Concepts cannot keep up with the drastic changes of the times
The world has changed dramatically, the social structure and the conceptual order have undergone a radical change, genetic mutation, and become completely different from the traditional society, so that countless people, including countless intellectuals in the bookstore at a loss, “do not know the true face of Mount Lushan, only to be in this mountain”.
The United States, which stands at the forefront of freedom, technology, economy, culture and institutions, was the first to awaken because it stood at the forefront of the world’s changes and conflicts. It has shown this unprecedented change and contradiction in the extreme form of the fierce conflict in the presidential election, which was broadcast live globally in all directions.
Media neutrality, separation of powers, and democratic elections, the basic pillars of society, have been challenged and washed away by the two new floods of the century: technology and online speech platforms.
As Lee NY said, “Any system depends on people, and the corruption of people by power is absolute. During the two hundred and forty-four years, the United States swayed forward on the track of liberal democracy because, in addition to the three independent legislative, judicial and executive powers, she also had the right to monitor the press and media and the people’s right to vote. The latter two constrain the first three powers to be independent and not to become the tools of one political party. But for four years now, the mainstream media has degenerated into the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, and the Section 230-protected high-tech online platforms have blatantly blocked dissenting voices from the people to the president; when voters believe their votes have been openly stolen, they have no way to sue. The America that was loved by most Americans, by freedom-loving, democracy-loving people around the world, no longer exists.”
Is it a conspiracy theory advocate, or is it a winning and losing netherworld?
After the brief chaos of someone storming Capitol Hill, the U.S. Congress hastily certified the Electoral College votes and Vice President Pence declared Biden the winner.
President Trump then tweeted, “Even though I don’t approve of the election results at all, and the facts shock me, there will still be an orderly transition on January 20. I’ve always said we’re going to fight to make sure only legitimate votes are counted. This means the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, but it’s only the beginning of our fight to make America great again!”
With that, one of the country’s “reasonable people” issued the judgment that “many intellectuals are big fans of conspiracy theories.
Of course, he was referring to the “pro-Trumpers”.
Conspiracy theories are unfounded conjectures, associations, and even fantasies. To accuse a well-founded and logical suspicion of conspiracy theory is itself a sign of lack of logic.
If there is no election fraud, but rather Trump’s cheating, then the Democratic Party should vigorously promote the judicial audit and review of the ballots, instead of preventing and excluding “testimony” and cross-examination from the judicial system to Congress. The only way to clear the democratic election, to honor the Democratic Party, and to convince Trump and the whole world of America, is to present the testimony and openly question it!
Some may say, don’t waste taxpayers’ time and energy and money on nonsense and groundless accusations. But isn’t it an even greater waste and internal conflict to ignore the legitimate claims of presidential candidates and their supporters, causing tearing, antagonism and mistrust in American society? Some have even been intimidated by it, and some have already paid with their precious lives as a result.
“People posing as Trump supporters have stormed Congress; major social media platforms have briefly or permanently frozen the president’s personal accounts; Congress has resumed its session overnight to pass (electoral vote certification) resolutions; the media has unanimously published large English-language posters to launch a general offensive; the Speaker of the House has contacted other politicians to pressure the vice president to urgently start impeachment proceedings to oust the president with only 10 days left in office; the Atlantic The Atlantic Monthly Network has issued an article demanding, in a tone we all know, that ‘Trump must be removed tonight’ (David James, headline, Observer). James’ headline, translated by the Observer); and now this kind of news (Twitter account permanently blocked, Trump responds: will build his own platform) …… I have some friends who like to talk logic to me, so please ask them what kind of logic there is in being so afraid of Trump? ” (Zhu DZ)
A deeper follow-up question is: some anti-Trumpers are so vigorously anti-Trump, so vigorously ridiculing and mocking pro-Trumpers (pro-Trump sometimes may not be pro-Trump himself, but fear of fear of that Democratic Party platform), what exactly are these people opposing and embracing? Do they genuinely like and support Sleepy Joe (who many people think is just a puppet)? Or do they genuinely like and support the Democratic Party’s platform?
I think many people dare not admit the above two points (sincerely like and support Sleepy Joe, and sincerely like and support the Democratic Party’s policy platform), or at most, they would say “I just don’t like Chuan, even a dog would be better than him” and so on.
Well, Chuan in the first four years of his term, the Dow Jones, NASDAQ index rose to the highest, the highest employment rate in history, did not start a war, unprecedented peace in the Middle East, the withdrawal of tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers, the family of four infected with the new crown, the brother died of the epidemic, four years only take a total of $ 4 salary, the family assets lost more than a billion dollars …… mouth, no style …… if the requirements of politicians, just a different style rather than a major flaw in personal virtue, actually higher than the political performance requirements, there is no one.
The more crowning anti-Trump reason is that he does not follow the rules of the election, does not admit defeat, undermines the democratic constitution and has dictatorial tendencies.
