Shared by famous experts~Xie Mingjie》The most eloquent person also had to bend his back

◎ Xie Mingjie

Well-known host Cai Kangyong attended Shen Boyang's presidential election event. After being cut off by Chinese brands and continued pressure from the authorities, he made a sudden statement saying that he had never supported Taiwan independence. (Photo taken from Weibo)

Looking at Cai Kangyong's statement with his head lowered, I felt very complicated in my heart.

He is the person who knows the "way of speaking" best on the island of Taiwan. For most of his life, he shuttled in front of the camera, using his smoothest and most gentle figure to teach countless people how to embed the word "room" into the world and home.

Such dexterous wisdom, in that huge market, ultimately failed to protect him.

There has never been an equal business contract between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

In a normal market, talents are exchanged for rewards, money and goods are paid, and each other respects each other.

But the appetite there is different. It gives you incredible wealth and wealth, and then you turn around and regard yourself as a "food and clothing parent". The arrogance of power that says, "I'll give you food, but your thoughts are under my control" has already penetrated deep into your bones.

If you make money from it, it will buy out your position and your speech with interest, and even your right to choose silence will be confiscated.

The money earned from it was so poor that only money was left.

If you make money from China, it will buy out your stance, speech, and even the right to choose silence with interest. The money earned from it is so poor that only money is left; diagram. (Bloomberg)

Don't blame him for being weak, and don't blame him for bending over for profit. He at least tried to express that he was different.

Under the huge machine of that market, how can a public figure only represent himself?

Behind him is the livelihood of the entire production team, the liquidated damages of the agency contract, and countless staff who make a living from it.

The business interest structure accurately grasps everyone's weaknesses. If one person does not kneel, the whole ship will sink. In order to protect the innocent people behind you, you often have to hand over your own soul.

A cultural man who has practiced language to the extreme, spent his whole life's cultivation and emotional intelligence, but when he ran into that arrogant high wall, all his wisdom turned into cotton with nowhere to focus.

In the face of absolute power, there is no real way to speak, only to kneel or not to kneel.

I sympathize with him because I see a mortal body who can't help himself under the totalitarian beast.

And this sympathy has long since turned into a sobering alarm──

Being able to stand tall, speak the truth, and drink a cup of hot tea on an island may seem so ordinary, but in fact, it's really a luxury.

Freedom is hard won, vote well!

Cai Kangyong appeared at Jiang Wanan's presidential campaign on October 26. (Reproduced from YouTube)

(The author is a writer)