Wildfire Collection: Thirty Years Anniversary Edition

Chapter 15 Starting from "11" ([-])
The problem is, at this time, Maier has a new trick; he repaints the color of the door, puts the cheese on the left for a while, and puts the cheese on the right for a while. One must constantly adapt to new situations and constantly revise one's habitual behavior...

The mouse can't change, and the next reaction is to "respond to all changes with the same".Maier found that when the situation was overwhelmed, the mouse would "twist" and become stubborn, refusing to change the way at all.For example, if it is used to jumping to the left door, you put the cheese on the right door clearly so that it can see it, but it will still slam its swollen nose toward the left door, and the more you touch it, the more nervous it will be.If the experimenter continues to force it to make the choice of jumping left or jumping right at this threshold, the rat will often cramp, run wildly, bump around or bite itself, and then tremble all over until it falls into a coma.In other words, the rat had a "nervous breakdown."

Professor Meyer then summed up the five stages that lead to the "mental breakdown" of rats: First, for a certain problem (left door or right door), the rats gradually develop a habit of coping (choose the right door; there is cheese on the right door). ).In the second stage, the objective environment changed, and the rats were horrified when they realized that the usual methods could no longer solve the problem.In the next stage, after constant anxiety, frustration, and failure, it will stubbornly face the new situation in the old way, regardless of the consequences (that is, when it sees cheese appearing on the right, it still rushes to the left).In the fourth stage, give up trying at all (you don’t eat cheese, you just starve to death!).Finally, if external forces force it to solve the problem, it will return to the old way it is used to (the left door is the left door, the left door must be left!), of course it will be bruised and swollen, and the eyes will be blinded by hunger.Obviously, just changing the way can solve everything, but it persists in its habitual behavior and suffers from setbacks and failures, and finally ends in collapse. [1]
Li Guodong, who was discovered by the cleaners beside the garbage truck, is a "twisted" mouse. Our social environment and education system are experimenters who control cheese and create difficult problems.Once upon a time, the gate of university was the gate to cheese, and everyone jumped to that gate. The concept of "scholar-bureaucrat" is deeply rooted, because we find that after becoming a "scholar-bureaucrat", there will be sweet cheese to eat.However, after everyone got used to this method, the objective situation changed, and the cheese changed doors; when they slammed into the door of "scholar-bureaucrats", they got bruised and swollen, and there was no cheese.

But the children go on knocking on the door; the parents go on encouraging the kids to hit the cheeseless door.They say, "Where there is a will, things will come true"; "Permanence is the foundation of success";The color of the door has changed, the position of the cheese has been changed, but those who have "screwed" it stubbornly stick to the old way, "responsible to all changes with the same".

So early one morning, the cleaners found a mass of blood and flesh beside the garbage truck—is it a human or a mouse?He was startled.

A person is nothing more than a mouse that can only have a nervous breakdown.At every stage of life, seemingly insoluble problems constantly forced him to make choices: he failed an exam, his lover changed his mind, his marriage broke up, his job was lost.Every puzzle needs a solution.Is the cheese on the left or the right?Whether on the left or right, a person is a "screwed" mouse when he can no longer cope with "new" situations in a "new" way, when he recklessly refuses to change himself at all ; the disintegration of the spirit is only the natural end.

A country, is it not a mouse that may have a nervous breakdown? !Changes in the international situation are like cheese that is sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right. The solution to the problem 30 years ago may not be the solution to the problem 20 years later.How not to be constrained by old habits, old concepts, and old methods, how not to "twist" and hit a door without cheese and get bruised and swollen, what is needed is flexibility and wisdom.

Isn't wisdom the difference between a human being and a mouse being a mouse?
Whose home is Taiwan?

--what!Liberation Day!

Originally published in "China Times Human World" on October 28, [-]

One day, walking on the street, I saw an election billboard on the sidewalk—Taipei City was electing councilors; big-character posters were pasted on the billboard.I took a closer look and was shocked; the entire poster, copied with a magnified brush, turned out to be my "Whose Home is Taiwan?" ":
"In Taiwan 40 years later, there will be people who want to leave but can't; there are people who can leave but don't; This place will be cared for, cultivated, and cultivated. The fear is that after 40 years, if you still don’t take care of this place, this home will fall into disrepair..."

