Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 188 New Member
Chapter Subtitle: I Want to Be Emperor
"John, what is your dream?"
Other bosses talk about dreams only when they don’t want to raise salaries, but my boss still talks about dreams after raising salaries.
Unfortunately, John was too smart. He did not take up the topic to talk about sentiments, but said impatiently: "Neo, just say it directly."
"Haha..." Our Master Yuan chuckled and asked in a very serious tone: "Mr. McCall, do you think this world is ridiculous?"
"Um……"
"The people around us are also ridiculous, right?"
"ah……"
"Take your Miss Helen Brown, for example. Of course, I have to admit that she is a very lovely girl, and even I am a little attracted to her. But she is really ridiculous, isn't she?"
"Neo, you..." The lawyer was a little uneasy and tried to interrupt him.
"Please don't interrupt me, Mr. McCall." Master Yuan continued to talk to himself. "Miss Brown obviously has no talent, but she dreams of becoming an author. Well, she herself realized this, so she changed her career to become an editor. But if she was not the daughter of the president of New York University Press, would she have the opportunity to intern in the publishing house?"
"Compared to being an author or editor, she should have obediently married you, a lawyer with a promising future. But I think you also understand that Miss Brown will realize this one day, so you are so patient to wait for her. However, she is just going around in circles on the road of life. Apart from wasting time and learning a lesson, it is of no benefit to you or her."
"John, isn't she ridiculous?"
The lawyer remained silent for a long time before nodding.
"For example, our good friend Mr. Louis Baker. He is really a good man, but unfortunately he is not as smart as his grandfather."
"Mr. Baker yearns for socialism, supports feminism, and sympathizes with the working people...but he himself does not realize how cheap and...ridiculous his sympathy is."
Yuan Yan waited for a moment and saw John nod slightly, then continued: "Let's not talk about the people around us. Let's talk about the two former presidents of your America. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Harding. An outstanding idealist failed, and a beautiful nothing-the-idealist came to power..."
"Okay, Neo, stop talking." Mr. McCall interrupted him and asked, "Since this world is so ridiculous, what are you going to do?"
Our Master Yuan raised his index finger and shook it: "No, no, no, what are we going to do?"
John said angrily, "Okay, so what are we going to do?"
" We ..." Yuan Yan smiled suddenly, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. In his lawyer's eyes, his big client was like a monster that would eat anyone it wanted. "Of course we have to make the world even more ridiculous!"
"Those who were after money, we made them rich overnight and then left them with nothing."
"Those who seek glory, we take them to the top and then knock them down to the dust."
"Those who pursue nobility, we let them move the world and then make them a laughing stock..."
"CYNIC." Mr. McCall interrupted him calmly this time, then shook his head and sighed, "Ah, I should have thought that you were a follower of Antisthenes and Diogenes."
"I'm so slow. I should have thought of that when you rejected my offer of five thousand dollars. If a poor student living in a shabby apartment doesn't care about five thousand dollars, then he is either hopelessly romantic or doesn't care about material things!"
"You will burn my checks, you will donate half a million dollars, and when you have money you spend it lavishly. So it's not that you don't understand the benefits of money or that you don't know how to enjoy it, you just don't care!"
"What you just said is, 'The world is a big absurdity and a big joke, so I can only treat it as absurdity and a joke.'"
"Yes, you are a complete cynic!"
"Hahaha..." Yuan Yan suddenly laughed up to the sky and said, "John, I thought you knew it a long time ago."
Cynicism has nothing to do with Confucianism, but it is closely related to Zhuangzi in the Seres Taoism. The most famous story about Cynicism is that one day, Alexander came in person to visit Diogenes who was lying on the ground in the sun and asked him what gift he wanted. Diogenes replied: "As long as you don't block my sun."
This shows that both of them only care about absolute personal spiritual freedom and despise all social pretense, customs and cultural norms. A milder degree can be called cynicism, and a more serious degree is cynicism.
But our Master Yuan is really not a cynic, he just can't face the world seriously. So he decided to make this world... well, his world, more interesting.
"John, I think you are also a hidden cynic."
"No, I'm not. I consider myself a Stoic in the sense of fatalism and not asceticism."
Stoicism is one of the four major philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period (334 BC to 1st century BC), along with Skepticism , Cynicism, and Epicureanism. It has some similarities with Cynicism, claiming that all external things are unimportant. Its founder, Zeno, was originally a Cynic.
"A half-baked Stoic? That's right." Yuan Yan whistled frivolously and changed the subject: "So, Mr. Stoic (stoic originally means porch), do you want to join my organization?"
"Your organization? What organization?"
"The SCP Foundation. That's the Special Containment Procedures Foundation."
"Strange name. So how many members are there in your organization?"
"There are only two so far, but if you join there will be three."
"Haha, Neo. That's funny."
"Haha, John. It's very funny..."
By the way, I should give all members of the SCP Foundation a fancy code name.
"John, I'm serious. The SCP Foundation now has me, the Fool (Dionysus), and a... um, the Magician (Hermes). If you come, you can be..."
"Zeus, I want to be the emperor!”
"John, you always surprise me. You even know tarot cards. Well then, you are the emperor. Your Majesty, please drive."
Mr. McCall struggled to restart the engine...Starting a car was very difficult these days, and some people even broke their arms trying to start their cars with the crank.
After a while, John suddenly said, "Neo. I have a suggestion."
Yuan Yan suddenly asked casually: "What suggestions?"
The lawyer said seriously, "You should hire a secretary."
"secretary……"
Of course I want a secretary. There is a saying in Serbia that goes, "Secretaries do the work during the day and secretaries do the work at night."
Mr. McCall said in a somewhat aggrieved tone: "You know you were not in New York these days, and I received so many letters and telegrams for you. Neo, I am your lawyer, not your secretary!"
It turns out that's what he was talking about.
Yuan Yanshu said indifferently: "It's just a few telegrams and letters. Why do you need a secretary? Let's talk about it later..."
"Neo, you don't understand now, but you will know when you get home."
