Those who speak softly of "fighting" at every turn must be the least "prepared."
Yesterday's article "Fukushima nuclear discharge, more dangerous than radiation, is the sudden change in the international pattern" was issued, which triggered a lot of discussion among friends, of course, there are also some attacks and insults, some are very excessive.
There is a senior animal teacher who writes a public account on the Internet, and in the face of this kind of insult, he often puts out a hard scare, but recently he also said that he will not deal with the message at the first time after writing the controversy draft, because the emotional fluctuations are too large, which is not good for his health.
It makes a lot of sense that it is too difficult for a person to be a writer for a morning and then to be a psychotherapist for an afternoon of antisocial personality psychopaths.
So I seriously thought about whether to learn from him. But the final conclusion is whether to do it for the time being or not.
Friends appreciate my articles and are willing to leave messages to discuss, I think this is a rare fate - in order to cherish the fate of most readers, I am willing to tolerate a very small number of bottomless people mixed into my readership.
I really didn't know that I could mix in this number of people in my readers.
Moreover, over time, I have found that unlike the variety of discussions, insults and threats are generally the same.
Most abusive people's sentence patterns, dirty words, and even self-imposed conclusions are almost the same. As a debater who has played a debate tournament in college and thinks that he is very good at cursing, I am really anxious to see it - it turns out that these people are not only cultivated and intelligent, but also have such a limited imagination, no wonder they can only be a loser in the world of swearing, and I really feel sad for them.
But in yesterday's message, there is a slogan that, although not abusive, is also in a state of uniformity.
That is, "Throw away your illusions and get ready for battle." ”
This cannot be said to be wrong, for it was proposed by a great man.
In that very peculiar era, this slogan certainly had its correctness and legitimacy. Moreover, China had just come out of the bloody rain and wind at that time, and as soon as this statement came out, both the author and the reader knew what "fighting" meant and what kind of preparations needed to be made, so it was of discussion value and practical significance in that era. It's right in itself.
But when I wrote that article yesterday, I only discussed the Fukushima nuclear pollution problem and analyzed the changes in the international landscape that might result. There are a large number of readers who are busy quoting this famous quote.
This makes me feel particularly magical, because it is also too much of a fuss.
It's like asking your girlfriend out to a movie, getting stuck in traffic on the road, texting her and saying: Honey, I might be five minutes late ha. But she immediately replied to you: Break up and break up! You stupid x scumbag...
You must feel that you really should break up with her, and you may also have to do your best to send her to the hospital to see before breaking up, after all, there is an early treatment for the disease.
Moreover, those friends who claim to be "ready for battle", I dare to ask you, do you really know what you call "fighting" and what "preparation" has to pay?
After the code was finished, it was Friday evening, and many citizens finally finished the week's busy work and came to Xiaoqin by the lake.
It is really a good scenery in Jiangnan, and the tourists on the shores of Xizi Lake are weaving and thriving. Looked at the message board full of screens "Ready to fight!" With the slogan, I suddenly looked up:
fight? Who do you want to prepare?
Was it the mother who was holding her teeth and learning to speak?
Is it the group of young girls dressed in Hanfu who have turned themselves into a beautiful scenery on the shore of Xizi Lake?
Or the couple who stroll by the lake, you and me?
Or are the old people who pull erhu and sing lyrics to enjoy themselves?
Or the little sister who is still working in an ice cream shop, earning a little Weibo income, and dreaming of a difficult foothold in this city?
Although you are in a frenzy online, shouting and shouting to kill, in reality, none of you are really prepared for what you call "fighting". These respectable and lovely ordinary citizens, who are busy with their own lives, probably do not want to make this "preparation" either.
Once the "battle" begins, not to mention the successive disasters and the destruction of lives, even if prices soar, food rations, population evacuations, and rights and interests are defaulted, it will shatter the good life of all these people and their hard work, and the wealth they have accumulated so hard.
In times of peace, the priority goal of a normal state is to realize the protection of citizens' rights and interests and the self-realization of values.
But in the age of confrontation in war or war-likeness, the primary goal of any country has changed to prioritizing its own existence.
To this end, the state will demand that citizens of the right age shed blood and sacrifice, and the people in the rear must always be prepared to throw all the wealth they have accumulated into the bottomless pit of war.
Personal fate, wrapped in the torrent of this era, is just a small bubble, insignificant, not worth mentioning, and broken when it is broken.
Yes, since the end of the Cold War, all of humanity has been too far away from global great confrontation and all-out war.
Far from that few people remember the devastation, suffering and distortion of society caused by war and confrontation. Far away, many people mistakenly think that confrontation and war are a very easy thing, and unscrupulous public names can be used to incite and deceive fans, and fool readers to relieve boredom and obscenity.
Of course, this folk sentiment of treating danger as interesting may also have something to do with the way our nation is accustomed to telling history.
Chinese, especially Chinese men, when it comes to history, they always think of "jingo iron horses, swallowing like tigers." The protagonists in the Twenty-Four Histories are all emperors and generals.
The emperors, on the other hand, will be the beneficiaries of war and confrontation in general, defeating their opponents in war, succeeding in the throne, and establishing immortal merits. Readers who read their histories naturally bring themselves into their identities and find war and confrontation as fun as playing video games.
But history should not actually be recorded in this way, and history should not only remember Bai Qi and Xiang Yu, but not Zhao Bing and Qin Pawn who were killed by them. Because the latter perspective actually reflects the truth of the war more truly - the truth about ordinary people, you and me.
And we lack that kind of history.
Friends who want to know exactly how to "prepare" for a "battle," I suggest you read "The Fall of the Giants" by best-selling author Ken Follett.
The good thing about this historical novel is that although it writes about the fall of the "giants" in the First World War, it does not adopt a nationalist narrative method, but through the virtual protagonists, to see the fate of each little person crushed by the big times. One of the plots made me particularly emotional:
In the British company where the protagonist is located, there is a teenager, under the fanatical propaganda of the pre-war media, who becomes an active belligerent "warrior", and even after the war began, he even falsely reported his age to join the army.
But as soon as he was sent to the battlefield on the Western Front, he charged for the first time, but when he saw his comrades around him being cut off by the German "Death Scythe" Maxim machine gun on the opposite side, the child was immediately frightened, and he hurriedly threw away the rifle in his hand and fled in a hurry.
The British Overseers caught him and, through a simple court-martial trial, found guilty and shot. At the moment of the gunshot, no one remembers that he was a "warrior" who lied about his age in preparation for battle, and only remembered that this corpse was a treasonous coward.
Every friend who says you want to "throw away your fantasies and get ready for battle" suggests that you all read this story and then rethink, are you really ready?