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It was really confusing yesterday that the folk activities that opened the window together and shouted “Wuhan Come” and sang the national anthem together.

In my opinion, the people of Wuhan seem to be caught in a mild excitement—the excitement here is neutral—and this feature is not uncommon in societies that have experienced collective memory.

The concept of collective memory, invented by Western psychologists, and the plague and unprecedented blockade that are close at hand, have inadvertently provided people here with a utopian experience that is hard to reach in their lives, and then has given birth to specific rituals. To relieve stress.

In a sense, it is not fundamentally different from the once popular Ice Bucket Challenge.

According to academic theory, collective memory is the inheritance of collectivism, just like primitive humans dancing around a bonfire. This behavior does not make much sense itself, but in order to build a tribal totem, all members must do so.

What’s the matter, the reality is still very skinny. After the repeated cheering voices in multiple communities, the proposal of emergency stop was widely spread-just as before.

The reason for the suspension is also eloquent: the saliva droplets floating upstairs and downstairs drifted with the wind, increasing the risk of transmitting the virus.

I think this is also very nonsense. If this probability should also be taken into consideration, then the epidemic prevention proposal for window ventilation should be deleted at all, because you don’t know if you have ventilation. The droplets of the residents upstairs “flow down the river”, just right into your nostrils.

Everyone’s strings are too tight.

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Another thing that I can’t help voicing is that at the end of the call to stop copywriting, “Hurry up and ask the mayor to stop this behavior in the city!”

If you think this is bad, don’t do it directly. Why must the mayor’s next notice? How to execute after notification? Every family is staring?

In short, this fleeting episode is actually not very harmful. It has a funny side and a cute side. As a means of building collective memory, it will eventually evolve into a material of collective memory. Find a place to live in the years.

Like Marx’s “Love in the Cholera”, the threat of suffering and death will force a more intense romantic culture. Opening a window to sing may be somewhat earthy, but no doubt, It’s still romantic.

On the other hand, the people of Wuhan probably also need the place of the people of the whole country. On the one hand, they are empathized with “One side is in trouble, and on the other side, support”. On the other hand, they regard Wuhan ’s hostility as floods and beasts. In a completely different mood, it is inevitable that you will feel divided and wronged.

Yes, of course, we can understand that as the diseased suspects in the epidemic area move around, they will bring hidden dangers to fellow citizens in other regions, but they are guarded by a long knife standing on the border of the provincial road to prevent Wuhan People invading such photos are very hardcore and funny stubs, are they still a bit overdone?

Isn’t there a more decent way? I do not believe.

In other words, I believe that the development of modern medicine and civilized systems has already passed the multiple choice questions of the leprosy village or the fool’s ship. It has more mature, humane and flexible ways to solve those problems in history. Questions that used to be overwhelming.

Someone also wrote me a private article about an American doomsday survival group building an asylum farm, which said that they would often practice the rules of survival. For example, suppose that after the world collapses, a hungry mother takes The young children came outside the farm, and they had to make difficult decisions to refuse.

I mean, the worst situation we are facing now is not the rampant green zombies or the wasteland after the nuclear war broke out, right, it ’s understandable to beware of Wuhan people, but it ’s not necessary. Treat everyone in Wuhan like a thief.

Be more humane and not endanger your safety.

Here is my diary in Wuhan for the sixth day.


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