The contradiction between Musk and Jewish capital is believed to be known to many people, and it is facing "social death".
Unsurprisingly, this incident detonated a big debate on the Internet, and everyone was busy taking sides
Polemic 1: Freedom of Speech vs. Propaganda of HateOne side believes that freedom of speech is a fundamental value and must defend Musk's right to speak to the death. The other side believes that Musk's remarks will upend American society and must be deprived of his right to speak.
Polemic 2: Capital Power vs Political Power,One side argues that the power of capital of the internet giants has become so powerful that they can ignore political power. The other side believes that this is a political battle behind the Internet giants.
Debate 3: Universal ValuesofHypocrisyvs the self-healing of universal valuesOne side believes that the so-called "universal values" of the United States are hypocritical under this incident, and in fact, there is no freedom of speech at all. The other side argues that this is only a special case, and that it is done in order to uphold the most important "universal values" and political correctness.
But what many people who follow the issue fail to notice is that the foundation of "freedom of speech" has changed dramatically with the times, and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel saw the key point at a glance, saying that commercial companies are blatant transgressions instead of law.
From Locke and other thinkers who first proposed the concept of free speech, to the establishment of the principle of free speech in democratic systems, this issue is all about public power, but now this foundation has changed, and enterprise platforms have begun to have the ability to use their own advantages to public power.
There is always a danger that theories will become shackles and prevent us from seeing the complexity of reality that is changing all the time. Because any theory has a background and a premise, ignoring the existence of both, no matter how accurate the methods and data are, it is impossible to think about the truth.
For example, when the preconditions for freedom of speech change, if we do not face this new change, the original thinking framework will become a cocoon—we can only understand the world from our own standpoint, concept, not facts, and the result is that the facts are distorted under the lens of the information cocoon, and people in the debate talk to themselves in the information cocoon they have constructed.
In this regard, Mr. Shi Zhan said in the book "Breaking the Cocoon": When we look at all kinds of new problems in modern society, we are by no means using old concepts to set new problems. The first thing that needs to be done is to "break the cocoon" of thinking - especially to avoid the two misunderstandings of thinking under the "information cocoon".
"Encapsulated thinking": replace sex with emotion, and cover reality with concepts
It is not difficult for us to find that the above-mentioned arguments about Musk, regardless of their position, have fallen into the thinking of "either/or" and "binary opposition".
Teacher Shi calls this "encapsulated thinking" – that is, instinctively encapsulating all kinds of problems into a framework and thinking in one framework, with only one way of understanding the world.
This kind of thinking can simplify the complex world and shape social consensus at a very low cost, which is very effective in the industrial age, where social change is relatively slow and ideas can be repaired in time according to reality.
But in today's information technology, concepts have become more and more unable to keep up with the changes in the world, if we still use this mode of thinking, our understanding and attitude towards the world will only become more and more distorted and torn - just like nationalism and cosmopolitanism, no matter from that point of view, it is actually difficult to explain the changes in the real world.
"Secondary cocooning":The false comfort created by the cocoon does not solve the problems of the real world
In the information cocoon, people are not Xi to coexist with different views, and they can also block out and not look at it, but the various harms brought by public events to society cannot be hidden in the cocoon when he does not exist.
Once a major emergency breaks through the original cocoon, everyone begins to discuss problems in the same space, which often causes huge tears and disagreements - everyone quickly stands in line and attacks each other, until the society is completely torn apart, and the team is completed to form a "secondary cocoon".
For example, when a corporate platform claims to have "blown up" a celebrity's account for the sake of social order. Rather than standing in line, it is more worth thinking about whether this incident should be regarded as the game supervision of public power by the "fourth power" of social **, or should it be interpreted as the rise of giant companies that have made them the new **?
Therefore, only by getting out of the "information cocoon" constructed by various factors can we truly understand the logic and truth behind the matter.
As Mr. Shi Zhan said in the book "Breaking the Cocoon": "Mankind has entered the era of great reshuffle, and the most urgent task of human beings at present is to break through the restrictions of the information cocoon on the vision and pattern, otherwise they can only live in their own imagination and be eliminated by the times." ”
Although Mr. Shi's views have often caused controversy in academic circles, as he conveys in his book, many scholars today ignore the changes in the problem itself and are busy standing in line. But in fact, it is more important than taking sides to find an explanatory tool for the new problem.
To this end, it is especially recommended to use the teacher's latest masterpiece "Breaking the Cocoon" - getting out of the information cocoon and embracing a kind of thinking that faces the real world in a moment full of uncertainty. We are fortunate to get a small number of signed editions of this book, which can be collected with one click by clicking on the product card below (and can also be purchased with the signed portfolio of Mr. Shi).