Cui Weiping: Spontaneous and Beautiful Thoughts and Feelings - An Appeal for Mr. Tan Zuoren

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14. Spontaneous and beautiful thoughts and feelings - an appeal for Mr. Tan Zuoren

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Spontaneous and beautiful thoughts and feelings——Appeal to Mr. Tan Zuoren

Cui Weiping@ 2009-4-11 14:20

Ai Weiwei and his companions searched for the list of students killed in the earthquake, Southern People Weekly reported. This is a recording of a phone call made by his colleague to the leader of a stability maintenance team in a hard-hit county:

"You hung up before we finished talking on the phone."

"You care so much about this matter? What's your purpose?"

"We have no purpose."

"Why care if you don't have a purpose?"

"Why can't we care? It's a Chinese thing."

"I'm Chinese too! What if you were a spy sent by the Americans? What would you do if you were a spy sent by the Americans?"

"Since our government department has announced it, that's ok. If you still have to ask, I doubt it. I want to safeguard national interests!"

"We are all safeguarding national interests! But the country also needs to safeguard the interests of the people."

"Yes, that's the government's business, you don't need to worry about it."

"We are citizens, and we want to hold you accountable!"

"How do you know we're not responsible? Why do you say that? Is it necessary to say it so badly?"

"It's not hard or not, it's the truth!"

"You said it was true? I immediately suspected that you were a female spy sent by the United States!"

When I read "Spy sent by the Americans", I couldn't help laughing. This gentleman seems to have no end in sight, and further develops into a "female spy sent by the United States". He may mean that he must make people laugh and laugh. Why do Chinese people care about their own affairs, and they are understood to be sent by the United States? Is this an informed, responsible way of speaking?

This is perhaps the most powerful of all: just to say that someone is sent by an "other race" and ordered by "an alien race" will immediately make that person lose any footing and become the target of public criticism. It's just that this approach seems a bit old-fashioned now, and it is not new and thus loses its credibility. And because of these words, the leader of the stability maintenance team will make him "stand out" and will be remembered by people forever more than the other things he has done.

However, the question is: why do these people, who have a large or small seat in the system, always look at others with such completely distrustful eyes? Why do they seem so confused and incomprehensible in the face of the actions of citizens, and feel incredible? Why do they feel that any voice coming from the "opposite", "the other side" (not from the inside connected by a telephone cord) is hostile and a threat?

The attempted explanation is this: these people themselves have lost any spontaneous sense of morality and responsibility, they don't own these things themselves, and so they don't imagine that others might have them. They can't experience any good thoughts and feelings in themselves. In fact, they don't have these good thoughts and feelings at all. They have completely lost these things, so they can only look at others with a demonized vision.

In particular, the word "spontaneous" needs to be emphasized here. It refers to the kind of natural feeling that naturally arises when a person faces the suffering of his compatriots, when he faces the suffering of young children, when he faces the cold little body under the ruins, and when he faces piles of schoolbags that cannot call back the little master. Spontaneous human emotions—sympathy, pity, grief, and heartache are natural reflections that do not require human guidance. It is a kind of emotion that has a long history in China, such as "things hurt their kind" and "the conscience of heaven and earth". It is also the basic embodiment of a person's "human beings". As Ai Weiwei said: "Can we avoid these blood and flesh, these sounds, these smells?"

However, there are some people who have completely lost everything that is "spontaneous", the basic reflection that belongs to people, they cannot understand everything that happens within the scope of "people" and in "people", and they cannot understand The position and action taken by "one person" is really strange. These people have lived in the system for a long time, they will only act according to the instructions issued by the system, and they can only view the world and our society from the perspective of the system.

How can these people imagine that in some people they have never met, in places far from their authority, there are many other people, they gradually feel that things can't go on like this, so they start to do it one after another A real human being, not an institutional animal, they began to act according to their own conscience and sense of morality, to act according to their inner principles of being human, they recovered and practiced as a human being, for our fellow citizens, our society, our nation The sense of responsibility in the future, these are also what a normal person needs to have. Their efforts have added to the "summary of goodness" in this world. And it is precisely these that become the most intolerable for those who only see their own selfish interests without any sense of morality and responsibility.

