Since last weekend, there has been heavy snow in the circle of friends.
Looking at the snow scene of the northerners, and feeling the falling temperature, this winter is finally starting to take shape.
In this chilling winter, I saw a chilling scene again.
According to ** report, on December 10, a member of the CPPCC in Shangqiu, Henan Province went to the local areaNursing homesThe so-called "love activity" was started, and several elderly people were held in the cold wind holding two Chinese cabbages for photos.
* Several elderly people stood on the side of the road, wearing heavy clothes, some of them were rickety, each holding two Chinese cabbages.
A middle-aged woman stood in the middle of the old man, and took a group photo with the old man under the guidance of the on-site personnel, and after the group photo, everyone put the cabbage back into the vehicle behind them.
On the red banner behind the old man, it was printed with "CPPCC members send love activities".
The local Shangqiu responded that the incident happened on December 10 and was a private act of a CPPCC member," he saidIt's also for the sake of doing good”。Some of the cabbage he bought was left in the factory and some was sent to a nursing home.
However, the Shangqiu Meteorological Observatory issued a blue warning signal for cold wave at 16:20 on December 9, 2023, and a blue warning signal for high winds at 18:20 on December 10, 2023.
On such a cold and cold day, let the old man pose for a photo with cabbage on the side of the road, and netizens angrily denounced".Formalism"Tossed people, and did not wronged them.
Maybe I'm too superficial, and I only have a very specific doubt
Isn't it just a few cabbages, in case you catch a cold, it's not enough for a box of medicine.
Why are the elderly willing to pose with them in the cold wind for the sake of two cabbages?
Why don't these old people refuse to pose for photos?
When the question is asked, the answer is actually there, that is, they can't refuse.
Don't forget, these old people are old people in nursing homes.
The CPPCC members have worked hard to drive cabbage, the banners have been pulled, and they are still under the banner of "also for doing good deeds". And they are both "official" people and departments, and in the society of acquaintances, they can't get along without cooperating.
Since they want to cooperate and people have put forward a request, then the nursing home must send the task down. There are so many old people, you don't want to, there are always people who are willing to cooperate. Besides, the staff of the nursing home came to you in the name of the collective and asked you to cooperate on behalf of the nursing home, can you not cooperate?Most of the people who enter nursing homes are elderly people who have no children or no one to take care of them, and they have to bow their heads under the eaves.
So, for the sake of the "deeds" and face of the CPPCC members, under the pressure of collectivism, the old man was reduced to a tool for posing for photos.
To put it bluntly, neither the CPPCC members nor the nursing homes treat these old people as human beings.
If they were treated as human beings, the CPPCC members would know that in such cold weather, posing for photos in the cold wind on the side of the road for a long time would easily make the already weak old man catch a cold.
If they are treated as human beings, the nursing home will know that they should refuse to let the elderly pose in the cold wind on the side of the road, even if it is a cooperative show, they can also pose in the yard or in the house.
If they all treat them as human beings, they will know that even if they want to show their love and political achievements, they can take some pictures of the process of carrying cabbage, without having to toss these honest old people.
Only when I think from the bottom of my heart that these old people don't have to scruple about their feelings, and these old people don't dare to disobey, they will unscrupulously take a few cabbages to make fun of them, and then ask them to pretend to be grateful.
This is not simply "tossing people" and "formalism", this is evil, it is evil itself.
Recently, I was reading Xu Ben's "Reading Beyond the Classics", in which he introduced 20 books, and all of them have a common theme:Evil and anti-evil in the 20th century.
In the book, Xu Ben quotes Arendt's statement, which she wrote to YaspersDefine evil succinctly as "turning people into superfluousness."
What does that mean?
Xu Ben said:
Whether it is to treat "useful people" as "screws" as many as possible, or to treat "useless people" as waste, they are not treating people as people, they are treating people as superfluous things, and they are absolutely dehumanizing people. Evil is the concentrated manifestation of this dehumanization.This kind of evil does not need to come from its own inherently vicious motives, but always occurs in seemingly normal institutional and social environments, is normalized, and therefore more cruel and more difficult to detect.
It often does not require actual killing, but turns people into inhuman or dehuman, depriving them of their dignity and rights as human beings, treating them as disposable appliances or discarded objects to be taken and desired.
To put it bluntly, the dehumanization of human beings is a kind of institutional harm to human nature, as well as the destruction of human personality and the destruction and cancellation of human individual values.
It seems to be warm and affectionate, and it seems to be harmless to humans and animals, but as long as you don't take people for granted, it's evil.
In the collective of the nursing home, in the institutional action of the CPPCC members to give love, everyone is in a certain discourse system, from a person with personality to a tool person who cooperates with the posing of photos.
No one will refuse, no one can refuse.
And only a person with personality and independent judgment can reject this evil wrapped in good intentions.
At the beginning of this year, also in Henan, three staff members, neatly dressed, one holding a quilt in his hand, one holding grain and oil in his hand, and one holding a simple table and stool in his hand, went to a poor household to offer condolences.
After entering the courtyard, they were about to set up their stools and prepare to take pictures. but was kicked out of the house:
"Take it, I don't want it!”
"Get out, I'm not shooting!”
I think it's not just a matter of the dignity of the poor, but because individuals with free will and independent judgment see the evil behind this ostentatious good deed, and see the great good people who are high up and don't treat them as human beings.
It's just a pity that the elderly in nursing homes don't have such an independent environment, and their lives are not luxurious enough to resist this evil.
However, we, the outsiders, should peel off this hazy and deceptive veil of "love" and let the essence of this evil be revealed. As Xu Ben reminded:
To recognize evil as evil, instead of downplaying it as an ordinary, simple mistake, unsuccess, and paying tuition, is to see that evil is extremely damaging and destructive to human beings and to their proper quality of life.
Don't think that posing with cabbage in the cold wind is just a trivial matter, it is actually part of the larger unspeakable words and system.
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Author: Wei Chunliang
Starter: Liangjian, ID: liangjian0624