July 18
The
best-seller author, Thomas L. Friedman, previously took the world as flat. In Thomas’s new book, however, he describes
the world as hot and flat and crowded.
As put in his work currently hitting China’s book market, David M. Smick
has depicted us a totally different picture of the world lying ahead--it is
curved. Here, unfortunately, we are
living in a walled world. The Berlin
Wall has been down for twenty years, but the invisible wall enclosing the
internet stands up firmly out there. Please
just stay calm and feel “grateful” if you unexpectedly find your websites inaccessible
when logging on to such SNS as Fanfou, Twitter and Facebook, because cyber-policemen
here have protected you from browsing “unsuitable” information. It was reported that the authority once deliberately
put the network services out of order due to the popup of unrest in Western
China more than ten days ago. This measure might have effectively cut off the communications
between rioters, but the subsequent blockage after the event on some internet recourses
appears disgusting. The past June this
year has seen the same control over net when the twentieth anniversary drew close. In movie, the Legend of 1900, little 1900 emboldened
to reply “fuck the regulation”, when captain of Virginian said that he could
not play piano as he played with no regulation. Will people someday utter “fuck the wall” when
they refuse to live in a seemingly “beautiful garden” anymore? Do not lose the optimism! People were told that they were the happiest ever
in the world in Maoism age because the rest were being populated at “deep water
and hot fire”. Actually, it had been
distorted, and they finally found that common workers in some hateful capitalism
countries could even have their own houses and autos after the open-up and
reform policy was launched. Exactly we
are now living in a more transparent world compared with those in 1960s and 1970s.
Controls over net, however, is supposed to
be melted down further. It took Mr. Andy
Dufresne twenty years to break the Shawshank prison, and Mcicheal Scofiel’s
prison break is also a time-consuming and hard one. Anyway do not let people wait for too long a
time.