Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 48: Post-90s
Chapter Subtitle: The Lost Generation
Our Master Yuan waved his arms and said passionately: "Why did the predecessors of all of you take the 'Mayflower' and come to this still wild new world? Wasn't it because the medieval church not only controlled the power to grant grace to believers, but also deprived believers of the opportunity to seek salvation for themselves?"
“Don’t state-owned enterprises manipulate the power to determine production costs, depriving the free market of the opportunity to form a pricing mechanism?”
Well, that’s actually what the Puritans on the Mayflower called themselves: “Loyal Subjects of His Majesty King James .”
Of course, true Americans three hundred years later often say that my father only taught me two things: love God and hate the British.
Yuan Yan suddenly noticed that everyone present had a dazed expression, as if they were recalling the hard times when their ancestors had to work hard...killing Indians, robbing Spaniards, civilizing Africans, and smuggling opium into China and bringing back tea while evading taxes.
What should the audience do after they recall their past glory? The mustache teaches everyone to feel the fear of losing this glory.
"What's more..." Our Master Yuan said in a solemn tone: "Don't forget, everyone, the United States is not the only successful industrialized country on this planet. The sun never sets, and Germany has not... well, it still retains the foundation of an industrial country."
Before World War I, the industrial output value of the major powers accounted for the following proportion of the world: the United States ranked first with 38%, Germany ranked second with 15.7%, Britain ranked third with 14.1%, France ranked fourth with 6.4%, and Tsarist Russia ranked fifth with 4.7%. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy and Japan ranked fifth.
However, although Britain and France are only the third and fourth, they are indeed qualified to be the third and fourth.". In addition to industry, these two countries have a large number of colonies, and their various resources are much richer than those of the second country Germany, and the living standards of the people are also better...so they started fighting later.
With the Master Ball system, Yuan Yanshu can easily quote famous sayings: "There is a famous proverb in the ancient East that when sailing against the current, even if the helmsman is the old... well, the captain, if you can't move forward, you can only move backward.The Bible says, "Whoever has, to him shall be given double, and he shall have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.". "
He concluded earnestly: "Even though the United States of America is already the largest industrial country in the world, we cannot slack off and give up our own advantages!"
He thought to himself, if you Americans could really listen to this, there wouldn't have been such a stupid thing as "de-industrialization"?
After saying this, Yuan Yan bowed slightly to everyone and sat back in his seat. He glanced to the side secretly and saw Vice President James B. Conant looking at him in surprise, with a thoughtful expression on his face. It seemed that his words had the desired effect.
In fact, Master Yuan's words were made with all his heart and soul... He was truly thinking about the great America. A hundred years later, his disciples in China and the United States remembered his words when they thought about the bad situation of the imbalance of the industry in the great America and the rise of a certain big country in the East.
Unfortunately, geniuses like him are always ahead of their time and are never recognized by their contemporaries, and someone immediately raised objections.
Mr. Louis Baker raised his hand high, and after getting permission from Professor Chandler, he stood up and said, "This..."
He probably...well, he definitely didn't think about who this Chinese person was.
Master Bird lost no time in standing up and said, "My name is Neo Yuan."
After all, he was the son of a wealthy family, so he said politely, "Well, Mr. Yuan, nice to meet you."
But he immediately said loudly with great emotion: "Mr. Yuan, the Bible also says: All the laws of the world are contained in this sentence: Love your neighbor as yourself!"
He turned around and looked around and said, "Love your neighbor as yourself... Ladies and gentlemen, while we are talking here, those workers are working hard in the dark mines, risking death at any time."
"Shouldn't we, the American people, share the mineral resources God has given us?"
"Is America's world-class industry going to be built on the corpses of its workers?"
“Is this the way we Americans are going to build a new civilized world?”
Yuan Yan curled her lips and thought to herself, is the land owned by you American people really a gift from God?
Isn’t your America’s world-class industry built on the corpses of Indians and blacks... and our Chinese workers?
Isn't the future global hegemony that you, America, will hold built on the mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the Second World War?
Today's American capitalists and the young bastards of the bourgeoisie are so naive. These reserve members of the International Brigade should go to the Spanish Civil War sixteen years later to wake up their brains.
There were so many masters in that international column: Hemingway, Picasso, George Orwell (author of "1984" and "Animal Farm"), Neruda (a great poet from South America), and Albert Camus (a French existentialist master as famous as Sartre).
In fact, these Western young people who are the same age as Yuan Yanshu are the "Lost Generation." So why are these people born in the 1990s and 2000s lost?
It was because the First World War, this " unjust war", dealt a heavy blow to the Western civilized world that the conservative old people were fine, as they could not change their minds anyway. However, the young people who were easily receptive to new things, especially the young intellectuals, had great doubts about the old set of values.
Sometimes technological development is not necessarily a "good thing". Although the line of execution was cruel and bloody, it could also be called magnificent and romantic. It was a pity that the young soldiers of various countries in World War I did not face flintlock rifles, Napoleon cannons and enemies wearing the same gorgeous uniforms; instead, they faced machine guns, howitzers and barbed wire, and "trench feet" that had to rot away bit by bit... In the later stages of the war, they even felt that the enemy was much cuter than the officers who forced them to die.
Schumpeter once teased in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy that young people "cannot wait to get a good opportunity, hope to save the world in this way or that, hate textbooks that are so monotonous that they cannot describe it, and cannot complete a synthesis through their own efforts, so they find what they desire in Marx (and others), where there is a key to unlock all the extreme mysteries and a magic wand that can command both big and small things.. "
It must be said that the reason why socialist theories seem so good to these post-90s generation is that the capitalist theories that led to World War I are so unpalatable . This is a blue world after all.
Even a third-generation capitalist like Louis Baker is speaking for the working class. Moreover, even a prestigious place like NYU Stern College, which specializes in training Wall Street vampires, actually has people cheering for him. This shows a lot.
To the masters of neoclassical liberalism, this is, of course, outrageous.
While Yuan Yan was complaining in her heart, Mr. Baker's speech was indeed recognized by most of the students, and some even applauded him.
“Snap, snap, snap… snap! snap! snap!”
Our Master Yuan rolled his eyes, stood up and clapped his hands vigorously, shouting, "Bravo!"
