Chapter 24 Crickets in "Pinocchio" (1)

We have seen foreign Disney cartoons, in which, when the puppet appears, the fairy appears, and the fairy wants to turn the puppet into a good boy who can move and even have human flesh.However, she gave him a process of creation and a process of development for himself, which depends on his own efforts.At the same time, the fairy found a cricket, which represented the conscience of the puppet, his conscience, right and wrong, good and evil, and always followed the puppet. This is the picture of Pinocchio.You see, the puppet is here, but there is a cricket holding an umbrella, wearing a suit and a frock coat, always pointing at him.Why point at him?It was the fairy who specially requested him to be his conscience.Therefore, we can see that when the fairy chose this cricket, the cricket was a poor boy with a broken umbrella, worn clothes, and a broken top hat, with his shoes and toes sticking out, but what happened later?When the puppet really became a good boy, the fairy gave the cricket a medal.

The cricket stands for freedom of speech, because he is always talking in your ear, telling you what is right, what you should do, what is your conscience, what is your conscience, he is a nuisance.So, in it, we can see how many times the puppet doesn't listen to this little cricket, he hates it, because he wants to play, he wants to fool around with children, he wants to smoke, he wants to drink, but, this little cricket The cricket is always staring at him, always nagging beside him, and this nagging is freedom of speech.Why do I say freedom of speech?Now the question comes back to a positive explanation.

Let’s look at this picture. This is the September 1963 issue of the American "Atlantic" monthly magazine I collected. There are oil paintings on it, and they are American poets.You have noticed that I have been able to collect this stuff for forty years in a row, and I can show it to you today. In other words, this material was within the scope of my collection forty years ago.This person said a word, he said: I dare not be a radical when I was young, I am afraid that I will become a conservative when I am old. Why didn't you dare to be radical when you were young? I said a lot of aboveboard principles, but when I was old, I lost my shape, so I felt embarrassed.So, when I was young, I would rather not be radical, lest I be old and conservative.Why do old people become conservatives?A teacher of mine at National Taiwan University told me that when he got old, he became the dean of the Overwatch Council of the puppet government of the Kuomintang in Taiwan.He told me: Li Ao, when I was young, when I saw those old men, I didn’t like it, so I told myself, when I am old, I must never be like that, that kind of old bastard. .But, when I'm old, that's how I am.He finds such an interesting irony in life that it is easier for a person to become a conservative when he gets old.But there is one exception, that is, he started revolution when he was old, but he was conservative when he was young, and the older he was, the more radical he became.Why is he radical?Because his son was the governor of one of the thirteen North American states (that is, under the British rule). In other words, his son was loyal to the British king, but his father stood up for a revolution against the British king. ——We made a fuss about the independence of the United States, so the older he gets, the more radical he gets.

I, Li Ao, are getting older and older, there is nothing wrong with that.I'm telling you, I'm not conservative at all, and I've gotten aggressive.However, I have a change, what change?That is, in the process of radicalization, I am more able to understand those who are fighting for freedom of speech-the group of people who are fighting for.In other words, I can understand the mentality of those who suppress freedom of speech.When I was young, I didn't quite understand it, but now that I'm older I can understand it. Everyone read the file, did you see it?In April of the 25th year of the Republic of China, the bureau director Pan Gongzhan wanted to find Lianhua Bookstore (this was a secret order from the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Social Affairs).He said that the publications published by the bureau were found to be reactionary and violated several articles of the Publication Law, and they should be destroyed to prevent them from being circulated.Who published it?It was published by this bookstore.But who wrote it?Written by Lu Xun.Everyone saw such a secret order to ban, what is banned?Books by Lu Xun were banned.Where did this Duke Pan go?As for the bureau chief, he went into exile in the United States. After 1949, after the defeat of the Kuomintang, he went into exile in the United States.He introspected and felt that what he did to suppress freedom and freedom of speech was wrong, and he became a small liberal.

You can see my ability to collect things, Li Ao, "Ta Kung Pao" on October 1st, 1934, everyone pay attention to this paper, this paper is beyond your imagination, this is a newspaper during the Anti-Japanese War, (at that time) everyone was very poor.It was mentioned here, he said (now is) the beginning of freedom of speech in the press.why?He said that the mainland's wartime press and publication censorship system was announced by the government to be abolished from today.In other words, we don't censor the news.It seems that the Kuomintang government has been lenient, and it stopped checking. What happened?It turns into giving you a license, that is, I allow you to publish, and I will not check you during the printing process, but if the content is not good, I will punish you—chasing and punishing you.It was originally called the pre-trial system, pre-examination of you, this system was abandoned by the Kuomintang, and now it has been changed to a trial system. Even if you are not good, I will catch you and punish you, and it has become such a system.In fact, it is also a kind of suppression of freedom of speech, and it is more troublesome.However, the "Ta Kung Pao" at that time was not clear, thinking that freedom of press and speech had begun.Think about it, everyone, this is a dream 60 years ago, thinking that the Kuomintang gave the people freedom of speech, but in fact it did not.