Great Power Technology.

Chapter 419 Defeating the Hooligans in a Hooligan Way
Compared with the Healy organization's study of how to seize the future and form an unconventional suppression of China, the South Island's actions appear to be extremely "petty". , but did not realize at all that this kind of enlarged public opinion is fundamentally the result of letting go.

After the discussion gradually reached its peak, all public opinions finally converged into one voice:
Chinese officials do not pay attention to the life and death of the people, and ignore the health of the people.

In order to prove their argument, a long picture that gathered a large number of historical cases suddenly began to circulate on the Internet, which involved various sharp points of social contradictions. Fanatical followers spread this long picture everywhere, trying to illustrate the country's The social environment has become hopelessly rotten.

Although the absurdity of this so-called evidence can be easily pointed out with a little rational analysis, under the frenzy of public opinion, two wonderful communication effects began to take effect.

The first is survivorship bias.

Those who have the ability to rationally analyze the so-called evidence and public opinion tend to have stronger independent thinking ability and a more rational and calm personality. At the same time, such characteristics allow them to assume relatively more important roles in society. Roles, of course, are assigned more important and complex jobs.

As a result, their leisure time will naturally decrease. With such a relatively small amount of leisure time, they are more inclined to pay attention to real topics that are really related to themselves, rather than a nonsense that will obviously affect themselves. Time wasted bullshit.

Or to describe it in a simpler way: People who are able to justify are not so free, they don't bother to justify, and those who are not able to justify are often reduced to being the object of rhythm.

Under such circumstances, those who remain on the Internet and public opinion platforms are often only fanatical rhythm makers, and ordinary people who are trapped in it and want to resist but are powerless.

Survivor bias is thus formed, and the final result is that the rhythms on the Internet are all biased towards the rhythm maker.

However, this is not the final outcome, because another effect of communication studies begins to exert its force after the survivors' bias is formed, that is, the "spiral of silence".

The term "spiral of silence" first appeared in a paper published in the "Journal of Communication" in 1974. It described such a phenomenon: when people express their thoughts and opinions, if they see that they agree with , and it has been widely welcomed, then people will subconsciously think that their views are "popular", "correct and reasonable".

Conversely, if people do not see the point of view they agree with, or if they see it but not many people support it, and even suffer criticism and debate from many people, then people will choose to remain silent and not express their views.

That is to say, when "rhythm" occupies the mainstream on the public opinion platform, more and more people will participate in the rhythm, and their voices will become louder and louder.

When this kind of voice reaches a certain level, it will be too late for those who do not want to speak out but are forced to speak out due to the increasingly severe situation.

So far, the spiral of silence has officially formed, the agenda setting of public opinion has been completely controlled, and a trend has begun to form, which is difficult to reverse.

Under such circumstances, if you want to change the agenda, you can only rely on powerful external forces to intervene, such as officials, such as third-party regulators.

However, under the current rhythm, there is a natural flaw that makes it impossible to change the agenda even if the official ends, that is, the unfalsifiability of this agenda.

I said you did not do well, how do you prove that you did well?
You yourself are the referee, will anyone believe the evidence presented by the referee?
I said that you are structurally oppressed. If you want to prove that it is not structurally oppressed, you must carry out structural upgrading, so that the so-called "oppressed" party can gain an extremely significant advantage.

From a rational point of view, this is not a bad thing, because the role of the media and public opinion is to promote the development of society.

However, in the current fully interconnected public opinion environment, such a strategy is completely unfeasible, because the initiators of those rhythms will never be satisfied.

Everyone is aware of this, whether it is the initiator of the rhythm, their behind-the-scenes messenger, or the party that has been impacted, they can all understand this so-called conspiracy.

Based on this situation, the South Island has even started celebrating ahead of schedule.

They didn't expect that the one handed down by their own side in order to divert internal conflicts could achieve such an effect. Therefore, more and more resources were invested in this so-called "heart war", and even the command department changed from the initial economic The Ministry directly rose to the Executive Yuan, and the scope of participants began to expand.

It was almost a total victory, a swift and overwhelming victory.

But what they don't know is that the side facing the impact also thinks so.

In a rented house in Shanghai, Luo Xiaoming was having a fierce battle with the netizen opposite on his mobile phone.

He didn't want to participate in such a discussion at all, because he had experienced public opinion education, and he fully understood that such public opinion was just a gust of wind. After the limelight passed, most people would forget what they said and what they did. .

However, he had to participate in this discussion because the netizen opposite was his girlfriend.

The incident happened suddenly. One second, he was still amicably discussing with his girlfriend what to eat for dinner. The next second, his girlfriend began to complain about the recent price increase of dishes, even though he tried his best to explain this time. The rise in meat prices is the aftermath of the food war launched by the ugly country some time ago, but the other party still insisted on typing the words that drove him crazy:
"If you have the money to build dangerous and useless big planes, you don't have the money to pay attention to the lives of the poor."

If he was asked to describe it by himself, it would be difficult for him to express exactly what kind of mood he was at that time, but the moment he saw this sentence, his mind immediately flashed what he had experienced when he went to remote mountainous areas to help the poor as a college student cadre. Scene after scene, so he ran away on the spot.

Ever since, the matchup that lasted more than two hours began.

"How many people in Huaxia can't afford food? A Golden Crow project consumes tens of billions of funds. If the money is divided into our hands, at least each person can share a few hundred yuan? Do you know that a few hundred yuan is enough for one person?" How many years have poor families been eating?"

"Of course I know, I know better than you! But first of all, the funds consumed by the Golden Crow are special funds and will not affect the use of other funds. Second, if there is no such strategic project, what do you think your hundreds of dollars will be?" Can you still buy food? People’s strategic bombers hang over your head every day, and the social order has collapsed long ago!”