What makes these "cold-blooded animals in the system" even more incomprehensible is that these people who act according to their spontaneous feelings and conscience, when they encounter great resistance, after being harassed and intimidated, even when their personal safety is threatened and faced On the eve of losing freedom, he did not shrink back because of it, but moved forward as always and continued to do what he thought should be done. It seems that they are using "egg against stone", obviously they can't get any benefit, and there is no visible result, but it seems that they don't care about this, and they don't care about any grievances and unfair treatment they have suffered. Guided by the principles of justice within oneself.

When I said this, I was thinking about Mr. Tan Zuoren from Sichuan. This long-term environmental protection worker has participated in local civic public welfare activities more than once, for which he received "repeated warnings" from relevant parties (see Xiao Xuehuiwen). After the earthquake, he and his friends arrived at the hardest-hit area as soon as possible, trying their best to send supplies to the victims, and at the same time launching an investigation into the collapsed school building and the number of student deaths. His article "Chuanzhen Hundred Days Ceremony" has such an inscription - "I would like to dedicate the guilty me to the innocent you - to the children who died in the May 12 earthquake", so earnestly and so responsible , such a person should be called a "righteous person" in ancient China, and his actions should be called "righteous deeds". But this righteous man was taken away by the police on March 28 and has not returned. Xiao Xuehui wrote an article and asked, "Do you believe in 'advance crime'?" Xiao Xuehui herself is also a strange woman in Sichuan, and it is really difficult for her to invent new words such as "advance crime".

I don't believe it, I definitely don't believe it. I don't believe this father of two would do anything to hurt his fellow citizens and our society! Anyone can draw their own conclusions from this affectionate "Chuanzhen Hundred Days Festival: Tracking the Natural and Man-made Disasters in Beichuan"! I have not met Mr. Tan Zuoren, but before Mr. Tan was arrested, I happened to see this man with a vicissitudes of life in the new documentary that Ai Xiaoming cut out at the beginning. He clearly talked about the danger he was facing, and said that before him, Huang Qi from @@天网 had been arrested, "for the protection of the rights of the parents of the students," and then Mr. Liu Shaokun from Guanghan Middle School, "because it was for the Chengdu Book Club. , I introduced the teachers of Beichuan Middle School, and they were also arrested by the public security organs for their situation." Then he said, "Others say good things are only three, so I will consider them the third." These words he said in front of Ai Xiaoming's camera are awe-inspiring:

I'm mentally prepared

In the face of such a world catastrophe

If no one comes out to speak

Everyone is a shrewd turtle

I think these three years and five years

It's better if I don't meet you

not in this world

I am in another society

wait until later

Everyone has a deeper reflection on this matter

know how to be human

especially Chinese

It is especially difficult to be Chinese

why is it like this

So many people died in the Beichuan earthquake

sentenced for this

Give a few years of your life

such a price

I think it's worth it

Such talents are the backbone of our nation, the salt and calcium of our nation, the cornerstone of our nation's moral reconstruction, and the starting point of social reconstruction. To imprison such a person is to imprison the conscience of our nation directly!

April 9, 2009

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The system is everything, and there is nothing outside the system?

Cui Weiping@ 2009-4-17 13:26

My blog post, "Spontaneous and Beautiful Behavior," attempts to explain why some people in the system can't get rid of looking at others outside the system with a skeptical eye, even if they are doing a good thing. considered to have ulterior motives. The conclusion is that these people have lived in the system for a long time and have lost any spontaneous sense of morality and responsibility. They have not experienced any good thoughts and feelings from themselves, so they think that others are the same as themselves. Let me take Mr. Tan Zuoren from Sichuan as an example. This righteous man called "patriotism and love scares people to death". He was taken away by the police on suspicion of "advance payment" for appealing for the students buried in the rubble of the earthquake. My friends Xiao Xuehui and Ai Xiaoming specially wrote an appeal for Mr. Tan, giving more specific recognition to Mr. Tan Zuoren's character and behavior.

