For millions of people in the world of mortals in Qian Qian, material and spirit have always been two very important aspects, and sometimes they are coordinated and complementary. Sometimes they are mutually exclusive and difficult to choose and decide. But no matter which choice you make, you have to pay the price for your choice. At the crossroads of life, many young women have considered this issue in their hearts when making marriage decisions.
At that time, with the attitude of eating crabs, I chose to give up the rich enjoyment of material life with extremely low support rate. However, in the face of difficulties, we never bowed our heads, and we have been trying to change this face. I have long forgotten the spiritual enjoyment he promised me in Java. Hehe, when life gradually changed and there was no previous rush, two people suddenly found that our life was so dull. So I look for my spiritual sustenance in poetry writing, prose appreciation and emotional friendship. The cheers or exclamations on the court attracted his attention so much that they forgot to eat and sleep, and both of them did not interfere with each other and enjoyed their happy games. When the economy is tight, what I want is to reorganize my armor, fight hard on the battlefield, and even lose my previous love. Material wealth and spiritual wealth are really like two wheels of a car, and it is difficult to move forward without either wheel.
The development of society is like this ordinary life. When social wealth is tight, many poor people live a life without food and clothing, and sanitary conditions are difficult to guarantee. Many people died young because they were ill and had no money for treatment, which produced many sad stories. At this time, the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, such as not picking up what is missing, being aboveboard and selfless, shine like pearls in the dark. The spring breeze of reform blew the earth, farmers implemented the land responsibility system, many farmers also went out to work to earn money during slack seasons, factories also implemented the shareholding system, and large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises were privatized ... Everything is moving in the direction suitable for the development of productive forces. When a certain production relationship can meet the development of productive forces, it is the most suitable social relationship. Therefore, under this best production relationship, many people have become rich rapidly, and social wealth has also expanded extremely. With the increase of social wealth, most people get rid of poverty. However, with the improvement of material living standards, many people inadvertently underestimate the cultivation of spiritual civilization, and only "money" is the leading factor, and everything is for the economy. What's more, it ignores etiquette and morality. Because you are richer than others, you can do whatever you want and count on money to end your crime. These people confuse right and wrong and reverse black and white. There are still some people who use their power to seek more wealth for themselves by hook or by crook ... From these things, the party and the government also put forward measures to strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization many years ago, and put forward that both spiritual civilization and material civilization should be grasped, and both hands should be hard.
A person's life is inseparable from material dependence, but if he only cares about material enjoyment, there is no noble spiritual life. That kind of life is like a walking corpse, and living is meaningless. If we only pay attention to spiritual life and neglect material civilization construction, such spiritual civilization construction will be destroyed like a mirage. Therefore, material civilization construction is the foundation and spiritual civilization is the superstructure. The material wealth and spiritual wealth of ordinary people are also inseparable from this law. In our own life, we can't do without the development and utilization of materials, and we can't do without the improvement of spiritual cultivation.
Material wealth and spiritual wealth: Tao goes hand in hand.
BC 1 century, in the Peloponnesian War on the Greek Peninsula, the industrious and disciplined Spartans quickly degenerated in the face of great wealth and were finally defeated by the Athenians. Since then, the debate about the importance of material wealth and spiritual wealth in social life has become an eternal topic.
China's socialist construction has made brilliant achievements, material wealth has been greatly accumulated, but the lag of spiritual wealth has become increasingly prominent. Some people are mean and dirty for money; Some people are ostentatious, blind and empty for the sake of face comparison; Even some leading cadres forget their duties as public servants and abuse their power for material enjoyment. It is necessary and urgent to correctly handle the relationship between material wealth and spiritual wealth.
Which is more important, material wealth or spiritual wealth? Who comes first? There is a saying in The Analects that can be used to describe the relationship between the two, "Tao goes hand in hand". The two should develop harmoniously, and neither side should ignore the other. Material affluence under spiritual poverty and spiritual affluence under material poverty are unstable and do not meet the requirements of human development.
Material abundance under spiritual poverty can easily make people become material slaves. Lack of spiritual sustenance and pursuit, material has become the only criterion to measure success. People are happy for material things, worry about material things, and even do whatever it takes to pursue material enjoyment. People are finally bound and manipulated by material things. The reason why people create material wealth is to live better, but when material becomes the only pursuit, material in turn becomes the master of people, and people become slaves instead, which is exactly what Marx called "alienation". In order to avoid alienation of material wealth, we need to enrich our spiritual life. With spiritual wealth, material can truly become wealth rather than a burden. Material poverty is not socialism, nor is spiritual poverty socialism.
The spiritual pursuit under material poverty is very fragile. There is a wrong view that spiritual wealth is the ultimate value of human beings. With spiritual life, material wealth can be saved. This is one-sided, and the spiritual pursuit based on poverty will often collapse once it encounters the temptation of greater material wealth. The Spartans, who are famous for their nobility, diligence and courage, turned and fell before the wealth of Athens, which is a good example. People often miss saying that before China's reform and opening up, the moral level of China people was generally higher than it is now. As everyone knows, that kind of "morality" cannot stand the test of market economy. The spiritual "wealth" based on material poverty is the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror, and the spiritual wealth based on material richness is the real wealth.
The correct relationship between material wealth and spiritual wealth, like two wheels of a car, goes forward in parallel. If either side falls behind and the gap between them exceeds a certain level, it will cause the car to roll over. It is necessary to coordinate and balance the development of the two, so as to keep them at a roughly equal level, so as to support social stability and sustainable development.