With difficulty I am restraining myself from writing yet again bad political observation.
Am reading a translated book by Chineses author Wang Anyi - Lapse of Time. The stories are really good. There was something I found sad. In china's proletarian cultural revolution from 1966 to 1976, urban youth were forced to work in rural areas, to farming villages to learn from farmers.
In one of the stories, the younger brother goes to village so that not so strong elder brother can be with the family. Once he comes back, he finds that he should marry a girl with a house as the existing house is too small for one more family. He is finding too hard to adjust to the new job, old but changed Shanghai and to his family members. Who can give him back all the years he lost in the village?
All are equal and all must be equal. But does that mean all can do the same type of work? If you ask university professor to work in farm or factory, he may somehow do it. But that will have such a negative impact on his morale. One should always aspire for higher things not lower. I have seen some people who could not continue their education even though they are quite intelligent because their families did not permit. They curse themselves, they curse everyone else. Look at x,y and z. How rich they are! They live such luxurious lives. I could have been in their position but my parents did not let me. I am rotting here in the village. etc..etc..
So each person must get an opportunity to work according to his education, his intelligence and his capacity. Sounds strange coming from me who is electrical engineering graduate knows a little about computers and does nothing whole day except watching TV. (That is exactly the point I know from personal experience how miserable life becomes when you realize the enormous gap between what you are and what you could have been.) If you want to make people equal, try to bring the lower classes to a higher level, not the other way round.
Am reading a translated book by Chineses author Wang Anyi - Lapse of Time. The stories are really good. There was something I found sad. In china's proletarian cultural revolution from 1966 to 1976, urban youth were forced to work in rural areas, to farming villages to learn from farmers.
In one of the stories, the younger brother goes to village so that not so strong elder brother can be with the family. Once he comes back, he finds that he should marry a girl with a house as the existing house is too small for one more family. He is finding too hard to adjust to the new job, old but changed Shanghai and to his family members. Who can give him back all the years he lost in the village?
All are equal and all must be equal. But does that mean all can do the same type of work? If you ask university professor to work in farm or factory, he may somehow do it. But that will have such a negative impact on his morale. One should always aspire for higher things not lower. I have seen some people who could not continue their education even though they are quite intelligent because their families did not permit. They curse themselves, they curse everyone else. Look at x,y and z. How rich they are! They live such luxurious lives. I could have been in their position but my parents did not let me. I am rotting here in the village. etc..etc..
So each person must get an opportunity to work according to his education, his intelligence and his capacity. Sounds strange coming from me who is electrical engineering graduate knows a little about computers and does nothing whole day except watching TV. (That is exactly the point I know from personal experience how miserable life becomes when you realize the enormous gap between what you are and what you could have been.) If you want to make people equal, try to bring the lower classes to a higher level, not the other way round.
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