Chapter 376 What Kind of Values ​​Are These?

"I know Lao Qi. He used to be a pretty normal person. After he came back from being a visiting scholar in the United States for several years, he became a weirdo. Now there is a Comparative Research Center on Sino-US Innovation Culture in the school, which is pretty cool. Fire."

In Bao Nana's office, several Renmin University alumni had a routine meeting. When Tang Zifeng talked about Qi Mudeng, Wang Zijie introduced him.

Qi Muden is now as famous as Wang Zijie in the National People's Congress. What they have in common is that their academic attainments are not top-notch, but they are extremely famous. They often appear at various conferences. They are reluctant to write manuscripts for newspapers and magazines. Every month, they receive various writing fees and carriage fees that are more than their salary. More than ten times more.

Wang Zijie is famous because, in an environment where the entire economic circle is filled with neoliberal trends, he insisted that for developing countries, government economic intervention is indispensable, and industrial policy cannot be abandoned, even It should be emphasized that this is quite related to his undergraduate experience in the Department of Planning Economics.

Because he was firmly on the side of government intervention, he was highly respected by government officials. In private, many scholars disdainfully call him a royal economist who stands up for the government. In terms of media, official newspapers often ask him to write commentaries and annotate national policies. A large number of "free media" often ridicule him and even make irresponsible remarks about his private life.

Well, Wang Zijie’s private life is indeed a bit unscrupulous, and we can’t blame the media for being unscrupulous.

Qi Muden and Wang Zijie are two extremes. He is famous for criticizing the system and Chinese culture. Some insiders have calculated that he mentioned the phrase "rigid system" no less than 200 times a year, and this is based on well-documented public speeches, media reports, and articles he published. It’s impossible to count how many times it was said at various unreported meetings.

Because he caters to the current trend of "reflection", Professor Qi is quite popular among the free media. He has countless fans among the people, especially on the emerging Internet, and is dubbed "a scholar who dares to tell the truth" and a "conscience scholar". Scholar", "the first scholar in China" and many other titles.

"I think a lot of what Chi Muden said is quite right. We Chinese people just have bad habits. If we don't reflect deeply, we will never catch up with the West."

Li Kejia commented. She is also one of Qi Muden's fans. There is a link to Qi Muden's blog in her browser's favorites. It seems to be called "Orange Life" and sounds like the sign of an adult products store.

Wang Zijie said: "If Old Tang hadn't been brainwashing me all day long, I would have thought that Lao Qi's views were quite right. However, after letting Old Tang brainwash me, I really couldn't stand looking at Lao Qi's stuff anymore. This It’s all nonsense.”

"Why are you talking nonsense?" Li Kejia was unhappy. She was currently sitting in Bao Nana's seat, with the computer in front of her. She casually entered a URL, opened the "Orange Life" blog, pointed to an article and said:

"Look at this article he posted last month, "Comparison of U.S. Government Buildings and Chinese Government Buildings." I read it and found it really shocking. He gave an example of the city of Lamoni in Maine, USA. The area is about the same as Suzhou, but if you look at the photos of its city government, it is not as good as one of our neighborhood committees. In China, can you imagine how grand the buildings of a city government are?

"The United States is developed because of these little bits and pieces of advantages. They spend all their money on scientific research, but we, when we have money, spend it building luxury office buildings. Do you think China can not fall behind?"

Hearing what Li Kejia said, Wang Zijie and Tang Zifeng looked at each other, then sighed and said: "Senior sister, I have also read the article you mentioned. I discussed it with Old Tang at the time, and Old Tang gave it to me A suggestion, let me check the situation in this city of Lamoni, and then I knelt down.”

"What does kneeling mean?" Bao Nana asked with a smile.

The article Li Kejia mentioned is very popular on the Internet. There are all kinds of comments like "lost in thought", "men are silent and women are crying", "if you don't repost, it's not a Chachacha". Bao Nana is a public relations company. , it’s impossible not to notice articles like this.

After reading this article with both pictures and text, from the bottom of my heart, Bao Nana supports Qi Mudeng, but her long-term experience of working with Tang Zifeng and Wang Zijie has taught her to act silly and cute at times like this. Express your opinion directly. Because she knows that if you stand on the opposite side of anything these two oppose, you will most likely be slapped in the face in the end.

Wang Zijie said: "This article by Qi Mudeng actually exploits an illusion among us Chinese. We always think that a city is a very large administrative unit. Even though no one has heard of Lamoni City, it is Saying "the area is equivalent to Suzhou" means we really regard it as Suzhou.

"In fact, the population of Suzhou is 10 million, while the entire state of Maine has only 1.27 million people in the 2000 census. How do they compare?"

