Full of Youself

I was reading a Chinese doctor’s website. He was about to publish a book which summarize his life-time experience and knowledge about Chinese medicine. I agree that his work is quite impressive, what I cannot understand is his tone.
He completely looked down the western medical theories and repeatedly alleged the western medical research and body check up (judging a person’s well being with a set of universal and standardized indices) simply kills people. He accused other doctors of murdering. In those articles, he sounded the only way to the ultimate truth. All health problems can be resolved if his instruction is followed. The self-inflation and self-endorsement in his writing is beyond my comprehension.

He might have saved a lot of live but there is no need to punish others who are also working toward the common goals. Who has given him such a confidence as if he has understood fully the natural rhythm of life? In spite of his medical knowledge, I think he is bloody shallow and narrow minded. If he stubbornly believes his way is the only way, will there be any other attempts to mix in others’ expertise into his knowledge stream? I cannot imagine he can outgrow himself from now on. Perhaps there is no need to outgrow for an old guy. Hey, I think it is damn boring to live that way until death.

I have observed some old men behave that way. Celebrities or not, they are quite successful in their own ways, yet unbelievably full of themselves. Perhaps the people around them praised them too much, too constantly, that they started to believe they are the only savior in the world (but believe me, they rarely do anything big apart from bragging about how BIG they are). Condemning others in the same fields seems the only way to make themselves more important.

Perhaps those successful and low-profiled are too secretive and discreet for others to observe. Yet I long for inspiration from them rather than those ego-manias.