This article expresses Qu Yuan's life ideal and outlook on life through dialogue and question-and-answer, fully shows the irreconcilable conflict of outlook on life between secular people and great men, and embodies the fierce collision of two different outlook on life, which makes me admire Qu Yuan's great personality and indomitable spirit of fighting evil, and is full of helplessness and regret for the secular people's mentality of "drifting with the current" or even "drifting with the current".
Qu Yuan's understanding of the world is the same as that of fishermen, but how to deal with that dirty society is the opposite. They all clearly realized that the society at that time was dark, unfair and dirty, so how to survive and develop in that dark society and how to deal with that dark society, the two sides adopted different ways. Qu Yuan's desperate way of refusing to cooperate is "An Neng observes things with his own eyes and accepts things with courtesy", "It's better to go to Hunan and be buried in the belly of a river fish, and An Neng is white and dusty", while the fisherman's way is "The world is muddy, why not splash its mud and make waves? Everyone is drunk, why not feed the bad ones and indulge? Go with the flow or even go with the flow. It is this diametrically opposite way of life that shows the fierce conflict between two different outlook on life. Lifestyle reflects the attitude of life, and also leads to different life endings: Qu Yuan's outlook on life eventually leads to his hatred and worship of the whole world, while the secular outlook on life that goes with the flow or even goes with the flow converges into a secular torrent, which increases endless tragedies and evils and maintains the prosperity of human society.
How to deal with an unfair, dirty and dark society is an eternal topic. Different people give different answers and take different ways. But nothing more than the following points:
One, such as Qu Yuan, threw himself into the river. When a person can't change the dark society through unremitting struggle, but he doesn't want to go with the flow, but he still wants to keep a noble body. With the disillusionment of life ideals, his choice is often like Qu Yuan's "throwing himself into the river", doing the final, powerless and helpless struggle to destroy his body. Although Qu Yuan's deep thinking and lofty spirit are admired by the world, this extreme way is also a kind of struggle, but it is not desirable. He lacked the life tension and intensity of tenacious struggle, the tenacity and resistance of indomitable life, and even made the bloody and persistent struggle dull until his death.
Second, fight to the end. A fair, just, harmonious and harmonious society will not happen overnight, nor can it happen overnight. You should know that "heaven was not built in a day", it needs unremitting efforts, tenacious struggle, diligent exploration, continuous improvement and continuous refining of several generations. During this period, there will be twists and turns, repetition, failure, temptation, trap, confusion, bloodshed and sacrifice. From China's Confucius to Lin Zexu to Sun Yat-sen, from Washington, DC to Lincoln and then to Franklin, they all used this way of fighting to the end to change the dark society and work hard for their ideals, which can be described as "one breath remains, and the struggle continues".
Third, seclusion. This is the way adopted by many intellectuals in China's ancient autocratic society, such as You, Tao Yuanming, Lin Bu and so on. They can't face the dark society, and they can't change the social status quo. They chose the way of seclusion, sending their feelings to the mountains and rivers, selling poems and books, and showing their natural and unrestrained posture. Although their behavior is a kind of resistance to the dark society, it is only a kind of negative resistance, which can be said to be a kind of negative compromise, a kind of helplessness and incompetence. They lack the ultimate concern for people, the strength and tenacity that life should have, and the confidence, courage and ability to actively change society. This negative compromise has fueled the fierce flames of the dark society and dimmed their original radiant aura.
Fourth, go with the flow, go with the flow. This is the road that most people have taken since ancient times. Their reason is simple: this society is dark, and I hate this dark society very much, but because I am weak, I have no ability to change this society, that is, I have no ability to change it, so I must accept, adapt and identify with this society for me and my family to live a good life. What a good reason! With such a good reason, they can "spit their mud and make waves" and "feed their inferiority and encourage their wind" with peace of mind. It is under the guidance of this kind of thinking that the world has no hesitation, go forward bravely, make waves in the dark turbid waves, and make the dark turbid waves stronger, more ferocious, more ugly, more unstoppable and more difficult to turn back. When they frolic in the dark and muddy waves, they occasionally make a few disdainful laughs at the rebels. "Don't understand current events, look at how well we are doing, you idiots, envy us!" . Not smiling is not enough to show their vulgar intelligence, incompetent ability and endless guilty conscience.
Society is a society of all people, not a society of one person or some people. The change of a person or a small group of people is very small. Only when all people participate and make due resistance and struggle against the unreasonable, unjust, unfair and even dark society will the society undergo fundamental changes, otherwise, the process of change and transformation will be quite long and distant.