Western civilization is in crisis! Pursuing "ostrichism", Mr. De no longer believed Mr. Sai

Wen | Qiu Liben

More than a hundred years ago, the May Fourth Movement, the key words of the May Fourth Movement in China's intellectual circles, were Mr. Democracy and Science, emphasizing that as long as China had democracy and science, it could embark on the road of a modern country. However, more than a century later, world history is facing a peculiar phenomenon, many Western democracies that were once envied by many Chinese, but do not recognize the rationality of science, but turn to the power of beggar ideology, in the face of the global epidemic raging, do not use science to solve the problem, but delay in political explanation, the fight against the epidemic has become an ideological civil war, do not know the Hudi.

The recent road jams by truck drivers in Canada are an important example. Some Canadian drivers, dissatisfied with the government's regulations that drivers must be vaccinated against the new crown in order to cross the U.S.-Canada border, mobilized through the Internet, rushed to the capital Ottawa, blocked the road in front of Congress, claiming to paralyze the Canadian government, and also blocked the Ambassador Bridge, the artery connecting Detroit to Canada's Windsor, blocking a quarter of the U.S. and Canadian merchandise trade.

Behind this storm is the conservative forces that are prevalent in North America, opposing the new crown vaccine and the mandatory wearing of masks, believing that this is a violation of human rights, emphasizing that "my body is my master", and the government has no right to intervene. The claims of these truck drivers echoed and set off a wave, and there are many American right-wing forces behind them to donate money to support, and former US President Trump has also openly supported these truck drivers, believing that they are warriors and breaking the authoritarian shackles of the Trudeau government in Canada. The United States, France, Belgium, New Zealand and other countries also have truck drivers and public support, and Belgian drivers even have to drive to the EU headquarters in Brussels to protest.

The Canadian government has declared that the whole country has entered a state of emergency to prevent the incident from worsening, but behind the storm actually reflects the deep crisis within the democratic countries, that is, more and more political forces are politicizing the anti-epidemic issue, going online, demonizing masks and vaccines, and smearing the basic actions of the anti-epidemic as violating human rights, which is equivalent to self-destruction of the society's anti-epidemic defense line and self-destruction of the Great Wall. Trump and his cohorts are the initiators, but the anti-science countercurrent within democracies seems to be in the ascendant, continuing to burn and becoming a crisis in Europe and the United States.

So far, the report card of europe and the United States against the epidemic is unbearable to see. The number of infected deaths in the United States has exceeded 900,000, and it is estimated that it will exceed one million during the Easter holiday, which is shocking, while the death toll of the epidemic in the United Kingdom is also as high as 160,000, which has put many Hong Kongers who have immigrated to the United Kingdom into the shadow of death.

Ironically, in the shadow of death, Western society is full of ostrich mentality, and many politicians think that forced vaccinations and masks are unacceptable, and they want to rise up and accuse this of a liberal conspiracy. Transforming what was originally a scientific problem into a question of religious and political beliefs confuses the public and misleads the people.

Mr. De no longer believes in Mr. Sai, which is a crisis of Western civilization, showing that the power of reason must give way to metaphysics, swayed by the power of ideology. Trucker demonstrations in Canada have spread in Western countries, reflecting that the development of Western democracy has fallen into a new storm of ideas, tearing apart entire societies, and conspiracy theories are rife with bizarre and bizarre.

Especially in the peculiar ecology of social media, fake news supported by systematic conspiracy theories has become a "truth" that many people firmly believe. People in the same circle are in love with each other, forming an "Echo Chamber", so that netizens in the middle of it are limited by such an "information cocoon" (InformationCocoon), sitting in the well, thinking that their vision is the world, abandoning scientific cognition, and taking the remarks of some populist leaders as a guigao, towards the road of self-deception.

Trump's power has played an important role in this storm. The social media and network forces he advocated, which traded vigorously in Wall Street investment, attracted supporters around the world, and some IT celebrities, such as Peter Thiel, were behind the scenes, combining capital with high-tech, waving the flag for the political ideas of the right, and winning the favor of Wall Street.

However, this all shows that American society is moving towards a tribal carnival, and extremist forces are fermenting in different value spectrums, changing the political ecology. From liberals to conservatives, from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, they have all been kidnapped by extremism, and the anti-epidemic countermeasures have been pan-politicized, and they can no longer return to rational discussion, but are swayed by wild passions, turning into ostriches one after another, buried in the sand of social media, pretending not to see death, and constantly building words "justification", saying that the more deaths and the more epidemics, the more herd immunity will be achieved, but so far, there is no end to the dark tunnel. In fact, no matter how fierce the arguments may be, and how loud the voices of killing between tribes may be, the final indicator of verification is the number of deaths from the epidemic.

Death can never be forgotten. This is an objective indicator that cannot be avoided, witnessing the failure of the Western fight against the epidemic and witnessing the evil consequences of Mr. De no longer believing in Mr. Sai. Future historians will ask why this generation of Americans cannot prevent the death of a million COVID-19 patients, and why so many Western elites and people insist on vaccinated and masks. This is the beginning of the "great failure" of the twenty-first century, the mechanism of democratic politics can not stop the prevalence of anti-epidemic ostrichism, watching the god of death smiling, but advocating "coexistence with the virus", which is equivalent to sleeping with death, so that the western civilization tradition of rationality and science collapses. This is Mr. Sai's sorrow, but also Mr. De's sorrow.

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