Author: Cao
1. Why is the core issue of China's future development culture?
Contradictions are divided into principal contradictions and non-principal contradictions, which will produce different principal contradictions in different historical periods, among which a core problem will be reflected. Take People's Republic of China (PRC) as an example. In the early decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the main problem in China was political, because only a politically stable society could be stable and the country could be peaceful. Therefore, political issues are the core issues in this historical period. Since 1970s and 1980s, China has entered a historical period of reform and opening up. During these 30 years, China's main problem is economic, because only on the basis of economic prosperity can we build a powerful new China, and this is exactly the case. Taking economic construction as the center has always been the national strategy of the party and the government. As the saying goes, on the basis of political stability and economic prosperity, China has entered a historical period of building a harmonious society. The basic connotation of a harmonious society is sustainable development, and it is a society with democracy and rule of law, fairness and justice, honesty and friendship, full of vitality, stability and order, and harmony between man and nature. Then, according to the basic law of the contradictory movement, what is the core problem of China in this historical period? How to correctly understand the main contradictions and core issues of a harmonious society?
In the early days of the People's Republic of China, we must focus on political construction, because the political situation is unstable and it is difficult to carry out all the work normally. When the main contradiction with political struggle as the core problem is solved, the focus of the country must be on economic construction, otherwise it will lead to internal friction and social exhaustion in endless political struggle. When the economy is prosperous, the core issue of society is culture. Otherwise, only when the economy is prosperous, it is possible that the society will be extravagant and decadent because of the low quality of the people and the sharp increase of corruption. Therefore, in the historical stage of building a harmonious society, the core issue that restricts the further development of China is the cultural issue.
It is said that the core issue of China's development is culture, because many problems in China are closely related to culture at this historical stage. If cultural construction is not paid attention to, it will be difficult to improve people's quality, then social undertakings such as political reform, economic development, corruption control and legal system construction will be difficult to leap to a new level because of the restriction of people's quality, and cultural problems are the bottleneck restricting China's development to a higher level. Facts have proved that many problems in China are inseparable from cultural issues-
First, institutional and cultural issues. A harmonious society will establish a democratic, legal, fair and just social system, and many other rules and regulations will also be reformed and innovated on this basis to make them more coordinated and perfect. However, no matter how perfect the system is, if it can't realize cultural cognition and recognition, and produce consciousness and self-discipline, it may also become a vase and decoration. The rigid regulations of the system and the soft orientation of culture must be unified at the same level, otherwise the perfect system may be exploited. When advanced systems are introduced into culturally backward countries, they may become the object of being played and laughed at. It is relatively easy to formulate or introduce a system, but it involves profound cultural issues if it is to be effectively implemented and play its due role.
Take China as an example, the voice of anti-corruption cannot be said to be low, nor can the intensity of anti-corruption be said to be weak. Why is corruption more and more rampant? Among them, it is because the deep-rooted corruption culture in people's hearts has not been highly valued and has not been solved culturally, which has led to a chain reaction. How to make those who are eager for power change their values in culture and reach the recognition of democracy and legal system; How to make people change their nostalgia for feudal hierarchy in culture and realize their cultural identity of fairness and justice; And so on, these contents will determine the success or failure of the system construction of a harmonious society in a certain sense. Strict system is a means to combat corruption, and corrupt culture is a hotbed of corruption-think carefully, what are the significance and role of the two in the anti-corruption struggle? !
If you are not corrupt, people think you are incompetent; If you don't talk about ostentation and extravagance, people will think you are stingy; If you don't flirt, people think you are unattractive; If you are modest and prudent, people will think you lack self-confidence; If it is not vulgar, people will laugh at your hypocrisy ... when justice is ridiculed, when honesty is rejected, when corruption is called ability, and when the system is played, how authoritative is the system construction under such a cultural background?
Secondly, economic and cultural issues. Building a harmonious society is inseparable from economic prosperity, but what is the purpose of economic prosperity? Take a family as an example, the purpose of saving money as a family member is to support the family, and saving more money is also to make the family live a happier life. A happy life involves cultural issues. If there is something wrong with culture, no matter how much money you save, you may not be happy. On the contrary, it will lead to family tension and even emotional breakdown. In the real world, such examples abound. Take a country as an example, the main purpose of economic construction is to let citizens live a dignified life, and whether citizens can live a dignified life is actually a cultural issue. If there are cultural problems, or the cultural quality of citizens has not been improved accordingly, then economic prosperity will lead to labor exploitation and economic oppression, and abnormal social psychology may lead to a more serious "Foxconn incident." There is such a person, when they don't earn money, they often feel inferior and miserable because of poverty, while when they have money, they often suffer because they lose their goals, because of all kinds of irritability brought by money. Whether they have money or not, they always live in trouble, and the root of their problems is their culture.
