Chapter 251 Nonsense
Li Ye joined the debate team of the 82 Economics Department, which greatly encouraged Zhen Rongrong, Pu Xianghe and Sun Xianjin who were not very confident.
After all, compared with those veteran teams at level 80, 81 or even 79, Zhen Rongrong and others are really not as good at verbal battles.
Li Ye was considered an outlier in the 1982 Economics Department, because he often teamed up with senior students such as Li Huaisheng and Yang Yumin, and would occasionally throw out some "distorted ideas" that always led people into trouble.
Therefore, Li Ye’s title of “famous debater” is closely related to his “unconventional” skills.
But when the draw results of the debate competition came out, the 82 Economic Debate Team, which was already somewhat obscure, instantly lost its confidence.
"We are so unlucky. Not only did we pick the most controversial debate topic, but we also picked the affirmative side. How can we win?"
"It doesn't matter if you are on the pro or con side, but the problem is, I don't know what love is. How can I debate this?"
"Li Ye, what do you think we should do? We are totally relying on you this time."
Li Ye said with a smile: "What do you mean it's all up to me? How can I, by myself, win over four people?"
“Eh~~”
“Eh~~”
Everyone looked at him with contempt. We all knew each other so well, so who wouldn't know that you, Li Ye, had a family?
If we were to say who understands love better, who else would it be if not you, Li Ye?
Li Ye was a little embarrassed, so he reached out to take the lottery result handed over by Zhen Rongrong and saw the debate topic clearly on it - Love is selfish (affirmative side).
The original debate topic was about "love", but it was directly "killed".
School is a place for you to study, who asked you to fall in love?
But where there is oppression, there is resistance.
If "serving the motherland" was the first priority in the hearts of college students in the 1980s, then the desire for "love" must have been second.
Don't be stubborn. If you are stubborn, there is something wrong with you.
So, despite the strong resistance from countless classmates, we finally had a debate topic about love during the school selection stage.
But when he looked at the topic of the debate, Li Ye felt it was full of mischief and malice, just like an old guy who had seen through the world and gave a sly and complacent smile to a group of little kids whose hair had just grown out.
Come on, prove to me that love is selfish.
So when people knew about this debate topic, no one wanted to be drawn to the affirmative side, lest they be drowned by the contempt of everyone present.
Look at the endless stream of love poems nowadays, which are full of beauty, nobility and purity. How could they be mixed with such a bad element as selfishness?
Although Li Ye knew very well that love was actually quite selfish.
But can I say this directly?
If he said it, not to mention anyone else, Wen Leyu would bite him hard when no one was around.
"We can't debate this topic head-on with the opposing party. We must set up a subtle trap to drag the opposing party to the wrong battlefield and have a debate that is favorable to us."
Li Ye organized his thoughts, then took a piece of paper and started to mark and assign tasks.
"Everyone go and look for materials separately, especially historical records of the transition from public ownership to private ownership in the primitive period. By the way, I heard that someone has been replaced in Zhu Yonghe's debate team. Does anyone know what's going on?"
"I know,"
Pu Xianghe said: "The new debater is Lu Gang, from the 1981 Physics Department. He was in the same middle school as me, but one grade higher than me. He is very smart, eloquent, and never gives up."
Pu Xianghe is from Beijing, and he has some of the characteristics of a Beijing Kanye. He talked a lot about Lu Gang in one breath.
Although he expressed some criticism about Lu Gang's temper, he did not deny that Lu Gang was a real "academic genius".
Attention, it is a genius student, who is even better than the top student.
After introducing Lu Gang's academic genius, Pu Xianghe pursed his lips and lowered his voice, "And this Lu Gang has already dated two people.
So he is very good at love and writing love letters. Li Ye, can you handle it?"
"Pu Xianghe, what are you talking about? What does Lu Gang talking about two people have to do with Li Ye?"
Zhen Rongrong was immediately displeased. It was okay for Li Ye to have a girlfriend, but he always used it to tease her, which was a bit sour grapes.
But Li Ye's focus was completely different. He asked in surprise: "Lu Gang? Which Lu Gang? Are his parents auto parts workers?"
Pu Xianghe said in surprise: "Yes! Li Ye, how did you know?"
Li Ye was stunned for several seconds before he said, "Oh, I don't remember who told me that, but he is indeed a good student."
It’s confirmed, this Lu Gang is the Lu Gang that Li Ye knows.
This brother is a great man.
He single-handedly changed the Western academic community's impression of flower-growing international students as "kind, enthusiastic and gentle".
Lu Gang graduated from Peking University in 1985 and went to study in Dengta. In 1991, he shot five people with a gun and then committed suicide.
These five people include his doctoral supervisor, the vice president of the university, the department head, and an outstanding doctoral student who also comes from a flower-growing family and has completed his doctoral thesis defense.
Lu Gang's behavior gave some ill-intentioned people overseas the opportunity to launch a frantic attack on the flower-growing countries who were trying to integrate into the world at this moment, causing extremely bad effects.
In his previous life, Li Ye learned about this physics genius from the University of Peking after watching a movie called "Dark Matter". Then, during the search process, he learned about more amazing students from the University of Peking, which almost affected his three views.
The 1980s were not entirely a time of peace and purity.
Li Ye had always believed that college students in the 1980s were more idealistic, sensible, energetic, gentle, modest, and well-educated than college students in later generations.
But in fact, not entirely.
Students of later generations know how to handle interpersonal relationships in high school, and have their own understanding of the "philosophy of life". They basically have the concept of "don't force others".
But the college students born in 1983, perhaps because they had just gone through decades of repression and suddenly became too open, some of them had straightforward, radical, and extreme personalities and thoughts.
