Friday, December 12, 2008

失真

记得几年前,为了政府对雪顿日期的调整,网上、网下大家议论纷纷,传统失真是所有人最担忧的。

而如今,白啦日追大伙摇身一变都成了善男信女。机关里的博日阿佳啦,成了关注传统宗教节日的人群。平日很难布施的博日布,也竟如此慷慨解囊。

说是“仙女节”
说是“吉祥天母节”
说是“妇女节”
说是“藏族情人节”
还有说是“又一个乞丐节”

网上说:“今天是吉祥天母节,也是‘西藏妇女节’,女人问你拿钱是,男人一定要给,否则会损福气...男人大出血”。 还有放话说“所有的男人都必须准备好红包。所有的女人问所有的男人要红包。一个一个地要,而且男人们必须给。据说:行长给500,科长给200... ..."白拿" ”

朋友说:“昨天聊至早上...,下午三点才起床,避开了抢钱的女人节...”。 朋友说:“I am hiding tomorrow since I don't have any money to give away for Pelha'i Duchen.”。 还有朋友说:“给你也发了数美元的彩信”;我暗想,多亏我手机不能接收彩信。更有很多人说:“这么喜欢要钱,也许是即将成为真乞丐的前兆而已.....”

如果一个有着悠久传统和美丽传说的日子,可以失真到这种程度,我们应该去责问谁?
因果报应、褒善贬恶、敬老爱幼、孝敬父母的道德观似乎正在消失......

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

群众“不明真相”是官员失职【转】

“一小撮别有用心的人”、“不明真相的群众”、“黑恶势力幕后指使策划”……近些时候,一些较大的群体性事件发生之初,总能看到地方政府这样匆忙定性的词语。贵州“瓮安事件”、云南“孟连事件”,以及最近的甘肃“陇南事件”,事发之初,都能看到这样的“定性怪圈”。

“不明真相的群众”,似乎将群众看成没有独立人格、自由思想的“愚民”和逆来顺受的“顺民”,他们的不满一定是因为受到了蒙蔽、迷惑、挑唆和煽动。与之相对的,官员及其决策者则明白真相,掌握真理,难以犯错。

这样的定性,与这个时代完全脱节。有网民调侃“不明真相”说,这“不仅侮辱了群众的人格,还侮辱了群众的智商”,他们揶揄总结说,群众总是“不明真相”的,闹事的总是“别有用心”的,黑恶势力总是能“煽动群众”的,死者家属总是“情绪稳定”的……

经过30年的改革开放,中国社会已进入“黄金发展时期”与“矛盾凸显时期”并存的阶段。体制转换、结构调整、社会变革,在广度上已涉及经济、政治、文化等所有领域,在深度上已触及人们具体的经济利益。利益调整凸显了新的矛盾,就业、分配、腐败等问题成为人们关注的焦点。社会矛盾一旦遇到“导火索”,就容易爆发为大规模群体性事件、呈现出突发性、对抗激烈、社会破坏力强,处置难度大等特点。群体性事件频发有其深刻的社会背景。绝大多数群体性事件都是由于群众切身利益受到侵犯,利益诉求长期被漠视而引发。

分析近年来全国影响较大的群体事件,几乎都有一个共同的规律:起因很小-基层反应迟钝-升级为群体性事件-基层无法控制-震惊高层-迅速处置-事态平息。在冲突萌芽和聚集的初期,一些地方的基层党委政府对社会矛盾普遍表现出“体制性迟钝”——反应迟钝,判断失误,处理失当,导致“小事拖大,大事拖炸”,集中暴露出执政能力薄弱的软肋。

为了给这样的“体制性迟钝”寻找遁词,一些地方官员在应对群体性事件时,倾向于走极端,延续“寻找敌人”的专政思维,简单粗暴地“扣帽子,揪辫子,打棍子”。面对危机,他们首先想到的不是努力化解矛盾,而是上升到“政治高度”,对事件超前定性,把群众利益诉求“泛政治化”:要么认定“一小撮别有用心的人挑唆煽动”,要么认定为“有黑恶势力操纵”,然后把公安机关推上一线,采取高压手段解决问题。这么做,实际是一些官员揣着明白装糊涂,想借此推托自身应该承担的失职渎职责任。因此,在某种意义上,胡乱定性的官员才是群体性事件中真正“别有用心的人”。

如果说,在新中国建国初期,由于外部存在境内外敌对势力的持续威胁,内部存在土匪、特务等一些遗留问题,专政思维还有其时代合理性的话,那么,在执政已经60年的今天,一些官员思想上、行为上依然存在的“专政”惯性,说明他们还没有理解中国共产党从革命党到执政党的时代转变,更没有理解好、执行好执政为民这一党的根本宗旨。

