Great Power Technology

Compared with the behavior of the Healy organization, which began to study how to seize the future and thus form an unconventional suppression of China, the actions of the Nandao side appear to be extremely "petty". They are still rejoicing at the significant results of the so-called "war of the heart" , but did not realize at all that this kind of amplified public opinion is fundamentally the result of laissez-faire.

After the discussion gradually reached its peak, all public opinions finally converged into one voice:

Chinese officials do not care about the life and death of the people and ignore their health.

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

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

The first is survivor bias.

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

As a result, their leisure time will naturally decrease. With such relatively small leisure time, they are more inclined to pay attention to real-life topics that are truly related to them, rather than a baseless theory that will obviously have negative impact on themselves. Bullshit about time being wasted.

Or to describe it in simpler terms: people who have the ability to defend are not so free, and they don’t bother to defend, while those who are unable to defend often become the targets of being paced.

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

This is how survivor bias is formed, and the final result is that the rhythm on the Internet is all biased towards the rhythm maker.

However, this is not the final outcome, because another effect of communication science began to take effect after the survivor bias was formed, and 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 describes the phenomenon that when people express their thoughts and opinions, if they see opinions that they agree with, , and it is widely welcomed, then people will subconsciously think that their views are "popular", "correct and reasonable".

On the contrary, if people do not see the opinions they agree with, or even if they see it, there are not many people who support it, or they even suffer criticism and debate from many people, then people will choose to remain silent and not express their opinions.

In other words, when "rhythm" occupies the mainstream on public opinion platforms, more and more people will participate in the rhythm, and their voices will become louder and louder.

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

At this point, the spiral of silence has been formally formed, the agenda setting of public opinion has been completely influenced, 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 the intervention of strong external forces, such as officials and third-party regulators.

However, under the current pace, there is a natural flaw that is destined to prevent the agenda from being changed even if the official decision is made. That is, the unfalsifiable nature of this agenda.

I say you are not doing well, how can you prove that you are doing well?

You are the referee. Will anyone believe the evidence presented by the referee?

I say it is structural oppression. If you want to prove that it is not structural oppression, you must carry out structural upgrades so that the so-called "oppressed" party can gain an extremely significant advantage.

From a rational perspective, this is not a bad thing, because the role of 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 unworkable, because the initiators of the rhythm will never be satisfied.

Everyone knows this, whether it is the initiator of the rhythm, the person behind them, or the party who is affected, they can all understand this so-called conspiracy.

Based on this situation, the South Island has even started celebrating in advance.

They did not expect that a child dropped by their side in order to divert internal conflicts could actually achieve such an effect. Therefore, more and more resources were invested in this so-called "mental war", so that the command department changed from the initial economic The ministry was directly promoted to the Executive Yuan, and the scope of participants also began to expand.

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

But what they don't know is that the party facing the impact also thinks the same way.

In a rental house in Shanghai, Luo Xiaoming was having a heated exchange with the netizen opposite on his mobile phone.

He originally did not want to participate in such a discussion, because he has experienced public opinion education and fully understands that such public opinion is just a gust of wind. After the limelight passes, most people will forget what they have said and what they have done. .

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

It happened suddenly. One second, he was having a friendly exchange with his girlfriend about what he wanted to eat for dinner. The next second, his girlfriend started complaining about the recent price increase of the dishes, even though he had tried his best to explain this time. The rise in meat prices is the aftermath of the food war launched by Chou Country some time ago, but the other party still reluctantly typed out the words that drove him crazy:

“If you have the money to build dangerous and useless big airplanes, you don’t have the money to pay attention to the lives of the poor.”

If he were asked to describe it himself, it would be difficult for him to describe clearly what he was feeling at that time, but the moment he saw this sentence, his mind immediately flashed back to what he had experienced when he went to remote mountainous areas to alleviate poverty as a college student cadre. Scene after scene, he ran away on the spot.

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

"How many people in China still don't have enough to eat? One Golden Crow project consumes tens of billions of funds. If this money is divided into our hands, at least everyone can get a few hundred yuan, right? 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 Jinwu are special funds and do not affect the use of other funds. Second, if there is no such strategic project, how do you think your hundreds of dollars Can you still buy groceries? Their strategic bombers hang over your head every day, and social order has long since collapsed!"

