Chapter 17 On "Excellent Chinese": The "bravery" of Ma Licheng and others is challenging the bottom line of the nation

The "bravery" of Ma Licheng and others is challenging the bottom line of the nation In 2003, Shucai, a poet and a researcher of French literature at the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Social Sciences, brought a Frenchman to drink with us.This Frenchman has a bit of a background. He has worked for the French Ministry of Defense for a long time and has worked in the Middle East for many years.We talked a lot about international relations and the situation in the Middle East. When talking about Bush Jr.'s famous "slip of the tongue" about the "Crusade", the former commissioner of the Ministry of Defense raised his eyebrows and said in an impatient tone: People It's so naive. In fact, in the minds of Bush and American interest groups, any non-Christian civilization belongs to the "pan-Islamic culture" and must be eliminated or suppressed as soon as possible.What more can I say?

The words of the former French commissioner will be vividly remembered by those present many years later. That's why when I saw many Chinese people with individuality being massacred in Palestine, they showed that kind of joy, that kind of hearty sense of righteousness (of course, this kind of righteousness is for the "great Israeli soldiers") , Seeing the kind of schadenfreude that didn't know where it came from, I suddenly felt horrified, and suddenly felt like returning to the 1980s, thinking of our wishful era full of internationalist enthusiasm.It is what was written in the first chapter of "China Can Say No": when we were arranged by the Shanghai Students' Federation to meet with the Palestinian Students' Federation, we held the picky attitude.Our minds are so liberated, and we are tired of the "justice" instilled in us by the mainstream media. It is right that we should explore where "justice" is.But have we really explored it?Aren't we unknowingly influenced by our own "priority" and look at the struggle of the Palestinians with a snobbish mentality that clings to the West and flatters the United States? This is the real sentiment that has been going on for many years?For many years, we have been asking: Palestine is dying every day, which Chinese with an "international mind" stood up and held a candle, praying "We are Palestinians tonight"?Impossible, the layout is too small, too unflattering and obedient.I heard only a faint voice: seeing the misery of the Palestinians, there was only a strong feeling, "it's nice to live in a country with nuclear bombs".Can you capture and feel the deep information in this sentence?We can take care of our own affairs and not get close to the weaker nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but can we stop humiliating others?You have just lived a stable life for a few days?For us at this stage, Kipling's verse may be instructive:

If you know how to win after you lose, And treat both illusions alike, My son, you will become a man. The question now is: can you make people trust you?What we have seen is that the impassioned crusade against weak and small nations, and the cowardly mentality of rushing to draw a line with others, today have a halo of "justice", and they can even cause cheers!Professor Zhou Xiaozheng recently shook his wits and declared: Israel is a good country.One of his appeals is "information symmetry". Then, in his information space, can we hear the cries of the poor ghosts of Palestine?

Zhou Xiaozheng, who is known as a "chatter" and joking, is not too slow in defending Israel. We should admire his ability to stand out from the magic rope as soon as possible, his old man's story cutting, and his weird connection , The insidious hint, the grafting of a distant international incident with internal political anger and local anger is very skillful.There is a "Chemical Ali" in Iraq. We should congratulate China for having a "Chemistry Week". It should be condemned, and it should be deeply understood, and it should be applauded!Applause is not enough, you have to turn around and slap the Chinese themselves!See how Israel shoots money!What kind of bastards are the Chinese in comparison!Judging from the actual effect and the general indifference of online speeches, one can quote Bush's words after being attacked by flying shoes: He wanted to cheer, and I think he succeeded.A college student protested weakly: Professor Zhou's "fair" attitude of staying out of the way is actually a kind of naked cruelty!However, the protest of university students only tells one side of the truth.Are the instigators really out of it?He played such a vicious "domino" to make fun of the dignity of the Chinese people by taking advantage of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, leading to an unmanageable situation, leading to another kind of spiritual disaster. His intentions, do people really Can't understand?Here, let’s quote again the text of the open letter published by Professor Zhou’s students:

