Wake up（108）

 

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Nan Yangsheng chatted with his younger sister Nan Liwa and younger brother Nanshan Yun, and the three brothers and sisters were rarely together. But during the chat, Nan Shanyun talked about how his grandfather fell ill after being bullied by the city management. Nan Shanyun talked about the diary written by the writer Fang Fang "What should a person do if he loses his dignity?" 』The story of Uncle Xu and Uncle Xu. My younger brother vowed to take revenge on these urban management officers and not allow the villains to bully us. My younger brother even admired and affirmed the violent revolution of the Cultural Revolution. He is only 18 years old and has not finished high school. What should he do?

Nan Yangsheng was very worried about what trouble his younger brother would cause in the future.

Nan Yangsheng began to reflect on the Cultural Revolution and the impact of COVID-19 on today's society.

China has always been the "Slogan Era". When the 2019 coronavirus disease in Wuhan was raging until now, the most popular slogans in Beijing's party media were "Personally Command" and "Two Maintenances"; this is the "Mythological Era". "even posted an article saying: "The child was born less than 20 days ago, but he voluntarily applied to join the front line of the fight against the epidemic." Loud slogans and absurd "myths" reflect the yellow land where 1.4 billion people live, and return to Mao Zedong's quotations from the Cultural Revolution Tide and "myth" in it.

People seemed to hear Lin Biao's voice again in the tunnel of history: "Chairman Mao's words are the truth, and every sentence is worth ten thousand." It's not the Cultural Revolution, but it's like the Cultural Revolution.

The pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan is severe, and the main theme of the Beijing authorities' political propaganda is two safeguards: safeguarding power, cloud power is at the core of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the entire party. Maintain core authority, centralization, and unity.

When Nan Yangsheng was studying at the Central Plains Humanities College, the school’s education explained the two safeguards: one is to maintain the core position, authority, and centralization of bureaucrats; the other is to maintain the situation of “stability over everything else” and strengthen the functions of dictatorship.

On February 23, the authority delivered an "important speech", and the provinces immediately expressed their "political positions", forming a wave of propaganda about "personally commanding and personally deploying".

The secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China from Zhejiang declared on the same day that he "resolutely implement the spirit of... the important speech", that "the important instruction... is wise and correct", and that he must "interpret the two safeguards with actions". He said, "Personally command and personally deploy...lead the whole party and the whole country" and "fight the people's war, the general war, and the blocking war" for the prevention and control of the epidemic; There are battles to be won and hurdles that cannot be overcome." The Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee with "Shanghai Experience" said at the meeting that "the spirit of important speeches and important instructions...has a strong ideological, guiding, and targeted"; emphasizing that "learning to struggle ", "Strengthen the four self-confidences, and ensure that the two maintenances fall into specific actions." The secretary of the Xinjiang District Party Committee conveyed the "important speech spirit", saying that it "pointed out the direction of progress, made scientific guidance, and provided important guidelines. Added a strong power", must do two maintenance. Just transferred to Wuhan Municipal Party Committee Secretary and former veteran cadre of Shandong political and legal system, said that the "important speech" is "scientific judgment, deep love like the sea, and high hopes like a mountain", and must "effectively improve the political position" and "achieve two important standards for maintenance. "

Nan Yangsheng and many intellectuals have already felt that the "redness" of comparing adjectives and showing loyalty is a very hot scene in the raging Wuhan pneumonia.

Shen Zhirui, a professor of psychology at the Central Plains College of Humanities, once told Nanyang Sheng privately: Under the "one-party leadership" system, a centralized "strongman" is needed to face the plague and implement strict social control to avoid "civil upheavals." ". For example, during the reign of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty, there was a severe famine in Shaanxi and other places. Many peasants fled the famine and starved to death. Li Zicheng led the peasant army to rebel in Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, and went straight to Beijing. Emperor Chongzhen was forced to hang himself in Meishan.

Regarding the establishment of "authority" and the centralization of power, one of Beijing's official explanations is to "concentrate power to accomplish big things." The "Supreme Instructions" regarding Wuhan Pneumonia were issued and made public on January 20, highlighting that those who "personally command" have the full power to mobilize the centralization of the party, government and military. Soon there will be "Wuhan One, Two, Three Closures", and then It is a "wartime state" and closed monitoring of small communities.

With one order, there is no need to take into account legal norms and related procedures, such as the Emergency Response Law; even locking the doors of residents in small communities and ignoring fire safety, there is no resistance. This is the "China's speed, China's scale, and China's efficiency" praised by the first party newspaper. In a society ruled by law and freedom, with a civil society that includes independent media, it is impossible for governance or emergency measures to only focus on "political needs" and ignore them. Law, procedure, humanity.

The power is infinite and concentrated in one person, forming a patriarchal system of "one hammer and one decision", which can indeed make decisions quickly and accomplish great things. However, big things are not necessarily good things.

In the Mao era, Lao Mao had great power and could do whatever he wanted, including "dreams" that violated common sense and science. For example, from 1958 to 1960, the People's Commune and the Great Leap Forward Movement were launched to fabricate rice "high-yield satellites". False harvests, excessive food requisitions, and corruption and waste by rural cadres led to a major famine. More than 30 million starved to death, most of whom were farmers and their families.

During the 10 years of the Cultural Revolution, the people were also tossed about by the left. The "myth" that caters to the cult of personality fools the public. Chen Yun, a former vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said: "At that time, when we held a meeting, we had to turn over the quotations, and we had to shout 'Longevity Without Borders' three times. Ask for instructions early and report later, and read the quotations before calling. "

After the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, Beijing, Hubei and other places supported the main theme of political propaganda, "Goethe". However, there are also "awakened ones" in the plague, calling for not to forget the tragedy of the left torment, and to tell the truth. Dr. Li Wenliang, known as the "whistleblower", spoke his "inner words": "A healthy society should not have only one voice...the truth is the most important thing."

The novelist Yan Lianke started from the lies of the Great Leap Forward to "now": "The gongs and drums of singing praises and celebrating have begun." He said: "Among the ocean-like singing, in the face of the root and spread of the new crown pneumonia, if we can't speak out our doubts, but whispering in a low voice is also conscience and courage."

Fang Fang, a well-known Wuhan writer, published an article on WeChat a few days ago, saying: "The test of a country's civilization has never been based on how tall your buildings are, how fast your cars are, or how powerful your weapons are or how mighty your army is... to test your There is only one thing: your attitude towards vulnerable people."

These alternative voices will soon be "silenced" under the "bright sword" of the Internet police. WeChat groups around the world are being blocked, and even the "everyone" under the big platform Tencent is also silent in the blocking.

Awakened from the plague, to speak the truth. This is the inner voice of Nan Yangsheng in his reflection, but this voice can only be buried or even buried in his heart.

Nan Yangsheng has lost himself, but he is also looking for himself. He doesn't know what to do next.