Because of complaining from time to time, I was educated by a friend: "China is developing very well now! Look-"I pointed out the window:" There are tall buildings everywhere! Much more modern than many foreign places! You see our restaurant now, as well as the surrounding restaurants, are full ... "

I admit, although the visibility in the air is limited, I did see many shining tall buildings outside the window along her fingers. There are not only high-rise buildings, but also traffic-an endless stream, which can be described as "only superfluous and in a hurry." In addition, I can testify from my personal experience that the restaurants near my living and working area are almost always full when I eat, which is a powerful refutation of the theory of insufficient domestic demand. In summer, I often see old ladies playing Tai Chi, teenagers playing basketball and roadside stalls selling barbecues. If Zhang Zeduan were still alive, these scenes would be enough for him to draw a modern version of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival.

I was ashamed of my negative attitude and suddenly remembered a joke I had seen before. The joke is that the teacher calls the roll in the class: "Please raise your hand if you are absent".

I asked this friend: Do you know Xue Jinbo? She said she didn't know. I had to explain to her that this was a farmer from a village in Guangdong who clashed with the government in the village's land rights protection incident and was taken to the detention center. It is said that he died of a "heart attack", which is only one of many "mysterious detention center deaths" on the land of Shenzhou.

I asked again, do you know Han Ying? She said she didn't know. I have to explain to her that this is a woman from a certain place in Haidian, Beijing, who was followed, harassed and even beaten because of her independent election to the local people's congress, and this is just one of many suppressed independent candidates this year.

I asked again, do you know Lei Jinmo? She said she didn't know. I have to explain to her that this is an ordinary pneumoconiosis patient, and now her life is in danger because she has no money to treat her, and this is just one of countless pneumoconiosis patients and other patients who can't get medical insurance assistance.

I have listed more than a dozen people that my friends have never heard of, all of whom are "people who didn't come" in this prosperous time. Because it may affect the image of social stability and development, the information about them is always vague-although it is occasionally revealed online, the relevant information is always fleeting. And because this is an era of mass media, if they don't exist and stay in mass media, then they hardly exist. Of course, this is not to say that the traffic painted in The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is fake, but that behind the traffic, another less heroic world looms.

"These are developing problems. After all, it depends on the mainstream of the times! " The friend said. What is the mainstream of the times? I really don't know. All I know is that when a person has a gastric ulcer, doctors can't turn a blind eye and comfort him that it depends on the mainstream of the body. Your other organs are fine except your stomach!

It is said that there are three kinds of knowledge: those who know, those who don't know and those who don't know. Xue Jinbo, Han Ying and Lei Jinmo, as my friends, belong to the kind of knowledge that she "doesn't know she doesn't know". Because she doesn't know, she doesn't know, although she is kind in nature, she doesn't even have the impulse and curiosity to turn over the back of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival. Because she doesn't know that she doesn't know, she believes that what she saw and heard in the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing is "the strongest voice of the times". Also, when humans don't know the existence of Mars, no one will be curious about what is on it.

In a society with limited information dissemination, it is almost an inevitable trend to sit in the well and watch the sky. People who drive a newly bought car, live in a newly renovated house, hold a cup of coffee for 30 yuan in one hand and an iphone in the other will really be confused: Are you so fucking ungrateful that you can afford McDonald's and the Seven Wolves?

Unless you realize that China means more than just the five rings of the city. In the depths of the sea, where the sun hasn't shone, there are Xue Hanjin Ink. Every known Xue Hanjin Ink probably corresponds to countless Xue Hanjin Ink that we haven't known or known yet. In the vast snow, to maintain the feeling of a sheltered world, we must constantly remind ourselves not to fall asleep, not to fall asleep, not to fall asleep.

This truth sounds simple, but not everyone knows it. In the early 1930s, British writer Bernard Shaw visited the Soviet Union and visited various socialist achievements. After he returned to Britain, he published an article refuting all kinds of remarks that "vilified the great achievements of Soviet construction". We want to make sure that there is no evidence of economic slavery, poverty and unemployment ... wherever we go, we see the working class full of hope and enthusiasm. In fact, just a few years before and after his visit to the Soviet Union, about 7 million people died of famine as a result of forced agricultural collectivization. Coincidentally, Si Nuo, who wrote Red Star Shines on China, also dismissed the rumor of famine in China as "cold war propaganda" after his two visits to China in 1960 and 1964. He said, "I didn't see any hungry people in China, and there was no famine like in the past ...". You see, people who didn't come didn't raise their hands, which means everyone is here. How nice.