How important is intuition?

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 There might be only two types of people. One is the people with intuition. They can sense things quickly through a special channel from within. The other rely on logic and "facts", as they would name it. They will not use intuition to reach for the facts..... 

Malimbi: 

The Intuition Story

                                 2016.6.15 

This is a small incident that happened a few days ago. But from it, one may glimpse the future of humanity.

 You may have already read this story in the news. Or you may have felt the same. But today, although still remembered, if we do not bring it up, the story will gradually fade. 

 At the Cincinnati Zoo in the United States, there are many gorillas. One of them, a 17-year-old male named Malimbi, is deeply beloved by the visitors. He is large in size, weighing about 400 pounds. 

 One day, around three in the afternoon, he suddenly heard the audience outside scream in sharp, high-pitched shouts. He and two female gorillas wanted to see what was happening. Because, usually, the sound of the audience is different from this moment. The crowd was shouting with almost frenzied emotion.

 Animal keepers blocked their way. The two females behaved well and did not go further. But Malimbi ignored the keepers’ warnings. He discovered that in the ditch between the ape enclosure and the audience, there was a small child. 

 He did not know how a three-year-old child, only about a foot tall, had fallen into it. But the crowd’s shouting made him think that the child might be in danger. 

 He quickly moved forward and used his body to shield the child from the loud, shouting crowd.

 He remained in front of the child for a moment. But the crowd kept shouting. He began to think that he should take the child away from the scene. He grabbed the child; for several seconds they had already moved tens of meters away. Yet they were still in the ditch, and the audience above was shouting. Only then did he have time to look closely at the child. The child seemed to be a very interesting kid. He helped the child stand upright and even adjusted the child’s pants.

 But the crowd kept shouting. He did not know what they were shouting, only that it was a very bad sound. He wanted to find a safer position. 

 He continued to run with the child. They stopped at another place. But he did not realize that the keepers had already arrived and were aiming at him with a rifle. 

 If his intuition had been stronger, he might have sensed that someone far away was aiming at him. The threat of the gun barrel might have been perceived.

 Suddenly a gunshot rang out, and he died. The keepers quickly came, taking the child away.

 When facing television cameras, the zoo’s senior staff explained: if the incident happens again, they would still shoot. Because, they said, when a human life is threatened, they would certainly do so.

 The incident caused countless people to cry and protest. 

 That senior staff member could not understand what people were protesting about. Shouldn’t they shoot? 

 He had worked at the zoo for many years, but he could never communicate with animals. He lacked intuition. He could only observe things from external circumstances. 

 He was crippled from within.

 Was this a small matter?

 Of course not. 

 They can shoot at a Black street vendor with impunity, let alone a gorilla? 

 Those who lack intuition are, in fact, almost blind. Yet such people hold power. With a gun in hand, it is convenient to do many things. 

 Wars occur on Earth from time to time, and countless major problems cannot be solved; this is one of the reasons. 

 Postscript:

 Has Malimbi’s story come to an end? Today, the incident happened not quite two weeks ago, but all the media will not report follow-up news. This matter has lost its teaching value. Only a few people, occasionally, will still remember that there once existed such a gorilla.

 If I think this way, I wonder if that incident hadn’t happened in a zoo but somewhere in a jungle in South America, the outcome would have been entirely different.

 Malimbi would have adopted the child. He would have tried his best in the jungle to protect the child from harm.

 Then, he would educate the child.

 This would be the story of the ape-man Taishan. In the past, a French director, François Roland Truffaut, made a film about a wild child rescued in the forest. The story is very similar.

 But this is a new Taishan. Because the new Taishan not only has the agility of an ape, he also possesses a very special intuition. It is a kind of wisdom that is rarely found in humans. And this intuition is something that ordinary elementary and middle school education cannot provide. 

 This is immensely exciting. Because the intuition education that the whole world lacks has suddenly occurred. Malimbi becomes a kind of human’s volunteer tutor. He teaches humans to learn an extremely ancient and extremely important knowledge. 

 Tell me, where can one learn such knowledge? 

 If our politicians  possessed this knowledge, the future of the world would be bright.

 Actually, it’s very easy. Just watch a few more children’s cartoon stories, and one would become suddenly clever.

 But would they want to? Cartoon stories? How absurd.

