chinese saying that,三十年河东三十年河西 means "every dog has his days". we should try our best, work hard, it would be best if who laugh at last...
posted by Dylan @ 10:47 AM
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