After arriving at Peking University, Li Ye had been observing students secretly. Fortunately, most of the students were very friendly and kind. The occasional extreme ones were only slightly "self-righteous".
For example, Zhu Yonghe believed that Li Ye was best at finding information and organizing debate ideas, so he wanted to recruit Li Ye into the debate team. It was natural for him to arrange Li Ye to do the work of looking up information to enrich the debate team.
There is nothing wrong with this in theory. After all, a regular debate team is not just made up of four debaters. There are also many support staff behind them. Moreover, Li Ye does have a huge advantage in data compilation.
Li Ye has a biological hard drive. When it comes to looking up information, he is second to none and no one can claim to be first.
But Li Ye doesn't want to!
I am good at looking up information, but I am also good at debate!
Decades later, students all have the same mindset: Why should I listen to you?
But Zhu Yonghe thought - I am right, why don’t you listen to me?
A similar situation also happened to He Dazhuang - Li Ye, you have a problem with your learning attitude, why don’t you accept our criticism?
The more outstanding a young man is, the more confident he is, and the more he believes that others should listen to his opinions.
On the contrary, the more outstanding and proud the young people are, the less willing they are to follow the arrangements of others. If you don’t even listen to your parents, who do you think you are?
Among the students who were admitted to Kyoto University, which one was not the protagonist of the school?
Are they supporting characters who are willing to be bossed around?
That’s Li Ye, the guy who believes “this is my territory and I have the final say”!
This is also the reason why many people always argued endlessly during their school days, but after being beaten by society, they learned to just laugh it off.
According to a large amount of information published later, this Lu Gang was a very self-righteous person.
If he acts as a debater in a debate, he will naturally have advantages, but he will also have flaws.
. . . . . .
There were multiple debate competitions going on simultaneously on Saturday. Compared with several strong debate teams, Li Ye and others were not “seeded players”, so they were arranged in a small classroom.
However, the number of students who came to watch the debate was more than any other debate. There was not enough space even in the classroom aisle, and many people stood in the corridor outside the door.
It can be seen how deeply "love" is rooted in people's hearts.
More importantly, at Kyoto University, where the gender ratio is seriously unbalanced, this debate attracted a large number of girls. And for some reason, the generous boys were crowded outside or in the aisles, and the seats in the classroom were almost all occupied by girls.
Who can stand this?
Zhu Yonghe's debate team was greatly encouraged. Looking at Li Ye and others on the opposite side, they were in an attitude of "warm up a bowl of wine and watch me defeat these country chickens and clay dogs".
Zhen Rongrong and Sun Xianjin were not to be outdone. They stared at Zhu Yonghe and the others, trying to overpower them with their momentum.
But Li Ye whispered: "Why are you all so excited? Don't you understand that you should show weakness to the enemy?"
“.”
Zhen Rongrong couldn't help but whispered: "Li Ye, you are so treacherous."
Li Ye lowered his head and hummed like a mosquito: "Don't get so close to me, thank you."
Zhen Rongrong was stunned for a moment, then she understood.
In the middle of the first row of the classroom, Wen Leyu sat there upright, his two big watery eyes looking over, and every little movement of his was clearly visible.
"Now, the debate begins. Please allow the affirmative debater to speak first."
The teacher presiding over the debate announced the start of the debate, and Pu Xianghe, the first debater on Li Ye's side, stood up.
"Good afternoon, teachers and students. Our argument is that love is selfish."
"Hmm~~"
There was a burst of female voices in the classroom, expressing their dissatisfaction with Pu Xianghe.
Pu Xianghe lowered his head shyly, showing the nervousness of a freshman.
"Before the Yao and Shun era in my country, primitive tribes were communal. People had no private property. All hunting gains and financial materials belonged to everyone in the tribe.
At that time, men and women did not have fixed partners, but were temporarily paired for the purpose of tribe reproduction, so naturally there was no love."
“.”
Pu Xianghe just said a few words and the classroom became quiet.
Neither the opposing debate team nor the audience in the classroom understood what the content of what he said had to do with the topic of the debate.
But Pu Xianghe's words were very catchy.
What does it mean to temporarily pair up for the sake of the tribe's reproduction? Isn't it just that the mother of the child doesn't know who the father of the child is?
"But one day, a wise man thought that the prey he had obtained with great effort should be provided to his children and women first, and the rest should be distributed to the tribe."
"In order to ensure that their property will be passed on to their bloodline and descendants, temporary partners become permanent partners, and families consisting of parents and children emerge one after another."
"It is because of human selfishness that the family came into being. It is because of the family that blood ties come into being.
Because of the need for blood ties, there are loyalty and love vows between men and women, and they will never be separated for the rest of their lives."
“So, love is selfish. From the moment private ownership emerged, love was labeled as selfish, and it can never be washed away.”
“.”
Everyone was stunned.
Are you doing math problems?
Because so, because A equals B, and B equals C, then it proves that A equals C?
But that’s what debate is all about!
I just need to present my proof and you can refute it!
Everyone looked at Zhu Yonghe's opposing side.
Zhu Yonghe and several debaters looked at each other in bewilderment. They had prepared countless materials, even great poems by world-renowned poets, to prove that love is selfless and great, but now you want to play the origin of private property with me?
"They are taking an unconventional approach. This must be another sophistry of Li Ye's."
"Indeed, that Li Ye has used this method many times in a row. It seems to be unorthodox, but it hides traps and is hard to guard against."
"Then what should we do? Just refute their nonsense?"
"No, everyone, quickly analyze where their trap is."
Zhu Yong and several other debaters were very cautious, constantly thinking about what possible traps and tricks might be in what Pu Xianghe said.
However, Lu Gang, the third debater who had just joined, looked at Li Ye and others with contempt, and slammed the table.
"That's just nonsense!"
(End of this chapter)
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