乐生活Thirty years ago, with the end of the cold war, the expansion of globalization, the rise of Internet technology and the absence of barriers, the transnational flow and cooperation of factors of production seem to have diluted national boundaries. Under the belief that information is power, Internet technology was pinned on as a new tool for democratization. Optimists like Fukuyama declared that history is over.
However, in the past 30 years, besides the sophisticated and complicated system of connection, globalization has also exacerbated imbalances and tearing. Sharing and accessibility in Internet genes have unexpectedly reduced the cost of information monopoly, and the clash of civilizations has been rediscovered. Fukuyama, who declared the end of history, predicted gloomily in 2017 that the United States had become a failed country. Bannong, a radical right-wing peasant, was anxious to conclude that it was a crisis of capitalism and of Western civilization based on Jewish-Christian culture. Thus, the lost United States cried out "Great Again" and Britain missed "Take back control".
The world has come back to the crossroads of civilization.
In 2017, I watched the movie The Square, which once bothered about the fragility of civilization in the face of barbarism. Today, standing in the dispute between the Hong Kong issue and the Sino-US trade war, the shock brought by the film is not worth mentioning. Violence never ends in civilization. Democracy can’t solve the problems of democracy. There are too many bugs in the world.
My heartache is that the old editor’s article yesterday failed to be sent by Wechat after nearly 30 hours of repeated revision and replacement of sensitive words.
There seems to be nothing to do but hope.
