I saw a new term online called “Four Nos and Five Losses Personnel.”
The so-called “Four Nos” refer to no spouse and no children; no job and no stable income; inability to communicate and interact normally; no assets such as houses and cars. The “Five Losses” refer to investment failure; disappointment in life; disharmony in relationships; psychological imbalance; mental disorder or abnormality.
It is said that some communities have recently been counting “Four Nos” personnel and “Five Losses” personnel. “The biggest characteristic of these people is that they have no weaknesses, no worries, and are the key focus of the community.”
Speaking of weaknesses, I couldn’t help but think of a poem called “Weakness” that I wrote a few days ago, encouraged by a poet friend—
That day, I met a beetle on the road
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In this concrete jungle of the city
It passed through canyons, streams, and paths dappled with sunlight
Carefully avoiding large reptiles such as buses
It can accurately reach even the smallest place names
Watching it crawl into the grass, I felt relieved and suddenly a little sad
In the face of danger, it still has a shell to protect it
And I, exposed to this world,
Are all weaknesses
Yes, in this world, everyone has or once had weaknesses. Of course, life can also remove a person’s weaknesses at any time. For example, according to the standards of “Four Nos and Five Losses Personnel”, according to the proportion of male-female imbalance, tens of millions of single men will also join the ranks of “Four Nos and Five Losses Personnel” after a few years, which will keep community workers busy.
I remembered that Shanghai was rumored to have conducted a survey of residents with suspected mental illnesses, and residents with symptoms such as “not going to school, not going to work, not leaving home, and not contacting anyone” will become clues for suspected mental patients. Looking in the mirror, do you feel that you also have the potential to become mentally ill?
For safety reasons, some places have temporarily banned square dancing.
The so-called “Four Nos and Five Losses Personnel” may of course pose a threat to society, and the probability of going to extremes in specific situations will increase. However, because a person’s circumstances and even identity are fluid, and the base number is huge, it is almost an impossible task to investigate “Four Nos and Five Losses Personnel.”
In my original article yesterday, the first comment was—just these days, I suddenly found that my account has opened the comment function—in the process of our growth, do we receive more education of “love” from schools and the surrounding environment? Or more education of “hate”?
This comment is somewhat convincing. I believe that in this society, the reason why some people are full of hostility is essentially related to the lack of education of ‘people’.
Simply put, it is to symbolize and label people. Many people applaud and are justified for violent killings because the victims are labeled with a specific label. For example, they all know that it is definitely wrong for an adult to attack a child, but if that child is Japanese and is labeled as a Japanese child, they immediately feel that this is a righteous act and a heroic act.
Not long ago, Huang Ruyi, the deputy county magistrate of Xinlong County, Sichuan Province, who is certified as a writer on Weibo, said in a WeChat group, what’s the big deal about killing a Japanese child?
Similarly, in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, many people applauded. Isn’t it because the victims were labeled as Americans?
You can label foreigners, and of course you can also label Chinese people. Such tragedies have already happened many times before the reform and opening up.
Specifically to the incident in Zhuhai, it is said that the reason for the murderer’s crime was that his wife had an affair with someone from a walking group. In his eyes, the members of the walking group have become a symbol that can be erased.
When a person is labeled and symbolized, and is stripped of the identity of a ‘person’ with flesh and blood such as father, mother, son, and daughter, the basic human emotions attached to it also disappear. When killing a person, people often have compassion; however, when eliminating a label, a symbol, some people may only feel pleasure.
To maximize the safety of everyone, our society must make a fundamental change and ultimately return to the essence of human beings. Xiong Peiyun said such a sentence: where symbols arrive, it is often where reason collapses. Then, when the labels and symbols attached to others disappear, and when we give others basic human emotions and warmth, common sense and reason can return to our society.
When more people have conscience and reason as their “weaknesses”, there is no need to be nervous about the “Four Nos and Five Losses Personnel”.
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