Chapter 16 Whose home is Taiwan?

what!Liberation Day! The colorful archway was erected again, and the colorful lights were lit up again.The dignified and dignified man leans into the microphone and speaks neatly opposed sentences, the front page of the newspaper has big red characters and colorful frames; the buttons of the radio are turned back and forth, and there are standard and melodious female voices... what!It's Liberty Day again! What about Liberty Day?It is still a world full of people and cars, full of smog. But this is the 40th anniversary of Liberation Day—forty years, how many forty years are there in life?

So what about forty years?The Tamsui River is a stinking poisonous ditch, and the Guanyin Mountain is a sick dog with abscesses.Babies are fed fake milk powder, children are fed rotten oil, adults are drinking used PET bottles, and old people are giving their life savings to Shi Xin... so what for forty years?What about Liberty Day? Legislator Yu Guohua asked whether we have a "crisis of confidence".Dean Yu said, no; of course not.Jiangnan, Li Yapin, Ranyou, Shixin, and poisoned corn are all isolated cases and do not represent any significance.We are full of confidence, full of confidence.

But I heard a ten-year-old neighbor throwing down his schoolbag and shouting: "Mom, Mom, I can't live in Taiwan. I grew up on bad oil!" I also heard my newly married friend in his twenties frown and say : "It's okay to get married, but it's not allowed to have children. I ride a motorcycle to work every day, and the jealous crowds and horses and horses often draw out the hatred for the entire human race in my heart. The moment a motorcycle was thrust hard in front of me, my blood Boiling is willing to hit his skull on the spot without feeling a little sorry. Bringing new life into such a world, no, it's too cruel."

Why do children who have never been abroad come to the conclusion that "Taiwan cannot live"?Why do Chinese people who have always believed in family inheritance feel that Taiwan is not a place to raise children?I am at a loss as to where Dean Yu's "confidence" comes from and what kind of confidence it is.If we refuse to admit that we have a confidence problem, because we cannot see the problem or dare not tell the truth, I really have no way of judging.I only know that parents do everything possible to send young children to study abroad, expressing that they have no confidence in our education system (yes, yes, the success of Wang Ganjun and Ding Zhaozhong is equal to the failure of our education...).Rich people put their industries in pieces and deposit them in foreign banks, expressing their lack of confidence in our financial system.Government officials and college students cherish the green card and go back and forth every year out of breath, expressing their lack of confidence in our political future.Opponents must hide under the wing of a foreign country to speak out and criticize, expressing no confidence in our constitutional democracy.As for the young people who feel that the land has become too bad for a family to continue — that's not lack of confidence, it's desperation.The words of young people make me deeply sad; and those high-profile words that don't make much sense make me disappointed.

※ ※ ※ Eight years ago, I brought several pictorials introducing Taiwan to my friends in Europe.These pictorials are bilingual in Chinese and English and the photographs are very exquisite.After flipping through it, my friend casually said: "These are very similar to the official publications of East Germany or Bulgaria." I was surprised: How could things in Taiwan remind him of the two communist countries? It turned out to be just an intuitive comment, and my friend had to think for a while before analyzing the reason: "Because you can see that this publication is deliberately showing the good side, deliberately presenting the flaws and problems that actually exist in any society." They are all hidden. You see, the first page to the last page is full of beautiful forests, simple mountain villages, rich rural areas, etc., like a paradise on earth. On the contrary, publications in an open area, usually, praise the beautiful forest At the same time, the threat of acid rain pollution may be mentioned; when introducing the simple mountain people, the invasion of material civilization may be mentioned; If you compare the pictorials of Germany and Germany, you can see the obvious difference in attitude."

He didn't say it, in fact, I should also know this truth.People who are truly confident are not afraid to expose their shortcomings, let alone admit their ugliness.Trying to cover it up is a real lack of confidence.Forty years later, Taiwan has been completely reborn, but it is clearly afflicted with ailments: fundamental political and Taiwan issues, imminent environmental issues, urgent economic transformation issues, far-reaching educational issues, and, Either gnashing of teeth or shaking one's head and sighing moral depravity.However, if we are capable, we are not afraid to face these ailments; if we are confident, we are not afraid to admit aloud: Yes, we do have these ailments.Avoiding or covering up is self-deception. Self-deception means lack of confidence. This is the real crisis.

