The author of this article: Qi Yuqing, is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Shangli County Party Committee and Minister of the Ministry of ** in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province. In January 2016, Qi Yuqing, then deputy director of the Pingxiang CPPCC Office, published a series of essays "Notes on Returning to the Hometown" in old literary journals such as "Yuhua" and "China Railway Literature and Art", describing the gambling and changes in the villagers' customs that the author saw when he returned to his hometown during the Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival of that year, this prose work was changed by WeChat *** to be titled "Essay on the Homecoming of a Post-80s Cadre" for dissemination, which caused heated discussions on the Internet. Due to the length of the original text, here is only an excerpt from the Useful Worship section, which is as follows:
You're tired of the circle in which you work.
In this small circle, you see that people only have personal interests in their eyes, only the friends they have worked hard to make for their personal interests, the relationships they have worked to improve, the patterns they have worked to form, and the friendships they have worked to maintain.
In reality, there are no antecedents and consequences, no submissive feelings and relationships. You want to escape.
However, you soon find out that even in the countryside, things don't go the way you thought they would.
Whether in the city or in the countryside, whether it is in the environment in which you work or the environment in which you arrive after escaping, people have been reduced to a part of the "potential" after all.
Over the years, classmates or childhood friends who have not seen each other for a long time have met, and when asked about the classmates and companions of the year, the most talked about are always those who are useful, have opened a large company, and work in a real power unitThere was an unconscious adoration in everyone's tone.
There is one word that seems particularly apt to this feeling:Useful worship - whoever is useful will respect whom, and whoever controls himself will be directed to whom.
Such useful worship is even more prominent in the village.
The villagers in the countryside, no matter how they scold and scold, but the most affordable ones are those who have money to engage in engineering and business, or those cadres who have actual power, especially those who manage funds and projects; But they look down on those who have culture and no capital, and look down on those who have little real power despite their high ranks.
For example, the deputy director of a provincial education department is no match for a police station chief who can cheer him on when he fights – unless he has children at home who are going to school and have fewer grades or other qualifications.
I don't even know when my village and my villagers started to become so realistic, they trust and respect people who are useful to them.
The reputation of a person "useful" or not in a village is not determined by all the villagers, but mainly by those who do engineering, village cadres who have a certain position and right to speak, and squires who have heads and faces.
It would be useful if a person who walked out of the village could give them a project, give them practical benefits, and do for them what they couldn't do according to the regulations. If you can't, you're not a useful person. This has nothing to do with the level of position, only with the actual size of power.
When I recently walked around the village of a certain character who was once in the textbooks, I found that the village did not think highly of him, and even after his death, he could not be buried in the family grave in the village.
Because everyone thinks that when he was a senior official, he did not bring much benefit to the village, especially to the family, did not help solve the work of many people, did not help to implement many funds, and did not help solve the practical problems of many children in joining the army and sentencing.
In the eyes of the villagers, all the ** are corrupt. The difference is only whether this corrupt ** has helped the village to help relatives and friends do some practical things, solve some practical problems, and bring some real benefits. Yes or no, it's that simple.
Of course, 99 things have been done by helping others, but one thing has not been done well, and the cadres (or successful entrepreneurs) who go out in the village should also be severely condemned. In their dictionary, power and relationships can solve all problems.
If a person who mixes well outside and becomes a government-run factory does not do something for himself, there will be no objective reason, but it must be that this person is not attentive enough and does not contribute enough.
The philosophy of the countryside is simple:He didn't have enough affection for me, remembering that when I was a child, thirty years ago, I used to give him a green orange to eat, but now he doesn't even help me write a note for my nephew to go to the best elementary school in the city.
Of course, this evaluation is likely to be divided into two halves, those who have received favors and benefits firmly believe that this is a good person who has affection, and those who have not received benefits firmly believe that this is a bad person who is unjust.
It's always so practical in the countryside. Therefore, in the countryside, there are almost several completely different opposing views on the same person who is living outside the country.
Only Liu Guoqing, a fellow villager who was adjusted from the position of deputy section chief of a certain bureau in the city to the canteen because of petty theft, was almost one-sidedly regarded as a figure in the village and was sought after.
Because he can decide to buy vegetables from their bureau's canteen. The cheap and rotten vegetables in the village entered the stomachs of the leaders of the city bureau in this way, and the villagers and Liu Guoqing felt very happy when they thought of this.