If economic development is divorced from cultural construction, social life will be alienated because of putting the cart before the horse. When economic construction develops to a certain level and stage, cultural construction should become the focus of society. Building a harmonious society is put forward after the economic development has reached a certain stage, the economic construction has a certain level and foundation, and some profound social contradictions have been exposed. Therefore, the core issue of building a harmonious society is culture. Taking China's economic policy as an example, the purpose of letting some people get rich first is to let them play a good leading role. However, some people get rich first, which has caused more and more serious polarization in society and intensified hatred for the rich. Some people who get rich first do not try their best to lead everyone to get rich, but try their best to get foreign green cards and deposit their wealth in foreign banks. Over the past 30 years since the reform and opening up, China's economy has indeed become much stronger, and many commendable achievements have been made in social development. However, we also have to admit that the impetuous culture has caused the waste of resources in China's production and lifestyle, and the economic growth has also made more and more people become economic slaves. We can see that while China's economy is developing, a profound cultural crisis is brewing, which will surely push the development of China to the climax of cultural construction.
Third, social stability and cultural issues. Culture is the foundation of social order, and the confusion of culture will inevitably lead to the confusion of thoughts, which will lead to the confusion of lifestyle and social order. When the society lacks dominant values in culture, when the development of culture violates the rational unity of human nature, and when there are sharp contradictions and conflicts between cultures, it will be a very unstable society. In a society with chaotic culture, once conflicts and frictions occur, even a faint spark of collision will easily form a prairie fire, which will quickly spread to the economic, political and military fields and affect the stability of the whole society.
Differences in ideas often lead to conflicts of interests, cultural differences often lead to conflicts of lifestyles, and cultural confusion will do great harm to social stability and unity. The future will be a more open society, and multiculturalism is coming into our life. Multiculturalism will penetrate into every corner of the soul with the help of the Internet, resulting in a global cultural "shuffle phenomenon". In this historical period, ideological conflicts and conceptual contradictions caused by culture are inevitable. In order to build a harmonious society and maintain social stability and unity, it is necessary to establish a multicultural model in culture. This model should not only contain all cultural conflicts in the same society, but also solve ideological contradictions in a certain sense, so as to maintain this cultural difference and ideological contradiction in an integrated social aggregate.
Social stability and unity can not be separated from the harmonious unity of multi-cultures, and cultural issues will become the core issue in building a harmonious society. At present, although the conflict caused by culture is not obvious, the conflict of multi-culture seems far away to ordinary people, and many people still lack in-depth understanding, the cultural problems in China have begun to form in the process of globalization. For example, the emergence of cynicism, the intensification of Marxist cultural contradictions and hatred of the rich, the emotional indifference between people, the poor cultural quality and international image of China people, the increasingly difficult communication between different groups, the population quality problems caused by the doting of the only child, the cultural generation gap between parents and children, and the contradictions and frictions between national cultures. The state uses cultural contradictions to interfere in sovereignty and create chaos ... For the Chinese nation with 5,000 years of splendid civilization and a population of/kloc-0.3 billion, if cultural construction cannot attract the attention of the whole society, it will be difficult for political reform, economic construction, social harmony and other constructions to leap to a new level, and China will gradually lag behind the development pace of the international community and withdraw from the historical stage because of cultural backwardness.
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In a word, the premise of social progress is cognitive progress, which can be regarded as cultural progress in a certain sense. Whether it is political reform or economic development, as well as social stability and harmony, it is inseparable from the corresponding cultural construction. After political stability and economic prosperity, China will inevitably embark on a historical period with cultural construction as the core. Only in this way can we consolidate the development achievements of the first two historical stages and lay a better foundation for future development. On the contrary, culture will become a bottleneck restricting the further development of various social undertakings. Cultural construction is a very broad topic with rich connotations. Just like this, cultural construction has different contents in different historical periods. Only by grasping the key points can the outline be raised; We must face the world in order to keep pace with the times; Only by promoting the diversified development of culture can culture form a prosperous situation of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend; We must build a pluralistic and unified cultural development model on the basis of rationality to adapt to the development of globalization. In the view of cultural diagnostics, for a long time to come, the main contents of China's cultural construction should focus on the following aspects:
First, improve the cultural quality of the people, and improve and constantly enhance the international image of China people;
Second, strengthen national cohesion and strengthen the international competition consciousness of the whole society;
Third, build a system of honest behavior, improve citizens' self-awareness and self-restraint ability, and improve citizens' happiness perception and aesthetic creativity;
4. Facing the development of globalization, culture should strengthen its guiding role and inspiring role, cultivate the national spirit of the new era, and turn this spirit into the force of national rejuvenation;
Fifth, build a pluralistic and unified cultural development pattern, reform the current education system, and cultivate and enhance people's ability to judge facts, values and practices. On this basis, everyone can freely choose their own culture and beliefs;
Sixth, improve the government's service awareness and service level, and establish an honest government that can be supported by citizens in culture and values.
