In the last two years, there have been unprecedented strange phenomena in the western world: terrorist attacks in Europe, refugee crisis, Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, and the "Trump phenomenon" in the United States. These all seem to want to break away from the "West" itself, and they are also interrogating China's traditional views on the West.
In modern times, in many people's minds, the moon in foreign countries is rounder than that in China. This foreign country is the west. The west is the meaning of Mr. De and Mr. Sai, the symbol of development, the yearning of China and the future of the world.
How do these feelings come about? Since the industrial revolution, the west has instilled an inexplicable equation through the colonial world: the success of the west = the success of the western democratic system = the success of universal values. In fact, this is just to bleach the bloody history of western success, and it is a smoke bomb.
The success of the west is not only not directly related to the democratic system, but now the democratic system is dragging down the west. Just as Qin Hui, a professor in Tsinghua, once described the institutional reasons of the European debt crisis: the left in western countries wants welfare, while the right wants welfare.
Freedom, politicians in many European countries generally cater to the short-term needs of voters and promise to give more benefits to citizens during elections, so it is easy for politicians and political parties who write empty checks to govern. So Europe is trapped in finance and finance.
This crisis has a lot to do with their public sentiment. "Large-scale democracy often means that most voters lack awareness of costs and benefits, and they are willing to let others pay more costs and get more benefits themselves".
Stephen Halper, a scholar at Cambridge University, once said with emotion, "Just as globalization makes the world smaller. China has made the West-its values, principles and standards-smaller. " . The institutional dilemma in the west, especially the paradox of democracy.
Churchill once asserted that democracy is the least bad political system. This is not only the manifestation of western political self-confidence, but also the helplessness of western politics. Confidence is because Europe has experienced various political thoughts and
The purge of social movements finally chose democracy, which is the source of European political self-confidence and institutional superiority. As early as 1999, Philip Herzog, a senior member of the European Parliament, published the Declaration on European Democracy.
Yan believes that EU countries are different, but they have come together because of "common values". He said: "These common values are Christianity first, then cultural enlightenment, especially the development of democracy."
Ming. "Said helpless, first, because democracy can only avoid the worst, can't pursue the best. Second, because times have changed, the world is no longer dominated by the West. The current predicament in Europe is a perfect explanation for this.
The release of the referendum, the highest form of abuse of direct democracy by Britain's withdrawal from the EU, caused so many losses that Europeans ridiculed themselves that "the only certainty in European politics is uncertainty".
Nowadays, due to the globalization of the Australian "dart effect" (referring to the social psychological phenomenon that the result of behavior measures is completely opposite to the expected goal-editor's note), and the rise and persistence of China.
With the revival of a powerful ancient civilization, democracy is increasingly showing its "bad" side. The situation in Europe is the epitome of western democracy. Today's western democratic system is very much like a spoiled child, just because there are ancestors left behind.
We can continue to squander our wealth, but in this increasingly competitive world, I am worried that this situation will become increasingly unsustainable.
The same is true in America. Trump directly shouted the slogan "Don't be politically correct" at the Republican nomination meeting. Nathan Gard, editor-in-chief of the American New Viewpoint Quarterly, bluntly said: Western democracy.
The short-term tyranny of "instant news" and "one person, one vote" led to the proliferation of populism. This system lacks long-term thinking and planning and political ability to continue to rule. The West should seriously consider its own problems.
Reform the political system, otherwise the overall downward trend may be irreversible.
As the saying goes, people can preach, but it is not Tao. The western style popularized in the world has also become the testing ground of Hongxi Road in China. Now I understand that the development of China does not follow the western way. China's success is to get rid of the influence of the west and embark on a development path that suits its own national conditions. But in the ideological field, there is still a long way to go to get out of modern times and bid farewell to the West.
No, many people in China are obsessed with the classic West and the imaginary West. Because China has many problems, they naturally look forward to the West. The rising of China not only makes China a China-Chinese dream, but also makes the West a local concept, which clarifies the boundaries of universal values and restores the diversity of the world.
But after all, it flows east. How did the west go from hoping to solve the problem to becoming the problem itself? An important reason is that the dual thinking mode of religious civilization, especially Christian civilization, is unrealistic.
Yes, keep pace with the times. Americans even claimed that they were blessed by the gods ("God bless America" is printed on the dollar), which led to more crimes committed by Wall Street and arms dealers. In China, because of the concept of heaven, people respect God, but stay away from God and oppose God.
Tricks, lawlessness. So China's success embodies the power of secular civilization.
If China wants to continue to succeed, it needs to be liberated from western myths. For example, the construction of the "Belt and Road" highlights that learning from the East and the West is not enough; it is only interested in learning from the North and the South. China should continue to explore the world, including the West.
This civilization absorbs nutrition and is open to cooperation, but the west is increasingly separated from developed countries, capitalism and ideology, and it is also divided internally. We should get out of the logic of modern linear evolution and bid farewell to the west we invented.
In recent years, Europe has gradually been fooled by the self-proclaimed "West". The United States rarely calls itself "the West" but "the international community", and "the West" is used to fool Europe. The End of the west (the end of.
The publication of the West is a typical reflection of this sentiment. The EU is well aware that when the United States becomes a regional power, that is, when Europe is marginalized in the world.
Europe is beset with crises, and gradually gets rid of itself and is no longer proud of its universal values. This sets an example for the United States. The lies of globalization and the myth of industrial revolution have made the west too tired, and the way out lies in the warning of Buddhism-turning back to the shore.
The world is staging a series of "western appearances", which is the liberation of the west and the world. In fact, the collective right turn of the west is a collective return, a return to locality rather than universality. Of course, it should also be China Thought
The liberation of the world is no longer entangled in the left and right, Chinese and western, and physical use. Let China become China, let the West become the West, and let the world become the world. These are the three major effects of the rise of China.