But have you ever seen a dictator who has no way to sue in the judiciary or the legislature and is hounded by the media and restricted from speaking?
So, in the end, there is only one reason to be anti-Trump: success or failure! No matter how famous you are, no matter how moral you come up with, there is only one reason at the core: the winner is right! Whether this “victory” is suspected of theft or not!
“The dirty logic of success and failure has always dominated this poor dwarf community. Keep your voice down, you’re educated.” (Shiner)
Yes, becoming a king and losing a foe has become the involuntary subconscious of a certain ethnic group. It has nothing to do with education, status, wealth or knowledge.
Technology has become a super power that overrides administration and justice
On the night of January 8 local time, Twitter and Facebook blocked both President Trump’s account, as well as Linwood and Powell’s accounts. Thousands of conservatives’ accounts were also said to have been blocked. In a statement, Twitter said it would permanently deactivate President Trump’s personal account. In addition, the Google App Store has announced in a statement that it is taking down Parler, a social media platform that has gathered a large number of Trump supporters, and the Apple Store has also said it is considering taking Parler offline.
The technology-fueled free information platform is quickly becoming the big brother of “1984,” leaving only one voice that the giants think is “right.
“U.S. Supreme Court precedent has long established the principle of no prior censorship of speech (if speech is illegal, it can be pursued after the fact), and platform companies have even less power to do so. Now, Twitter, non-dead, etc. blocked Trump and his team members’ accounts, clearly violating the principle of no prior censorship of speech. I wonder what is going through the heads of those who defend Twitter and non-dead.” (Nanyunlou)
Some people say that because Trump is president, blocking his speech is exactly what media oversight is supposed to do.
Whoever thinks and says that, is their brain broken? In the presidential campaign, the incumbent president is only a “presidential candidate”, not the president!
Secondly, what is the logic of blocking the president’s supporters?
There is a fundamental difference between Twitter blocking and WeChat microblogging blocking, WeChat microblogging blocking is not usually the autonomous behavior of enterprises, but Twitter blocking is the autonomous behavior of enterprises, which are acting as judges and governments!
On the afternoon of January 8, voting system manufacturer Dominion formally sued Trump and lawyer Powell for $1.3 billion, accusing them of slander and defamation that damaged the company’s reputation. (The mouth is crooked and the heart is right, Wang Yajun, “The Mute Says: Abba, Abba Abba ….. 2021.1.9)
This one can be had. Speech infringement of corporate and personal rights, lawsuit ah! My judgment is that if Domini sues Trump for real, it is more likely that it is just a fake to make noise, not a real fight, only to confuse the masses of the uninformed. The Trump team is begging for a lawsuit, the lawsuit is really up, maybe it is giving the opportunity to present evidence in court.
The trinity of big capital, big technology and big platform
With the unprecedented modern financial system, big capital, big technology and big platform have formed a trinity of deep penetration into each other, deeply embedded in all aspects of social, economic, cultural and political life, whether in terms of depth, breadth or transcending time and space in terms of timeliness and extensiveness, are far beyond any traditional political, economic and cultural power, becoming high above the traditional legislative, judicial and It has become a new kind of power giant that overrides traditional legislative, judicial and administrative powers. Their growth has been extremely rapid, and they have three characteristics.
First, the achievement of a giant enterprise, which used to take one or two generations to achieve, now takes only three to five years and up to a dozen years. Consider that the global Internet only matured in 1998, just 20 years, the top ten global companies are almost all Internet companies, and the size of the volume to be much larger.
Second, the penetration of technology is pervasive, leaving aside the protection of privacy, it can be as subtle as your every minute of your whereabouts are in control. Theoretically, if you want to manipulate matters such as election counting through a button or a program, it is as easy as a click to become an army, and it can be untraceable.
Third, from the influence of information platforms, modern information platforms can transcend national boundaries, zero time difference, rapid and extensive dissemination of all information. The control of information, as in the second article above, can really “plan in a tent, win a thousand miles away” and “sit firmly in the tent, catch the flying general”.
Most places in the world have tamed the citizens, most places have tamed capital, a few places have tamed power, but no one dares to claim to have tamed the modern Internet technology.
The rapid development of technology has become the fundamental cause of the development of urbanization, the metamorphosis of power structures, social structures and conceptual order in modern society.
The old rules are in their old age and the new ones have not been brought up on the agenda.
While technology is changing day by day, information control is as new as ever
Human rights begin with the right to know.
But while technology is evolving, information control is as old as time.
All crimes are committed by exploiting information asymmetries for profit. There are only two modes of controlling information asymmetry: the first is the “adulteration” of information sources, and the second is the selective interpretation and dissemination of information channels.
History is always surprisingly similar. In the aftermath of the Congressional storming, several members of Congress called for Trump to be removed from office by invoking the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer issued a statement saying, “What happened yesterday at the Capitol was a presidential-inspired rebellion against the United States, and this president should not be in office another day.
