Chapter 67 Can't call this thing by its name

In the days of Don Quixote, a Spaniard would feel sorry for mentioning something vulgar or indecent, "The faithful squire made a sudden leap-forgive me for not taking the liberty of calling it by its name-but jumped. On the remnants of the canines." So much trouble that Sancho stepped on dog shit.Likewise, I would like to apologize to you all before talking about my impressions of a recently published book.I'm referring to the "sequel" to "China Can Say No," a feigned exasperation that proclaims that the country's mood is somewhere between dissatisfaction and rage - excuse me, I can't bring up both Such an inappropriate, contrived and bullshit title without feeling indecent.

The title of the book is like a human face, you can almost tell what is interesting and what is good at a glance.A book called "Hundred Years of Glory" may be interesting, but it must be worthless.It shouldn’t be bad for a remnant of the Northern Song Dynasty to write “Tokyo Menghualu”. If the Bianliang City Government stepped in and asked to change the title to “Excellent Achievements in the Construction of the Imperial Capital”, it would definitely be impossible to read. If there are such a few guys in later generations who have no virtue or talent but are greedy for the convenience of imitation, and have compiled a book called "Xijing Menghualu", we will say that boring people do boring things, but let them do what they want.If they made a few quick bucks with this imitation, and then made a comeback a few years later, and produced another "Xijing Dream Records", our reaction must be different-first, there must be a limit to boredom , cheating the world and stealing names cannot be endless; secondly, are these writers or idiots?

In my opinion, "China Can Say No" is roughly equivalent to "Xijing Menghualu", both of which are imitations. The source of the former is the book "Japan Can Say No" by Akio Morita and Shintaro Ishihara.And now this book, I think it is "Record of a Dream" - to imitate so poorly, in addition to requiring ignorance, it really requires great courage.In fact, I am not worried about its influence at all, let alone believe that it can really add a few pieces of firewood to the false fire of nationalism.To do it justice, I purposefully read a dozen chapters of it online—it is of such low quality that it cannot be taken seriously by any discerning reader capable of moving this society forward.

Even if nationalism is extreme, if it is not combined with state power, it is only one pole of the social trend of thought, and there is no need to worry about it at all.Both Nazi Germany and militaristic Japan are the source of extreme nationalism, but exploring its essence, nationalism is only the result, and the state's manipulation of the will of the masses is the root of evil.If we can avoid this manipulation, we can avoid nine out of ten evils in the world. This is the method of outline. I think what is really worthy of vigilance is the trend behind this book that shows more and more success in our society.

Some people criticized that this book is a work of "left anger", I thought it was too simple.I think this book contains both the stubbornness of the extreme left and the stubbornness of the extreme right, but it has neither ideals of the left nor rationality of the right.It even devoted a few chapters to attacking the "literary tune" of Chinese intellectuals, and opposed it to China's demand for aircraft carriers. With all due respect, my impression is that Guan Gong fights Qin Qiong - the old man of the village and the old drink less Drunk, what a mess there. How should we understand that some people wrote such a book that lacks the most basic quality in logic, fact, structure, and language, but makes a lot of noise?The only explanation could only be that they had no real ambitions for it at all. "Southern Weekend" once published a special article about a "shapeless" boy, he is like water, he will slip into the crevice of the rock when he encounters it, and he will slip into the mouse hole when he encounters a mouse hole. He has no principles. There is no position, no bottom line, and no ego, just greedy and unscrupulous desire for success.In my opinion, the book we are talking about is also a "shapeless" work that only seeks "success" without any principles and positions.

This topic ends here.A digression is that this book has received a lot of criticism after it was published. I saw one of the authors say on his blog that the pen and ink lawsuit delayed them a lot. One author missed "several jobs" and made less money 100,000 yuan, and he himself only earned 60,000 yuan less.You know some people who complain and show off when they are criticized and imply that they make more money.Seeing this, Guo Degang's words broke into his mind: Well, your shameless appearance has the same charm as I did back then!My feeling is: If people acquiesce that all success is worth pursuing, then this kind of tone is really invincible.