What is the Basic Attitude of Life in Chinese Civilization?

 9301  What is the basic attitude of life in Chinese civilization? 

There is no such concept as a “Doomsday” or a “Last Judgement” in the thoughts of the Chinese Civilization. They have never thought of an end of all mankind. In the Chinese concept, to grow is the greatest virtue of the Universe.  Growing is an unending process which will carry on without end. 

Chinese civilization is different from the West. Most of the Western religions believe that there is an end of the world. Judaism, Christianity, and Muslim have similar concepts about the end and a final judgement.  The first concept was from the Zoroastrians. They were from the Persian empire when Zoroastrianism was first developed. And the thought about the end of the world spread around the world since. They all believed that the world and the human race was created by a God and will be destroyed by the same God. ( please note: a “God” is not the same as a “Creator” in Chinese culture.)

There is an unexpected result of this doomsday concept. That meant there was no future for human race. 

One of the most imminent and direct result is that humans will not have a sense of hope. They would seek material comfort instead. Money is the only shorter term of safety for them. 

And this thought is the basic problem of the Western minds. It is more than any other harm to the minds. 

Central problem of the West is that each and every people is a “self”. There will not be any guarantee for the single units in the society. And the world is going to nowhere.  There will be no comfort for anyone. The lucky ones will have a family, yet families will be broken sooner or later when the time is passed. Anyone will be a lonely self when the final destruction comes. Human race will not be a comfort for them as they believe humans will be destroyed soon. And it needs not a religious people to believe that. Even the non-religious people cannot avoid this common believe when the scientists keep warning of a global warming or other mishaps which is bound to happen. It is darkness over the heads of Western people.

One of the symbols will be the street sleepers in major United States cities. They have some money from the Government and they are not hungry yet they have no homes and have to sleep on the streets. There are no sense of safety or happiness for them. They are the grey clouds of the Western capitalism. 

Capitalism is a system of  “self”.  Capitalism is composed of single units.  A sense of individual self is basic mindset of the West.  Yet it is very satirical to see similar pictures in China.  One of the forums run by the Chinese science people name their forums “SELF”, just to promote a sense of “self-respect” like the Beijing University people. (please refer to the attached photos)

Basic attitude of life in Chinese civilization is to grow, they do not believe in doomsdays, and they are choosing a cooperative way to organize their society. Socialism is a form of mutual help and love. 

And to grow means to evolve. The course of evolution will be a long and unending process. Humans will have a bright future. It’s a picture beyond imagination. A new revelation will be ahead of our time and tell us what the future will be. And that meant hope. Hope is real when people started to give up selfish thoughts and started to think about working together and loving each other.  And we will get over the shadows of selfish “selfs”. 

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