Therefore, some people quit and keep posting under this blog post. First, he said that Tan Zuoren was a "stray garbage" and was deleted by me (my blog was my own choice), and then he said that "after his business failure... he fell into... , he has been living in the world, without a normal source of life, relying on so-called planning. To collect money, his wish is to make himself famous by embarrassing the government, which can raise the standard of planning fees!". (The "challenging" is suspected to be "making things difficult", these words are still wrong, and the cultural level should be improved.). That's how my inspiration was inspired, and that expression drove me to write another blog post to continue digging into the truth of this issue.

The so-called "wandering" or "floating" argument, one, provides the fact that Mr. Tan has not worked within the system for many years and does not receive the salary paid by the system; fall”, those who are outside the system and do not eat imperial food, their existence itself is a kind of “fall”, that is, falling to a certain “below”, that is, they cannot prove themselves, so they should be despised and spurned.” Rubbish". In other words, being out of the system itself becomes a kind of "sin", which can be called "original sin". And if this situation is not one or two days, but "living up to now", it needs to be classified as "untouchables". Such a statement can only reveal one point, that is, this follower, he himself must be paid by the official, and because of this, he looks down on those who are self-reliant.

What is "no normal source of life"? What is the difference between "normal source of living" and "non-normal source of living"? Where do the measures of "normal" and "abnormal" come from? Is it "normal" to be close to the center of power and within the system, and to be out of the system and far from the center of power is lack of normality? Is he making fun of Mr. Tan who has no money but still wants to love his country and his compatriots? In fact, this person has also "understood the situation". Mr. Tan is far from being a man of nothing, at least engaged in some kind of mental work ("receiving money by so-called planning"). Isn't this a "normal" source of life? The expression "collecting money" is also very funny, with such a disgusting and contemptuous tone, isn't that what he carries every month called "money"? If he dislikes it, donate the "money" to the earthquake reconstruction. Originally, such motive speculation is not worth mentioning ("increasing the planning fee charging standard"), but it needs to be pointed out that it seems to be the most dazzling at present: a person is in prison, and he is "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and he is inclined to tigers." "Mountain Xing", his actions have already announced his selfless motives to the whole world, do you need any other identification? One more question, as this anonymous follower said, "making things difficult for the government" can increase the "charging standard". Isn't this just smearing the government? Aren't you instigating others and inciting "advance payments"?

Inspired by this follower, I further thought about why there are so many cold-blooded animals parasitizing in the system and never repaying trust in the good deeds of others, except that some people have no sympathy and no sense of responsibility, but also because of this system. The inherent monopoly nature lies in its instinctive closed vision, and some people just directly inherit this natural exclusive inertia. Not being in the system itself has become a bad name. What kind of sin is this? Where could he be outside the system? In terms of "society", such expressions are also popular, such as "society blind wanderers", "society outlaws", "social idlers", "social dregs", "social outlaws", etc. , In a word, there is such a deep-rooted prejudice and dissent. Taking the system as a boundary, some people are labeled as harmful and dangerous pariahs. The most typical one is called "three no people". If people outside the system are collectively called "Nothing", then people inside the system are called "You"?

Of course, not all people in the system can only have such prejudice, and not all people in the system are just cold-blooded animals. They see the system as the only legitimate existence, and the rest as illegal and destructive; the system as the only real and real area, and the rest as illusory, weak, and untenable; As a spring when a hundred flowers bloom, other places can only be a dilapidated winter; if the imperial grain is regarded as the only spring, other places can only be boundless deserts.

