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Author/Li Dayan
Yesterday was the 774th day of the Wuhan lockdown. Li Wenliang's Weibo post really received 2.56 million likes, and there were comments every minute. Some asked him to pass on a message to his father in heaven, some told him about picking up a stray cat, some talked about experiencing morning sickness during pregnancy, some talked to themselves about falling in love, some reported on the closure of the Fangcang shelter, and even some came to show off food because they heard that Dr. Li was a foodie... It was like a warm late-night cafeteria in the comments section.
None of these were deleted. Because Li Wenliang, the rumor monger, has been posthumously honored as an advanced individual in epidemic prevention and control nationwide.
A month ago, the name Li Wenliang was not well-known. In order to write an article about "Re Gan Mian" (a type of noodle dish), I tried using different names like Wenliang, Wenliang, Wenliang, and even the funny Li Wenliangzai. It shows that this name is seasonal and trendy. Later, when I wrote an article praising the Chinese scriptwriter Liu Liu, who is of Singaporean Chinese descent, I used different characters to represent the sound of her name, making it look like Japanese hiragana and katakana. In order to quote the original words of the patriotic scriptwriter Liu Liu, I had to use the phrase "Communist Party" disrespectfully. My bad.
I never thought that using my mother tongue in my own country would feel like sneaking across the border. Every time I write, it feels like smuggling something illicit.
The relay race of Dr. Ai Fen's posts is not only a translation of international texts, but also a popular education for the whole nation. Suddenly, everyone understands the discomfort of various readings in the past. It is fluent, simple, fresh, and extraordinary. This is scary. You should know that in the beginning, humans used the same language and worked together to build the Tower of Babel. God thought it was not good, so he destroyed the tower and made humans use different languages, making communication difficult. So, when the original text is restored, it proves that the leaders are actually wise. It will be recorded in future textbooks.
Recently, I have been learning to look at this era with a positive perspective. People complain that there are too many trendy words, but that's because their perspectives are limited. In fact, we have unintentionally achieved great success in the reform of Chinese characters. The debate over whether square characters or pinyin is superior can stop now. Chinese characters + pinyin + Martian language, this is the prosperous era you desire.
The logic of Wuhan: Without a stable social environment, sustainable economic development cannot be guaranteed. Without proper guidance for doctors, society will inevitably be chaotic. Without the hospital director prohibiting doctors from wearing masks, it will inevitably lead to a negative social image. Without mountains, mountains, and mountains, the economy will come to a halt... In order to create even greater instability, I have always been puzzled. Shouldn't the correct approach be to report and control the epidemic as quickly as possible to demonstrate the efficiency of our national system?
This statement is not ironic, but even if we look at it from the perspective of maintaining stability, we still cannot understand this logic. Yesterday, I saw that Liu Liu, who had previously said that there was no food left even if they stayed up late, changed her tune and questioned the 404 error. The party media started to say that people should be allowed to speak the truth again. Don't be naive, speaking the truth has always been allowed, it's just that the definition of truth is determined by those who tell lies.
For example, some of my friends have forwarded posts about medical staff lacking protective equipment and having to wear plastic bags. They have also shared posts about their difficulties in ordering takeout and getting a taxi. Their posts were deleted on WeChat and removed by the wind. Later, it was discovered that these posts were not rumors, they were all true. During Lu Xun's time, it was about revolution, counter-revolution, and counter-counter-revolution. Now, it's about debunking rumors, debunking debunking rumors, and debunking debunking debunking rumors. Life is really confusing.
Now, when I see "a normal society will always have different voices," I have a stress reaction. Every time I touch the keyboard, it feels like playing Minesweeper on a computer, afraid that one wrong move will cause the interface to explode. This beautiful Chinese language has become like ant language. There are 8,000 commonly used Chinese characters and 20,000 commonly used combinations, but the library of trendy words only has 4,000. In the past, there was Cangjie who created characters, and now there are netizens who censor.
What are you afraid of? In our healthy society, there will never be different voices. Rest assured, based on my understanding of public events in China and the kindness of the people, this matter will end up in chaos, and the final result will be gratitude to the Party and the government. At the beginning, there may be some confusion, but later the whole world will copy our work, and they won't be able to do it well. And most of them are sincere.
In fact, writing is like picking up girls. The more you say "don't," the more it arouses their interest. It's the pent-up sexual desire from self-isolation. If we don't look at it from this perspective, it's what Foucault said: sex is the most severe form of tyranny.
Foucault also said something even more amazing: language is the sexual relationship between humans and the world. In the resistance against the hospital director and the party secretary, Ai Fen is using language as a weapon. She said, "If I had known it would be like this, I would have spoken out everywhere, and things wouldn't have turned out like this." She was naive. If she had spoken out everywhere at the beginning, the spread of the virus would not have been so devastating, and fewer people would have died. But then she would have been accused of spreading rumors, and once she was accused, no one would dare to speak out. Look, she was exposed for taking kickbacks, and Fang Fang was exposed for taking public transportation. That's how it is. When an individual blows the whistle, it's considered malicious, but when an organization arranges for you to blow the whistle, it's considered a just report. I have a reader and friend named Xiaobi3, and from his name, you can tell that he is already very mature in terms of trendy words. He said, "You don't need people who blow the whistle, you need people who play the flute."
The motivation for me to write is not to pursue the truth, but to express empathy, as written in "Dignity." Look, when a hotel in Quanzhou collapsed, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy were found hugging each other when they were dug out. It was a stress response seeking protection in the face of disaster. They were so young and still at an age where they needed our open arms for protection. The 90-year-old woman who waited for her 64-year-old son for five days and nights to get a hospital bed, borrowed pen and paper to write inspirational words. When she walked alone on the street, she didn't know that her son had already died. And the intellectually disabled child who died alone at home because his father was quarantined. It's really hard to imagine the scene of that dirty child's death. Intellectually disabled children have very delicate hearts.
But if you want to write something, you have to think, and thinking inevitably leads to trendy words. This makes every writer here look like they are constantly picking up porcelain. The harder they try, the more they habitually pick up porcelain. A few days ago, everyone was playing the game of blowing the whistle. Look at all the porcelain piled up on the ground.
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