Chapter 256 Three crying slang words and laughing slang words

As we have seen, the whole of slang, whether it was that of four hundred years ago or that of today, is imbued with that symbolic gloom that bestows now a melancholy gesture, now an air of menace, on all words.We can feel here the rage of the bums who played cards in the sanctuary. Those people had their own original cards, and we still have a few decks.For example, the Plum Blossom Eight is a big tree with eight large petals, a grotesque way to express the forest.A pile of burning fires is drawn under the tree, and three hares are carrying a hunter on a spit to bake on the fire. Behind the tree, a steaming pot hangs on another fire, and a dog's head is exposed in the pot .Nothing could be more grim than the sentiment of retaliation against the burning of smugglers and smugglers at the stake, to be depicted on a card.In the realm of slang, the various forms that thought takes, even song, jeering, or intimidation, are all characterized by that resignation and repression.All the songs - some of the melodies have been collected - are all subdued and pathetic to the point of tears.The ghost society calls itself "the poor ghost society", and it is always like a hare hiding at any time, a mouse running away, or a bird flying away.It expressed a little opinion, then restrained itself and sighed.We have heard such a complaint in our ears: "I don't understand how God, the father of man, can abuse his children and grandchildren and let them cry out without doing anything." Whenever the poor think about problems, they always think that they are in the law. Small in front of him, weak in front of society, he begs for mercy, and people feel that he has realized his mistake.

But in the middle of the last century, things changed.The song in the prison, the tune often sung by the gangsters, can be said to have a kind of arrogant and cheerful posture.The lamented malure has been replaced by larifla.By the nineteenth century almost every song on a galley, penal cell, or convict brigade had acquired a wildly inexplicable lilt.In it one often hears these sharp and throbbing refrains, which seem to be illuminated by a faint phosphorescence, as if they were drawn into the forest by a will-o'-the-wisp with the sound of the flute: It was sung when they strangled people in cellars or in the corner of the woods.

severe symptoms.The old sentimentality of the dour classes had disappeared by the eighteenth century.They started laughing.They mock God and kings.In speaking of Louis XV, they called the King of France "Mr. Pantin."They are almost lighthearted.There was a slight light shining through these poor people, as if the depression in their hearts no longer existed.These miserable people living in the dark not only have the courage to act recklessly, but also have the courage to be unscrupulous in spirit.It means that they have lost their sense of guilt and feel themselves supported by a sort of unconscious support among certain thinkers and dreamers.This shows that theft and plunder have been made the subject of certain doctrines and sophistry, which, in order to lessen their ugliness a little, has greatly increased their ugliness.In short, this shows that if there is no change, there will be huge riots in the near future.

Wait a minute.Who do we accuse here?Eighteenth century?Is it philosophical?of course not.The achievements of the eighteenth century are healthy and good.The Encyclopedists headed by Diderot, the Physiocrats headed by Turgot, the philosophers headed by Voltaire, and the Utopians headed by Rousseau, these are the four holy armies.Humanity's great progress towards the light is due to them.These are the four pioneers of mankind marching towards the four aspects of progress, Diderot towards beauty, Turgot towards utility, Voltaire towards truth, and Rousseau towards justice.But beside and beneath the philosopher there are the Sophists, which are poisonous weeds among the fragrant flowers, and the scourge of the virgin grove.While the executioners were burning some of the great emancipatory books of that century on the nave stairs of the Supreme Court, many now-forgotten authors were publishing, under the king's dispensation, an unknown number of highly destructive articles for the poor Enjoy reading.Several of these writings were, strange to say, kept under the protection of a prince in a "secret library."These meaningful but hidden little things are apparently unnoticed.And sometimes, the danger of a thing lies in its non-publicity.It's not public because it's done underground.Of all these authors, the one which led the masses into the most unhealthy ways was, perhaps, that of Le Tief de Labredon.

This work, which spread throughout Europe, did more harm in Germany than anywhere.In Germany, after Schiller summed it up in his famous play The Robber, theft and plunder rose at a certain time as a protest against property and work, imbibing certain shallowness, speciousness, hypocrisy, Thoughts that are superficially correct but actually absurd, and use these thoughts to disguise themselves, hide them inside, take an abstract term, make themselves a theory, and in this way flood the hard-working, suffering and honest masses of the people , not even the chemist who prepared the mixture, nor even the masses who received it.Every time something like this happens, it's always serious.Pain begets anger, and whenever the rich class goes blind or sleeps (which it always does), the hatred of the miserable class kindles its rage in the hearts of some depressed or ill-natured dreamer in a corner. Torch, and began to do research on society.Horrible research done by Hate!

Therefore, if the catastrophe of the times must be like this, there will be such an appalling concussion that people used to call the "Zackeray Movement", and purely political disturbances are just child's play compared with that movement, which is no longer true. The struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor, but the insurrection of poverty against abundance.At that point everything will fall apart. The Zakhray movement is a people's shock. At the end of the eighteenth century this danger might have been imminent, but the French Revolution--an act of honor--stopped it at once.

The French Revolution was nothing but an ideal armed with a sword, which stepped forward and struck, closing the doors of evil and opening the doors of good in the same movement. It solves the problem, proclaims the truth, removes the miasma, purifies the century, and crowns the people. We can say that it created human beings again, endowing human beings with a second soul, human rights. The nineteenth century inherited and enjoyed its fruits, and today the social catastrophe we have just pointed out has simply become impossible.Only a blind man would make a fuss about it!Only a fool would turn pale when talking about it!Revolution is the vaccine against the Zakhray movement.

Thanks to that revolution, the situation in society changed.The diseases of feudalism and monarchy no longer exist in our blood.The Middle Ages no longer exists in our constitution.Our age will no longer have the internal strife that causes upheaval, the faintly discernible undercurrent under our feet, the mole tunnel that emerges from the surface of civilization. There will be indescribable turmoil, there will be no more ground cracks, caves will be opened, and the heads of monsters and ghosts will no longer be seen suddenly coming out of the ground. The revolutionary outlook is the moral outlook.A feeling for human rights, once developed, can develop into a sense of responsibility.The law of the people, that is liberty, which, according to Robespierre's admirable definition, ends when the liberty of others begins.Since 1789, the entire people has engaged in self-development as a sublime individual, not a single poor man has not rejoiced at the acquisition of his rights, and the starving have felt confident in the honesty of France and the dignity of citizenship. It is spiritual armament.Whoever has liberty loves himself, and whoever has the vote is the ruler.Incorruptibility is born from this, and unhealthy greed is eliminated from this. From then on, people's eyes are heroically lowered in the face of temptation.The purifying effect of the revolution has gone so far that as soon as one is saved, say, on the 14th of July, or, say, on the 10th of August, all the untouchables cease to exist.The first cry of the bright and great masses is: "Execute the thief!" Progress creates righteousness, and ideals and absolute truth never sneak around.Who escorted the wagons carrying the wealth of the Tuileries in 1848?Escorted by the rag collectors in the suburbs of Saint-Antoine.Rags guard the vault.Good virtue makes those in rags look dignified.In some of the boxes in those wagons, some not securely closed, some even half-opened, among a hundred cases of brilliant jewels, was the ancient crown entirely encrusted with diamonds, upon which rested the Thirty million rubies representing kingship and regency.They, barefoot, guard the crown.

It shows that there will be no more Zachary movements.I feel sorry for those witty people.Here the old fear played its last role and could no longer be used in politics.The big spring of the Red Ghost is broken.Everyone sees it now.The scarecrow can no longer scare people.The flying bird is familiar with the straw man, the dove sits on its head, and the bourgeoisie regards it as a joke.