Chapter 22 The cultural world dominated by obscene mentality

On Bai Yansong as inferior to Song Zude If China does not have a big goal, there will be only nonsense in culture.A reporter from a major newspaper interviewed me to talk about Song Zude.Their entry point is the so-called "false moral defender" and "violation of celebrity privacy".I said, if you start from this angle, then there is not much difference between you and Song Zude—how many people regard Song Zude as a moral defender?Everyone looks at Song Zude mainly to see his nonsense and to have fun.The current media keeps looking down on the three directions, not talking about serious things, just talking nonsense, which makes people like Song Zude come into being.But let me say, since it is nonsense, Song Zude is better than Bai Yansong.Song Zude was talking nonsense, but Bai Yansong was obviously talking nonsense, but he still pretended to be serious.For example, he reported that Chen Yunlin met Ma Ying-jeou, saying that "details are very important", details are very important, but what details did he give us?The eyes of two people!To say that the eyes of the two people are indeed very special, this can be regarded as a hot topic in the news, but in fact there is nothing too special at all, they are just looking for something to say, isn't this nonsense?

China's cultural decline should not be limited to the 30 years since the 1980s, the process of decline was much earlier than this.Since the Opium War, we have indeed been deceived materially by others. After being deceived, most people lost all self-confidence and hurried to imitate.And those who have not lost faith, such as the old and the young, have not said anything insightful and are not worthy of praise.It is right to learn, but if you learn in such a hurry, we can imagine that you must not learn well, and it is difficult to adapt to the standards. There is a process. Japan's culture has not declined to such an extent.It should be said that Japan has changed a lot, and imitated the West a lot, but it has not reached our level, and there are still some original, local, and ethnic things.Including what we think of as Chinese-style pop culture, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan pop songs, is not entirely Western culture. Its source is mainly in Japan, and Japan has become the source of East Asian yellow race culture.

Karaoke was invented by the Japanese, and Europe and the United States learned from Japan.Japan still has quite a few original ones.For example, painting, Higashiyama Kaii, who has learned Western painting and maintained the Eastern spirit, can we get such a painter?Really can't get it out!To explain from the perspective of material culture, Japan was hit harder than China, stood up faster than China, regained self-confidence relatively quickly, and became richer than China relatively quickly. Culture came from relative abundance of material, and Japan was not rich at that time But richer than China.

There are original things in China, frankly in the era of Mao Zedong.We had no money at that time, but because of the isolation, we could only play with our own, and we played with originality.The Japanese can sing Chinese songs, except for the "Cultural Revolution" songs.I have heard the Japanese sing "Cultural Revolution" songs very boldly, such as "Make up your mind, don't be afraid of sacrifice", "Eastern wind blows, war drums beat".Many Japanese don't know a word of Chinese, but they can sing these songs in Chinese with correct accents.I am by no means going back to the "Cultural Revolution", I am just talking about a cultural phenomenon, and cultural transmission has its own laws.

The Japanese can sing "Cultural Revolution" songs. Of course, it has something to do with the student movement in Japan at that time, but I have to admit that the "Cultural Revolution" songs are not necessarily elegant, but have their own unique characteristics. You can regard the "Cultural Revolution" songs as a type.At that time, there were still some music that was more elegant. For example, the music of "Red Detachment of Women" was not bad, and the music was repeatedly quoted in many movies later, which shows that the music was successful. After the reform and opening up, everyone said that the Chinese people were mentally broken.I don't think this "spiritual collapse" is entirely due to the introduction of foreign material culture.To say that we have collapsed mentally after the reform and opening up, first of all, we have collapsed mentally during the "Cultural Revolution". There were a lot of problems during the "Cultural Revolution", so I have already collapsed mentally.Strictly speaking, in this process, the spirit collapses first, followed by the material culture, and Western spiritual culture attaches to the material culture to follow up.

Also, the so-called high-class culture, such as "Turandot", makes those so-called high-level Chinese arty, but popular culture has to consider the characteristics of East Asian culture.East Asian culture still has its innocence.The main source of Chinese pop culture is Japan, and not liking Japanese is another matter. I think big goals are very important to cultural originality.Mao Zedong had such a big goal at that time, whether it was completely correct is another question, but without the big goal, he was mentally depressed. Under such circumstances, it is impossible to produce tenable cultural products.

Let me repeat it again, it is the matter of the Centennial Olympics. The slogan "Olympic Games is China's century-old dream" is quite bad!The Olympic Games are a good thing, and they are well run. It is true that the Chinese are proud. But it is not true to say that the Olympic Games is China's century-old dream.The dream of China at the beginning of a century was to save the nation and survive. After the success of saving the nation, the dream for a while was also to eradicate violence and bring peace to the world, and liberate all mankind. Hosting the Olympic Games was China's dream for the next few decades, so now, China has to have a big dream, which is 10,000 times bigger than the dream of the Olympic Games.The remarks made by some officials are also very contemptuous, such as "The Olympic Games is an unprecedented challenge". When did the counting start? When does "before" refer to?Was it yesterday?It would be correct to say so from yesterday to today, but don’t even say 80 or 90 years, even if you say 50 years, it seems that it is not an unprecedented challenge facing China.Whether it is domestic or foreign, the challenges China faces in the past few decades are 10,000 times greater than those of the Olympic Games.I remember that shortly after China’s bid for the Olympic Games was successful, a German reporter came to interview me and said in a very contemptuous tone: You must be so proud that you have successfully bid this time.I slapped the table and said, "What do you know? As a superpower that has stood in the world for thousands of years, how many events have been held by China that are bigger than the Olympic Games! If you don't talk about thousands of years, let's talk about the past few decades. There are many things that have happened that are bigger than the Olympics, isn’t the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the United Nations Army bigger than the Olympics?” He was dumbfounded at the time.

