The origin of the story is this:
00 after the girl Wu Aiping driving, saw an old man mortar and pestle walking stick over the crosswalk, she immediately slowed down to stop and avoid, I did not expect the old man actually took off his hat and bowed to thank the old man, the old man's bowing let her be touched, so she will be put on the Internet this video, I think that the old man's behavior is very worthy of learning, to be able to pass positive energy for the community.
The video was transmitted to the Internet, causing a great reaction from the netizens, but also caused the attention of the authorities, when the reporter interviewed the parties Min Qingchang old man, more than 80 years of age, he said: the young people walk very fast, my old man's pace is relatively slow, the car is going to go over but stopped over there, I am very touched, I was touched to say thank you for the two words, she could not hear, I had to use a hat off bowing to think of her! I'm not sure if you're going to be able to find the best way to get the most out of your life, but I'm sure you're going to be able to find the best way to get the most out of your life.
This story is in stark contrast to previous stories about high-profile seniors online.
The old man dancing in the square, the students protested against the humiliation of the elderly; young women do not give the old man to give up his seat, the old man forced to sit on her; two students to help the old man, but was blackmailed. So everyone labeled the old man as a "bad guy".
In today's era, the elderly as a vulnerable group in society, in the network era, and can not be stigmatized and labeled on their own to give a strong rebuttal to the fact. And what are the deep-rooted reasons behind this phenomenon?
It's hard to know the true psychology of these elderly people who undermine social order and morality. But the surface of the reason that we can briefly say one or two, China has 200 million elderly people, the phenomenon of aging is very serious, so the society appeared a lot of empty-nested elderly people, the loss of the elderly. Under the existing imperfect pension system, these elderly people are very concerned about their own interests, and once their interests are damaged, they will utilize the law of the jungle - "the one who has the most power is the one who has the most power" - to cope with the changes around them.
Today's elderly people have experienced the natural disasters of the early years of the establishment of New China, reform and opening up, and have come to the present day, where material resources are extremely scarce, and it is difficult to solve the problem of food and clothing, not to mention education, and many of the elderly people do not have a high level of cultural qualifications, and when they can not cope with the changes of their own old age, they ushered in a time of uncertainty, and the young people of today are all Anxious and uneasy, difficult to adapt to the psychological, and even more so, the young people are anxious and uneasy to adapt. The young people nowadays have anxiety, difficulty in adapting to the psychology, not to mention that they are approaching their twilight years.
We often see the elderly, do not know how to see the traffic lights, holding a child from the middle of the road through, riding a bicycle or electric car shuttle in the crowd, out of the travel when shouting, poorly dressed shuttle in the streets and alleys.
Seeing that they can not adapt to the new social rules, do not comply with the order at the same time, we can not help but be sad, angry and complex emotions. But are these phenomena unique to this particular social group of the elderly? Are there no good role models for the elderly?
Looking back at the beginning of the example, Min Qingchang old man's label, very eye-catching "retired old cadres", whether this is another kind of media misinformation, whether there is a quality of culture and education of the elderly, the more social morality?
But I fell into a deeper thinking, if a person's educational background determines his moral scale, that "Moving China" accidentally gave us a lot of examples of the opposite:
Stirrup the old man Bai Fangli, 74 years old, through the pedicab to save money, in the last 19 years of his life **** to the universities and colleges and poor students to donate 350,000 yuan. He said: I will go to teach even if I don't eat or drink. He ignored the admonition of his children, rain or shine to start his life's pursuit, every month if not enough 8,000 yuan, he will also have to scrape together enough 8,000 yuan, the next month to try to pedal to return to others.
Wu Jinquan, a knife-sharpening old man, learned of the mudslide disaster in Zhouqu, Gansu Province, and sent the coins earned from knife-sharpening to the Red Cross for 1,000 yuan to donate to the disaster area. Sichuan Ya'an 7.0 magnitude earthquake, he will be two years walking the streets for people to sharpen the knife earned 1966.2 yuan hard money, through the Red Cross donated to the disaster area. Since the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, he has donated more than 37,000 yuan. He is simply a villager from Wuxing Village, Nantong City, who is already over 80 years old and his old family still lives in three dilapidated tiled houses, but the donations totaled more than 100,000 yuan.
