“A lot of people don’t know the magnitude of the housing problem and the consequences it can have. The only people who know the magnitude of the problem and its consequences are those who are experiencing the pain.” This is what sociologist Matthew Desmond says in his book, Sweeping the House Down.
That’s what sociologist Matthew Desmond says in his book Sweeping the Land Out of the Country. Many young people in first- and second-tier cities are experiencing this unpleasant scene: electricity and water are cut off, rolls of bedding are thrown away, doors are locked, and they are homeless after a long, exhausting day.
The eggshell apartment broke apart with a thud, drawing howls from the Internet. As a “post-95” parent, I couldn’t help but feel compassion for the children who suffered the disaster.
A few days ago, I read that a 26-year-old girl from the north, who had climbed up to the rooftop of the headquarters of Eggshells, called a reporter and said, “After I die, I hope everyone’s money will be returned.
Fortunately, the child had a safe journey, and it’s still sad to think back on it.
Not all suffering deserves sympathy. For example, what happened to the girl in the eggshell below provoked scorn and derision. Frankly, I can’t even hide an unkind smile.
In any case, this cannot be said to be without a little bit of present-day joy.
In April of this year, when the writer Fang Fang was under a storm of condemnation, abuse, and attack, I wrote a short article titled “Such Hatred of Fang Fang, Your Vulnerability No Longer Deserves Sympathy.
At the time, I could not suppress my indignation and wrote, “It is their fate to hate Fangfang so much, and their vulnerability no longer deserves sympathy.
At the end of the essay, he even wrote: “If one day you are unfortunate enough to be in a bad situation again, you can show your fighting spirit and touch the people who control and control your destiny with your flushed face.
Don’t be so predictable. The girl who half a year ago openly advocated “cutting out Fang Fang’s tongue”, and now has been thrown out of the house by the eggshells, was unfortunately right.
The dozens of diaries that Fangfang kept during this particular period, which caused an uproar, as well as her previous works, including “Landscape,” “A Thousand Arrows Through the Heart,” and “Tu Ziqiang’s Personal Sorrow,” which revealed the hardships of people’s livelihoods, are all grassroots writings that express compassion for the fate of individuals and concern for living groups.
Isn’t this a kind of truthfulness that is faithful to real life? A truth that you, with your learning, experience, and upbringing, can’t or won’t read.
What you always see is nothing but the quiet of the years that can be classified as the past under the grand narrative.
It is not difficult to understand why “meat eaters” who are far away from the world can’t empathize with Fang Fang’s words, while those weak people who are actually huddling and struggling at the bottom of the society can’t resent Fang Fang, who is closer to their emotions and positions, without cutting their tongues.
You want to “cut out Fanfan’s tongue,” and one can’t help but think of a metaphor: to silence those who speak the truth.
In the bitter cold wind, you cry out that “the underprivileged have no one to protect them”, and one cannot help but realize that reality is the best teacher, and one likes to educate people by whipping them.
It is only when you are the underprivileged that you realize that you need sympathy and help.
And by uttering the almost malicious “suggestion” of “cutting your tongue,” you have forfeited your right to live with dignity and self-awareness.
You deserve a response that says, “Don’t stare into the shadows.
You deserve to be taught, “This is a very rare case, don’t call yourself vulnerable and make a mess of reality.
The reassurance you deserve should be, “It won’t be nobody’s fault, but trust that the problem will be solved in the end.”
Even the admonition you deserve should be, “The authorities are already taking it seriously, so what are you trying to do by saying ‘nobody cares’?
This girl, in a way, is a typical symbol of Internet survival.
From time to time, I see people attacking the Beijing News and Breaking News online. Not long ago, I also saw a victim of eggshell posting that in the past, often scolded the Beijing News, and now that they are in trouble, I hope that the Beijing News reporters can come to interview.
In fact, in addition to writers and media people, there are also groups of intellectuals and lawyers who are often attacked and reviled. You speak for the general public, the general public scolded you into a dog; you for the general public bowed to the tears, the general public united voice wants you to die.
It’s hard to imagine the kind of hatred that would drive a girl to “cut her tongue” at an old woman writer.
In his Essay on the Intellectuals, Said wrote: “The public role of the intellectual is that of a bystander, someone who disturbs the status quo.
I really hope, eggshell girl, that you will understand one thing from this difficult experience: when intellectuals with social morals and conscience are generally “cut throat” or collectively silent about injustice, life will sooner or later reach out its fearless claws to all.
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