Why are they leaving? (two)

Entering the 21st century, the number of people running away has increased significantly. In addition to the several types of people in the previous article, there is also a group of special ones. That is, leaving for purely political reasons. So this group of people, I will list them separately and talk about this special era and this special group of people.

At the end of the 1990s, with the economic opening up of the country, the Internet also entered China. This is an epoch-making product. The speed of information circulation has increased tens of millions of times in an instant. For the first time in China's thousands of years of history, the common people have a platform to speak out. And this explosive information transfer has prevented the government from having time to prepare for it. So the most open period of speech in China has come. This kind of opening is not an opening led by the government, but an opening that cannot be controlled. Thus, for the first time, the Chinese saw information that was completely different from the official media, and countless lies that had lasted for thousands of years and decades were exposed one by one. Once the door of truth is opened, it can never be closed again. More and more people fell into the anger of being deceived, and then took the initiative to expose more lies.

I miss that era again. At first, I could see the real society in various forums and communities, and later in Weibo and QQ communities, as well as every corner of the Internet. At that time, the Internet's support for video was a little weak. At that time, the most popular method was to edit a picture with a text description, which was intuitive, convenient and convincing. It is also the first time that people feel that there is media, but it is self-media.

The best-educated generation in China is, of course, that group in the 1980s. Before the expansion of university enrollment, the difficulty for ordinary people to enter university was beyond the imagination of young people today. A key school with 1,500 students, that is, the best high school in a region, no more than 20 students will be admitted to undergraduates, and in the end even counting junior colleges, there will be no more than 34 students. The rest will choose to repeat or suspend their studies and enter the society. Throughout the post-1970s, the number of highly educated people was only one percent. Such harsh screenings will naturally select elites, even if they are specialized test-takers, it is extraordinary to stand out. At that time, university education was worthy of such strict screening, so it educated the best generation in terms of culture. With the reform of education, a large amount of water was poured into the subsequent university education, and the quality of education declined rapidly. Someone made an inappropriate analogy. The overall quality of undergraduate graduates born in the 1980s and 1990s can only be compared with the high school students of the previous generation. Just to make a joke, in the era when doctorates and masters were flying all over the world in China, only a little over 100 of the top 500 universities in the world were qualified to confer doctorates, while nearly 300 of the top 400 universities in China were able to confer doctorates.

To say such a digression is to say a fact, what kind of sparks will the best-educated generation encounter in the newly opened Internet age.

If you have the opportunity to see the postings at that time, you will find that the people of that generation have already made accurate predictions about everything today, and the process and results are exactly the same, and even the timing is the same. Don't forget, at that time, they didn't know who Xi Jinping was. There are no surprises in economics or politics. This is also the reason why I never mention politicians. China’s affairs are determined by other more fundamental matters, and have little to do with who is on stage. To what extent and what happens, the most extensive factors have already determined this everything.

People of that generation were actually more passionate. They accurately and professionally described all aspects of China and all walks of life. Every time there is a hot topic on the Internet, the onlookers will watch it all night. For example, the Shifang incident, on the Tianya and Kaidi forums, was broadcast live all night, and millions of replies were piled up in one night, which was forcibly deleted the next day, and then recreated every two nights. This kind of thing has been staged countless times, such as the Qidong incident, the Dalian incident, the Ningbo Zhenhai incident, the Hainan Yinggehai incident...etc. On the forum at that time, there were a number of magical posts with more than 100 million followers, and each post was an encyclopedia of suffering in Chinese society. These posts were blocked and re-opened, and re-sealed, but they never came and never stopped. Later, these people moved to Weibo, which is more convenient and fast, to fight wits and courage with the officials. It is a normal operation to have hundreds of titles. In the end, the official had no choice but to shut down Weibo. Sina Weibo is still alive today, but it is a completely different thing from then.

Some people are excited about the so-called "blank paper revolution", but forget that this is just a cry of persecution to the Jedi. But how many people remember the "Jasmine Revolution"? It was a completely active political appeal movement. Furthermore, when Xu Zhiyong was imprisoned, countless people took selfies of themselves holding a blank paper with "Xu Zhiyong is not guilty" written on it, and uploaded it to the forum Weibo, and another person was imprisoned, and they all did the same thing. Such a photo wall of ten thousand people was just the most common move at that time.

After that, under the gaze of pairs of eyes, the Internet declined day by day.

They didn't continue because there were too few people. It looks like there are tens of millions on the Internet, but when they are scattered, they become rare. Moreover, after leaving the Internet, they find that it is so difficult to change anyone around them. When I sent pictures and videos of what happened now to Moments, what I got was blank stares and scolding, and the negative energy producers were regarded as aliens one by one. I am one of them myself. I have sent nearly a million messages. How many people have changed? not even one! This is also a fundamental reason for us to think about deeper issues.

There are no books to read here, and every word that becomes printed has been filtered through layers. There are no movies to watch here, too many prohibited content, so that entertainment workers can only play those low-level and boring things. Any TV series, after watching for three minutes, will be so disgusted by the lines that they will run away masked; import a Hollywood movie , will be cut to the point that the plot cannot be continued, and there are no exceptions, because for China, an entertainment film also hides too many prohibited things. I haven't been to a movie theater for more than 20 years. It's a bit sad to think about it. As for talking, forget it...

I remember that around 2005, a group of educated parents in Beijing did not want their children to receive abnormal education, so they spontaneously united and rented a warehouse to run their own school, and the parents took turns to teach. The scale continued to expand, and hundreds of parents joined , The educational achievements of this group of children are unexpectedly good. Not long after, it was banned for running a school illegally, and a group of people were punished. The vast majority of these children did not return to school, but went abroad with their parents.

Of course, these people are not the only ones who have gone abroad. Most of the above-mentioned generation of Internet people should be overseas by now. There used to be a group with more than 200 people, and less than one-tenth of those who did not go out.

After going through that Internet era, their understanding of China is different from other people, but even their relatives around them cannot be recognized and changed, and there is really no reason to stay. For the future life, in order to avoid risks, it is reasonable to run away.

This is another main force of going abroad in the first two decades, pure political avoidance.

Most of them have modern awareness and understand the root of China's problems, which cannot be changed by a revolution or a movement. Therefore, I also stand on an international standpoint and regard my motherland as an ordinary international problem. After going abroad, I gradually faded out of the Internet and started a new life.

Also choosing to leave due to political fear, there is a group of ignorant people who have benefited from the leftovers obtained in the above-mentioned Internet era. After going abroad, they have no ability to survive and eat Chinese-style political meals. Some people jokingly call it eating democratic rice. They formed groups with various names, collected donations under various names, and caused a lot of scandals. Those who feel that they have outstanding personal abilities will also make up all kinds of politician anecdotes and gossip on YOUTUBE and TWITTER on various platforms, making up all kinds of politician anecdotes and gossip, and tirelessly attracting traffic. To be honest, Chinese people love to watch this, so there are A group of people followed suit.

After three years of the epidemic, the situation was turbulent. After all, this group of people showed their true colors because they were ignorant and unable to keep up with the rhythm. Some people couldn't help commenting that in the Chinese circles on various platforms, regardless of pros and cons, 99% of them are scum!

PS One sentence, in the Internet back then, countless great gods who conquered everyone with knowledge and ideas have not appeared on the Internet for many years. Among the bunch of people I remember, there is not a single one. . .