The noble are always noble, the rich are always rich, and in the society where the class is solidified, how can the upward channel of the common people be completely blocked.
In the past few days, the news of Hanyu's divorce has frequently been in the hot news of countries around the world. After only 105 days of marriage, it ended in divorce, which can't help but make the people who eat melons curious: What happened to such a flash marriage?
For viewers who are not familiar with winter sports, he is just a Japanese flower boy who often appears in hot searches. In fact, Hanyu is the most outstanding Asian athlete in winter sports of all time, starting with the junior Grand Slam card age limit and going on to win two consecutive Olympic titles in men's figure skating, as well as the men's figure slam super slam (where he has won gold medals in all competitions he can compete). For his contemporaries, he was the wall that was always insurmountable.
But on the other hand, Hanyu is a "freak". In the era when traffic is king, as one of the most commercially valuable athletes in the world, he has never signed a brokerage company, does not use mobile phone communication, only accepts a few minimum endorsements to support his life (most of which are his daily products), and basically does not attend commercial activities. In order to facilitate the local juniors, he went back and forth to the ice rink late at night every day to practice, living a life of asceticism that is rare in modern society.
insisted on not signing with a brokerage company, nor did he take refuge in the factional docks within the Japan Ice Association, and stayed in a small place in Sendai for many years without "going to Beijing", so that although he has achieved remarkable results and is a well-known sports star in Japan and even the world, he is still a "common citizen" from the perspective of the social class in Japan, with no background.
After World War II, the United States reorganized Japan's political system, bringing Japan's legal system into line with Europe and the United States, and on the surface it seemed to be very "free and democratic". In the last century, this revolutionary system did break down social classes and create a large number of new upstarts, but after decades of continuous precipitation, its social structure has long returned to the pre-war pyramid form.
According to Japanese economist Toshihiro Tachibana's book "The Difference Society", Japan's gap (social and regional class differences) is widening. Behind the high income and high consumption levels of the Japanese people, the prosperity of international cities, and the modern business model are the enormous pressure to survive, the large number of unemployed and homeless people, the entrenchment and inequality of classes, the shrinking social safety net, and the disadvantaged groups living in its shadow.
For example, for young people in Japan, except for a small number of emerging industries such as the Internet, the upward channel is almost blocked, and it has become the norm for children to succeed their fathers, the sons of fish shops still sell fish, and the daughters of flower shops still have to sell flowers. The phenomenon of the second and third generations in Japan's political, physical, and literary circles is very serious, and the most typical is the election of the president of the Liberal Democratic Party after Prime Minister Koizumi, that is, the five people known as "Yasutaro Agaki" (Taro Aso, Yoshiichi Tanigaki, Yasuo Fukuda, Shinzo Abe, and Taro Kono), whose fathers or grandfathers were all members of the Diet. "Education is the key to correcting class rigidity", but on the other hand, "a person's ability to receive a good education depends largely on the class, occupation and income of his parents".
Unlike the norm of "dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and rat sons can make holes", Hanyu Yuzuru is not yet 29 years old this year, and he has already won two purple ribbon medals and one honorary national award for his Olympic hegemony. It is not surprising that his impressive achievements match the accolades he has won. But for the Japanese society, which is full of powerful people, this kind of common people who rely on their own achievements to struggle and break through the way up the class violates their unspoken rules, and has long become a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh.
Hashimoto, who came to power with the help of gender advantages, returned the power of the East Olympics to Yoshiro Mori
Although the Japan Ice Association, which manages the figure skating and speed skating business in Japan, is nominally an industry association in which all skating stakeholders in Japan join, it is still essentially a place for the second generation of elites to brush up on their qualifications. Hanyu's number one opponent, Seiko Hashimoto, comes from a Hokkaido political family, and his grandfather was the president of the Hokkaido Mainichi Shimbun, and has a large network of contacts in both the political and media circles. On the surface, she entered the ice association and became the president after achieving speed skating results on behalf of Japan, and then became a minister because of her excellent work, but in fact, she is just a circle of qualifications in the ice and snow industry.
