Of course you can sue Mo Yan,
But you have no right to represent me
So please subtract my $1 from your lawsuit.
In the past ten days, the most shocking incident on the Internet was "suing Mo Yan".
That is, there is a young blogger who picks out some dialogues, some descriptions, and some examples from Mo Yan's literary works, and then far-fetched the listing on the line, saying that Mo Yan insulted the martyrs, insulted the leader, and beautified the Japanese army that invaded China, and felt that Mo Yan was a "traitor" and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people, so he sued Mo Yan, asked the court to order Mo Yan's books to be taken down from the shelves, asked the court to order Mo Yan to apologize to the people of the whole country, and asked the court to order compensation of 1 yuan for every Chinese.
It's not terrible for this blogger to sue Mo Yan, but the terrible thing is that quite a lot of people have become his supporters, thinking that Mo Yan is a traitor, that Mo Yan hates the Kuomintang, and supports "ordering Mo Yan's books to be taken off the shelves".
Support "ordering Mo Yan to apologize to the people of the whole country".
When Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, People** published an article saying:
On the one hand, it has narrowed the distance between Chinese literature and readers from all over the world, and on the other hand, it has narrowed the distance between the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Chinese literary circle.
When Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, Xinhua News Agency published a long article titled "Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: Going to the World with Chinese Style, Chinese Spirit, and Chinese Spirit".
This article is still hanging on the **People** network:
On October 11, 2012, at 7 p.m. Beijing time, Mo Yan, a famous contemporary Chinese writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This night belongs to Chinese writers, Chinese literature, and China. ”
When Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, the Ministry of Culture wrote a letter of congratulations
Comrade Mo Yan's outstanding literary achievements have attracted the attention and recognition of the international community.
This is something that we Chinese writers and artists should be proud of. ”
After Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was also regarded as a "Chinese business card" many times, and followed national leaders to visit and exchange abroad.
Such a writer recognized by the state has now been criticized as a "traitor", do you say it is absurd?
Regarding the blogger's lawsuit, Zhejiang Publishing United Group's reply is on point:
As a fictional work, it cannot be viewed from the perspective of documentary reportage, and the story told cannot be treated as a historical event that happened in reality.
The long story is a whole, the characters in the character have a growth process and a cognitive process, and the language and part of the description of the characters are needed to shape the characters, which can only represent the position and views of the characters in the characteristic historical environment, and do not represent the positions and views of the writer himself.
Only by taking a long story as a whole can we judge the ideological tendencies of the writer himself;
Any interpretation of a work taken out of context can easily lead to a misreading of the entire work itself and the writer himself.
Therefore, these problems in the book "The Red Sorghum Family" reflected by the petitioners are taken out of context and misinterpreted, and there is no problem of guidance. ”
Can you win by suing Mo Yan like this?
Of course not. I think this blogger is also like a mirror in his heart.
But why did he sue Mo Yan and make it known to the whole country?
Because it's really good business.
Because no matter whether the court accepts the lawsuit or not, whether the lawsuit is won or lost, his goal has been achieved and he has gained a lot of traffic.
He started this farce and stared at the extreme populism on the Internet, he wanted to attract this group of people to become his fans, and then harvest the leeks beautifully.
The fans harvested in this way are all washed, and the quality is "very high, what the blogger says, the more others oppose the blogger, the more they support the blogger, so this group of fans is especially suitable for fundraising, appreciation, bringing goods, and paying for reading."
Suing Mo Yan is really a wonderful business.
Why am I talking about this?
Because in the past two years, the model of harvesting leeks by similar means has begun to rise on major platforms, and it has become more and more arrogant and clumsy.
Zhejiang**" also specifically criticized this phenomenon a few days ago:
In recent years, there has been such a phenomenon:
Some people often post some cool articles and short articles on the Internet under the banner of 'patriotism', but their real purpose is not to express patriotism at all, but to attract people's attention and earn traffic by 'touching porcelain' patriotism, and treat 'patriotism' as a business ......
