Information, Wisdom, Democracy

Pasquale 2022-04-19 09:02:44

In the 1990s, I was in junior high school. At that time, a new political teacher came to the school. He was young, beautiful and temperamental. One morning in politics class, she wore a beautiful suit, painted makeup, and had her hair done. She said that after the class, she was going to vote in the afternoon. It was said that she chose the deputies to the city's people's congress to exercise her right to vote.

In our county middle school, I was closed, and I didn't know much about the rights of the deputies to the people's congress, and I didn't know why they voted, and what kind of people could vote. Voting began to be connected. I listened to my classmates after class and said that voting is just a formality. In fact, the deputies to the National People’s Congress have long been determined by some rich people, officials and various roles. The political teacher can vote because there are family members. Powerful, support one side. I'm done listening to it.

My grandmother’s village used to be very interesting. During the election of the village head, the villagers were given money to vote. I heard an accident that I don’t know if it was a real accident. At that time, when I heard that everyone gave ten yuan, I thought to myself, if I were asked to vote, I would definitely not accept the ten yuan, and I would vote for a good village chief.

When I was in college, the country had been implementing family planning for many years. Most of the courses in the university were that teachers and students only knew each other on the roll. Until one day, the teacher of political economy said on the stage: In fact, the national family planning It was a serious mistake... I continued to listen to it as a joke, and found that because I listened too little in the previous class, I couldn't understand what he said later about society, population, and economy, but it didn't matter, his core point of view The family planning national policy is wrong. I went back to the dormitory and told my roommates: This political economy teacher is also questioning national policies. He just wants to show how smart he is?

Now, I have been working for many years, and my parents are getting older, and they have begun to pay attention to some words about social welfare, endowment insurance, basic security, and demographic dividend, and the country has also liberalized the two-child policy.

The above story has nothing to do with this documentary, but I want to say that if I were put in the Brexit referendum in the UK, I would have voted for the person who spoke most flamboyantly in the media. I will vote for those who voted by my classmates. When I was in college, I would definitely not follow the political economy teacher... And after going through the above three assumptions, if in 2016, put me in this referendum, put me in the referendum. The ticket is in my hand and I'll -- tear it off.

After this documentary, many people have to discuss what is democracy, what is public opinion, what are government rights and obligations...

I just want to say something from the perspective of an ordinary person: let information be transparent, let wise people vote, and let ordinary people be ordinary people.

Are the benefits of Brexit that most people don't know they know are true? I don't know how these are really achieved.

Most people may realize that the future of staying in the EU is a bit negative, but is it possible that Brexit is a worst choice?

Our limited knowledge comes from the media, and how many people can really analyze and understand the targeted push of media information and language art behind big data? The story of my grandmother's village is probably the simplest. One party said that we will take back control after we leave the EU, and we need to increase employment. One party will say, stay in the EU, we will solve the current problems slowly. The fact is, no matter which one, the person who speaks on the stage has water in his self-confidence. The control of social psychology and the application of big data are the magic weapons for the Brexiteers to succeed in this game. The documentary is so embarrassing that people do not understand why the protagonist does this, as if it is just to prove his existence, maybe, because it is possible, There are too many things to say. After all, the no-deal Brexit in March is still unknown. On that day, the planes in the sky may be retrograde, the banks may be closed, and the students writing the thesis may need to re-register their accounts...

Democracy does not mean that everyone should vote. Cameron underestimated the anger of the society and overestimated the rationality of the people. The Brexiteers successfully took advantage of the opportunity to say all kinds of things they had when they were not in Taiwan.

After Brexit, Cameron resigned, reminding me of Germany's Merck and one of the most powerful women in Europe who made the choice to leave in tens of seconds on stage...

We were not born there, but there are similarities everywhere in life.

What are the rights of the people in a democratic society? Is the referendum about giving rights or avoiding responsibility? Or today, when the Brexit results come out and many Brexiters regret it, after countless years of construction, the descendants of the United Kingdom will sigh that the ancestors who voted to leave the European Union today made a historically correct decision for them to regain the glory of the United Kingdom.