After she broke out in Sochi with her subordinate figure skater Daisuke Takahashi, the Ice Association quickly arranged a number of gossip press releases about Takahashi's sexual orientation to be a man to whitewash Hashimoto, and urgently arranged for Takahashi to retire and go abroad to calm down the situation. Under this operation, the scandalous Hashimoto is still in a smooth political career, and she can even be seen in the Dentsu corruption case of the Tokyo Olympics. (Because Yoshiro Mori made discriminatory remarks against women, she took over as the president of the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee, but her resume clearly stated that she was "Abe, Tanigaki faction", and as a result, after the new president representing women came to power, he had to call his "political teacher" Yoshiro Mori every night, and in fact, the control of the East Olympics was still in Mori's hands.) ）
Hashimoto's resume makes it clear that his grandfather and brother-in-law are both members of parliament, and their factions are Abe, and the Abe faction and the Mori faction are actually the same faction
Akihisa Nagashima, vice president of the Ice Association who succeeded Hashimoto, was a pure politician who knew nothing about ice skating; as a far-right politician, in addition to making many pro-US political remarks after coming to power, he also openly favored American athletes in his work, publicly expressed instructions in support of American athletes on many occasions, and vigorously abolished Japan's long-standing tradition of handing out gifts and figure skating and knelt down to lick the United States. Since he took the stage, it has become customary for Japanese judges to give points to American players. At last year's Beijing Winter Olympics, the Japanese referee gave the Americans and their own faction a crazy extra point, but Hanyu ranked sixth in the free skating (she was also the only referee to finish Hanyu in the top five in the free skate), and it can be said that the figure skating podium has become a tribute to the United States from Japanese politicians.
Within the Japan Ice Association, the path taken by Hanyu, who was born in a scholarly family and relied on personal efforts to achieve results, is incompatible with the second and third generations of those who started with qualifications. On the one hand, Hanyu is in such a hostile industry environment, and on the other hand, his success has brought a huge amount of attention and traffic. Because he insisted on independence and had no factional protection, he was sniped by various news media and gossip weekly all the year round, and the Japanese Ice Association and other competent authorities naturally sat idly by and did not save him.
According to Japanese statistics, since Hanyu was still in high school, Gossip Weekly began to fabricate and publish various scandals and rumors about him, inciting rival fans to hunt him down
The paparazzi chase caused Hanyu to be dragged by a car
Intensifying. He had received death threats from his fans, and the Japanese Ice Association responded by simply providing him with bodyguards during the game, but the investigation of the sender was inconclusive. During the 16/17 season (each rumor was published in the middle of the season, and his intentions were visible), several gossip media concentrated on weaving his scandal and spreading rumors to discredit his family, so much so that in January, when he went to a condolence performance in the remote countryside of Iwate Prefecture, he was asked about the rumors by local children in person. This kind of gossip and rumors that match the rhythm of the game has run through his entire competitive career, and there have been incidents where he was chased by the paparazzi and was almost injured by a car. In this environment, Hanyu himself has become more and more strict about the privacy of his family, and his mother, who accompanied him in his early years, was interviewed by TV several times, but in recent years, the shadow of his family has been completely invisible in formal interviews, and some tidbits of his family members who have been mistakenly photographed have also been urgently deleted after review. This is the best protection that Hanyu can do to his family based on his own strength. By this year, he announced his marriage, and the gossip media flocked to it, forming a state of vultures and hyenas grabbing food.
According to statistics, after he announced his marriage. Every week, gossip weekly magazines publish rumors and scandals related to his marriage, in addition to treating him as an idol idol singing about the post-marriage market, there are also various malicious speculations about his marriage and object, as of the divorce, the female self, the female seventh, the weekly girl and the daily magazine New Zhounan Several gossip magazines have published 20 unfounded facts, based on random speculation, and apply each other's immoral reports. And every time a new rumor is released, it is before he is about to release a personal ice show tour, ticket sales and other key moments. With these gossip as the core, other Japanese gossip magazines, online media, and social network marketing accounts have quoted and applied their content, as if because they are quoting other articles, they don't have to take the responsibility of spreading rumors, and all kinds of rumors are spread everywhere.
