Echoes Like Water: Writing on the Seventh Anniversary of the Sunflower Movement

Last year, the paper we co-authored "We NGOs: Network Relations and Social Movement Solidarity in the Sunflower Movement" was published in a journal with Lennon Wall as the cover. For the sense of conflict between phenomena , draw a big semicolon .

The first part of the semicolon is to find out the history of the struggle to convince oneself and the readers from the sense of experience contradiction;

Let's start with the movie.

Last year, after watching the documentary "Occupy the Legislative Council", the lights of the theater came on, and I didn't shout the slogan of the Restoration Era after it was over. At that moment, "I didn't shout out", and I had to use many times of silent crawling to make up for it. I didn't shout because I felt too familiar with everything in the image, and at the same time I immediately felt too unfamiliar with myself. This sense of alienation made me speechless.

I feel the emptiness of "our Occupy" along with the halo of reputational success (or even the real benefits) that accompanies "our Occupy" protesters at times (for example, to say "their Occupy" protesters hide behind masks Shouting to imitate the Sunflower Revolution) will suddenly eat up your sanity.

However, personal bad depression and public positive meaning can coexist at extremes. Feeling bad about yourself and thinking and writing together are two different things.

Leaving a justifiably strong argument for public comment is something that any participant in a social movement can ponder and practice. Schools and colleges house this space. Through the consolidation of quantitative data, the compilation of bitter interviews, the dull theoretical review, and the rigorous academic writing, I thought that this was spiritual practice.

Especially when the time is so close, there are various memories (and materials) and the process of challenging each other's memories, (my author wants to) place everyone's strong emotions, and describe it between the pen (must be as objective as possible and exclude other explanations) Such problems are often paired up in succession, and no group can be thought through carelessly. We learn and serve.

Actually, it's just a preposition.

After I thought about it clearly in this way (it can even be said that it was because of this that I went to Hong Kong with a sense of mission, and watched documentaries or other related reflections), I was still distressed, this clear and That depression -- this sense of alienation made me speechless. The real practice comes after being dumbfounded.

Hey, what am I going to think about myself without jumping out of the pen? Do you think that it will end when you finish writing? I can't even remember what I was doing on the day of 323 unless someone kept talking to me about it. I have been escaping for a long time, slowly escaping for a long time. But can't you not touch the pot? I'm eating too.

At this point, seven years, six years, two years, whatever, if you keep your eyes on Hong Kong (not on my ID card), you can calm down a little between "this clarity and that depression". You can't stop thinking and action when you can't stop at the tingling of alertness in the moment of alienation, and you can't be afraid that you won't get into the kitchen. So these studies, speculations, and interpretations of the Hong Kong protests have given me strength to push me to the next level.

This is what I'm most grateful for Rushui Magazine.

Concepts such as "unity" that we have used in our paper, are used more deeply and vigorously in the inaugural issue of "Entanglement". I still remember that when we were writing our thesis, we were still holding the umbrella for comparison; now it is completely different: "Be water" is a concept parallel to "organizational alliance". The composition of collective identity and emotional elements is also a kind of "inclusive solidarity"*1.

Such a quick comparison of intuition (because I have not studied the Hong Kong protests, I can only call it an empirical and intuitive judgment), calmed the pain of the incident, and allowed me to put my memory and depression again.

Concepts and knowledge, which originally concealed their own memories, now summon and regurgitate memories. Discourse and emotion coexist, like two clouds in front of you. This clarity and that frustration become just this and that .

Taiwan and Hong Kong, the flesh and blood may be different, but the audio can resonate. The fluctuating emotions were stabilized into detailed thoughts, and the escape route was slowly extended, which made it less odious.

Paper paper, now published for a year, I would like to add the statement (in other words):

Movement solidarity is not a high degree of consensus and everyone is happy, but it is not entirely just a common enemy. It was a moment of compositional, emotional cohesion in the allocation of power resources, allowing a chain of organically complex scaled actions to be attributed to a concept of interpretation. It is one of those states in the face of the great enemy, but it does not necessarily appear; the appearance depends on the actor, and the catalysis with special activism is born. The alliance of social movement organizations in Taiwan is like that in the Sunflower Movement, and the disobedience of many anonymous protesters in Hong Kong is also like that in the Anti-Extradition Movement.

This is the echo of water.

Note 1: Liang Jiping "Reflection and Courage Are Not Different". The inaugural issue of "Rushui Magazine FLOW HK" will be published in January 2021.