Chapter 17 Wanli Potemkin Village Tour

In fact, our life is more interesting than "The Truman Show".For example, you can't find a better story in movies than "The Zhou Tiger Incident". Personally, "The Truman Show" is a particularly interesting movie. The protagonist has been placed in a huge studio from the first day of his birth, and his every move is followed by countless cameras, surrounded by people All relatives are actually actors.This buddy gradually discovered the truth and was about to leave this false world, so he walked to the boundary between sea and sky—it turned out that it was also a set.Then the man finally ran away.I've had similar interesting experiences myself, but never managed to get away.

When I was young, one day, I thought: My parents don’t seem to love me very much, so maybe they are just pretending?Didn't the book say that parents should lock their children in a warehouse of briquettes!It was a scorching sun, and I was walking alone on the street, suddenly thinking, what if everyone I saw was just pretending?My dad may be fake, my mom may be fake, grandma may be fake, and the policeman uncle staring at me by the side of the road is clearly a bully, and then the question arises: what do they want to do with such ulterior motives? Woolen cloth? From this, you can understand that in the age I lived in, being a child was not easy.You are literally facing an infinite number of vicious opponents.At that time, I was no more than three feet tall, with no helmet on my head, no armor on my body, an iron ring in my left hand, a popsicle in my right hand, and a pair of plastic sandals, but only four weapons. On that barbaric and loveless street, No one can beat it!

From another point of view, this is also a kind of luck. At least I have learned since I was a child that if the world is fake, it will be really difficult to mess around. Of course, there are also people who can only get along well in the false world.In Russia in the 18th century, there was an exemplary false world whose builder was the famous Duke Potemkin.This duke is not only a field marshal with outstanding military exploits, but also the lover of the Russian Emperor Catherine II.One year, the Empress made a tour along the Dnieper River. In order to claim credit, Duke Potemkin did something that would go down in history: he ordered the poor and dirty villages in the south under his rule to be dressed up as prosperous model villages.This kind of thing is nothing to us, but foreigners have little knowledge, and later called all kinds of deceitful model projects "Potemkin Village".

Wang Shi said that great companies have no stories, and only companies that are not great enough have stories.The same is true for a society, a society that is not good enough will be full of spoof talents.What is a spoof?I think the classic paradigm should be like this: I wore a pair of "Adi Wang", held a "HiPhone", and swam one after another "Potemkin Village". We are familiar with this kind of thing.If the trees in winter are not green enough, then spray some green paint.Hundreds of thousands of primary and secondary school teachers and students went out to sweep the streets in every city's "Chuangwei". A reporter from "Southern Weekend" also told me a story, saying that the leader went to the home of a fellow villager in the disaster-stricken area as a guest, and even cooked a dish. The TV screen was very warm, but in private, there are 9 people in this family. I don't know anyone.

President Bush Sr. of the United States once served as the director of the liaison office in China on the eve of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. Once he accompanied Kissinger to visit Suzhou. They could neither see vehicles nor pedestrians on the road.At the destination, in a garden, I saw groups of happy children playing, singing and dancing.Bush Sr. said in his memoirs that this is a "Potemkin Village". According to logical deduction, there must be a mechanism behind a false world, or a dynamic field, or anything that can explain its root.Why was I afraid of the false world when I was a child, and I am still afraid now?There must be something wrong here.

In fact, our life is more interesting than "The Truman Show".For example, you can't find a better story in movies than "The Zhou Tiger Incident".It's amazing that a modern country capable of hosting a successful Olympic Games has been messed up with a farmer and a New Year picture.But I haven't seen any journalists or writers who have special ambitions on this matter, such as writing it into a book.I believe that the secrets of the times will be condensed in this book.But the problem is that in China, almost every story embodies the secrets of the times.Our secrets are flooded, and year after year, people get dulled.In the past, when the younger generation felt lost, Cui Jian sang: I will go from south to north, and I will go from white to black.But I think we just walked from the beginning of the village to the end of the village.