Fortune teller's proposal _ fortune teller's feelings

Author: The Tree of Silence

China people are famous for their loud voices. But when it comes to some sensitive topics, even the arrogant bully keeps silent, lowers his voice or makes meaningful eye contact. I remember watching movies when I was a child, I was always impressed by such a scene: when everyone in a teahouse was talking about a certain topic, the teahouse owner would nervously point to the words "only talk about romantic affairs, not state affairs" on the wall, and everyone would shut up or leave immediately. I was too young to understand the mystery. Recently, I saw from the media that several grassroots people were arrested by the company for expressing some of their views, and they were riddled with lawsuits. We know that people in China are loud, although no one usually looks at them. However, their discourse space is limited to rice, oil, salt, wine and wealth, and most of them are concentrated below the navel.

Looking through the history, we can see that the coffee shop culture in Europe has a long history, which has influenced the behavior and lifestyle of westerners, and is also a hotbed of western democratic politics and a classroom for civic training. Nowadays, leisure cafe culture has swept the world. Even in China, where teahouse culture permeates the deepest, modern white-collar workers learn to sit in places like Starbucks and quietly experience the petty bourgeoisie.

However, back to the history of coffee shops in the west, it was a mixed bag of fish and dragons and there was a lot of competition.

/kloc-in the 0/8th century, there was an unfathomable class gap between European aristocrats and civilians. For example, as a place for public and cultural exchanges, salons are presided over by ladies who pursue elegant aristocratic sentiment. It is difficult for outsiders to enter the door unless invited. After all, it's just a flirting and occasionally ambiguous private party.

Cafes were much more easygoing at that time. All the etiquette constraints from aristocratic women have disappeared, and it is open to everyone, regardless of their beliefs, sects or status.

Those who go in can find any empty seat and join the free debate of the people around them. The topic is of course the topic that men have always been most interested in: politics and women.

The owner of the cafe knows the democratic function of the place he runs. His response to this is not that the owner of China Teahouse is cautious, but that he boldly posted a piece of paper on the wall, stating that everyone can express their opinions freely here, so don't worry.

The writer Shadwell described in his play The Woman Leader: "There are many smart people in every coffee shop. They talk about wit and politics while smoking. "

Intellectuals who are good at writing usually come here to listen to the voices of the people and sell their works. Here, intellectuals and the public have a good interactive atmosphere, which changed the literary style with a strong bookworm atmosphere at that time.

In public places like cafes, people learn to evaluate their views, test, give up, change and spread their views. In this process, filtering usually produces some cohesive group views.

People from all walks of life, backgrounds and positions communicate here, urging them to cross their backgrounds, positions and grades, respect each other's views and cultivate the art of listening. It is in the humble cafe that the public has cultivated a new attitude of respecting and accommodating other people's ideas, and the spirit of gregarious and accommodating makes the differences lose their edges and corners.

In the past, people and opinions that were contrary to tradition were despised and criticized by others. Nowadays, people respect and listen to different opinions, discuss with each other, hone and test their own views. Inadvertently, a new era came, people entered the public world from the isolated state of independent thinking, and public opinion based on common views was born here.

With the differentiation of people in cafes and the specialization of public opinion places, the voices in cafes have become smaller: there is no need to express opinions with reckless voices, and any ideas can be judged and tested by the public after the debate, accepted or discarded.

In China, tea culture derived from teahouse culture. However, the teahouse, as a public space, has not become a springboard for China people to move towards freedom of public speech, nor has it cultivated a gentleman's demeanor of tolerating dissidents and arguing on an equal footing.

Authoritarian monarchy hates any different voice.

Without public debate, people's opinions verified and judged by various people themselves are hidden in people's hearts, becoming more and more isolated and biased, and people have no room for free games to finally reach a basic consensus. People also have no habits and rules to tolerate dissent and peaceful debate. On the contrary, intense repression and vicious criticism reached their peak in a political farce 40 years ago!

In the history of China, Cai Huangong's fear of illness and medical treatment began to show that "people enjoy themselves, choose good and follow them", which is nothing more than people's imaginary sage demeanor. Later, books were burned to bury Confucianism, and literary inquisition was built in Daxing, forcing smart people to either indulge in extravagance and debauchery or avoid the world to survive. Later, it became a consensus that "no talking about state affairs" in teahouses, and the speech space of China people was generally confined to the crotch. And people's behavior is manifested in: although the voice is loud, it reveals fear and shock.

Looking back on the influence of two kinds of beverage cultures on the direction of discourse space between the East and the West, we can't help but sigh that a society with diverse interests will inevitably have diverse viewpoints, and if they are not allowed to collide freely, they will eventually reach a basic consensus, which will lead to isolation and prejudice, separation and opposition. Without harmonious communication to resolve differences, a society without consensus can hardly go further!

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