The Wandering Earth tells us that people are small, so it's hard to say what is right, but at least, the way the record is manipulated is wrong. I hope that all the debates are for the good, instead of exposing each other's ugliness like the United States. I hope that the information you give to the general public is the truth, not a packaged weapon.

I don't seem to care much about economic growth rates, I think double-digit percentages every year are weird;

I don’t know how complicated the interests behind the politicians’ struggles are;

However, the people are not your weapon or stepping stone. The same is true for those immigrants who were exiled to the UK. Everyone is selfish, but please keep a kindness in your selfishness.

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Extended Reading

Brexit quotes

  • Dominic Cummings: Let me tell you who we're up against. Who are setting themselves up over the river to destroy us.

    [scene cuts to Vote Remain offices as he continues]

    Dominic Cummings: Lucy Thomas, ex-producer of BBC's Newsnight program, so she'll know how to handle the press. Director of the campaign, Will Straw, son of Jack. Failed his MP race in 2015, typical establishment thinker: "If it didn't work the first time, try it again". You got Ryan Coetzee, director of strategy, he's Nick Clegg's former special advisor.

    Nigel Farage: Labour and Lib-Dem hate each other post-coalition. That won't work!

    Dominic Cummings: Oh, yeah, no, it's a proper left and center-left love-in. You've got the Greens and the Welsh, but none as interesting as these. The one true enemy they both share...

    Matthew Elliott: Tories.

    Dominic Cummings: The Number Ten machine, headed up by, trumpets please

    [blows raspberry]

    Dominic Cummings: Craig Oliver!

    Nigel Farage: Cameron's communication director.

    Dominic Cummings: A position held as we know by a long succession of bastards - Campbell, Coulsen. This one's more out of the limelight, ostensibly in control and composed. He's furiously loyal to his boss and I can tell you that we, uh, well we have a little history.

    [cut back to Vote Remain offices]

    Craig Oliver: Dominic Cummings is basically mental. We had to all but ban him from Number Ten. He's desperate to be seen as this visionary architect of a new world order, but actually, he's just an egotist with a wrecking ball. It does however mean that he's, well, he's unpredictable.

    [cut back to Vote Leave offices]

    Dominic Cummings: I know how to beat Oliver. Conventional wisdom is a disease that the British are peculiarly susceptible to, and he certainly hasn't been inoculated.

  • Dominic Cummings: [scene cuts between the two offices of Vote Leave and Vote Remain as they write out strategy] We also know that the other side are gonna run a campaign the way that campaigns have been run for pretty much the last 70 years. They're gonna fight from the center, and they're gonna make it about jobs and the economy.

    Andrew Cooper: We focus on the economy and jobs. The message: leaving risks both.

    Craig Oliver: Clinton '92. Best campaign ever. "It's the economy, stupid".

    Andrew Cooper: You define your opponent as the riskier option, and though the change candidate might initially poll well, come election day the nerves kick in. Voters revert back to center. Law of political science - if the status quo are ahead before the campaign begins, which we are, they always win on the day. So...

    Douglas Carswell: So, what's our answer?

    Dominic Cummings: Tzu's "The Art of War". If we fight them on home terrain, they will win. So what we need to do is lead them to the ninth battlefield. The deadly ground where no one expects to find themselves. Outcome? *They* perish.

    Victoria Woodcock: Which means?

    Dominic Cummings: You reverse the proposition. We make *them* the risky option. To stay is to risk losing more of the things we cherish - we're asking voters not to reject the status quo, but to return to it, to independence. How much does it cost us each week to be members of the EU?

    Daniel Hannan: In the region of...

    Dominic Cummings: What's our researcher's name?

    Matthew Elliott: Richard.

    Dominic Cummings: Ricardo, will you get me all the figures up for how much it costs to be members of the EU for a week? Largest one wins.

    Matthew Elliott: Make sure it's verifiable!