They label each other as 'having a problematic position,' 'you are not Chinese,' and 'you are not patriotic' at every turn, engaging in moral kidnapping, thus occupying the initiative in discourse, a trick that seems to have been tried and tested repeatedly. ”
In fact, the vast majority of netizens are very disgusted with such dirty traffic, but they are silent and rarely stand up against it.
Why is there silence or seldom come out against it?
Because I'm afraid of getting into trouble.
Because these bloggers are holding the banner of "patriotism", if I speak for the people he criticizes, I will be labeled as "you have a problem" and "you are not patriotic", which is too big to bear.
Psychologist Li Songwei once said:
Cyberbullying often gives people the illusion that the disparity in power is too great, and the whole world is besieging a person, making people feel that any support is insignificant, and even ignites fire.
So let's keep silent......
But a lot of times, you're not really alone, and you're not the 'whole world' on the other side.
No matter how loud the violent voices are, those silent voices are with you, and they are the majority of the world.
There are always more people who don't speak than they do
Why do extreme demagogues always seem to be so numerous and powerful?
Scholar Liu Yu hit the nail on the head:
Extreme voices are not necessarily more marketable
It's just more combative.
Because the more extreme the sound, the clearer and more passionate it is
It is easy to form the idea of a peer group
And once a group is formed,
Even if it's an informally organized group,
As long as they form a collective action posture of rushing forward,
Its power is increased by the geometric base.
10 people who cooperate with each other and fight side by side may be strong enough to overwhelm 100, 1000 people who are scattered.
So polarization is dangerous because they can kidnap the whole society. ”
That's exactly what happened.
No matter what the circumstances,
A gentle and rational person must be the majority
It's just that the extreme sound is too loud
Blinded by a gentle and rational voice.
Why am I writing this?
I just wanted to make an appeal:
Moderate and rational people, don't be silent anymore, we must bravely stand up and hold together, bravely voice our own opposition, don't give the world to that group of people who play right and wrong, don't give the world to that group of mercenary people, don't give up the world to that group of people who tear apart society, if we retreat and let this group of maggots breed, then the world will soon be occupied by this group of maggots, and one day, we will have no way to retreat.
Tell a parable that is not very appropriate.
The farmer bought a mousetrap and prepared to use it to kill the rats, and when the rats saw it, they said to the other animals in horror
There is a mousetrap in the house. ”
The chicken pouted: "What does this have to do with me?" ”
The pig listened very calmly: "What does this have to do with me?" ”
Niu listened indifferently: "What does this have to do with me?" ”
The rat was super depressed, but helpless.
One night, the mousetrap caught the prey, and the farmer's wife heard the noise and hurried to check, because the light was very dim, she didn't notice that the mousetrap was holding a poisonous snake, and as a result, her arm was bitten, and the farmer hurriedly sent his wife to the hospital**.
For his wife's sake, the farmer slaughtered the chicken and stewed chicken soup for her to drink, but the wife still did not get better.
In order to feed his wife's neighbors, the farmer slaughtered the pigs again.
Half a month later, his wife's condition deteriorated and she died, and many people came to attend the funeral, so the farmer slaughtered the cow again and entertained relatives and friends.
What does this parable illustrate?
We live in a group or society, we are all a community with a shared future, and the interests of all people are intertwined.
So we can't be silent in everything, and many times, helping others is actually helping ourselves.
Professor Zhang Sheng of Tongji University wrote an article "A Debate for Mo Yan":
Over the years, we have lost a lot because of fear, especially out of fear of political correctness.
We lose the courage to speak the truth, and we turn around and look away at people who know that things are not right, in order to show that we are 'discerning' or 'clear'.
We compromised, thinking that this way we can survive in the world, but maybe the next disaster may fall on your head. ”
So we can no longer retreat, we must stand up bravely and voice against it, don't give the world to those who play right and wrong, don't give the world to those who are mercenary, don't give the world to those who tear apart society, only if we fight hard to speak out and resist, the world will not be occupied by garbage people.
Like a philosophical saying:
Choose what kind of world you want to live in. ”
In this sense, now that we are defending Mo Yan, we are actually defending ourselves.