But now that “impeachment” is being proposed, whether it is defending the dignity of the Constitution or has become a tool of partisanship, a question mark needs to be asked, as both Trump himself and a White House spokesman formally condemned the violence and called for peace and the rule of law.
This scene is not sure if it resembles the Hitler Reichstag arson case, which Nero also played during the Roman Empire and then blamed on Christians.
When Hitler was facing a hopeless battle for the presidency, he directed and acted in the classic historical drama “Reichstag Arson” with his close comrade Goering at 22:00 on February 27, 1933. The case was not cleared up until the Nuremberg Trials after the end of World War II in 1945, when the rival was successfully slandered as an arsonist.
This case was recognized by the historians as the one that brought Hitler to the top of power in Germany and led Germany to bring the whole of Europe and the world into the “New Era”.
It was not until the end of the war that former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was later nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Peace Prize, said to Roosevelt, in a serious voice, that perhaps we had made the wrong allies and the wrong enemies.
All people are corrupt, just in different domains
It is either naive or foolish to think that a good system can prevent corruption and achieve the self-cleaning function of power.
Power leads to corruption, and absolute power leads to absolute corruption. Human corruption is rooted in human nature, in desire. You let your own young son to play soy sauce, he may take the opportunity to buy himself a candy! Not to mention the people who have been crawling around in the huge swamp of power for years and years.
The difference is only that different people have different values of the domain of corruption.
A man dying of hunger may kill for a loaf of bread, while a billionaire like Trump, who is old and has seen everything in the world, has a high domain value of corruption, even becoming a “sword and gun” brass pea.
WikiLeaks Assange said: When everything is exposed, 98% of Washington will fall. Hannah Arendt, who developed the concept of “banal evil,” argues that when evil is exposed, 98% of Washington will fall. Arendt believes that when the chain of evil is long enough, so long that it is impossible to see the whole picture, then each link of evil has a reason to feel innocent.
Trump wants to drain the Washington swamp, to limit the terms of members of Congress, to not run for office week after week, to make entrenched deep government. It hits the nail on the head from an anti-corruption perspective, but it moves the cheese of decades of disjointed American career politicians.
Based on the fact that corruption is human nature, like a shadow, I wrote in my last post, “The Social Fundamentals Behind the U.S. Elections,” that.
“As I see it, the most fundamental reason why American society has been a beacon of human civilization for two hundred years is not the democratic arrangement in the power structure that restrains corruption, but the constitutional (limited government) structure that ‘puts political power in a cage’ and guarantees the autonomous freedom of civil rights. “
A friend asked, “I don’t understand what is meant by ‘democratic arrangements in the structure of power’ and what is meant by ‘constitutional structure of putting power in a cage'”?
Let me explain here: the former – democratic arrangements in the structure of power (including the separation of powers) – is the relationship between political power and political power, and no amount of restraint can completely eliminate the inevitable corruption of power; the latter -the caging of political power, which guarantees the autonomous freedom of citizens’ rights-is the tension between political power and citizens’ rights, with a transparent glass wall separating political power and citizens’ rights, where power cannot directly interfere with and penetrate citizens’ private rights while citizens’ rights can monitor and check public power through the right to know, the right to monitor and the right to bear arms. In this way, the private sphere of citizens has a certain space for free and autonomous growth. This is the source of vitality and development. This is the source of vitality and development. It is not like our “hundred generations of Qin government”, where the power of the people is disturbed and inserted to the end.
Trump is the author of a major proposition in human history
A Brief History of Time” and “A Brief History of Mankind” author Yuval Huraly said: “There are three major revolutions in the history of mankind: the Cognitive Revolution about 70,000 years ago, which officially launched history; the Agricultural Revolution about 12,000 years ago, which accelerated the development of history. It was the Scientific Revolution, about 500 years ago, that brought history to a close and created a new era.
In my study of urbanization, I have proposed two industrial revolutions: the First Industrial Revolution around 1820, when industry drove urbanization and history accelerated; and the Second Industrial Revolution in 1998, marked by the maturation of the Internet, when the information industry services drove urbanization and history accelerated further and faster.
Each revolution, technological advances precede conceptual and institutional advances, as if the car is more advanced and faster, but the roads have not yet improved, and humans are bound to pay the price for this.
Whether Trump wins or loses, we don’t have to be sad. In this round of dramatic changes in history, Trump is the sower, is the trumpet blower. The seeds he sowed have been sprinkled all over the ancient road outside the long pavilion; the fire he lit has rapidly started in North America. The United States is not sinking, but bringing humanity together to awaken.
Trump is the proposer and awakener of the major historical and epochal propositions of mankind, and he is already a giant for being able to propose and awaken; if he is given the time and opportunity to personally cut into the painful and difficult points of the times and solve or partially solve these major propositions, he will undoubtedly become a great man.
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