Whoever wields the sword will die by the sword.
Hello everyone, yesterday I saw a piece of news that made people laugh and cry, so let's talk about it briefly.
An advertising painting of Nanning Metro was reported two days ago, and the whistleblower was a small Internet celebrity on Douyin, who posted ** that the "Japanese military flag pattern" appeared in the channel of Tinghong Road Station of Nanning Metro Line 2, which was ill-intentioned.
Then this thing exploded, just looking at the local picture deliberately selected by this **, coupled with the emotional commentary of the Internet celebrity, you may feel that it is somewhat similar to the outline of the Japanese military flag. But the problem is that, according to the official panorama released afterwards, you will find that this advertising painting looks like this-
Yes, obviously, the ** that triggered the association was just a deliberate and even malicious screenshot. The advertising wall of Nanning Metro does not actually have any meaning of "summoning the soul of Japanese militarism", and the theme of the family is to promote traditional Chinese culture, which is very positive. But what is even more interesting is the official handling afterwards: after a good-natured explanation that he absolutely did not mean that, the subway company said that it had immediately removed the advertising paintings, and said that it would "further improve the level of advertising management" in the future. 
I think at this moment, the planner of the advertisement must have 10,000 grass and mud horses running through in his heart - improve Nima to improve the hard way to make a positive energy plan, am I easy? Just because of an SB unprovoked fault, I'm afraid that I will be criticized by the leader again. The advertising case also had to be redone. Who did I recruit and who did I mess with? Coincidentally, recently in the heart of the "ten thousand horses together", there may also be teacher Hu Xijin, when the same on Douyin, recently circulated some ** with the same copy, everyone is scolding him as a "well-known leader". 
The reason is simply - some time ago, in Japan, in the face of the question of "do the Japanese deserve it", which was noisy on the Internet, editor-in-chief Hu Xijin continued his usual style, saying that it is "understandable" for people who gloat about the ** schadenfreude on our side, but he personally sympathizes with the ** disaster in Japan. Recently, he said a word for Dr. Sun, who was wandering in the United States, "what".You can't equate American citizenship with treasonSomething like that. 
These statements can be a big disaster, because if you are not satisfied with Editor-in-Chief Hu just "understanding" them, you can say what your own position is! What the? You actually sympathize with the Japanese? Still speaking for Dr. Sun? Then you are a traitor, a traitor, a thief, and a well-known leader. Poor editor-in-chief Hu, if my impression is correct, he should be the first wave of people on the Chinese Internet to criticize others with the hat of "public knowledge", but I didn't expect to criticize for so many years, getting old, and finally I couldn't avoid being shot to death on the beach by the "back waves". To say that he is like Shang Ying's "self-killing" feels a bit like exalting Mr. Hu, but this is already the second apt metaphor I can think of. The folding fan in the Nanning Metro advertisement and the "well-known leader Hu Xijin", these two traffic topics recently contributed by Douyin, seem to be not the same thing, but they seem to have a lot of similarities. For example, I'm curious about the psychological state of the broadcaster who posted these two ** - let's just say the guy who shoots the folding fan out of the sunburst flag. You say, a serious person, who is idle and has nothing to do when he enters the subway station and doesn't catch the train, takes a magnifying glass everywhere to find flaws in the advertising paintings, as long as he sees a certain part suspected of "insulting China", he will shoot it as ** and spread it? Are you the reincarnation of Huang Wenbing in the Water Margin? Is you doing business or not, running upstairs in Xunyang every day to find anti-poetry? 
