Zeng Guofan once said, what are the signs before social chaos?

Zeng Guofan once said that before social chaos, there must be three trillion? Black and white are upside down, right and wrong are hard to tell! Everyone protects himself wisely and dares not speak; Useless people are arrogant. Everything is getting cold. ? This passage was not fulfilled until 40 years later.

The full text of this passage is because Zeng Guofan, an old general, had to surrender to the enemy because of defeat. Zeng Guofan, who was extremely worried in his heart, appeared in a letter written to his friend Hu Linyi in April of the eleventh year of Xianfeng:

Khufu Bao Gong: Today, if Li Jinyou escapes from thieves and surrenders to the province, what the waiter said is not without evidence. Generally speaking, the reason why troubled times are chaotic is that black and white are confused first; The second is that the more the gentleman gives in, the more the villain retaliates. The waiter was not as strong as in previous years, but just sat down. People feel a little inferior. I used to sit on this ear.

The general idea of this passage is that there is a certain reason why society is disrupted. The first is that people begin to point to black and white, and the second is that gentlemen and justice become silent, and villains and evil become active. Third, if all anxiety is taken for granted, then the real chaos is not far away.

Black and white are reversed, and right and wrong are indistinguishable. This can be said to be the first step of social chaos. Everyone is in cahoots with others, and bad kings and thieves begin to appear, referring to deer as horses, and all kinds of social affairs are black and white, regardless of right or wrong. The right is not confirmed, and the wrong promotion. When a dynasty or society loses this basic function of judgment and purification, there is no distinction between justice and evil, and this dynasty is on the road to death.

Good people are not rewarded but vilified, while evil people are not condemned but forgiven. The morality of society began to become abnormal. Because black and white are reversed, the faint king and the faint minister begin to appear, the treacherous court official is in power, and the honest official is isolated. Justice cannot be served, society loses its basic ability to judge and purify, people are naturally poor, and prices soar, which leads to the polarization between the two classes and the deepening of social contradictions, and finally inevitably begins to decline.

The more the gentleman gives in, the more arrogant the villain becomes.

What is a gentleman? Live for justice and resist for evil. But when the society is black and white, justice cannot be done at all, and many gentlemen suffer greatly, so they can only retreat for their livelihood. The villain is in power, doing whatever he wants and destroying the social system. There will be the third sentence that Zeng Guofan said next.

Numbness leads to confusion.

Everyone has a terrible idea. At first, he will be angry when faced with something, but after a long time, he will get used to it and become numb. This numbness is actually the last fuse of all kinds of chaos and national subjugation. Throughout the change of each dynasty, when a new monarch appeared, many people were numb and had no warning to the old dynasty. The most prominent example is that more than ten years after Zeng Guofan uttered this sentence, Eight-Nation Alliance called Beijing, but the people in the street said nothing. And the reason for all this is that they become numb.

Since ancient times, water can carry a boat and overturn it, and the people are the foundation of benefiting the country. It is the people who suffer from all kinds of chaos in the upper class, but if a country really numbs the people, it is not far from chaos.