Chapter 21 eunuch's uprising

People often tell me their secrets without reservation, sometimes acquaintances, sometimes strangers I met by chance.I'm proud of it, and I think it's because I'm good-natured, a good listener, and able to keep a secret.Moreover, I speculated excitedly that they must think that with my experience and cultivation, I must also be able to understand their secrets—the secrets should be told to those who can understand.Until I saw the movie Notes on a Scandal. The film stars Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett.One of the heroines, Shiba, who is forty years old and teaches in a middle school, has an affair with a fifteen-year-old male student, Connery.She confidently told her story, including the details of each intimate, to her friend, Barbara, who also taught at the same school.The latter not only listened carefully, but also recorded it in his diary in detail, and finally spread the scandal, ruining Sheba's reputation and even facing prison.

Then I found Zoey Heller's original book to read (the novel "Scandal Notes" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the highest award for British fiction in 2003), and there was a passage in it that explained Barbara's "Secret" Awareness of the identity of "listener".She believes that a person who often becomes the object of other people's confession of secrets is actually because he is regarded as harmless and incompetent, a kind of "psychological eunuch", lacking the ability to do evil, and lacking influence in actions.The reason why Barbara disclosed Xiba's secret was partly due to her extraordinary friendship with Xiba, and the other part was probably out of the anger of being regarded as an "eunuch".She had to show Xiba how powerful she was, and let the other party see clearly that she was not completely castrated by life.

To be thought harmless is perhaps the greatest insult—and harmlessness is often synonymous with incompetence. Wang Jiazhi in "Lust, Caution" is probably so annoyed that she is regarded by her companions as a clean and innocent little white rabbit who can be manipulated at will, and is safely placed at the core of the secret.She probably wasn't ashamed at first, but gradually realized a kind of viciousness in it.There are also stories seen in the social news. The gangsters kidnapped hostages for blackmail. Because of their kind attitude and answering questions, the astute hostages were used as targets for instigation. , under the reminder of the bandit leader, he suddenly turned his face, and even became the most active person in the end.Because, the identification and selection of hostages is tantamount to slapping him in the face, clearly accusing him of being unprofessional.It is also presumably an insult to be considered kinder, harmless, or less harmful at the moment when evil must be done.Qian Zhongshu also said: "The viciousness of an honest and honest person is like the gravel in the rice or the uncleaned thorns in the boned fish fillet, which gives people an unexpected pain." If you get tired of this cognitive inertia, you must break the rhythm of this inertia a little bit, and stab someone unexpectedly, which can be regarded as a kind of uprising of "psychological eunuchs".

From this I also suddenly understood what my new friend was doing.In the past, he was a hooligan in the streets, but he finally became a rich man. While he washed his wealth, he also washed his temper.But he still deliberately and regularly did some bad things, occasionally summoning people to show his face to show off, and then he worked hard to deal with the aftermath of his subordinates one by one.Because innocence is often associated with incompetence, one must declare one's existence in an evil way.