In this way, such a system is not only a monopoly of power and resources, but also a monopoly of identity and meaning. That is to say, if you are not within the system and not close to the center of power, then not only do you not enjoy resources, but you also lack identity and meaning. Because of your status outside the system, you are not trusted by others in doing things, and therefore do not have the meaning of your own life and life, or other people have reasons not to recognize any meaning you seek.

Speaking of which, I am reminded of Feuerbach's religious criticism that Marx advocated at the time. Feuerbach's position was humanistic, and he would say "if God is everything, then man is nothing (nothing). )", "God is rich, but man is poor" (especially poverty in the sense). For us, Feuerbach's sentences in those days can still be applied with a slight change: "If the system is everything, then there is nothing outside the system", "If the system is rich, outside the system is poverty", " If the system is honor, outside the system is shame", "If the system is light, outside the system is darkness", "If the system is noble, outside the system is base". Of course, it can also be further developed into: "If the system is powerful, then outside the system is powerless", "If the system is meaningful, then the outside of the system is meaningless", "If the system is positive, Outside the system is negative”, “If the system is high above, then outside the system is low”….

God, what age are we in? It looks like it's almost the year of Feuerbach.

I can't say that this system doesn't do good things or doesn't want to do good things. It does do a lot of things, but what often happens is this - if it doesn't do this thing, you can't do it either. You can't do it on your own initiative; and if it does this or other things, it means you haven't done anything; if it does one more thing, it means you do one less thing; if it is here To do a good thing is to do something bad elsewhere. Anyway, its existence is the nothingness of others; its credit is the abyss of others.

The problem is that it can say one thing, you can't say it; it can do one thing, and you do the same, and you can't. The difference is simply that you are outside the system, or you are not at the center of power. For example, the "National Human Rights Action Plan" was released in the past two days. In any case, this should be said to be a good thing, but in fact, the concept of "human rights" is currently only used by officials, not by ordinary people. Whoever uses it is unlucky. Don't you see the "Southern Metropolis Daily" editorial "The List of the Dead in the Name of Human Rights" was published yesterday. Experts from all walks of life in online forums are whispering, "Southern Metropolis Daily" should not have personnel changes because of this? Hopefully, the worries of netizens this time are superfluous, and the "Southern Metropolis Daily" is only in the same boat with the "system".

Another example is the closing of the Wenzhou porridge stall, which was hotly discussed a few days ago, and it is the same problem. This porridge stall has been running for 65 days since it opened on the fifth day of the first lunar month this year. "Every day, 1,000 bowls of porridge and 2,000 steamed buns are distributed." Obviously, it has brought help to those in need, and its reputation has spread. , has received many donations from the "society", making this porridge stand "not bad for money", which is also in line with the spirit of traditional Chinese culture and the practice of traditional society. However, on April 1, the local health department visited the porridge stall and questioned its hygiene standards. "The result of repeated discussions" was that Boss Lin, who opened the porridge stall, had to stop the porridge stall from the 5th. According to a reporter from the "Oriental Morning Post", "an unnamed person in charge of the Zhejiang Provincial Civil Affairs Department ... believes that if the porridge stall is to continue, 'social organizations must have a business supervisory unit before they can be registered with the civil affairs department. ', that alone is an insurmountable threshold." Such a threshold is daunting and daunting, so the urge to do good has to be suppressed, and people have to relive a life that cannot prove that they are a good person. And those who really need help have to live on the streets again hungry. (This time it's a real "drift" because no one cares about it)

Can't the problem of hygiene be solved under the guidance of the government? Or authorize others to help solve it. Just like the name statistics of the earthquake victims, especially the names of the students who died in the collapsed school building, these can be done. Just as Mr. Xiao Shu, a commentator of "Southern Weekend", asked: "It is difficult to count the number of students killed in tourism development?" To put it back 10,000 steps, even if the government is too busy to take care of it, or there are practical difficulties of one kind or another, Then the people can brainstorm and help complete this heavy statistical task, giving an explanation to the deceased and comforting the living. This is not inappropriate for the government at all. For the whole society, it can play a role in Calming and calming effect. Including investigating whether there is a negative role played by man-made development in the earthquake, and summarizing experience and lessons for the benefit of the future life and development of the region, what is wrong? Is it just because the work was not done by the government itself, but was taken over by Tan Zuoren who had "no normal source of life", its nature changed, and it became suspected of "advancement" with ulterior motives? This truth cannot be argued in any way.

