This is an era when slogans are flying and flags are falling.
Slogan, what a familiar thing: a piece of red cloth, with thick white characters and vulgar content, everywhere, conveying all kinds of crude temptations to us; and The flag hangs its head on the solitary flagpole, and together with the wisdom and ideals condensed by mankind for thousands of years, it is silent in the bleakness of the west wind.
Isn’t it too reckless to say a slogan that is unclear and clear? Come and do it as you say it. But how many people have stood under that eye-catching slogan and regarded it as their lifelong destiny? Looking up and pursuing it, we are obsessed with it; but the flag in the hearts of many people has fallen sadly in the dusk, with no hope and no faith.
The slogan reflects the aimless collective restlessness of an era; the flag carries the eternal pursuit of mankind throughout ancient and modern times. It is the flag that guides us, and it is the slogan that confuses our eyes.
Bai Yansong was at a loss when facing the sky filled with autographs and photos. Like the reputation-stealing people he despises and criticizes, he is just a slogan in the eyes of students, with success, celebrity, money, and status written in the most vulgar fonts... Even if he shouts: "Question! Think!" is just another slogan for this era to "question".
What I feel sad about is not only the clumsy content of the slogans, but also the crazy and drunken expressions of people when they hold the slogans high.
In the long history, how many people have blindly followed slogans and lost the banner in their hearts. The fanaticism in their eyes has caused many wives and children to be separated and families to be destroyed. The tears and blood of the wise and the corpses of the stupid did not wake them up, but created their obsession. The Crusades of that year wanted to eliminate paganism from all over the world; Hitler's ambition was to exterminate all nations around the world. How can slogans such as "God lives forever" and "Long live the leader" mock the millennia-old reason and wisdom of mankind?
Human will should always be free and run bravely in the boundless world. On the wasteland, use your own eyes to find the direction and the future. What drives the progress of the world is independent thinking, bold questioning, and using one's own soul to discover the banner of truth and fight for it.
Today, we begin to reflect on history. What we see is the endless torrent carrying fragments of the flag. Each piece shows the progress of mankind, and each progress is childish but full of courage. Yes, although I am trembling with fear, I am down to earth. The slogan hangs high in the hot air, without a flagpole to hold its position. It will always be imprisoned on both sides, and it is destined to be unable to fly the eternal sail.
What is flying in the wind should be flags, not slogans.