"But just comparing the number of people doesn't mean anything. Even if there are only 100,000 people in Lamoni City, our small county with 100,000 people, the county government is not that big, right?" Li Kejia argued.

Wang Zijie said: "The most important cities in Maine include Euburn, Augusta, Bangor, Bar Harbor, Portland, and South Portland. There is no Lamoni City among them. Do you think it can have it?" 100,000 people?”

"Maybe?" Li Kejia said, "Qi Mudeng can't make it up, right?"

Wang Zijie nodded and said, "You guessed it right, he just made it up. At first, I had the same idea as you, but after being reminded by Old Tang, I decided to check it out. I logged into the website in the United States. , after a lot of effort, I finally found the city of Lamoni, and I compared the photo of the city hall, which is exactly the same as the photo posted by Qi Muden."

"Then what?" Li Kejia asked.

"The city of Lamoine, whose English name is Lamoine, is a town under Hancock County, Maine. It covers an area of ​​65 square kilometers, equivalent to 1/130 of Suzhou City. The population in the 2000 census was 1,495."

"How many people?" Bao Nana couldn't believe her ears.

"1,495 people." Wang Zijie replied.

"That's not..., isn't it as many people as our neighborhood committee?" Bao Nana said in astonishment.

"Isn't it just a neighborhood committee?" Tang Zifeng added with a smile, "Actually, many cities in the United States are just a residential area, which is equivalent to our neighborhood committee. Qi Mudeng took advantage of our illusion to sell poisonous chicken soup. What kind of system differences are being hyped up? This kind of thing is just about the same to deceive illiterate people on the Internet, or little girls like Sister Li who have gone to college but are still ignorant of the world. If you want to fool a wise and knowledgeable genius like me, That is impossible."

"Blow again, blow again! Are you so tortured by Dr. Xiao at home that you come here to find psychological balance?" Li Kejia scolded fiercely to cover up his embarrassment.

The data reported by Wang Zijie was incomplete, and it was obviously impossible for him to make it up himself. Of course, this also depends on everyone's mutual trust. Li Kejia believes that Wang Zijie will not make up a data to deceive her.

Since Wang Zijie's data is true, it means that Qi Muden's blog article is confusing right and wrong. Of course, it is also possible that Qi Muden was deceived by others, and after seeing some hearsay information, he treated it like a treasure and showed it off. It's ridiculous that I am a white-collar worker, an elite, and a backbone commonly known as a "white-bone spirit", but I would be fooled by such a clumsy joke.

"In the past two years, newspapers, especially the Internet, have been full of such specious articles. They start with a picture and the whole process is made up. If you don't do your own research and don't think about it, you will be unknowingly They brainwash us into believing that we are really worthless and it is best to lie down and let others step on us.

"On the other hand, if we can discern, we can know which ones are truly advanced foreign experiences and which ones are just chicken soup for the soul, thus building up institutional confidence, cultural confidence, and road confidence."

Tang Zifeng talked eloquently, and he picked up the Internet witticisms and political terminology of later generations at his fingertips, without any sense of violation.

Li Kejia smiled and said: "Zifeng, as the general manager of the machine tool group, you are not doing your job properly, right? Professor Wang makes a living by cheating, and you just study these online jokes. You are engaged in industry, these jokes What does it have to do with you?"

"Why is it irrelevant?" Tang Zifeng said, "Let me give you an example. In the past few years, the Korean-Korean trend was prevalent in China, which even affected users' choice of machine tools. Korean-owned machine tool companies are very popular in China.

"Later, I arranged for a group of people to expose South Korea's shortcomings in newspapers and talk about all the dirty things about it. Many of our customers began to have doubts about Korean machine tools after reading these articles. Later, we Korean machine tools have been driven out of the Chinese market. Although there are product quality issues and price advantages, our previous public opinion war is also indispensable."

"What you said makes sense." Li Kejia said seriously.

These people are all practical people, and they discuss issues together to distinguish right from wrong, not to save face. Therefore, although Wang Zijie refuted Li Kejia's views, Li Kejia did not feel angry at all.

She said: "When we promote domestically produced software, we are also deeply influenced by this trend of favoring foreigners. Users shake their heads when they hear that the software is domestically produced, and they also ask us if we use ready-made foreign software to modify it."

"What if it is?" Bao Nana asked curiously.

Li Kejia said helplessly: "If it is modified with foreign software, they are still willing to try it. If we say it is completely independently developed, they are not even interested in trying it out."

"This... isn't this completely reversed?" Bao Nana was confused, "They don't accept independent things, but they think plagiarized things are good. What kind of values ​​are these!"