Author: Lin Peili
Source: Asia Weekly
Elitism has become more and more foothold in today's society, which can be seen from the recent two news.
Harold Bloom, a professor at Yale University at the American literary ceremony, died. The New York Times, a newspaper that should be an intellectual, described him as the most famous literary critic in the United States.America).
Numerous people have read Shakespeare, but only Bloom reads how Shakelon invents humanity.Anxiety of Influence, the great writer, wrote a master of a master to get rid of the influence of his predecessors in a classic way. He was translated into a 45 -nation's text and has become a designated reading of college literature.
Such a bright lamp of such a literary world must be as famous as the fame, all because he admires the so -called Western Code of the West throughout his life, and teaches students, to advice from readers, and advise the world not to waste time.Great writers and immortal works.His Western Code: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages was published shortly. HoweverLiberals, populists and politicians have never interrupted his attack on him.
This is ridiculous.Time is the most stringent judge, and it is color blindness and gender blindness.We are still reading Shakespeare and Zhen today.Austin was also convinced and moved by them. It has nothing to do with them or women, and which corner from the earth.
There are more and more people who talk about politics, and fewer and fewer people who talk about politics.Austrian writer Peter Handke won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, but the media was only concerned about his political opinion.They could not forgive him his position in the Balkans in 1999.At that time, Handek stood on Serbia and condemned NATO air strikes.As for his work like the anxiety of the Berlin Sky and the goalkeeper, there is little literary value, which is rarely discussed in the dispute.In the eyes of the news media, only Politics does not have poetics, the reason is simple.They want to serve the people, and Politics is a matter of everyone, but Poetics is an elite thing.
Eliteism is suppressed to have serious social and cultural consequences.If our leaders, the media's leaders, educators, and opinion leaders do not understand the excellence and disadvantages at all, how can they expect them to discover, cultivate and reuse talents?If we first equate mediocrities and excellent (Excellence), then our pursuit of excellence is destined to end in failure.
This kind of fish -eyed mixed beads and the phenomenon of confusing the advantages and disadvantages appear widely in the political, economic and cultural fields of Hong Kong, and it can recklessly in this city that claims to be the Asian International Metropolis, and has helped the local media.The trend of stocks provides ideological legitimacy.
Local newspapers, magazines and televisions, as well as online media and social media, have strongly advocated a Cultural Populism for many years.They completely commercialize the culture. All reports of culture and writing highlight the nature and consumer characteristics of cultural activities, but they smooth their sharpness and criticality.
In such a cultural atmosphere, the media and the audience turned the spread of information into a waste processing process of garbage income, garbage in, Garbage Out.cost.In the words of the Frankfurt School scholar, the FrankFurt School, said that such a media may turn the possibility of enlightenment into a brutalization and make the public a group of fools.
Because personal independence and independent judgment ability is a prerequisite for democratic participation. The more successful the foolish policies of the media, the more likely it is to turn democracy into a dumbocracy.The public (ADMASS, the public who was led by the advertisement).
This situation has no possibility of improvement at all in the visible future.As a institutional institution of capitalism and a business that makes a lot of money, the media must put down the level of culture to be flattering and inherited the public. This is always an effective way to get close to the masses.Therefore, the more successful and popular the media, the more obvious the tendency of anti -eliteism is.
The problem is that what Hong Kong needs most at present is ELITISM.In recent years, the competitiveness of Hong Kong has greatly related to the trend of anti -eliteism in society and the former Chief Executive Dong Jianhua government's like to use the only -proof Cronyism.The bottom -up anti -eliteism is not speculative with the top -down skirtism in many issues. However, the two are discussing the same as the same as it is very consistent, which eventually leads to both talents and culture.
In today's postmodern society, eliteism has become a derogatory term.No wonder William, a cultural commentator of Times Weekly Ten years ago.William A. Henry III wrote an article to advocate eliteism, and also changed the title of the book to the In DEFENSE of Elitism.In fact, why do eliteism be defended?Even if those doctrine invites the best defense lawyers, it will only be deserved.Indeed, as long as it is in a global economic system, no country or city can afford the luxury of anti -eliteism, because eliteism is the best in the cultural, economic and political fields and various industries.The most outstanding and best standards are aligned.
The basic cognition of eliteism is the difference between the advantages and disadvantages of talents, the depth of thought, the contribution is divided into size, and the achievements are different.Because of this, only when the people know how to distinguish between right and wrong and the advantages and disadvantages, eliteism is expected to take root and gradually become a update, progress and upward force in the society.Today, the chaos in Hong Kong has achieved, and it doesn't matter to the negative MDASH; mdash; mdash; upside down black and white?