I am ashamed of your one-sided words and absurd logic in defending the aggressors. ...I absolutely cannot accept your bizarre theory of peaceful invaders, because your defense reminds me of what Japan did. If you turn a blind eye to their inhuman massacre and looting, you can even admire their nation's creation The miracles in the history of human civilization, even I have to say a few good words for them: the basketball gymnasium in my middle school was the basketball gymnasium of the barracks of the Japanese garrison, and it is also the basketball gymnasium with the best engineering quality I have ever seen! ... I am not against Japanese products, I like Japanese games and animations.The problem is, this is different from my understanding of the crimes of aggression Japan committed against China, Asia and the world!Fighting can turn jade into silk, but fighting is a real history after all, which cannot be questioned or obliterated.As for Israel’s actions today, for the innocent Palestinian people who have been ravaged by artillery fire, the feeling is close to the feeling that we are suddenly aggressed by Japan and the United States, or is it the same as Zhou who stays out of the matter but still talks about the pretentious posture of the strong against the weak The professor's position?Except for the people who were invaded, who is qualified to speak for them?Professor Zhou knows what is out of date and grandstanding, but he lacks the most basic objective standpoint and empathy of a true intellectual...or the conscience of an intellectual...one can not have as profound professional knowledge and social knowledge as Professor Zhou. status, but an adult with a normal education and a normal mind, in today’s world where the haze of war still hangs over weak and small countries and people, if you don’t even understand this bit of right and wrong, even this bit of sympathy and compassion that transcends national and national borders Without a sense of justice, I can only choose to be speechless again.

As I said before, among the nations of the world, it is rare to be able to find "outstanding figures" like the Chinese intellectual class who brag about themselves to make money; At the same time as a shameful discourse, he does not intend to hide his snobbish mentality and unprincipled betrayal at all.In the past, we used to say that during World War II, there were many traitors and puppet troops in China. The people believed that this phenomenon was a pain for the Chinese nation and a national humiliation.When it comes down to the reason, it is easy to simply attribute it to villain-style individualism, "a turret lays down, half an emperor", this kind of folk sentiment reflects the suffocating poverty and spiritual decadence of a country, so some people get along .But things are not so graphic. In the relevant chapters of "China Can Say No", I tried to analyze this historical consequence with daily experience and political feelings. I revealed my thoughts like this:

It's easy to become someone you don't like.And after becoming, he often deceived himself: "The process of my change is different from that kind of person. I have many stories worthy of people's tears." Bullshit, how are you different from others? In the 1980s, when historical verdicts were being reversed, I read some of Wang Jingwei’s letters, and I was deeply indulging in his grief. I felt that this person’s sentiments were comparable to those of Sima Qian who wrote "Bao Ren An Shu".For a while, I published a strange talk: In fact, Mrs. Wang is a very painful patriot.He has a lofty status, he has an adjutant, and he has an air-raid shelter in Chongqing. Why would he ignore his decades of revolutionary struggle history!The psychology of a small person like me has been influencing Wang's re-evaluation for several years. Just look at this man: King Lear, witnessing the "heavy and poisonous rivers and mountains", expressing the feelings of Youzhou, how touching! ...In fact, think about it carefully: Isn't the traitors composed of some Chinese people who are excellent in morality, resourcefulness, and strength?Why is it not the loss of Chinese cadres' strength that they threw themselves into the enemy's camp?

Political, military, religious, cultural and educational, journalistic, industrial, and financial talents gathered under the banner of "peaceful nation building" and held the belief that those who carry out major events must bear the burden of hard work. It is an act controlled by foreigners. …The events that disastrous the country and the people are often done by superb figures from all walks of life. They are not necessarily morally corrupt. They have more ideals than ordinary people, more willpower and sacrifice than mediocre people; Faith has the feeling of being willing to be lonely and become a lonely sage.But it is impossible for us not to look at another thing from the perspective of history, that is, the serious social, economic and cultural facts, and the crimes that cause the nation to lag behind.

The passage I wrote was later criticized by the old man Feng Yingzi. I felt that the old man did not understand my words.I accept his rebuttal on historical facts. He said that Wang Jingwei took money from the Japanese during the Chongqing era, but this does not prevent my point of view from being extended. So looking at it now, is there such a worrying phenomenon among the outstanding Chinese people?Of course, like McCarthy, we will not use the strict rules of the "African-American Committee" to make judgments about the current state of relaxation and confusion, and to carry out literal accusations.But at least point out: We do have such a worrying spiritual prospect in China!I remember that after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and until 1979, all our revised constitutions included the punishment of traitors in the introduction. Later, in order to avoid unnecessary exaggeration of the concept of the enemy, the word “traitor” was omitted from the constitution.But what we see today is that there are all kinds of accusations against "traitors" and "traitors" among the people. I am afraid that they are no longer the persecution fantasies of the moral Puritans.It has a factual basis, a mass of openly visible symptoms of depravity.

