Chapter 679: January 16th: What is a person?

January 16th: What is a person?

January 16th: What is a person?

What is a person?

Shakespeare's half-crazy, half-wit, half-sober, half-drunk Hamlet said: 'What a remarkable masterpiece a person is!'

This 'masterpiece' is wonderful. Just looking at its appearance, there is much to ponder.

For example, 'hair.' Yellow people are black; white people are black-skinned people yellow. But now, yellow-skinned people also dye their heads yellow, or whatever x-color heads, wanting to become x-skinned people?

Is this also inconceivable?

Lu Xun said that Ah Q, seeing the people around him coil their hair on top of their heads and be looked at with another eye, felt very envious. This Ah Q also used a bamboo chopstick to coil his own hair.

In Ah Q's view, coiling his own 'three strands of hair' or dyeing them x-color could cover the 'leprosy scars' on his head. From then on, he could become 'beautiful' and turn into 'foreign Beauty'.

However, the Ah Q who coiled his hair, walking down the street, people paid no attention to his existence. Everything on the street remained as before. He still 'had an empty stomach,' and Zhao Sishen's sister didn't even glance at him. Things turned out contrary to his wishes.

On the contrary, the Ah Q who changed the color and appearance of his hair, wherever he went, the people there felt disgusted. People still looked down on him and neglected him.

Thus Ah Q realized: merely fussing over the hair, wanting to change oneself or beautify oneself, is not possible.

What is the hair? You actually care about it?

A scientist, when calculating the value of the human body, determined it thus: the fat on a person's body can be made into six bars of laundry soap, phosphorus can make two hundred twenty matches, lime can disinfect a chicken coop, sulfur can kill the fleas on a dog, iron can make an iron nail, plus a bit of nitrogen, a spoonful of salt, a cup of sugar; adding all these substances on a person's body comes to only 8o yuan.

That scientist, when calculating a person's value, overlooked the head. But many people who chase fashion, instead, make a big fuss over this thing the scientist overlooked.

What is a person? Then, what is the worth of a person's head?

It is said that when the Meiguo astronaut Gagarin, the first to land on the Yueqiu, saw the empty, vast, desolate Yueqiu, he played a passage from the Bible Psalms in space.

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I behold the heavens made by your fingers.

And the moon and stars you have set in place.

Then he said, 'What is a person that you actually care for him?'

What is mankind that you actually cherish him?

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Person, what is he?

Or return to the several lines Hamlet said: 'What a remarkable masterpiece humanity is! How exalted its reason! How great its power! How beautiful its bearing! How graceful its conduct! In conduct, how like an angel! In wisdom, how like a god! The essence of the universe! The pinnacle of all creation!'

But this very Hamlet, while praising humanity nonstop, also says: 'But in my view, what is this life formed of clay?'

Then, where is the worth and meaning of a person?

Where is the answer?