So I went to see this guy's Douyin (yes, I created such a big rumor, and his number is still there, actually). I found out that this guy is a fan and has tens of thousands of small Internet celebrities. As long as he sees other people's words and deeds, and pictures are suspected of insulting China, he will immediately go up with a set of big criticisms, and win a little traffic by inciting emotions. This business has been quite good for a while, but since about the second half of last year, his updates and browsing have dropped significantly. On the one hand, it is estimated that his audience is aesthetically fatigued, and it is really not interesting to see him shouting slogans like this every day. On the other hand, it is the current domestic association of these **, words and deeds, which are easy to trigger "insult China", under the rotation of this group of "patriotic" Internet celebrities, there has been a serious depletion of resources. Dalian's "Japanese Style Street" was closed, and the young ladies in Suzhou did not dare to wear kimonos (even Hanfu) to walk on the streets in public. A few days ago, Christmas, these people wanted to stir up a wave of "boycott Christmas" heat. But how to say it? Compared with the anti-Japanese topic, the audience base of the criticism of Christmas is still smaller. Of course, for those relatively large self-media who eat this bowl of rice, this topic is hot enough, but for this kind of self-media with tens of thousands of fans, that bit of traffic is not enough to make a living. So I guess this guy is also helpless, recently wandering around the street all day long to "find a topic", may have accidentally seen the advertising wall of Nanning Metro - good! You are the step of my body to turn over and fight for the explosive style! That's why there is such a show. Following this line of thought, you can also understand why Editor-in-Chief Hu can be branded as a "well-known leader" when he says "I sympathize with Japan". It's not that Editor-in-Chief Hu has changed his position, it's just that there are too many self-media in China that eat populist traffic, and under the crazy excavation of various masters in the past two years, the "public knowledge" that can be used for criticism is almost extinct. But they still have to do business, then Mr. Hu, I'm sorry, you can barely make a "public knowledge" cameo. Who makes you want to talk about common sense like you said yourself? Borrowing your head in exchange for my traffic, populist business has always been so cruel. It's just that now the involution has been on the head of Editor-in-Chief Hu and the subway Zhengneng advertisement. 
This phenomenon reminds me of what I learned about evolution in college: there was a debate between Lamarckism and Darwinism, both branches of evolution, in the 19th century. Lamarckists argue that simple survival of the fittest cannot explain why evolution would be a continuous process. For example, a giraffe's neck is a little longer, you can explain it as a mutation, but why is it so long? Therefore, they advocate that living things have "acquired inheritance" that is discarded and reused. To put it simply, the ancestors of giraffes "stretched" their necks and legs in order to reach the leaves in high places. 
But this argument has been refuted by DarwinismThey propose a more subtle, but also brutal, picture of evolution:Africa's savanna was not what it is today from the beginning, but because of environmental changes such as climate drought. The trees are a little thinner than they used to be. But the resulting food shortages left the shorter giraffes' distant relatives starving to death, while the giraffes' ancestors survived because they were slightly taller than their counterparts and could eat taller young leaves. Then when their species** eats up all the young leaves of this height, the distant ancestors of giraffes who are a little taller than these kinds gain a survival advantage again, and eliminate the shorter ones. This process repeats itself and continues until the giraffe reaches a limit. This evolutionary model, which is currently thought to be correct, may be correct, but its intriguing horror is that in a closed environment, in factThe environment only needs to complete the "first push" (such as drought or food shortages caused by the emergence of herbaceous plants), and organisms will naturally evolve in a certain extreme direction, and in the process actively modify the environment itself, so that this evolution is accelerated. A similar story, in fact, Liu Cixin also told it in "The Three-Body Problem": In the fictional world of Da Liu, the universe originally had eleven macroscopic dimensions, but in order to compete for survival resources, civilization invented the "dimensionality reduction strike", a big killer that lacks virtue and smokes, thus opening a terrifying "dark forest", and a more "open-minded" civilization does not hesitate to let its life transform itself into a two-dimensional creature".Drained the water of the sea and ran from one dark forest to another
This phenomenon is known in evolution as the "Left Wall Law".- A drunkard staggering down a road with a wall near the left and a ditch far away on the right, and if he goes down the road and takes random steps to the left or right, he will sooner or later fall into the ditch on the right. Because in this "evolutionary model", one direction of evolution is sealed by the environment, and in the process of random evolution, species will sooner or later go to the opposite extreme. For example, in the savanna of Africa, the "left wall" of giraffe evolution is to die of growth, but it can live safely when it grows taller, so giraffes will desperately grow taller and constantly set up new "left wall of evolution", eliminating those who are not tall enough, and stretching their bodies to the limit that their functions cannot bear. In Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem", the left wall of evolution is: unwilling to give up high-dimensional creatures means facing the existential danger of extinction, while wanton use of high-dimensional creatures can use "dimensionality reduction strikes" to gain safety. Then the creatures that want to survive will desperately reduce themselves to a lower dimension, falling from the eleventh dimension all the way down to three, two, or even one dimension, because "it is better than death". So as long as there is a "first push", the rest is for life to complete the "love and kill" in evolution on its own - oh no, in this evolved Shura field, there is no love, only killing.