Is it too much to say that if you don't do good deeds yourself, then leave some good deeds for others to do. Don't make it this far - in the end, the system becomes nihilistic and negative, and all positive forces arise just outside the system. After all, each of us is providing or creating the meaning of our own lives, writing our own history, and the system cannot guarantee anything.

April 16, 2009

Attachment: This is the latest message on my blog. It is recorded as follows, which is to report the current situation of Mr. Tan to everyone.

Another eight friends visited Mr. Tan Zuoren at Wenjiang Detention Center yesterday. People cannot see it, and books (or even the constitution) cannot be sent in. You can send money after registering your name with your ID number. Friends had a tea talk outside the iron gate, and after Mr. Tan Zuoren's meritorious deeds, they laid flowers under the hangtag of the detention center, and then urinated and shed tears to take pictures and say goodbye.

As netizen Zhu Shihen said:

A deeply moving essay!

A gut-wrenching story!

A tear-jerking image!

A splendid figure!

Chengdu people respect white

2009-4-17 9:57:23

Reviewer: Chen Shouwen | Review Date: 2008-6-6 14:22

Why China cannot do without democracy from the Wenchuan Earthquake

Chen Zhiwu / Text

May 25, 2008

The Wenchuan earthquake killed tens of thousands of lives, which is heart-wrenching. These days, many voluntary and spontaneous rescues from all over the country, donations of money, donations of materials, and blood donations, show the brilliance of human kindness, and make Chinese people proud of their compatriots' spontaneity. In the disaster relief operations, the most prominent ones are the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army. There are as many as 150,000 soldiers. Risking the danger of earthquake-damaged buildings collapsing at any time and aftershocks reappearing at any time, they raced against time to save lives and speed up traffic repairs. Their rescue scenes were all touching.

In addition to grief, the earthquake disaster and rescue operations have also exposed many problems, which are worth reflecting on. In particular, why is the school building prone to collapse, while the adjacent government building can not collapse or even be damaged at all? Why is China's disaster relief and rescue teams basically the army today, and professional rescue teams and rescue equipment that involve people's livelihood and human life are still neglected, so that when there is a disaster, whether it is a flood, a snow disaster or an earthquake, it can only be mobilized. Soldiers with professional training? The bravery of the soldiers of the PLA is admirable, but if it is precisely because the soldiers must obey the command and because they are brave, regardless of whether there is professional training or special equipment for disaster relief, as long as there is a disaster, they will be deployed there, then this is the case. Not only does it violate their professional functions as soldiers - the training of soldiers is mainly for combat, not for earthquake relief, but also, it is unfair to the soldiers - why do they have to make sacrifices for all kinds of disaster relief compared to other members of society? It is also not good for the affected people, because they should receive professional rescue support, because if there is more professional rescue support, more lives under the rubble and in danger can be rescued as soon as possible.

School buildings are the most likely to collapse, or only the PLA can be used for disaster relief, and the victims cannot get professional rescue services. In the final analysis, these all involve the question of whether the state’s finances are democratic, the taxes paid by ordinary people and enterprises, and how the income from state-owned property is spent. question. For so many years, many people have said that democracy is only an abstract appeal of a few intellectuals and has nothing to do with the lives of ordinary people. However, from this earthquake, we can see that democracy is not only not abstract, but also specific to the lives of the common people and the lives of the common people. It involves the question of how and where the government's financial expenditure and construction investment are spent. The question of spending more money on buildings and image projects or spending more money on school buildings; in the end, the question is whether the children of ordinary people who go to school at the time of the earthquake are the safest or the least safe.