I never shy away from saying Taiwan is my "mother with syphilis", and I don't hesitate to tell you that Taipei is the most vulgar and ugliest city I have ever seen, let alone tell you that the Chinese are selfish and short-sighted. Nationality - not afraid that you will feel stabbing.I can also bitterly say that Taiwan's society is a society where morality has been rotted down to the marrow - I'm not afraid of you scolding me for forgetting my ancestors. Because I still have confidence in Taiwan. Look at how many people are silently sowing and cultivating in the corner; there are so many "careful people" in Taiwan.The accumulated results of the Consumer Foundation are now visible to everyone.There are many invisible ones: a small group of "Women's New Knowledge" is raising women's consciousness little by little, teaching her to protect her own rights.A small group of people at National Taiwan University also set up a women's research center to guide society to pay attention to women's issues.Rotary Club--Do you think rich people are full of fat? ——The Environmental Protection Foundation is being prepared.Several others are preparing to launch the journal New Environment, a record of our sickly land.There is also a group of idealists who want to publish "Human World" magazine: there are no stars in swimsuits, no smiling politicians; the magazine cares about the sick, orphans and widows, and helps this society that loves to shout bright slogans to see the dark and painful side with its own eyes.

The efforts of these few people have to bear a lot of pressure, just like the grass desperately trying to break through the cracked but still hard cement slab.The Consumers Foundation suffered setbacks back then, and it was difficult to add the word "culture and education" before it was accepted by the Ministry of Education and established. Now the environmental protection foundation that the Rotary Club wants to establish is going around in circles, looking for a way out.Women's consumer groups or voluntary actions are also bound by laws and regulations; any actions of the people to fight for their own rights are restricted and restricted.These conservative and backward legal systems are the cement that holds down the grass, but my confidence lies in the power of these grasses to reach out to the sun.As long as there are so many "willing people", there will be hope for Taiwan.What is bad can become good, what is rotten can be regenerated, and what is sick can be restored.

※ ※ ※ But who are you?Why do you just act as a "silent public" and wait for these few people to work hard or even sacrifice, and then you can enjoy their achievements?You are now buying foods approved by consumer groups. When these people complained that there was no way out, were you watching from the sidelines?laugh at?Or indifference?Small groups that are starting to reclaim wasteland, such as "New Environment", need human support to study environmental system issues and evaluation issues, and financial assistance to inspire elementary school students to love their children, and explain the harm of mass burials to old farmers.do you caredo you careShould you be part of the job now?Or be a "silent majority" and wait for the results to fall from the sky?

It is difficult to innovate in Taiwan. On the one hand, it is certainly due to the rigidity of many systems (after one group is registered, a second group of similar nature is not allowed to exist-what kind of stupid law is this? Isn't the more consumer organizations the better? Is it?), and there is also the suspicion and fear of the social consciousness movement by the conservative ruling unit.A bigger obstacle is the lack of motivation of the people themselves.There is a young mother in the United States, because her daughter was hit and killed by a drunk driver, she organized an "anti-drunk driving movement" and made petitions, protests, and speeches everywhere to teach driving ethics.There are now 600,000 mothers in this organization.

How many of us have this spirit of perseverance?Like seeing trucks stealing sand on a moonlit beach—do you ignore it?Still cursed bitterly.Continue fishing?Or should I just call the police?How many people will get to the bottom of it and ask the government to stop the act of stealing sand: notify the police station, it is invalid; try the Environmental Protection Agency again, it is invalid; Who is responsible.How many of us have this spirit?It is a good thing for the predecessors to plant trees and the descendants to enjoy the coolness; but if you don't plant trees, how can the people behind you have the coolness?The efforts of those few people may be able to break through the rigid concrete floor, so can't you also put in some nutrients in the grass roots? I don't know anyone who considers Taiwan home.Some people reluctantly look back at the past continent, some fly to the future continent with a green card, and even more people don't want the past or the future, and they don't know how to cherish the soil under their feet.I am a person who wants to wander the world, but I know very well that even if I wear sandals on the stone road in Turkey, when someone asks "Where do the tourists come from", I have only one answer: not Hunan, not New York, not Munich.Home, you can bid farewell temporarily, you can leave, you can forget, but home will always be the same.Forty years later in Taiwan, there will be people who want to leave but can't, some who can leave but can't, and there are people who are here wholeheartedly in this life; no matter what kind, as long as he regards this place as "home"—— Whether he wants to or has no choice - as long as he regards this place as his "home", this place will be cared for, cultivated and cultivated.What I am afraid of is that after 40 years, if we still do not take care of this place, the family will fall into disrepair.Confidence is not confidence.That's it. The colorful spleen building was erected again, and the colorful lights were lit up again.Solemn figures are giving speeches, and the mastheads of newspapers are red... But this is the 40th anniversary of the Liberation Day, how many forty years are there in life?In addition to the colorful, cheering and slogans, shouldn't there be some new and honest reflections?