Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 161 The World of Vertical Slicing

For example, in the United States in the previous life, the social division in the United States was very serious, and the gap between the rich and the poor was huge. At this time, the main contradiction in the United States should be the contradiction between the rich bourgeoisie and the poor proletariat.

All in all, it is a direct contradiction between the upper and lower levels.

But the United States has chosen a very "successful" method of diverting conflicts at home.

The first is the issue of race in the United States.

As long as they are at the bottom, whether they are black or white, they will be oppressed in various ways. Black people in the slums will be robbed, but won’t the white people in the slums be the same?
These are all caused by poverty and lack of assets.

However, as long as some racial issues are guided and magnified through public opinion, people will feel that this is no longer a class issue.

The white people at the bottom could not find jobs and their wages became lower. The government advertised that this was a problem of immigrant labor, so they stopped targeting the capitalists who oppressed them, and began to hate immigrants of other races.

The oppression of black people was originally a historical issue. It was the big landlords and big capitalists who sold them and oppressed and enslaved them for a long time, but as long as they change their excuses, it becomes a crime committed by everyone, especially those white people at the bottom. .

Could it be that Bill Gates and a white homeless hippie who can't eat have mutual interests?
The blacks and the white homeless in the slums are the same, but now the people above are acting, but the people at the bottom are really hating.

They forget that they share common interests and have the same enemy, and the main contradiction in the United States, class contradictions, has been transferred to racial contradictions.

In sociology, this phenomenon is called vertical cutting of society.

The original society is cross-cut, divided into upper and lower layers, and the upper and lower layers have irreconcilable contradictions.However, some people with ulterior motives have divided society, especially the lower classes, into various factions through some marks.

Gender, race, geography, and beliefs are hyped up and amplified by the media controlled by the upper class, so that the lower class people begin to hate each other and forget their common enemy.

This kind of thing, to be honest, has happened too many times.

The ruling class with vested interests will desperately find several secondary contradictions, and then use their own propaganda methods to amplify them, and let these secondary contradictions of the ruled class replace the main contradictions.

Lockhart could cite countless examples.

Religious oppression in the Middle Ages in Europe was too severe, so they began to shift conflicts, saying that everything was caused by heretics and heretics, so the Crusades appeared.

In ancient China, there were too many levies and miscellaneous taxes, and the land could only be cultivated continuously. Therefore, the upstream cut off the water, and the downstream was dissatisfied, and large-scale fighting began, and the contradiction became an internal contradiction.

Even within the magic world, there will be such a transfer of contradictions.

The werewolf problem is one of them. It is obvious that the work of the Ministry of Magic is not in place, allowing Fenrir Greyback to continue to wreak havoc, which leads to the werewolf problem, and the propaganda of the Ministry of Magic blames everything on ordinary werewolf victims biting people.

In this way, the contradiction between the Ministry of Magic and the innocent is transferred to the contradiction between werewolves and ordinary people.

The emergence of Voldemort, or most of the dark wizards, is because the group representing the interests of the rich pure-blood families wants to expand their own interests, and it is always simply described as a contradiction between black wizards and white wizards .

After Voldemort's death, did the big landlords and big capitalists in the magic world like the Malfoy family disappear?
Will the quality of education at Hogwarts get better?Will the mental problems of all kinds of orphans in the magic world be solved?

Of course not, if the development of the original book is followed, and another tragic child appears in the orphanage, if he has the same talent, extraordinary magic power, the appearance of the next Voldemort is also doomed.

Lockhart has recognized the reality. If he thinks that the red ghost will occupy a dominant position, he will try his best to make up for this internal contradiction and secondary contradiction, and firmly grasp the main contradiction and never let go.

At the same time, in fact, all kinds of contradictions have a fixed origin.

That is the conflict between human desires and needs and limited resources.

Since resources are limited, there is bound to be a problem of uneven distribution. There is only one solution to this contradiction, and that is to vigorously develop science and technology.

Technology is the source of all good life. Many people think that their life is far better than that of their parents' generation. Is it because of economic development and changes in production relations?
There is no essential difference in social status between those who are now humming and humming in the company's cubicle doing powerpoints, and those who used to step on the sewing machine and constantly add coal to the steam engine.Of course, there may still be differences.

At least the weaverwomen and the men who add coal to the steam engine are really creating value.

The development of technology has brought tangible benefits to all people and classes.

Lockhart made up his mind, and the two main lines of the Red Ghost Society will be determined in the future.

Paying close attention to the main contradiction and trying to alleviate other secondary contradictions is the first main line.

Focusing on the development of science and technology, vigorously developing productivity is the second main line.

The second item is especially worth discussing. Many people do not understand the relationship between productivity development and economic development.

For example, if a building sells for [-] million today and buys [-] million tomorrow, does this count as doubling the economic development?

Forget it, of course, the price increase of a building from [-] million to [-] million is a real increase in asset value, but does this develop productivity?

For the same building, when the price is [-] million and when the price is [-] million, is the total value of the various things contained in it doubled?

Of course it is not like this. This kind of economic growth is just a prosperity in data and cannot bring real value.

The real value is set when workers lay the foundations and build the building.

If a society looks at the economy, then the focus of the pursuit is to sell a building worth [-] million yuan for [-] million yuan, because it is far easier than building another building worth [-] million yuan.

If things go on like this, the economy will become more and more prosperous, and people's lives will become more and more miserable.

The United States is such a society. The government prints money desperately, the stock market keeps rising, and the economy is always growing.Will ordinary people live a good life because of this?
Of course not, on the contrary, once this bubble economy bursts, the real unlucky people will always be ordinary people.

(End of this chapter)