 6/15/2016

 馬林比： 直覺的故事

 這是一件發生在幾天之前的小事。但從其中，可能看到人類的前途。

 或者你已經在新聞中看過這故事。 或者你有相同感覺。但今天，雖然仍有印象，但如果不再提起，這故事就漸漸淡忘。

 在美國辛辛那提州動物園， 養有不少大猩猩。其中一隻名叫馬林比的十七歲雄猩猩，深受觀眾喜愛。他體型龐大， 四百磅重。 

 這天大約下午三時多，他忽然聽到了外面觀眾們的尖聲大叫。 他和另外兩隻雌猩猩，都想一看究竟。因為，平時的觀眾聲音，是和這刻不同的。觀眾以近乎竭斯底里的情緒大叫。

 動物管理員阻止他們前進。兩隻雌猩猩很乖，沒有繼續去。但馬林比不理管理員的警告，他發現了，在隔絕猩猩園區和觀眾之間的大水溝裡，有一個小孩子。

 他不知道，那只有一呎許高的三歲孩子，是怎樣跌進來的。但觀眾的大叫，使他覺得，那孩子可能有危險。

 他迅速前進，並且以自己的身體，遮擋孩子，不讓那些高聲大嚷的群眾看到孩子。

 他呆了在孩子前面片刻。但觀眾仍在大叫。他開始覺得，要把孩子帶離現場。他抓著孩子，幾秒鐘，已經離開了幾十公尺。但他仍是在水溝裡，上面的 觀眾仍在叫。這時，他才有時間細心的看一看孩子。 似乎是很有趣的 一個孩子。 他讓孩子站直身子， 還為孩子整理了一下褲子。

 但觀眾仍在叫。他不知道觀眾叫甚麼，只覺得那是很不好的一種聲音。他想再換一個安全位置。 

 他帶著孩子繼續跑。 到了另外的一個地方停下。 但他沒有看到，管理員已經來到。 並且用鎗瞄準他。 

 如果他的直覺再強一些， 就可能感受遠處有人在瞄準。鎗咀的威脅，也可能感知。 

 忽然鎗聲響起，他就死了。 管理員迅速前來，抱走孩子。

 在面對電視鏡頭的時候，動物園的高級職員解釋：如果事情再發生多一次，他們仍是會照樣開鎗的。因為，他說，在人類的生命受到威脅的時候， 他們是一定這樣做的。 

 這件事，使無數人悲泣抗議。

 那位高級職員無法了解，人們抗議甚麼。不是應該開鎗的嗎?

 他在動物園工作多年，但永遠不能和動物溝通。 他是沒有直覺的。他只能從外在的情勢觀察事情。

 他是內在的跛子。

 這是一件小事嗎?

 當然不是。 

 他們面對黑人小販都可以隨意開鎗， 何況一隻猴子? 

 欠缺直覺的人，其實和瞎子差不多。但這樣的人，卻掌握權力。有鎗在手，很方便，可以做很多事情。 

 地球上時時有戰爭，而無數重 大問題無法解決，這是其中一個原因。 

 後記:

 馬林比的故事，是否已經完了? 今天，事情大約過去了不夠兩個星期，但所有的傳媒， 不會再報導後續新聞。 這件事，已經再沒有教導的價值了。只有很少的人，偶然，還會想起過，是曾經有這麼一隻大猩猩存在過。

 我這樣想，如果那件事不是發生在動物園，而是在南美洲某處叢林，故事的結果將會完全不同。 

 馬林比會從此領養了這孩子。 他會盡力在叢林中保護這孩子，使他不受傷害。

 然後，他會教育那孩子。 

 這就是猿人泰山的故事了。從前有個法國導演杜老福拍過一部影片，描述在森林裡救回來的野孩子。 故事也很相似。 

 但這是一位新的泰山。因為，新泰山不只有猿猴般的身手，他還有了某種非常特殊的直覺。 那是在人類身上都很少有的智慧。而這種直覺，是普通的大中小學教育，完全不能提供的。

 這是使人極端興奮的。因為，全世界都欠缺的直覺教育，竟然忽然得到了。馬林比成為了人類的一個義務補習老師。他教會了人類學會了一種極端古老，而且極端重要的知識。

 請問，到甚麼地方可以學得到這樣的知識呢? 

 如果我們的政治家們，都會了這種知識，世界前途一片光明。

 其實是很容易的。只要多看幾部孩子的卡通故事，就都會忽然聰明起來的。 

 但他們肯麼? 卡通故事？太荒唐了。

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