"Why did it collapse? Are there strategic bombers in Northern Europe? Did they collapse? Isn't the high welfare policy they maintain working well?"

"Your statement is purely unconscionable. How do you maintain the high welfare in Northern Europe, and even the whole of Europe? What they eat is the capital of imperialism, and what they eat is the flesh and blood that was exploited from the third world countries back then. Don't you Forget, we were also one of the targets of exploitation!"

"So what? We have been exploited by outsiders before, should we be oppressed by our own people now?"

"Who oppressed you? Can you speak up and listen?"

"Isn't my boss oppressing me?"

".Your boss is a capitalist. They are just passers-by in the development of the times. After the Golden Crow goes to heaven, they will be the first to be knocked down!"

"You're changing the concept secretly. What does Jinwu have to do with my boss?"

"It's because your own cognitive logic is not perfect. You don't understand the relationship between resource control and productivity contradictions. What are you talking about with me here?"

"Yes, I have no logic, so how can we talk about logic? Is this project dangerous? Doing such a project is in line with our current productivity level?"

"You want to put it this way, when the Ugly country first built aircraft carriers and B2, it was in line with their productivity level? The essence of productivity comes from resources, and resources are produced!"

"Hehe, I didn't expect you to be such a militant."

"I'm warlike? Some time ago, the aircraft carrier formation of the family has hit us in the face. If it weren't for the military strength, do you think you can still quarrel with me here safely?"

"Am I arguing with you? I just want to change your perception. Why do you hide like an ostrich when you encounter problems? Why are you unwilling to speak out for your fellow citizens? You don't care at all? If you don’t speak up today, no one will speak up for you in the future!”

Seeing this sentence, Luo Xiaoming felt that the hairs all over his body were standing on end with anger. He took a deep breath, turned on the voice, and said word by word:

"You don't deserve to say things like that to me."

"I hiked for more than ten miles in the [-] mountains, just to pull a wire for remote residents; I ate porridge cooked with wild vegetables dug up with sheep herding children, and I also ate the first chicken from a hen for targeted poverty alleviation. Nest egg; I have dug wells with my own hands, built dirt roads with my own hands, slid down ziplines, and climbed ladders that you can only see in short videos; I have suffered, suffered, received donations from rich people, and held through the hands of the poor, how about you?"

"You are in an air-conditioned room with cold wind blowing, eating cold drinks, complaining about the price increase of milk tea, complaining that there are too few clothes, and disgusting that taxis are too expensive!"

"Yes, I can understand that you are a spoiled child who grew up in the city, but I can't understand why you can deny the efforts of so many people so lightly after being brought into rhythm?"

After finishing speaking, Luo Xiaoming sighed heavily, and then turned off the phone screen.

He still couldn't understand how an ordinary release of aero-engine research and development progress was brought to such a rhythm, just like he couldn't understand how his highly educated girlfriend could say so easily Say something that makes you feel ridiculous.

At this moment, the gap in cognition is clearly presented in front of his eyes.

However, he was powerless to change all this.

There was no new notification on the phone, so after hesitating for a moment, he opened the scarf.

He didn't want to fight the line, but wanted to see if the officials had responded to this obviously abnormal public opinion.

However, on the hot search list, he saw four pieces of information that surprised him, all of which were marked with the word "explosive".

"The South Island Fisheries Administration broke the news: In order to prevent the cross-strait fishery joint agreement, the South Island Executive Yuan ordered to stop the purchase of aquatic products. This action caused hundreds of thousands of South Island fishermen to lose their source of income. It is reported that the previous riots in the South Island were related to this. "

"The South Island 'Heart Warfare' organization was exposed, and the participants involved involved the highest decision-making level."

"The whole process of starting the grain battle: offense and defense, dedication, and the heart of a child."

"The safety report of the Golden Crow fighter was released, and the chief engineer made a statement: The Golden Crow is safe and reliable, and the main flying airspace is outside the national border."

Looking at these four messages, Luo Xiaoming's expression almost froze.

If you look at it independently, these four pieces of news are unrelated, but combined with the current situation, these unrelated pieces of news form a set of extremely vicious combination punches.

You say we don't pay attention to people's lives?Hey, your fishermen are starving to death because of an executive order!
You said that the rhythm of public opinion is to speak for the people?Why are you guys the ones who speak out?Moreover, your decision-makers don't want to think about how to feed the fishermen, so why come to pay attention to our aircraft movements?
You said that the money from the Golden Crow Project can be used to improve the lives of ordinary people, but in the food war, our people lived the most nourishing lives.

Also, you said that the safety of the Golden Crow is doubtful. The safety report is here. You can read it if you understand it. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it. Anyway, we have no plans to fly in China at all!

Each of these four messages hit three inches on the "Spiral of Silence".

The people who made the layout had no intention of using the so-called anti-silence spiral strategy to fight against public opinion. They fundamentally dug out the opponent's foundation.

debate?Argue ass.

Turn the table!

Luo Xiaoming didn't know where this series of evidence came from, but when he thought of the series of information he had learned about the South Island Raiders from various sources, he suddenly realized:

These evidences themselves are the inevitable result of a cultural advantage.

It's just that some people over there acted smart and accelerated the process that should have been postponed.

He suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart, quickly took a screenshot of the hot search interface with his mobile phone, and then directly sent it to his girlfriend on WeChat, and added a sentence at the end:
"is it wrong?"

A few minutes later, Luo Xiaoming received a reply from his girlfriend, and the corners of his mouth rose uncontrollably.

The other party's reply was only two words:

"wrong."

(End of this chapter)