It is a candidate from outside the party, and I used my criticism of the Kuomintang as a campaign propaganda.At this time, a voice sounded from behind: "May I ask if you are Long Yingtai?"

I turned around and saw a thin, well-mannered man. "Who are you?"

"I am—" he said, "I am Jiang Chunnan."

The seriousness of this article has probably reached its peak.It was also at this time that Mr. Yu Jizhong, chairman of the "China Times", was invited by the "Presidential Palace" to "drink tea" and talk about the "uneasiness" caused by the "wildfire" to the hearts of the people and the "harm" to the country.What Mr. Yu said in the "Presidential Palace" I don't know-he talked about it lightly, and then asked me to drink tea.

The colorful archway was erected again, and the colorful lights were lit up again.The dignified and dignified man leans into the microphone and speaks neatly opposed sentences, the front page of the newspaper has big red characters and colorful frames; the buttons of the radio are turned back and forth, and there are standard and melodious female voices...

what!It's Liberty Day again!

What about Liberty Day?It is still a world full of people and cars, full of smog.

But this is the 40th anniversary of Liberation Day—40 years, how many [-] years are there in life?

So what about 40 years?The Tamsui River is a stinking poisonous ditch, and the Guanyin Mountain is a sick dog with abscesses.Babies are fed fake milk powder, children are fed bad water and oil, adults are drinking used PET bottles, and old people are giving their life savings to Shixin... so what for 40 years?What about Liberty Day?
"Legislators" asked Yu Guohua if we had a "crisis of confidence".Dean Yu said, no, no, of course not.Jiangnan, Li Yapin, Ranyou, Shixin, and poisoned corn are all isolated cases and do not represent any significance.We are full of confidence, full of confidence.

But I heard a ten-year-old neighbor throwing down his schoolbag and shouting loudly: "Mom, Mom, I can't live in Taiwan. I grew up on bad oil!" I also heard my newly married friend in his twenties frowning and saying : "It's okay to get married, but it's not allowed to have children. I ride a motorcycle to work every day, and the crowds of people and horses with jealous jealousy often draw out the hatred for the entire human being in my heart. The moment a motorcycle was thrust hard in front of me, my blood Boiling is willing to hit his skull on the spot without feeling a little regretful. To bring new life into such a world, no, it's too cruel."

Why do children who have never been abroad come to the conclusion that "Taiwan cannot live"?Why do Chinese people who have always believed in family inheritance feel that Taiwan is not a place to raise children?I am at a loss as to where Dean Yu's "confidence" comes from and what kind of confidence it is.If we refuse to admit that we have a confidence problem, because we cannot see the problem or dare not tell the truth, I really have no way of judging.I only know that parents do everything possible to send young children to study abroad, expressing that they have no confidence in our education system (yes, yes, the success of Wang Ganjun and Ding Zhaozhong is equal to the failure of our education...).Rich people put their industries in pieces and deposit them in foreign banks, expressing their lack of confidence in our financial system.Government officials and university directors cherish green cards and puff back and forth every year, expressing no confidence in our political future.Opponents must hide under the wing of a foreign country to speak out and criticize, expressing no confidence in our constitutional democracy.As for the young people who feel that the land has become too bad for a family to continue — that's not lack of confidence, it's desperation.I am deeply saddened by the young people's words; and those high-profile, far-fetched words make me disappointed.

Eight years ago, I brought several pictorials introducing Taiwan to my friends in Europe.These pictorials are bilingual in Chinese and English and the photographs are very exquisite.After flipping through it, my friend casually said, “These are very similar to the official publications of East Germany or Bulgaria.” I was surprised: How could things in Taiwan remind him of the two communist countries?

It turned out to be just an intuitive comment, and my friend had to think for a while before analyzing the reason: "Because you can see that this publication is deliberately showing the good side, deliberately presenting the flaws and problems that actually exist in any society. They are all hidden. You see, from the first page to the last page are full of beautiful forests, simple mountain villages, rich villages, etc., like a paradise on earth. On the contrary, a publication of an open country, usually, is praising the beautiful forest At the same time, the threat of acid rain pollution may be mentioned; when introducing the simple mountain people, the invasion of material civilization may be mentioned; Comparing the pictorials of Germany and Germany, we can see the obvious difference in attitude.”

