Chapter 16 Thirteen, go left, go right

how far is the horizon Andre: Taiwanese news I haven't been back to Taipei for a long time.When I came back yesterday, I concentrated on watching the TV news for more than an hour.For more than an hour, the four or five news channels were broadcasting the same news content. Let me summarize it for you: 1. It is cold, and it snows where it never snows.People go up the mountain in droves to see the snow.But because I am not familiar with snow, I wear too thin clothes, so the small clinic in the mountain village is full of cold patients.Forty-six people fell ill and died because of the cold weather.

2. There was an earthquake in the middle of the night with an intensity of 5.9. (yes, it did shake hard enough that I was shaken awake, in the dark, under the quilt, waiting, and then back to sleep).The TV report was very long, and the shots included: 1. Things in the supermarket fell down.Second, dogs, deer, cows, and mice all have premonitions and seem very disturbed.Third, someone has a supernatural power and predicted that an earthquake will come, but the predicted date is wrong.Fourth, the nurses in the hospital were so scared by the earthquake that they cried.Five, someone escaped from the house with a quilt in their arms, carrying a piggy bank.

3. There was a thief who was stealing something, and happened to be hit by an earthquake, fell down, and was caught right away.It is a symbol of "bad luck" that the thief cannot steal anything, so he is still holding a pair of women's underwear in his hand. 4. It was cold, people took hot baths, and seven people were poisoned to death by carbon monoxide.Shot: The body is carried out. 5. Two bodies were found in the hotel. 6. A car rushed into the vegetable market and injured a dozen people. 7. A four-year-old girl was raised by her grandmother in a pigsty for two years.

8. When a legislator gets married, several politicians go to dinner, where do they sit, and whether they talk to each other. 9. There were demonstrations on the street against the CCP's enactment of the "Anti-Secession Law".Shot: The old man faints, the child cries, and the cute puppies with bows jump around. 10. When the media was covering the Two Sessions in Beijing, the reporters ran into the venue and fell down. 11. The lights of the Festival of Lights went out. Well, this is the news content of Taiwan on March 6, 2005.How is the atmosphere of the two sessions in Beijing?What is the development of the resignation of the chief executive and the change of the political system in Hong Kong?What happened internationally?I heard nothing.I had to go online, and then I found out:

Syria proposed to gradually withdraw its troops from Lebanon. Iran declared that it would continue to develop nuclear weapons. The Italian female journalist who was finally rescued and released but was shot by the US military believed that the US military had deliberately shot and killed them. The United Nations issued a new report, estimating There may be 89 million AIDS patients. Tribal massacres in North Congo are underway. Moldova has a general election today, but the opposition accuses the incumbent president of monopolizing the media, doing "placement marketing", and using the police to deal with the opposition. The most authoritarian democracy...

There is a piece of news that brightens my eyes: the new president of Uruguay in South America, Huazquez, was sworn in. What's so strange about it, you say? see the world with left eye It's quite unusual, Andrei.The new president is a socialist.In the history of Uruguay, this is the first time the left has come to power.And the speaker of the Congress who presided over the oath, Mujica, was actually the founder of the Tupamaro guerrilla resistance movement in the 1960s.In order to eliminate his guerrillas, Uruguay began to put the military in power in 1972. Although the guerrillas were eliminated, it also brought Uruguay a 13-year military dictatorship. Countless people were killed, abused or disappeared.Mujika was also a rebel who had been abused in prison.

When I read this kind of news, I feel deeply, Andre.Do you see two phenomena: In Uruguay, two decades after the end of a horrific military dictatorship, revolutionaries and rebels have become rulers.In Mordovia, originally part of the Soviet bloc, one-party dictatorship moved toward democratic elections.The times seem to have really progressed, don't they? But you found that the person in power in Mordovia is actually still the Communist Party, but this Communist Party was produced through democratic elections.Behind the form, there are media manipulation, power intimidation, and resource monopoly, all carried out in a democratic and legal "form".As for Uruguay, what will happen to revolutionaries, reformers, and idealists once they come to power?From Taiwan's experience, I have no confidence.In Taiwan, we have seen too many fallen heroes, fake democracy fighters, reformers and revolutionaries who easily let power corrupt their personalities and bankrupt them.The history of the CCP is even more unbearable.

Huazquez is a leftist - what do you mean by "left"? France's contribution to human society is not small.The French Revolution not only nourished European revolutions, but also gave us the concepts of "left" and "right".You have political science in your junior high school curriculum, so you must know the origin of the words "left" and "right".In the French Congress during the Great Revolution, those who supported the royal power and the nobility sat on the right, and those who advocated reform sat on the left.The naughty French just sit around and have influenced the whole world to this day.Interestingly, most of the French who sat on the left were bourgeois, opposed to the royal power and aristocracy, and supported capitalism and free trade, which is what some "leftists" today regard as vipers and beasts s things.