Isn't the matter of reform and opening up bigger than that?The Three Gorges Project is also bigger than it. Isn't "Shenzhen 5", "Shenzhen 6" and "Shenzhen 7" bigger than it?Isn't the challenge of the Wenchuan earthquake bigger than it?The Olympics is a good thing, and everyone is happy, but at least our elites should understand that the Olympics is just for fun, to have a good time, and to be happy is a good thing, nothing more.Our China's century-old dream is just such a thing, and it is too hopeless.This kind of wretched mentality, always going down, the lower the posture, the more vulgar the better, this must be changed.

How the elites distort the spiritual outlook of the Chinese people Let me also talk a little bit about the issue of "keeping a low profile". There is also a question of personal experience.About our writing "The Road to China Under the Shadow of Globalization", Qiao Liang was invited here. Qiao Liang had a special opinion on our book, saying that we should hide our strength and bide our time, and hide in the dark. At that time, Qiao Liang and I Liang said, I said that you can lurk tactically, but you can't lurk strategically.Because the strategy involves several years or decades, how can it be latent?Lurking can only tie your own hands and feet, and do nothing. Is this called lurking?Lurking is to prepare to attack the enemy, but it is self-binding and doing nothing.

If something goes down, we will be extremely low. There is an old saying in ancient China, "Take the law from the top, and get from it." This is "take the law from the bottom"! "Taking the law is almost the same", what can you get?If you get a negative number, this is problematic.This general trend in China, the thing of "following the law from the bottom" needs to be reversed. We can't underestimate the common people, because the common people may not like "taking the law from the bottom". Let me talk about the so-called "bad nature of the Chinese" here.Take the Wenchuan earthquake as an example, and compare it with Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, USA.I still heard this story from a photographer from the Southern Newspaper Group. We all know that the Southern Newspaper Group is theoretically pro-American and anti-racist. It is definitely not nationalistic, but this reporter only talked about what he saw. , no theory.He was talking about the big stadium in Mianyang.He said: "When I went in, I saw that Chinese people are disciplined (of course, discipline can also be said to be an advantage or a disadvantage). The stadium with tens of thousands of people is well-organized, men live on the side, women and children In the middle, there was no riot or disorder." He also said: "The old official organizational methods are effective, and they can play a good role in the face of disasters. After such a large earthquake, the original organizational system I couldn’t find it, but the party branch was quickly re-established from the grassroots level, and a certain order was formed. The other is the official propaganda departments at all levels, looking for role models and establishing models one by one. This really works. .”

When ordinary people in China face a crisis, their ability to fight and organize is far stronger than the people in New Orleans.Street rapes, gang rapes, and robberies have occurred in New Orleans, so the army has to go in with guns. When they see a group of people surrounding them, they think they are thugs.Seeing such a comparison, do you really think that the quality of the Chinese people is higher than that of the American people?When dealing with a crisis, who is more powerful?Let me tell you, the power of the people in China is definitely stronger than the people in New Orleans in the United States. Regarding the matter of Fan Paopao, I met some volunteers who went to the scene. They said that among the teachers like Fan Paopao, they dumped the students and ran away first. They only heard of such a case.This group of intellectuals justified Fan Paopao, saying that people would be afraid at that time and would run away.I don't know if I'm scared in that situation, I might be too.But in any case, the fact is that there are only a few teachers like Fan Paopao, but there are many teachers like Tan Qianqiu. After Fan Paopao posted, Liu Yang talked with him for a long time.He admitted that posting this post was intentional, especially the addition of the phrase "Even my own mother will not save" was even more intentional. I didn't think so at all in the past. When I wrote it, I thought I must add it. The meaning of the words is to stimulate the so-called hypocritical moral nerves of everyone, and this is his purpose. Ordinary people in China are usually easily misled by the elites on the ideological level, and they slip down three ways. However, when the crisis pressure comes, their instincts are very good, and their quality is quite high, far higher than that of the elites. European and American nations, this is the high quality accumulated by Chinese civilization for thousands of years, which has been melted into genes and blood. Some people will jump up again when they hear you say that the quality of Chinese people is higher than that of European and American people, and they will immediately ask the question of spitting.I cite a personal experience.When I went to England, by the Thames River, I saw traces of chewing gum, cigarette butts, cigarette cases, etc. all over the floor. It was really dirty.Traces of chewing gum are definitely more difficult to wipe off than simple sputum. It is said that the British government spends tens of millions of pounds every year to clean up this trace.Speaking of quality comparison, we can compare the banks of the Thames River with the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai.We cannot say that the area along the Huangpu River is cleaner than the area along the Thames River. In fact, the two places are almost the same.However, the population density along the Huangpu River is much higher than that along the Thames River, so the per capita pollution and pollution caused by Shanghai residents and tourists to Shanghai must be much less than that in Britain.Which country do you think has the highest quality citizens? I posted this information on the Internet, and some people jumped out, saying that I must have gone to a poor area in London.I told them that it only takes 20 minutes to walk from where I live to Buckingham Palace where the Queen lives. If you say that the Queen is also poor and the Queen lives in a poor area, then I have nothing to say. Spitting is a bad thing, no matter how well foreigners do in this regard, we should not spit everywhere.But what basis do you have, what reason do you have to take this incident as evidence that Chinese nationals are inferior to foreigners?During the Wenchuan Earthquake, why did you turn a blind eye to the high quality shown by the Chinese people?