Today I read a Ph.D. on the ban on fireworks**, a study on the microscopic generation mechanism of public order - taking the "Spring Festival Ban on Fireworks and Ban" special action in L County as an example, there is a sentence in the article that says very well, and the deep logic of the Spring Festival fireworks ban is analyzed:
The ban on fireworks and firecrackers during the Spring Festival: it is a modern "war" against tradition. The progress of society always occurs in the succession of modernity and tradition.The author made a very accurate overview of the deep-seated logic behind the ban on fireworks and firecrackers during the Spring Festival.
In the practice of grassroots governance, the modern "war" against the traditional is often the focus and pain point of grassroots governance, which will inevitably lead to a "rupture" between the top and the bottom.
In grassroots practice, the controversy between modernity and tradition has always been in our work and life, and it has always affected our work and life.
For example, the "ban on fireworks and firecrackers during the Spring Festival" mentioned above, to the "straw ban on burning issue" on the Internet, and then to some work to change customs, this is, in a certain sense, a conflict between "tradition" and "modernity", which has always been controversial and questioned.
The deeper conflict between the two is that something is "traditional", which is dross, bad habits, and an uncivilized behavior or phenomenon, while modern actions, or the prohibition of some traditional things, are "civilization".
Moreover, the modern "war" of tradition sometimes involves some fundamental issues or ethical issues.
Of course, there are many scientific things in it, and it is unscientific and unreasonable to divide them simply into a conflict between "tradition" and "present".
Tradition seems to mean backwardness, which is justified to a certain extent, such as the tradition of women's foot binding before us, which is backward, and it is necessary to intervene and govern such traditional "backwardness" and "dross".
However, it seems difficult to define whether the tradition between backwardness and civilization is "dross" or "cultural inheritance".
For example, straw burning is banned, and some people think that burning straw pollutes the atmosphere and is easy to cause fires, which is a backward farming method. It is also believed that burning straw is good for fertilizing the land, killing pests and diseases, and is good for the growth of crops. Moreover, many people believe that after so many years of burning straw, air pollution has been formed in recent decades. There are also people who believe that "the method handed down by the ancestors has a certain reason, and science may not have discovered it yet". For these reasons, many people have questioned the ban on straw burning.
Another example is the Spring Festival fireworks, some people believe that this not only pollutes the atmosphere, but also easy to cause fires, but also easy to hurt people, especially in today's big cities, is not suitable for fireworks. Some people also believe that during the Spring Festival, major festivals, and major events, the Chinese have a tradition of setting off fireworks, and if fireworks are not set off during the New Year, it seems that there will be no "New Year's flavor", and the "New Year's flavor" will be lost, and we will gradually lose a traditional "festival". There are even people who say that moving out fireworks can drive away the plague. It is not easy to tell whether it is civilized or backward.
Another example is the work of changing customs and customs, some people think that changing customs will help eliminate feudal thinking and can effectively prevent comparison, which is meaningful. But some people will also object, it seems that the change of customs has diluted the culture of "filial piety".
In order to defend "traditional culture", many people will use various ways and means to resist "modernization" or to offset the impact of "modernization", to "bargain", so that "there are policies at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom", which makes it difficult for the grassroots to effectively implement and implement the policies, forming a major pain point in grassroots governance. If the management is strict, it is easy to lead to "resistance", and if the management is loose, it is easy to be "held accountable", which leads to the dilemma of the grassroots and falls into an embarrassing governance dilemma.
For example, straw burning is prohibited, it is not allowed to be burned during the day, and it is secretly burned at night, and the fields cannot be monitored 24 hours a day, but if the villagers burn the straw, don't find it, and the corresponding village cadres and even township cadres will be punished.
Another example is the ban on fireworks and firecrackers, which is more difficult to control, relying solely on some urban management, public security and other law enforcement forces, it is difficult to achieve full-time monitoring, if you rely on communities, villages, it seems to have become a matter of offending people, especially in red and white ceremonies. There are even places where "balloons" are used instead of firecracker sounds, and there are ** firecracker audios, which seem to be a kind of "sound" resistance.
There is also the issue of changing customs, which is also a big problem. Both the prohibition and the permission seem to be well reasoned. For the specific implementation process, the authority of the executor is very tested.
Modernization and tradition do not have a natural antagonism, and even the two are unified in some respects, and both are maintaining the normal "order" of society. This is why "tradition" is called "tradition", and tradition is in a certain sense the "modernization" of the past, and there is no need to create artificial "separation".
At the same time, modern civilization is not based on the rejection and compulsory transformation of tradition, "social progress always occurs in the succession of modernity and tradition". The formation of people's traditional customs is the result of thousands of years of action, and the change of some customs can not be completed overnight, or even a long, gradual process, effective dialogue and communication with the people, for the part of the tradition that does not conform to science, give scientific explanations, and find the "meeting point" between modern and traditional, so as to be convincing. This is also an inevitable requirement for the modernization of the people, and it is also a means to soften the people's "resistance".
Only in this way will the grassroots level not fall into the embarrassing situation of "being in a dilemma" in governance.