A new leftist magazine in Berlin was published in February of this year. The magazine is called "Anti-Berlin"——I just sent the web page to Hua Fei.I imagine, if a magazine was published in Beijing called "Anti-Beijing" or "Anti-China"?Someone might be arrested.Then publish a magazine in Taipei called "Anti-Taiwan"?Publishing "anti-Hong Kong" in Hong Kong?Maybe I can't eat and walk around. The "Anti-Berlin" magazine, like many leftist publications, criticizes many issues and calls on readers to connect with other places and participate in demonstrations: on March 19, everyone is invited to gather in Brussels for demonstrations, where the EU summit will be held; in May The 8th is the 60th anniversary of the end of the European War. Please gather in Berlin to counter the demonstrations of rightists; in July, please rush to Scotland, where the summit meeting of the eight industrialized countries will be held...

The leftists called on the masses to go to Berlin on May 8th to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the European War. There were several very moving slogans: Source: ( - Dear Andre (Full Text) (8)_Light Blue Light Makeup_Sina Blog The Soviet front against the Nazis was 2,000 kilometers long and cost 20 million lives - we are grateful for the heroism of the Soviet Red Army. We thank all underground resisters. We mourn all the victims of fascism and war. We demand compensation for all laborers conscripted by the Nazis. In fact, this is no longer a "leftist" idea, it has become the mainstream view in Germany.In Japan, the contrast is stark.It is also the 60th anniversary of the "End of War". The Asian countries that were once invaded by Japan have not even received an apology.Japan obviously lacks a "left eye" to see the world.

But in China today, you know?What we say is "left", but they are "right", and they say "right", which is actually close to our "left"; it should be the most "left" communism, and today the most "right", it is more capitalist than capitalism .Therefore, when speaking with Chinese people, you must pay special attention to the "misleading" of vocabulary. After Hua Fei finished reading "Anti-Berlin", he swayed his long legs and said, "Wow, I can't stand it! Such a left magazine." I asked him, "Then what are you?" He said, "The middle. Because the extreme left With the extreme right, it’s like standing in a circle, it looks like you’re going in two opposite directions, but in fact, you’ll meet at the end. It’s just as scary.” I looked at the kid in amazement. Unreliable idealism You are disgusted with "Anne"'s class consciousness and elite thinking, and you are probably eligible to be classified into the "left" spectrum.I randomly found a definition of "left" in the dictionary, which is: Advocating equality, emphasizing social justice, such as workers' rights or trade union rights; more concerned about the situation of the poor and disadvantaged, opposing nationalism, class and authority, and Traditional culture keeps its distance and is suspicious of privilege and the bourgeoisie. The "left" tends to describe itself in terms of "progressive". If you are on a straight line, you must ask me to "choose a side" ─ ─ standing in the middle "to the left" or "to the right", I will choose "left" as a last resort.I say "last resort" because, God, if the twentieth century I've seen and experienced taught me anything, it's this: don't trust idealists unconditionally unless they've been tested for power.An idealist who has power without corruption is a true idealist.Idealists who have not been tested by power and have high self-confidence and high moral posture are unreliable.From Mao Zedong to the proud gangsters in Taiwan's political arena right now, hey, there are too many. I once talked to the famous German feminist writer Alice.When Xu Huaze talked about this topic, I said that there are so many "smug bastards" in Taiwan because our democracy is too young and still in its infancy.She strongly disagreed, saying that Germany's democracy has existed for 50 years, so it is not naive, but there are more "thugs", including the current Prime Minister Schroeder. Well, dearest, what on earth do I want to tell you? I am really proud of your sense of justice and judgment of right and wrong, but I also hope that you can see clearly the essence of idealism—it is precious, but it is also fragile and easily corrupted.Many people's sense of justice, sympathy, reform enthusiasm or revolutionary impulse often come from a romantic feeling, but the romantic feeling has never been an opponent of the cold reality, and it is often just a fake beauty and haze covered with a light mist.I naturally hope that your idealism is deeper than your romantic feelings. I don't know if I should tell you this, and I don't know what you will think of what I said when you are nineteen years old, but I miss you, child, at three o'clock in the morning in Taipei, there is a full of affectionate lights outside my window, Flickering faintly in the cold night.However, the mother misses the grown-up child, which is always one-way; the youthful and vigorous child rushes towards his vision of life, his eyes eagerly look forward, and the mother can only look at his shrinking back from behind, wondering, what is the horizon? No matter how far, how long, how suddenly, I can't see it. your mm