According to Japanese netizens, the frequency of rumors spread by the four gossip weeklies from Hanyu's marriage to before the divorce
According to the divorce announcement, after getting married, in order to protect his privacy, his partner was in a state where he could not leave the house for a single step, and was blocked alive for three months. On the one hand, he has to plan and endorse the ice show during the day, and he has to practice intensively at night, with almost no time to rest. His family, friends, neighbors, and himself were frequently harassed by the paparazzi, and even tracked by inexplicable vehicles, and accosted by strange people. And every morning, new rumors await them on the Internet.
Some Japanese people have also suggested that among the many entertainers who are known to be married to amateurs, it is rare to be harassed on a large scale in this way. Perhaps it is precisely because in recent years, there has been no news of amateurs being harassed on a large scale, that Hanyu thinks that he can marry an amateur while being able to protect the privacy of his family, but after marriage, he finds that this is not the case, why is his situation so special?
This brings us back to the previous class topic, except for Hanyu, almost all celebrities in Japan have brokerage companies. In addition to taking a profit for their business, the brokerage company is also responsible for their public relations image, so no matter how big or small, the brokerage company can take all kinds of problems in black and white. The most famous case is Genesys & Associates, which actually had a sexual assault scandal 70 years ago, but it was not exposed until the end of the century, and it did not affect its business, and finally it really exploded after the death of the actual controller Kitagawa. The agency plans the image and arranges the work for the celebrity based on profits, and does not care about the state and needs of the athletes, and many artists signed "sweat contracts" in the early years. There is also no shortage of Japanese figure skating circles that have signed with well-known firms and received a lot of resources to promote, but at the same time, due to the profit-making needs of the firm, they have repeatedly injured their performances and finally got their own abolished athletes.
Yoshimoto Kogyo, a well-known firm, has a 90% commission, but single-handedly controls the funny business chain of the entertainment company-TV station-advertiser
In addition, many of the various artists were originally second-generation actors and second-generation actors, and some were born in poverty in their early years, but they have been camping in the entertainment industry for many years, and the relationship network between the upper and lower levels has already been opened, which is completely different from Hanyu, a "lone wolf" who is immersed in training and has no intention of communicating. From the case of Hanyu's marriage, we can see that it is not that the Japanese media talk about the rules and do not shoot amateurs, but that the Japanese media do not shoot amateurs with backgrounds and relationships. When the interests are too big and the resistance is not, the so-called "amateur privacy" is a dead letter to them, and it is not binding.
On the contrary, even if powerful people like Hashimoto and Kitagawa are caught with evidence and a real scandal is exposed, the "bigwigs" who control the media industry can quickly suppress them through the guidance of public opinion and gently expose them. In such a society, the media is nothing more than a lackey of capital and the powerful. For Hanyu, who has lived a strict life of restraining his words and deeds for many years, and is very popular among the people, and has no stain on himself, suppressing his reputation through scandals and his family is the best means for those in the upper echelons who don't want to see him continue to rise.
In Japan's fixed-class society, there can only be ministers, magnates, samurai thugs, and slaves, and ordinary people who want to break through the hierarchy and succeed on their own will definitely face the same predicament as Hanyu. Therefore, most young people, after the slightest emergence, will seek refuge in clinging to their predecessors or factions. After becoming famous, he was harassed by the paparazzi media, and under the guidance of public opinion, many Japanese netizens laughed and talked about this as a "celebrity tax", that is, "to be famous, you have to pay a price", but I don't know how famous does not mean that you will make a profit by fame, and I don't know how many celebrities who rely on fame to make a profit have not paid a little cost, and how many simple ordinary people have been devoured by jackals, tigers and leopards on the way to fame and fame. Beneath the surface of the "celebrity tax", what is hidden is the arbitrary trampling on the basic human rights of the disadvantaged by the powerful groups.
Hanyu's divorce is a move made by ordinary people who have no support in this class society, under the siege and interception of the unscrupulous media, and can only rely on their own strength.
Chinese have learned a poem by Pei Duofei: "Life is precious, love is more valuable, if it is for freedom, both can be thrown!"
Now, for the sake of each other's freedom and happiness, the two of them have broken off their love, which is a helpless move, which is really regrettable and crying.
(Author: Liuying)