People will say, "China is not yet rich, there is no money to strengthen the security of school buildings, and there is no money to train professional rescue teams".

However, the actual situation is not that the country has no money, but that there is no substantial oversight of the government budget. In 2007, the fiscal revenue in the national budget increased by 31% to 5.1 trillion yuan, accounting for 21% of GDP, equivalent to the disposable income of 370 million urban residents and the net income of 1.23 billion farmers. That is to say, even excluding the extra-budgetary state-owned land, state-owned assets, and state-owned enterprise income, the amount that the government can spend a year is equal to the amount that 370 million urban residents and 1.23 billion farmers can spend a year.

From 1995 to 2007, after removing the inflation component, the government revenue increased by 5.7 times, the per capita disposable income of urban residents increased by 1.6 times, and the per capita net income of farmers only increased by 1.2 times! The fruits of reform and opening up are enjoyed the most by the government, followed by urban residents, and the least by farmers. Over the years, only the government's revenue has grown at a rate much higher than GDP, while the growth rate of urban residents and farmers' income has been much lower than that of GDP. The country has so much income and income is growing so fast, why would it rather spend money on government office buildings and image projects than on schools and professional rescue teams?

In addition to income, the structure of wealth holdings is also an absolute government monopoly. According to the data of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the financial system, plus my own estimates, China has about 115.6 trillion yuan in asset wealth (including land, resources, assets and financial wealth), of which only 27.6 trillion yuan is private private sector. (24%), the remaining 88 trillion belongs to the state (76%). If China's GDP and asset value both rose by 10% in 2008, the common people would get 2.76 trillion yuan from the asset appreciation, while the government would get 8.8 trillion yuan. The share of the government from the appreciation of assets and wealth brought about by economic growth is three times that of the private sector!

Therefore, the government has more money than civil society, whether from tax or asset income. And the country has so much income, how does it spend it? According to the Ministry of Finance, in 2007, the government spent about 600 billion yuan on health care, social security and employment benefits directly involving the people, equivalent to 15% of the total fiscal expenditure and 2.4% of the annual GDP. Among the 1.3 billion people, the average per capita is 461 yuan (equivalent to 3% of the per capita disposable income of urban residents).

Government spending on education only accounts for about 2.7% of GDP. The current world average is about 7%, of which 9% in developed countries and 4.1% in less developed countries.

Regardless of absolute numbers or relative levels, China's return to the people in medical and social security, education, people's livelihood, and disaster risk should be higher. In particular, according to the original intention of the nationalization movement that year, state ownership should have brought more social welfare, better livelihood security, and safer school buildings. However, what we have actually seen is that assets and land are state-owned, and tax revenue is increasing rapidly every year, but it is not the people's livelihood and the people's schools that benefit the most, but the government office buildings, just like the famous "White House" office in Fuyang City, Anhui Province. Building, Henan Jiaozuo Municipal Party Committee Government Building, Guangxi Qinzhou Municipal Government Building, etc.

The rights of the common people that constitutional democracy wants to protect is not something abstract, but embodied in every aspect of our life and living space. It is a matter of the interests of the common people and young students, and it is whether the people have the right to spontaneously rescue lives in the event of a disaster, and race against time to save lives. The problem. If there is no democratic supervision and accountability mechanism for the power of the government, the government will only collect taxes and only pay attention to the benefits of state-owned assets, and will also use these economic strengths to compress the space for private activities, rather than using these funds to prevent earthquakes, In case of snow disaster and flood disaster, it is not necessary to invest resources to form and train professional rescue teams. It is hoped that the lives of tens of thousands of students in the Wenchuan earthquake will be enough to wake up the whole society. Everyone should reflect on that, for the safety of students today and in the future, democratic constitutionalism cannot be avoided.

The author is a professor of financial economics at Yale School of Management and a visiting professor at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.