What is an independent thinker?

Schopenhauer said, "Independent thinking is more important than reading."

Don't use emotions instead of thinking, it's easy to get carried away by emotions.

We are all too easy to rhyme and fall into the incitement of others.

Once something goes wrong, most people do not pursue the truth first, but vent their emotions first.

Even before the truth came out, the moral trial had already begun.

There is a saying in "Mob":

"The masses have never longed for the truth, and they turn a blind eye to tasteless evidence. If fallacies are tempting to them, they are more willing to worship them. "

In this era of rumors, brainwashing and prejudice, how important is it to keep your head as jade?

Let the bullet fly for a while, don't jump to conclusions.

Your ability to think independently determines the height of your future life.

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I saw such a news the other day.

There is a snow resort in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The trees are covered with ice and snow, and the white crystals are beautiful.

However, this beautiful scenery was spoiled by a pair of tourists.

The tourist couple unscrupulously painted pink fluorescent paint and scribbled on snow and tree ice.

In the snow, the pink Chinese word "Happy Birthday" stands out.

Japanese media have scolded China people for their poor quality, so don't come to Japan again.

China netizens also picked up the keyboard:

"It's a shame to throw out this country! Such people should be blacklisted and cannot leave the country in the future! " "Ha ha, this is the quality of China people, and it is not surprising."

It was not until a month later that the Japanese police arrested the real prisoner that the truth came out:

The graffiti artist is not from China at all, but a 29-year-old Burmese man. In order to please his girlfriend, he wrote "Happy Birthday" in Chinese and English on the snow.

We are all too easy to rhyme and fall into the incitement of others.

Once something goes wrong, most people do not pursue the truth first, but vent their emotions first.

"The quality of China people is low." "China people are very rude." "China people are like a group of uneducated upstarts."

These marked languages have already spread all over China.

Even before the truth came out, the moral trial had already begun.

There is a saying in "Mob":

"The masses have never longed for the truth, and they turn a blind eye to tasteless evidence. If fallacies are tempting to them, they are more willing to worship them. "

In this era of rumors, brainwashing and prejudice, how important is it to keep your head as jade?

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On 20 17, there was a hot search for such a news:

In Pattaya Elephant Garden, Thailand, two China tourists went to take photos with the elephants without authorization, but the elephants in the elephant garden found them and drove them out. Two unwilling tourists from China once again sneaked into the elephant garden and tugged at the elephant's tail. As a result, the elephant was angered and ran towards the two. He Yongjie, the team leader, found that two tourists were in danger and immediately ran to rescue them. A tragic thing happened: He Yongjie was caught up by the elephant's nose, fell heavily and trampled to death with his foot.

As soon as the news came out, the netizen angered: "China people just don't obey the rules."

"Unqualified China tourists killed a young tour guide."

The marketing number also began to write articles rhythmically:

How tragic is the price of "staying away from garbage people who ignore the rules" and "people who don't follow the rules"? 》 ......

However, Xinhua News Agency and other media investigated the witnesses and found that this was not the case.

The fact is:

"The elephant of another tour group suddenly got angry when passing through a meadow and rushed towards our group. He Yongjie was trampled to death by an elephant to save an old lady in our group. "

Why are we always so easily brainwashed by rumors?

Why are we always easy to be ignited, incited, angered and induced?

Look at the hot events that happened this year, and nothing can escape this iron law:

Chongqing bus crashed into the river, and the news targeted at a female driver, saying that she was wearing high heels, so the whole network was denouncing it.

Until the video was exposed, the accident had nothing to do with the female driver, and the netizens who were originally indignant stopped talking.

Jiang Jiabao, a friend revealed: Jiang's Japanese girlfriend not only has a chaotic private life, but also pretends to be pregnant and insults China.

The patriotic enthusiasm of the people who ate melons was ignited: "Such a woman should fight!" "Fuzi dares to be bold, I am circled!"

For a time, the underworld, mother's belief in cults, 7P all kinds of black materials ... Puhua friends were all over the place, and what broke out was not rational discrimination, but venting.

And DG announced a break with China, Fu Xinbo welcomed children's AA system, and let Weibo be reviled. ......

We are always eager to queue up and express our views, instead of thinking independently and calmly distinguishing.

Our relationship is getting cheaper and cheaper, but it is getting farther and farther away from the truth.

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Read such a joke.

In order to prove that the crab's hearing is in the leg, an expert caught a crab and shouted at it. The crab quickly ran away.

Then the expert grabbed it back, roared again, and the crab ran away again.

Finally, the expert cut off all the legs of the crab and shouted at the crab.

The crab didn't move as expected.

The expert proudly announced to everyone: Look, my judgment is correct, and the hearing of the crab is indeed on the leg.

Is it funny?

However, many people are caught in this confirmation error:

Only believe what you want to believe, and tend to look for any evidence to prove that you are right and rationalize your point of view.

This weakness of human nature provides opportunities for those emotional instigators.

Marketing numbers like to bring rhythm, incite public opinion, stir up the nerves of the public through pictures and words, and earn enough traffic for themselves; Emotional leaders like to scold love rat and praise women in simple and rude language, and then naturally launch a set of "Love 36 Plan" courses.

Ma Dong said: "This kind of incitement is everywhere in our lives.

People in various roles around him are persuading themselves to support his point of view every day, so that we can help him accomplish something.

There is no right or wrong, but our values, especially the values of life, should be anti-incitement and anti-brainwashing. "

Low-level cognition, lack of independent thinking ability, and always brainwashed by inflammatory remarks will only make a person stand still and stagnate.

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Are people in China really of low quality?

Are foreigners really better than us?

We should learn at all times not to label ourselves easily and kill everyone with a stick.

A Japanese brother used his wallet to test the quality of China people on the streets of China.

He put his wallet in the back pocket of his trousers and swaggered around the city center.

After a long time, I still have my wallet.

Later, he even pretended to slip on the phone and let his wallet fall to the ground.

Someone immediately reminded him: Bro, you dropped your wallet.

My little brother was unwilling and tried countless times in many places.

As a result, no one in China would secretly take away his wallet, and everyone chose a warm reminder.

This year, an "unmanned freezer" appeared on the streets of Hangzhou, offering free cold drinks.

China people with "low quality" will definitely grab the cold drinks they can't order, right?

However, the reality is:

A beautiful young lady found a free cold drink and took an ice cream from the freezer.

When I was about to leave, I saw the notice saying: cold drinks for sanitation workers, police comrades, courier brother, and I put the ice cream back.

An old man stopped in front of the freezer for a long time with a bag.

I thought he was going to get a cold drink. Unexpectedly, he took an apple out of his bag and put it in the freezer.

A child walked quietly to the freezer, put a piece of paper in it, and then walked away quickly.

It turned out that he wrote such a letter to express his gratitude:

The uncle and aunt who sent water to the love freezer reminded him of the courier father.

Free cold drinks, unattended, consciously taken away, not only not looted, but also a lot more.

There are many high-quality China people. We should not flatter blindly, and we don't need to sell ourselves short.

Schopenhauer said, "Independent thinking is more important than reading."

Don't use emotions instead of thinking, it's easy to get carried away by emotions.

Let the bullet fly for a while, don't jump to conclusions.

In this era, in the noisy public opinion, it is most important to reject the label effect and cultivate your own critical thinking.

* * * Encourage.