Using this theory of evolution, to understand the two news stories that are like jokes in the previous article, you will find that everything is easy to explain, and you can't laugh. There are also some left walls on the current ** field, for example, no matter how you say, as long as you put on the banner of "patriotism", you can get a relatively "safe" talisman. You see that in these two incidents, the little Internet celebrity who "took the screenshot to take the meaning" was obviously framing Nanning Metro, but the result of the collision was that Nanning Metro obediently withdrew the advertisement and "apologized". And Mr. Hu Xijin, who was scolded as a "well-known leader", has not replied to the person who buttoned the hat so far, and I estimate that he is eighty percent afraid to confront the group of people who want to "bring down" him - although everyone should remember that once upon a time, Hu always liked to start a debate with the "public knowledge" in his mouth. But do you see that in the past few years, has he talked back to those who say that he is a well-known or even a well-known leader? I haven't seen it anyway. I don't think it's accurate to say that this is "I'd rather offend a gentleman than mess with a villain". A more reasonable explanation is that he is as shrewd as Nanning Metro, and knows that the gang of people who are looking for them do not talk about logic, do not talk about the bottom line, and are not easy to provoke, so they can only retreat. And the picture that the law of the left wall ultimately describes is actually very terrifying, because it describes a "world where everyone is hurting" - in nature, there is a limit to the height of giraffes because of the objective reasons of physiological structure. But on the field, there is no limit to the polarization of sound. The act of cutting off a piece of a folding fan as a flag of the rising sun seems absurd to us today. But if the person who does this kind of thing can be safely not refuted, not punished, or even safely earn traffic. Soon, like the overproduction of dominant species, this behavior will be "overcopied" by their peers with traffic anxiety - which is why the well-known "same copywriter**" scolding Hu Xijin has become popular. Because it's safe and profitable to do so. When the whole network is flooded with a large number of works that imitate this kind of behavior, its audience will once again appear to be tired of ugliness, and the author will once again make a shortage of targets and topics. We will definitely see that some people will "evolve" again and come up with new and strange critical angles - for example, those who say that Editor-in-Chief Hu is "public knowledge" may one day be criticized as "public knowledge" by the new generation of "Hou Lang". Again, this trend is "a world where everyone is wounded" – the so-called "whoever wields the sword will die by the sword". If you rely on extreme positions, sooner or later you will encounter people who are more extreme than you and use your head to fight for his fame. And if you want to fight in this dark forest, you have to be willing to transform yourself into a one-dimensional creature that is not afraid of any dimensionality reduction blows. And if we want to break this curse, we must break down the left wall - maintain social tolerance, so that those voices who rationally criticize these extreme arguments can speak boldly and be heard by more people. In yesterday's article, I talked about the meaning of my writing (I had no intention of convincing them to write, just to prevent them from assimilating me), maybe, this is also one of the purposes - if a society wants to stay calm, it needs someone to be brave and reverse, and pull ** to the state of harmony. At the end of the article, I will worry a little more about the national brand Huawei - because I see that some netizens have made such a screenshot of its trademark in the same way:
Of course, I believe that this screenshot, at least for now, is just a joke to remind everyone not to go up. It's just that I'm worried that if this trend continues, there will always be people who don't use it as a joke to fight for their own wealth. After all, the phrase "dare to laugh at Huang Chao's husband" is just a whining joke after Song Jiang got drunk.
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