“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighbourhood. From this prison there is no escape. But the moment he takes up a book, he immediately enters a different world, and if it is a good book, he is immediately put in touch with one of the best talkers of the world. This talker leads him on and carries him into a different country or a different age, or unburdens to him some of his personal regrets, or discusses with him some special line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about. An ancient author puts him in communion with a dead spirit of long ago, and as he reads along, he begins to imagine what the ancient author looked like and what type of person he was.” ― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
看下面的争论有点意思。国人总是想着帝国及大一统的荣耀。呵呵。那些荣耀都是属于帝王将相地。跟老百姓一毛关系都没有。
你看看历史啊，中国老百姓唯一一个真正比较富有的朝代只有宋朝。而宋朝根本就没什么帝国的荣耀。只有城下之盟。连打赢了还得赔钱。
有帝国荣耀的年代，老百姓都是穷困地。连康乾时代都是如此。看那些清朝的老照片，老百姓都是面黄肌瘦，只有官员脑满肠肥。康乾盛世也不是老百姓的盛世。在乾隆时代，英国曾派使团觐见乾隆。回去后，英国人写了一份详细的报告，里面就说中国国富民贫，外强中干。
除了宋朝之外，秦一统时代百姓尸横遍野，汉武帝时代百姓民不聊生（汉武帝晚年写下罪己昭），大唐安史之乱照样民不聊生。明朝，皇帝不工作的年代倒是过了点好日子，可是开头的时候老朱可没少杀人。
什么狗 屁帝国啊，老百姓能过安稳的日子才是正道。秦皇汉武加上老毛都是狗 屁。哈哈。除了杀人有功绩，老百姓得了啥好？
帝国是封建社会的糟粕。人类都要走出地球的年代，还想着多占点地？
美国也是傻 叉。管那么多事干嘛。让他们打去呗。欧洲，中东，亚洲爱咋打咋打。不打到美洲就行。
哎，不管啥年代，都是老百姓倒霉。
有一句话不错吧：宁做太平狗，不做乱世人啊。
胡侃啊，拍砖的时候轻点。
出国的这帮中国人，不但要做大国国民，还要到大国的一线城市工作生活，累不累啊，上班交通拥挤，小孩上学竞争大，到处搬家最后小孩不在身边，何必呢。
羡慕某国小城里面的居民，生儿育女，生活悠闲，他们几辈子不也是那么过来的。
中国历代名族的传承文化，可以说从周代的姬姓一直传到宋代，然后就被蒙古人全部灭掉了。明朝虽然自称汉族，君臣都是平民上来的，好比共产党夺江山一样，都是粗人。那种皇上震怒杀九族之类的野蛮事情，都是元明清的事情。
所以我们现在的文化，不是传统的中国文化。日本人从唐朝抄袭的东西比我们还更传统一些，比如日本的和服就是唐朝传过去的，而且中国历史上也是席地而坐，日本人一直保持到现在。
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighbourhood. From this prison there is no escape. But the moment he takes up a book, he immediately enters a different world, and if it is a good book, he is immediately put in touch with one of the best talkers of the world. This talker leads him on and carries him into a different country or a different age, or unburdens to him some of his personal regrets, or discusses with him some special line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about. An ancient author puts him in communion with a dead spirit of long ago, and as he reads along, he begins to imagine what the ancient author looked like and what type of person he was.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
《孟子·离娄下》:
“孟子告齐宣王曰:‘君之视臣如手足，则臣视君如腹心；君之视臣如犬马，则臣视君如国人；君之视臣如土芥,则臣视君如寇仇。”
君臣，政府和百姓之间的关系，已经很清楚很明白滴告诉世人廖。
只是，中华文明历史被阉割，被几千年皇权官僚统治修改成有毒的皇上－奴仆文化，套上“大一统”的黄袍，光着屁股行走千年，
如今，世世代代跪习惯廖，即使到了国外，一时半会儿站不起来的，大有人在。
人类中大部分人应该是苦的，短期不会改变。想要过好日子，就要利用世界系统性的压迫，比如移民到某些国家。