“瓮安事件”中,基层党委政府匆忙将事件定性为“有组织、有预谋”,是黑恶势力煽动群众围攻政府,并在当地媒体大规模刊播“瓮安群众愤怒谴责不法分子”等新闻,引起了更多群众的反感和猜疑。后来,还是贵州省委书记石宗源指出这起事件的“真相”:一些长期积累的社会矛盾没有得到应有的重视和妥善的解决,干群关系紧张、治安环境不好,一些地方、一些部门在思想意识、干部作风和工作方法上还存在很多问题,群众对我们的工作不满意。

在“寻找敌人”的同时,一些官员还习惯于封锁消息,控制舆论,制造出“不明真相的群众”。长期以来,在突发性公共事件发生后,保持沉默、回避媒体已经成为一些基层党委政府条件反射式的“自觉行为”,但在传播手段多样化、传播对象大众化的情况下,这种紧要关头的“失语”必然丧失引导舆论的主动权,看似避免承担责任的风险,实际却陷入被动,增加了平息事态的难度。

群众不明真相是官员的渎职。群众有权利了解真相,出现群众“不明真相”的情况,正是一些地方执政者的失职。因此,一些地方被“不明真相的群众”冲击、打砸,执政者首先要反躬自省。“不明真相的群众”暴露的是一些官员对民意的漠视,以及对“权力必须接受监督”这一法治理念的强烈反感。在少数官员的脑袋里,他们根子上就漠视公民的基本权利,更何况“公民知情权”。《政府信息公开条例》早已颁布实施,但是公众最想知道、需要知道、应当知道的不少信息却无法公开。比如,最近,沈阳市民温洪祥要求公开政府办公费、招待费、差旅费等费用,就被官员答复为“极其敏感,难度很大”。

一方面是群众无法了解真相,另一方面,一些公布的“真相”往往是群众无法接受的“假相”。看着那些群体性事件新闻“通稿”,我常常想问这些起草发布者3个小问题:“如果死者是你的母亲,你情绪能不能稳定?”“为什么群众跟黑帮走而不是跟政府走?”“别有用心的人究竟是些什么人?”

在构建和谐社会的历史潮流下,为政者应当转变思维,变社会控制为社会博弈,最终走向社会契约。前段时间的重庆出租车罢运事件,以官民互动的谈判、协商方式圆满解决,不就充分证明了中国可以跳出所谓“专政”的“周期率”吗?

文/《瞭望》新闻周刊记者黄豁

Monday, December 08, 2008

丰裕中的饥荒

如今生活,确切地说应该是物质生活越来越丰裕了
但为什么我们就越来越像“伊达” - 饿鬼呢?
如今的饥荒感
似乎要比爱尔兰大饥荒
更加真实
如此的不同却又如此惊人的相似
There is more in us than we know about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It's three lifetimes at most. Things that happen than were handed on from father to son, from mother to daughter, down to this day. They are within us now, and we don't deal with them. And it seems to me, this is what's interesting about a lot of Irish music now, that it is the carrier for this kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we have no other expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn't deal with this, our sentiment doesn't deal with this. But music, it's in the music, it seems to me. The culture can actually carry those things in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in humour and in music.



Okay, I want to talk about Ireland
Specifically I want to talk about the "famine"
About the fact that there never really was one
There was no "famine"
See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes
All of the other food, meat, fish, vegetables,
were shipped out of the country under armed guard
To England while the Irish people starved
And then in the middle of all this
They gave us money not to teach our children Irish
And so we lost our history
And this is what I think is still hurting me

You see we're like a child that's been battered
Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's frightened
Still feels all the painful feelings
But they lose contact with the memory
and this leads to massive self-destruction
Alcoholism, drug addiction
All desperate attempts at running
And in it's worst formBecomes actual killing
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be rememberingAnd then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong

An American army regulation
Says you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a nation
'Cos to do so causes permanent "psychological damage"
It's not permanent but they didn't know that
Anyway during the supposed "famine"
We lost a lot more than 10% of our nation
Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration
But what finally broke us is not starvation
No it's use in the controlling of our education
School go on about "Black 47"
On and on about "The terrible famine"
But what they don't say is in truth
there really never was one

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
where do they all belong

So let's take a look can we
The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC
And we say we're a Christian country
But we've lost contact with our history
See we used to worship God as a mother
We're suffering from post traumatic stress disorder
Look at all our old men in the pubs
Look at all our young people on drugs
We used to worship God as a mother
Now look at what we're doing to each other
We've even made killers of ourselves
The most child-like trusting people in the Universe
And this is what's wrong with us
Our history books the parent figures lied to us
I see the Irish
As a race like a child
That got itself smashed in the face
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
(That I can tell you in one word)
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong

And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding

And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding
We stand on the brink of a great achievement
In this Ireland there is no solution
To be found to our disagreements
By shooting each other

Because of our tradition everyone here knows who he is
and what God expects him to do

Forgiveness, forgiveness
Knowledge
Yes
And understanding

Forgiveness
Equate, be driven
Frogiveness
Knowledge
Yes
And understanding