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I have recently listened to a lot of Mr. Dai Jinhua’s classes, and today I watched Mr. Dai’s speech at the South-South Forum. I have some new experiences with the online novel “Ferocious Players” that I just finished reading.
main line of the novel
The killing game comes to the earth, randomly selecting players to perform various script tasks and competitions, which is very cruel, and the real world has also undergone various changes due to the killing game. But at the same time, players also gain various magical abilities and advanced technologies, which greatly improve productivity and at the same time greatly impact the original social order.
Some of my thoughts
- Today’s society is full of various diseases, the gap between the rich and the poor is difficult to bridge, and it seems that there is no way out. We can only hope that the existing order will be forcibly changed by supernatural force majeure. And this kind of force majeure is a great crisis. It is not only the main contradiction that threatens the survival of all people, forcing all forces to reach a consensus, but also brings about a great increase in productivity and a great wealth of material. Against this background, the authorities will naturally improve the living standards of ordinary people in order to maintain stability. In the author’s subconscious, it seems that we can only hope that a major crisis will disintegrate the existing order, and then reshape another, perhaps better order, rather than actively create another possibility. But I think that social problems cannot be solved through technological progress, because technology is just a tool, and it should be reversed to find a solution first, and then study the technology needed to realize the solution, just like Allende based on cybernetics to develop The telegraph network system is the same.
- Based on the uncertainty and destructive power of the players, all forces tend to monitor the residents in all directions to find out the lone wolf players, and then force them to return. Just like because of the epidemic, everyone’s itinerary is under surveillance, and there is no privacy at all. There is a question here, is it possible to have a reasonable boundary between public threats and personal privacy? If so, how are the boundaries determined? If not, where is the bottom line?
- The protagonist painstakingly seeks revenge against the gang of human traffickers who trafficked him. Whether they are released after serving their sentence or escape the law, they are all killed one by one and forged into accidents, and finally the authorities find out the truth. It led me to think about the law.
- The protagonist travels through the world of Xiaoao Jianghu, and the plot of the trial of Linghu Chong is also very interesting. In Jin Yong’s world, those who do not know martial arts are not considered human or inferior, so Tian Boguang, the flower-picking thief, can also get a good death. And in reality? The society of the upper class is the rivers and lakes. Secondly, it seems that as long as I repent, I should be forgiven, and I don’t even need to make real atonement. It seems to be saying, I have repented, and I have been tortured by my own conscience. You don’t forgive me. You are simply not human.
Laws do not eradicate hatred
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Contemporary jurisprudence is part of bourgeois ideology and has the following characteristics:
- Emphasizes that physical evidence is far better than human evidence, and elite crimes are easy to go unpunished
- The main penalties are fines and jail time, based on the transaction value = social labor time, that is, time = money, which can be regarded as a fine. Abolished death, bail, and the excellent environment of prisons abroad fully demonstrate that money can do whatever you want
- High litigation costs (time, money), proving that courts are not for the poor
- The law does not represent justice, and a “just” trial cannot eliminate hatred, and no one can forgive the perpetrator on behalf of the victim. Under contemporary legal power, crime and punishment are not equal, or from the perspective of “people”, the “value” of loss is measured based on the materialization of people, rather than the basis of equality for everyone to determine punishment. . For example, lost wages, etc., life is priceless, but in the legal system, human life is valuable, and the “value” of different people is not equal. The real equivalent is the death of a simple murderer.
- Under bourgeois law, ordinary people have no right to revenge, which is the greatest protection for the bourgeoisie. There is a movie where the victim’s father lynches the criminal after helping him get off his crime, which is the proper punishment.
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The logic of hatred and revenge. The simplest logic of revenge is an eye for an eye. There are only two ways to eliminate hatred.
- reciprocal revenge
- The perpetrator repented and made atonement and was forgiven, as the Germans did to the Jews.
- Another dilemma of the law is that, as part of the state apparatus, it cannot judge the machine itself. After Germany’s defeat, only a few of the millions of Nazis were tried for their own crimes. And those who participated in the massacre as ordered were presumed innocent. The Nazi Party came to power through legal democratic procedures, and Hitler’s arrogance of democracy was accomplished through democratic means. From this it can be seen that the capitalist superstructure has nothing to do with its endogenous fascism, which is now making a comeback.
- I also thought of our Chinese hatred of Japan. Only by eliminating Japanese militarism can there be a real peace (the elimination of Taoism rather than physical elimination). It is unrealistic to expect Japan to eliminate its own militarism, even the left-wing scholars in Japan think they have paid the price, how tragic Hiroshima and Nagasaki are, but that is not the reason, the Americans did it, most of the people who died were civilians, and The Chinese have nothing to do with the hatred of Japanese militarism.
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