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

"Your statement is purely unconscionable. How can the high welfare of Northern Europe and even Europe be maintained? They are eating the capital of imperialism and the flesh and blood exploited from third world countries. Don't Forget, we were once one of the targets of exploitation!”

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

"Who is oppressing you? Tell me and listen?"

"Isn't my boss oppressing me?"

".Your bosses are capitalists. They are just passers-by in the development of the times. When the Golden Crow ascends to heaven, they will be the first batch of targets to be knocked down!"

"You are changing the concept secretly. What does the Golden Crow God have to do with my boss?"

"It's because your own cognitive logic is imperfect. You don't understand the contradictory relationship between resource control and productivity. What are you trying to say to me here to change the concept?"

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

"You want to say that when Ugly State built aircraft carriers and B2s, it was in line with their productivity level? The essence of productivity comes from resources, and resources are created!"

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

"Am I warlike? Some time ago, the aircraft carrier formation was in our face. If it weren't for our military strength, do you think you can still quarrel with me here peacefully?"

"Am I quarreling with you? I just want to change your perception. Why do you hide and be an ostrich when you encounter problems? Why are you just unwilling to speak up for your compatriots? 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 almost stood up with anger. He took a deep breath, clicked on Voice, and said word by word:

"You don't deserve to say such things to me."

"I walked for more than ten miles in the Shiwanda Mountains just to pull a wire for remote residents; I ate porridge cooked with dug wild vegetables with the children who were herding sheep, and I also ate the first porridge cooked by the hens of targeted poverty alleviation. Nest eggs; I have dug wells with my own hands, built dirt roads with my own hands, slid on zip lines, and climbed the ladder that you can only see in the short video; I have suffered hardships, suffered sins, accepted donations from the rich, and also Through the hands of the poor, how about you?”

"You were blowing cold wind in the air-conditioned room, eating cold drinks, complaining about the rising price of milk tea, complaining about too few clothes, and hating that taking a taxi was too expensive!"

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

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

He still couldn't understand how an ordinary announcement of aircraft engine development progress could be brought to such a pace, just like he couldn't understand how his highly educated girlfriend could say it so easily. Say things that make you feel ridiculous.

The cognitive gap was extremely clear before his eyes at this moment.

However, he was powerless to change all this.

There was no new message reminder on his phone. After hesitating for a moment, he clicked on the scarf.

He didn't want to go to the line, but wanted to see if the official had any reaction to this obviously abnormal public opinion.

However, on the hot search list, he saw four pieces of information that surprised him. Behind these pieces of information, they were all marked with the word "explosion".

"The South Island Fisheries Department broke the news: In order to prevent the cross-strait fishery joint agreement from being reached, the South Island Executive Yuan ordered a halt to the acquisition of aquatic products. This move caused hundreds of thousands of South Island fishermen to lose their source of income. It is reported that many previous riots in the South Island are related to this. "

"The South Island's 'Heart War' organization was exposed, and the participants involved involved the highest decision-making levels."

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

"The Jinwu fighter safety report was released, and the chief engineer said: The Jinwu is safe and reliable, and its main flying airspace is outside the country's borders."

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

If viewed independently, these four pieces of news are completely unrelated, but combined with the current situation, these unrelated pieces of information form an extremely vicious combination.

You say we don’t care about 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? How come the ones who are speaking out are all your people? Moreover, if your decision-makers don’t think about how to feed the fishermen, why are they paying attention to the movements of our aircraft?

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 are the most prosperous.

Also, you said that the safety of Jinwu is questionable. The safety report is here. If you understand it, you can read it. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it. We have no intention of flying in China anyway!

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

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

debate? Just argue.

Turn over the table!

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

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

It's just the clever behavior of some people over there that accelerated the process that should have been postponed.

He suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart and quickly took a screenshot of the hot search interface with his mobile phone. Then he sent it directly to his girlfriend on WeChat and added:

"is it wrong?"

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

The other party's reply only had two words:

"wrong."