Chapter 7 White-haired fisherman on the high-speed railway

My English is not bad, and I still remember about 10 words, one of which is Clack, short and sharp crashing sound.I also remember that text: There was a boy on the train, and when he heard Clack, he yelled rashly, "Everyone, tell me there is danger ahead!" He was asked by others to shut up!But he still heard Clack, and kept talking, and everyone told him to stop.If so, someone finally said, it's too annoying, why don't you stop the train and let him see that everything is safe.The train stopped, and sure enough there was something wrong with the tracks.I think the story is about how important warnings of danger are, and how hard it is to listen to someone whose voice is soft.

I cannot overstate how much this story has been beneficial to my career as a journalist.I just found out that 90% of the news is a variation on this story.The difference is that all the "trains" in the news turned over.I saw that the floods in Yilishen and Shalan towns were like this, and the Jiaoji Railway incident was a replica.What are the core facts of these news?Was it really the train overturning that caused the death and injury?Of course not, it was this: there was a Clack boy, but he had no chance of being heard. Today I am no longer a reporter.In a way, I'm tired of the same stories.When I see "peek-a-boo", I don't find it humorous, I can imagine if I go to interview, people will tell me "this is a system problem".I can imagine that I would be bored to death.

Life is a system. When you walk on the road, you will encounter a system that does not allow you to run red lights. When you sleep, you will encounter a system that does not allow you to sleep with other people's girlfriends.I tend to think that the system itself is bad, but it is a necessary bad.The real problem is that we have some needlessly bad things that are considered necessary.The problem, too, is that this obsession is so repulsive that the Clack boys, finding their warning actions as pointless as Sisyphus pushing a stone up a hill, mutter "Fuck you!" and go. I often see some BBS, they are not good, the meaning of their existence is to make me have the idea of ​​"too lazy to talk to you".There, smart people don't like to talk, but idiots talk endlessly, and we will say, ah, this BBS has a system problem.If it has the ability to make smart people learn bad and fools lose hope, then it is a serious institutional problem.If the system is at its best, it will give wise men unholy pleasures, but constant anxiety and restless sleep.This kind of thing didn’t only happen on BBS. Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty was always worried about being killed, and he often asked himself, “What a good head, who should chop it off?” This is a society that cannot gather wisdom, but must gather violence.Knowing this, we can distinguish which of the grandiose words are against our will and which are deceiving the world.

So I had to redefine the phrase "this is a systemic issue" I heard during the interview.If the victim is crying, "The system, there's no way!" then he's a cynic.However, if the interviewee is a small local boss who seems to be optimistic and expresses the same opinion, then I have no choice but to think that he is a villain who shirks responsibility.The salary of eating the king is a matter of loyalty to the king.The common people have a good saying: Are you not the one who eats in this dog food bowl?Dog food is limited and you pick the expensive ones with a straight face, what can you say?

Today we all live in a world where we can look into the distance and know that equal opportunities and rights are the cornerstone of good institutions.The difficulties of this era are no longer the style of the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, people seemed to be shooting arrows in a dark room, with no possibility of hitting the target forever.Now we see the target there, and if we wear a pair of glasses, we can still see the red heart, and its name is modern civilization.The whole problem today is easier said than done.What to do?How to do it?It's actually not that complicated, I think the first thing is that when you feel something's wrong, just fuck the fuck up and start yelling.We need those Clack boys.

But even though the times have progressed, there are still very few such children here, and more of them are full of emotions.What is meant by "white-haired fishermen and woodcutters on the river, used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze"?What I see is that people have gone through a life of frustration and found that what they have seen in their lives is false—in a typical Chinese mind, we will confuse aging with wisdom, passivity with beauty, love of order and insensitivity to conformity.Back then, the people of the Song Dynasty laughed at themselves when they couldn't beat the Jin people, "The Jin people have maces, and I have the Tianling Gai!" Now we are much more active, and we compare everything with others.Dubai has tall buildings, and so does Shanghai; Singapore has a large airport, and so does Beijing; Washington has the White House, and so does Anhui.But there are policemen who protect the society, and there are amendments, and we only have white-haired fishermen and woodcutters.