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Second, what is the core issue of cultural development in the process of building a pluralistic and unified pattern?
There are advanced, backward, good, evil, noble, vulgar, essence and dross in culture. What kind of culture will produce what kind of thoughts, what kind of behavior will lead to, and what kind of lifestyle will be created. Noble culture can inspire people and shape noble personality; Vulgar culture will confuse people and create inferior quality. In this sense, culture is divided into three different characteristics: healthy, sub-healthy and morbid. In the cultural background of diversified development, in the cultural development environment where a hundred schools of thought contend, especially in this network age, cultural development can be described as mixed. How to distinguish the health, sub-health and pathological degree of culture, and make reasonable reference to culture on the basis of scientific judgment? What will happen if a person lacks the ability to criticize and learn from culture in a mixed cultural development environment? What happens when a person does not have the ability to distinguish cultural concepts such as economic cults, political cults and terrorism? And have a fanatical worship of this idea? What happens when a person is lost in the sea of knowledge and can't tell the direction of truth? What kind of cultural consequences will occur when a person mistook willfulness for individuality and vulgarity for sincerity? ...
Since 2008, we have held a cultural public welfare activity on the evaluation of thinking ability. In the questionnaire, we designed such a question: "Do you feel overwhelmed by knowledge?" Do you think you have a lot of knowledge to learn, but you don't have enough time and energy? "In the answers we received, many people chose often. In the column of supplementary explanation, many people talked about their confusion about knowledge and culture, which reflected a confusion of truth and a loss of value. In fact, this kind of confusion and loss is a common phenomenon under the background of cultural diversity. In this regard, we pointed out in the evaluation report that when a person lacks the ability to diagnose and control culture and cannot incorporate knowledge into his own thinking system, he will feel overwhelmed by knowledge. When a person lacks the ability to judge facts, it is often difficult to make scientific judgments about knowledge and culture. When a person lacks the ability of value judgment, it is often difficult to make a reasonable judgment on knowledge and culture. When a person lacks practical judgment, it is often difficult to integrate practice and theory with knowledge and culture, and it is also difficult to properly grasp the "degree" according to specific conditions and environmental changes, so it will be mechanically applied and lose the creative ability of flexible application. Once a person is lost in the sea of knowledge, it is easy to be captured by all kinds of wrong ideas and evil thoughts and unconsciously become their victims.
The value of any knowledge is not comparable to one's own thinking ability. When a person loses his thinking ability in front of knowledge, he will lose his ability to distinguish knowledge and culture, and the result will be tragic. Therefore, in the era of building a harmonious society, facing the development of globalization and the rapid development of the Internet, the core issue of culture is the healthy development of culture, and the key to the healthy development of culture is to improve people's ability to diagnose and control culture. When a person has the ability to diagnose and control culture, he will not be overwhelmed by all kinds of ideas, nor will he get lost in the ocean of knowledge; When a person has the ability to diagnose and control culture, then he can make scientific judgments on cultural health, sub-health and pathological phenomena and form a correct attitude. The more prosperous a culture is, the more important it is. The more chaotic the culture is, the more necessary it is to make a health diagnosis of the culture. To talk about the healthy development of culture and cultivate and improve people's ability to diagnose and control culture, we have to establish a new discipline-cultural diagnostics in this Internet age.
Regarding cultural diagnostics, I once wrote: "A disorderly cultural prosperity and chaotic ideological activities bring people not knowledge and wisdom, but mental exhaustion and rational confusion. We believe that in today's rapid development of culture, in order to meet the needs of the healthy development of culture, a cultural diagnosis should be established, which has the nature of a discipline and is widely recognized and consciously used by the whole society. " I have made a survey on this statement, and from the feedback of the survey, most people agree, because they have already felt that unhealthy "cultural prosperity" is eroding the young generation who are not deeply involved in the world. However, some people don't agree with this statement, thinking that "culture must be absolutely free, culture needs a hundred flowers and a hundred schools of thought contend, and culture doesn't need to be diagnosed, and it can't be diagnosed ..." I once gave a tit-for-tat answer to this chaotic concept, and I said to him, "Did Mao Zedong put forward your idea of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend? ! However, Mao Zedong also put forward the cultural proposition of taking its essence and discarding its dross. Excuse me, if you don't have the ability to analyze and diagnose culture, how can you take its essence and discard its dross ... "