Scavenging elderly Liu Shenglan, the same 74-year-old began scavenging to help students. 18 years, he donated a total of more than 100,000 yuan, funding more than 100 students. The old man close to 20 years almost did not taste meat, did not add a new coat, "stingy" even a steamed bread can not afford to buy, but in the 18 years of poverty and suffering, will save a penny of their savings donated to the children of poor mountainous areas.
The list is endless. They are the elderly, the so-called "poor", the disadvantaged in the usual sense of the word, but still do not forget to help others. They are from poor families and have not received a good education, but the lack of teaching resources, hardship and suffering brought them not to social resentment, the dislike of life. On the contrary, this kind of injustice stimulates their desire to change the society, just like pouring hot oil to the fire in their hearts.
The news itself has forced them to be labeled as "old people", forgetting the premise that we are all "human beings". The Chinese people are good at association, not only in modern times, but since ancient times, Mr. Lu Xun said: a short sleeve, immediately think of white arms, immediately think of full nudity, immediately think of genitals, immediately think of intercourse, immediately think of hybridization, immediately think of illegitimate children.
A person who makes a group of people stigmatized and labeled is a new-age variant of this association. The Chinese people are good at association and like to association, male drivers speeding and jamming may not cause much concern, and female drivers if there is a similar behavior on the charge of road killers, the same is a corrupt official, but a few a few poor family of corrupt officials, but a number of poor children dragged into the abyss, the people will be determined that the cold can not be out of the noble son.
Philosopher Kant in the "Critique of Pure Reason" in the moral under the conclusion that: the bit I on the person, the brilliant starry sky; moral law, in my heart. Mencius also said: "The person who does not learn but can, its conscience; the person who does not think but know, its conscience." It refers to conscience, which is the innate ability to judge right and wrong and good and evil that is unlearned and unlearned in gifted human life.
And this innate conscience seems to be irrelevant to education, irrelevant to gender, and even more irrelevant to age. It is innate, whereas oligophobia varies.
I think such news of the elderly being stigmatized has given most people an excuse to be apathetic, and if this happens next time, there will be a set of rhetoric to deal with the accusations of the guardians, not knowing that the proliferation of such news is hurting us **** the same interests.
For one thing, it's those elderly people who really need help and are kind. Maybe we will not transpose to this level - such as the need to help your parents, but also think about if you meet is Wu Jinquan, Bai Fangli, Liu Shenglan, and even many kind and simple old people, you do not help, the rest of the life of the calm and how to rest?
The second is the future of that you. Putting aside the purely non-utilitarian morality, people throughout their lives, there is always a need to let people help one day, if you do not save moral, moral, how to feed back?
I'm a fatalist, but not a pure one. While many scientists criticize fatalism and insist on a materialist philosophy to look at the world, fatalism seems to bring us more warmth and wisdom in the face of social life.
We can't change those outdated concepts of the elderly, in the face of all their impolite and indecent behavior, more sighs of relief, thinking of the Belgian Jean told me a sentence: "Really only the elderly are like this? I see a lot of queue-jumping are young people!"
I have encountered many elderly people who are as fast as they can walk when grabbing a seat on the bus, and I have also seen elderly people who are courteous to each other with young people.
Min Wenchang, an old man in his 80s, is not as strong as he used to be, but his morals and judgment have not been affected in the slightest, and when he said he took off his hat to say thank you because he was afraid people wouldn't hear him, I thought he must have been a polite, gentle young man when he was young.
I once met an old lady, when I gave her a seat, she said that you are more tired ah, I said I can sit with my friends, she said that the two of you together tired ah! She repeatedly refused, but finally could not withstand the persuasion of everyone, sat down again and again to thank, get off the car also did not forget to say "thank you". I think she must have been a well-read and polite, warm and lovely woman when she was young.