Chapter 12 The Strange Uncle in the Rough State

Tell two stories today.The first story is from a novel I'm reading, Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", which tells about a fictional country called the Republic of Gilead, which was formerly the United States, It is now controlled by religious fundamentalists.The Republic of Gilead is not a good place. Whatever modern civilization has, it denies it, and whatever we like to do, it does not allow it to do.We like to learn about the outside world, so it restricts the flow of information, if we want to talk, it tells us to say hello, we enjoy the entertainment of men and women, and develop this kind of humor, so it doesn't allow us to smile.To be a citizen in this country is almost a dream, and it is not easy to be a vigorous person. Only an ignorant eunuch would feel at ease.

This kind of novel is called "anti-utopian novel" or "bump state novel". May help the evildoers. In an unjust society, technology fosters injustice.Kazuo Ishiguro has a novel of this type called "Don't Abandon Me", which is about a group of children who are alive and suddenly discover that they are cloned human beings, and they are all hosts of organ transplants.This evil was unimaginable two hundred years ago.For another example, the holy will was not far away in ancient times, and the villagers and wild old people could still live at ease.In modern times, loud speakers chatter endlessly to control people's thoughts.This possibility increases exponentially with the development of technology. Radios are more efficient, TVs are more deceptive, and the Internet can create a field of public opinion, and so on.If it goes on for a long time, some ordinary people will become confused, believe what the loudspeaker says, and lose their independent thinking.Some young people are smarter and will feel the absurdity of all this, so what to do?Their first reaction is to use technology to pull up a big horn of their own.But the reason why dystopia exists is because it is not a vegetarian. It sent a sentry team, and a shot from BIU turned the new speaker into an old dumb.

It is not easy to get rid of dystopia. "Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will lead to Chu", because the weapons are roughly equal. The Qin people sell all the copper in the world, and the Chu people can fight with bricks. The Qin people have bows and arrows, and the Chu people can also deal with them with slingshots. I have seen Tibetans The child's catapult is simple in craftsmanship and quite powerful. It may not lose to Fang Tian's painted halberd in the era of cold weapons, but the people of Qin have tanks... This matter is not easy to handle. The unrighteous also have the ultimate killer move, which is to create a closed discourse space.A few years ago, I interviewed an orphanage to investigate whether its director embezzled public donations, and there were many difficulties that I could not imagine.If I ask an orphan, what does the orphanage give you?He'd stare at me with hatred and say, lobster goulash!I asked another child, what clothes will the orphanage give you?She also stared at me with hatred and said, Armani!It's an exaggeration, of course, but it's true that kids don't tell the truth.Why?Because it's an island of information.The dean locked the children up and propagated for many years that this cruel world has abandoned you, and without me, you would live on the streets and be slaughtered by others—but now some reporters want to get rid of me and destroy our happy home !

You see, this is a perfect model of a messianic complex, authoritarianism and nationalism, and how to strengthen internal unity through persecuted lies.You can say that it is the rudimentary form of the Republic of Gilead, of course, it is more likely that it is a copycat version that has everything.What is this strange little world most afraid of?external news.The dean never allows strangers to talk to the children casually.So what is the purpose of its existence?It's boring to say, or money. The second story comes from.Li Meiting was dignified and dignified, and when he saw a pretty girl, he said, Miss, there are a lot of hooligans here, you have to be careful.I met a white widow in the car, and he also said that there are many bad people on the road, if you know that you are a widow walking alone, I am afraid that you will have evil thoughts in your heart!With the style of this Mr. Li, if I send the widow a flirty text message, I am afraid that he will snatch the phone and destroy the SIM card.This story is really unbearable. We feel righteous indignation towards the Republic of Gilead, but we often feel helpless about the existence of Li Meiting and his like.But when it comes to the essence, the two are the same: to create terror and control others.If the widow is not deeply involved in the world, she might say, Mr. Li, please take care of the slave family more!This is right in Li Meiting's arms, and you can probably see that his dream is that if all the women in the world want to have sex, don't have sex with others, only have sex with him.If the time is right, and he becomes the president of the Republic of Gilead, he will hope that the whole country will be messed with by him.