Source: Voices of the Straits
"I was able to do a backflip in a U-shaped ski resort about seven meters high, it was not politics, but challenging human limits and connecting human beings" - Gu Ailing
The new champion of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing, whose father is an American and his mother is a Chinese, was born in San Francisco, and his education spans China and the United States. But this time, Gu Ailing was "unsurprisingly" caught up in the black hole of politics.
In terms of national identity, Gu Ailing once said that she is An American in the United States and Chinese in China.
The New York Times immediately published a special article from the perspective of "squinting eyes", ridiculing Gu Ailing's "arbitrage at both ends" between China and the United States, in short, it is to hate the Olympian for "drinking American water and nibbling on American hamburgers" but "eating inside and outside", helping "enemy countries" for the sake of interests, and not willing to give up everything he has in the United States for the sake of interests.
Gu Ailing's mother, Gu Yan, gave the New York Times a condition: She would not be willing to talk about her daughter unless the New York Times avoided political issues related to China and allowed her to review articles before the report was published.
The "arrogant" New York Times rejected this condition and obviously felt "humiliated", so this special article did not say anything good to the Gu family, which was also expected. This media, in order to "analyze" In detail, Gu Ailing's model of endorsing business in China and the United States, humiliated a good sportsman and sentenced her to a "death reprieve". “
"Very fit" - Huang Yuting
On the other side, Huang Yuting, who represents "Chinese Taipei", wore a Chinese team uniform and posted the photo on her personal Instagram, which triggered a wave of "tart logging" on the island. The politicians of the Green Camp naturally "verbally criticize and write", and Zhao Shaokang, a famous mouth of the Blue Camp, also accused Huang Yuting: "Spending so much money to send 13 members to accompany four players to the expedition should not just let the players make friends, Huang Yuting's behavior and remarks hurt the feelings of many Taiwanese." ”
Huang Yuting then apologized to the headquarters of the Olympic delegation, withdrew the photo, and explained that the move was because she had a good relationship with the mainland athletes and would wear the mainland team uniform. However, she did not publicly apologize to all walks of life in Taiwan, so that the green public opinion was still angry, and began to use the New York Times model to talk about Huang Yuting's father Huang Jinlong as the mainland pulley brand.
What's more, huang Yuting, who used the united front conspiracy theory, accused Huang Yuting of being a "delicate tool of the CCP's united front tactics, and her every move is exploiting the loopholes in Taiwan's democracy."
Regrettably, the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan and the United States is full of political noise, and in the hustle and bustle, no one cares about the Olympic spirit - peace, friendship and fair competition - only the argument between the enemy and the enemy, hatred and dirty calculations. “
"A gentleman who has nothing to argue with will also shoot, who will give in and rise, who will drink down, and who will fight for a gentleman" - "Analects of the Eight Nobles"
In our culture, the Olympic spirit is simply "the battle of gentlemen", the so-called "gentleman has nothing to fight, will also shoot, give way and rise, down and drink, his struggle is also a gentleman". In their profession, athletes challenge the limits of human beings, their horizons transcend nationality, and athletes between competing teams cultivate emotions and inspire each other, which is one of the most positive manifestations of human civilization and cannot be touched.
Regrettably, the narrow political filter is ubiquitous on the international stage, and the cold war mentality thrown at noble human activities is not only victimized by athletes, but also by our ideal of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Gu Ailing said: "I hope to be able to enhance the exchange, understanding and friendship between the Chinese and American peoples through the pursuit of extreme sports." These words show that Gu Ailing scrupulously abides by the athletes' duty and embraces the Olympic spirit, but it highlights the legitimacy of Gu Yan's conditions for the Invitation to the New York Times. To put it bluntly, the story that the New York Times wants to tell is by no means the Olympic spirit and the battle of gentlemen, but the struggle between you and me, inciting people, and everything must meet the needs of their "cognitive warfare" in order to demonize the "heresy" in their hearts. The hype model of Taiwan's green public opinion is also viewed in the same way. “
"She's of impure blood, she's arbitrage, she's disregard for human rights, she's good and evil, she's insatiable, she's eating inside and out, she's dancing with wolves, she's ungrateful, she's not on the same team with 'justice' as some Chinese-Americans who converted to American faith." — The New York Times's "word prison."
In the real world, we still have to look at the problem close to reality, and hostility is also an eternal existence in human society, focusing on which hostile routine we are currently facing and what is the best way to respond."
Cognitive warfare is a bad dogma taught to Taiwan by the United States and an obstacle to China's development; it is embodied in all public messages, and its task is to confuse the public with the aim of shaping "imaginary enemies" into "public enemies of mankind." The public relations war in the diplomatic field is only one way, which is the government's fight against the government or the political party against the political party; the news media's storytelling of "devil's behavior" is the main force in enhancing the awareness of the enemy and the enemy among the public.
The New York Times's portrayal of Gu Ailing is typical of the media's manipulation of cognitive warfare: in seemingly plain words, it lays out that "she is not pure in blood, she has two arbitrages, she ignores human rights, she has a good face and evil heart, she is insatiable, she eats inside and outside, she dances with wolves, she is ungrateful, she is not in the same team with 'justice' as some Chinese americans who convert to American faith"...
The attack pattern of Huang Yuting by Taiwan's green media is exactly the same as that of the New York Times, but it is far from the level of means.
Specifically, the entire New York Times article is not rhetorically sharp, but uses a relatively gentle narrative, hiding a sharp "guillotine knife" that kills the enemy invisibly. Generally speaking, the Western mainstream media have refined this kind of "hidden needle in the cotton" trick, first saying that you are a "heretic", then enlarging those who "turn back to the shore of the surrenderers", narrowing down those who are "unruly off the team", and deleting the most important true information, a large number of stacks with partial small stories and views, forming a Western religious "word prison", not only aimed at throwing the enemy into the sea of fire, but also to ensure that the onlookers "beat the thunder from the bottom of their hearts". “
"We Taiwanese are bombarded by this kind of fatigue of "cognitive warfare" every day, black and white, white and black, the position is greater than everything, and destroy everything" - a move and a half of Taiwan's "green culture people"
But this kind of routine, Taiwan's "green culture people" have learned a trick and a half, so it is inevitable that there is still some rudeness. This kind of green public opinion belongs to the lowest level of untargeted targeting, only to see the commentators desperately pointing to the sky, but the argument has no evidence to support. The reason why this phenomenon exists, even in the big profit market, is rooted in the fact that the locked-in group of audiovisual masses does not need "reasonable statements", but only "one statement" to satisfy personal emotions.
And we Taiwanese are bombarded day by day by this kind of "cognitive warfare" fatigue, black and white, white and black, the position is greater than everything, and destroy everything.
Gu Ailing and Huang Yuting are both victims of cognitive warfare, tied to the pillar of fire and burned, and they will certainly be subjected to different degrees of "political liquidation" after the game, while the mainstream media in Taiwan or the United States will not cry out for them, or even report on them.
But if the two athletes brazenly confront these media in the process, the political reckoning will be public, and politicians and the media they control will join forces to arbitrage from it in the model of "execution and public display".
Cognitive warfare is also a clash of cultures in which the path of debunking the malevolent messages and clarifying all weaponized values, restoring them to their original appearance, or redefining them.
Just like sports competition, the ultimate goal of cultural confrontation, to paraphrase Gu Ailing, is to challenge the limits of thought and connect human beings.