As soon as this point was mentioned, someone jumped out: reversing history!"Patriotic Thief" is out! Just tell the unpleasant truth, and someone jumps out and puts a color on you. The combination of "patriotic thief" is the most prominent invention of the clowns in the Southern Metropolis Daily, not to mention that it is the worst rhetoric, and there is no knowledge of semantics at all.Even from the facts, it is blind to the big picture. Anyone who wants to express some protest opinions against external oppression is counter-reform.This is the logic of "Confrontation", and the "only openness theory" fools the Chinese people. When "Confrontation" became popular, Ma Licheng, one of the authors, gave reports everywhere.Speaking on the stage, recording off the stage, tsk tsk, the scenery is infinite.And when the excitement of "reform breaking resistance" is high, we have reservations.I often tell my media friends in Hong Kong that your excitement over the years is to find radicals and conservatives in the mainland. You can interpret a tug-of-war between leftists and rightists for any matter, and then describe and exaggerate the conspiracy of the Byzantine court. For some non-existent difficulties, finding someone to crush for the reform wheel, Mao Zedong criticized, "grabbing people".Some people criticize that nationalism is diverting domestic conflicts, and those who engage in nationalism have played a bad role.I think people who are passionate about this kind of story should ask themselves: Does creating Byzantine myths divert the contradictions and immerse themselves in this kind of excitement?Take a look at the Soviet Union in the Gorbachev era. At that time, Chinese young people were also excited with the reformers. Everyone knows that there was a conservative in the Soviet Party named Ligachev. We followed the new thinking and the struggle The hallucinations are ups and downs.Every time I see Ligachev's face on TV, look at his bureaucratic cold face, and imagine how he engages in conspiracies and tricks, I will feel resentment against conservative bureaucrats.Later, when I recalled this relationship experience, it was a bit funny: From the beginning to the end, where was Ligachev?Ligachev stayed where he was, and did not provoke anyone.The meaning of Ligachev's existence is like the humor of "breaking the ghosts of Liao" in history: Jin Guo attacked Liao, and the reason for the attack was that Liao took in Jin's rebels, and fought again and again, finally destroying Liao. What's the matter?Jin Bing caught the old traitor, beat him up, and let him go.The old man spent his old age peacefully, and introduced himself to everyone he met: My name is "Po Liao Ghost".There is also Andreyeva, who published an article "I must stick to principles". Back then, China cared about the reform of the Soviet Union with great enthusiasm. This article was published in full in "Reference News" back then, and the Chinese also Followed by worries about the future of Soviet reform.It turned out that the Komsomol newspaper apologized to the whole country for publishing Andreeva's article.We have also learned a lot about the virtues of anti-reform thugs, but looking back today, Andreyeva, who looked so annoying back then, was not annoying at all.Her arguments about lack of strategy and intimacy are every bit right in terms of practical consequences.

Thinking of this episode, I really want to say "God Bless China".Fortunately, we have tragedies in neighboring countries, fortunately, we have blockages in all directions, fortunately, we have had some internal tossings over the years.We're not in such a bad situation. We know that Ma Licheng later became the first to bear the brunt of civil moral accusations.His "compromise" for the atrocities committed by Japan during World War II, and the analogy between the anti-Japanese military and civilians and Hamas are outstanding examples of serious problems with the thinking quality of China's "excellent elements".At this point, many cynical Chinese intellectuals are very envious of his bravery.This is a revelation to us. I used to always think this way: China’s national nihilism is definitely not a fun thing, but in terms of self-injury, it doesn’t seem to be too much, at least it didn’t touch the bottom line: such as the Sino-Japanese War The bottom line of right and wrong.Now it seems that their courage and determination are beyond our imagination.The tolerance of the general atmosphere of the times has given them such space to speak very full of "reversed" words about their own nation, and discard all the fig leafs! (Because our previous experience is that many pro-American intellectuals will also play a patriotic show. He will give an example: Look, I hate Japanese imperialism!) The Chinese people should thank them for showing this way, because they have already disdain To engage in "speech strategy."The "bravery" of Ma Licheng and others is challenging the bottom line of the nation. In an era when China was not weak, their performance accurately portrayed how the elite created a map of the degenerate "zeitgeist".If they don't check and let themselves go on, there will be less controversy and less interpretation on the traitor list in the future.