He didn't say it, but I should know it too. When the "Cultural Revolution" broke up families, every page of the colorful picture magazines distributed was full of children's smiling faces like apples, clean and tidy parks, and happy rural landscapes, showing a piece of pure land on earth; what the beautiful pictures tried to cover up , of course, is a world full of grief.

What a simple truth!People with real confidence are not afraid to expose their shortcomings, let alone admit their ugliness.Trying to cover it up is a real lack of confidence. 40 years later, Taiwan has been completely reborn, but it is clearly afflicted: fundamental political issues, imminent environmental issues, urgent economic transformation issues, far-reaching educational issues, and everyone is not gnashing their teeth. It is the phenomenon of moral decline that shakes one's head and sighs.However, if we are capable, we are not afraid to face these ailments; if we are confident, we are not afraid to admit aloud: Yes, we do have these ailments.Avoiding or covering up is self-deception, and self-deception means lack of confidence. This is the real crisis.

I never shy away from saying Taiwan is my "mother with syphilis", and I don't hesitate to tell you that Taipei is the most vulgar and ugliest city I have ever seen, and I don't care to tell you that the Chinese are selfish and short-sighted. Nationality - not afraid that you will feel stabbing.I can also bitterly say that Taiwan's society is a society where morality has been rotted down to the marrow - I'm not afraid of you scolding me for forgetting my ancestors.

Because I still have confidence in Taiwan.

Look at how many people are silently sowing and cultivating in the corner; there are so many "careful people" in Taiwan.The accumulated results of the Consumer Foundation are now visible to everyone.There are many invisible things: a small group of "Women's New Knowledge" is raising women's consciousness little by little, teaching her to protect her own rights.A small group of people at National Taiwan University also set up a women's research center to guide society to pay attention to women's issues.Rotary Club--Do you think rich people are full of fat? ——The Environmental Protection Foundation is being prepared.Several others are preparing to launch the journal New Environment, a record of our sickly land.There is also a group of idealists who want to publish "Human World" magazine: there are no stars in swimsuits, no smiling politicians; the magazine cares about the sick, orphans and widows, and helps this society that loves to shout bright slogans to see the dark and painful side with its own eyes.

The efforts of these few people have to bear a lot of pressure, just like the grass desperately trying to break through the cracked but still hard cement slab.The Consumers Foundation suffered setbacks back then, and it was difficult to add the word "culture and education" before it was accepted by the "Ministry of Education" and established. Now the environmental protection foundation that the Rotary Club wants to establish is going around in circles, looking for a way out.Women's consumer groups or voluntary actions are also bound by laws and regulations; any actions of the people to fight for their own rights are restricted and restricted.These conservative and backward legal systems are the cement that holds down the grass, but my confidence lies in the power of these grasses to reach out to the sun.As long as there are so many "willing people", there will be hope for Taiwan.What is bad can become good, what is rotten can be regenerated, and what is sick can be restored.

But who are you?Why do you just act as a "silent public" and wait until these few people have worked hard or even sacrificed, and then you can enjoy their achievements?You are now buying foods approved by consumer groups. When these people complained that there was no way out, were you watching from the sidelines?laugh at?Or indifference?The small groups that are now beginning to reclaim wasteland, such as "New Environment", need human support to study environmental system issues and evaluation issues, and financial assistance to inspire elementary school students to love their children, and explain the harm of mass burials to old farmers.do you caredo you careShould you be part of the job now?Or be a "silent majority" and wait for the results to fall from the sky?

It is difficult to innovate in Taiwan. On the one hand, it is certainly due to the rigidity of many systems (after one group is registered, a second group of similar nature is not allowed to exist-what kind of stupid law is this? Isn't the more consumer organizations the better? Is it?), and there is also the suspicion and fear of the social consciousness movement by the conservative ruling unit.A bigger obstacle is the lack of motivation of the people themselves.There is a young mother in the United States, because her daughter was hit and killed by a drunk driver, she organized an "anti-drunk driving movement" and made petitions, protests, and speeches everywhere to teach driving ethics.There are now 60 mothers in the organization.

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