Bamboo Doesn’t Fall | People don’t believe without surveillance, this is a satire!

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The student’s death at a vocational school in Shaanxi has actually been trending on short video platforms for several days. It can even be said that a large number of related videos have already gone cold, and now even some local live streaming rooms are implicated. Of course, they didn’t state the relevant situation in the live broadcast, but someone asked in the bullet comments. So, the live broadcast room was gone.

This kind of thing, falling to death, hasn’t happened before, why is there so much discussion, blocking the school gate, and calls this time?

I think the answer is that the content of the notification is too little, and there are too many “coincidences.” For example, the camera broke down, the student had just had a conflict with two others before the fall, and the school prevented the family from seeing the child, and a series of confusing operations.

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For a tragedy, transparency is the best balm.

Perhaps because of the doubts and dissatisfaction of so many people, the local government issued a notification today to respond to this matter. However, to be honest, the content of this response is not very detailed, and the consequence is that it “can hardly convince any questioning voices.”

Don’t look at the notification being long, but in fact, there is very little content.

1. The incident occurred at 3 a.m. on January 2nd.

2. About 5 hours before the fall, the student who fell had a conflict with two other students.

3. The public security determined that this was a high-altitude fall, excluding a criminal case.

That’s all, if you don’t believe it, you can try to find other content in the following notification.

Long articles with thousands of words are empty, and doubts are everywhere, making it difficult to find trust. So, to be precise, this notification did not answer some of the questions that remained in people’s minds.

First of all, the family wants to see the surveillance, and the school says the surveillance is broken, which leads the family to constantly speak out online for help.

Could it be that this surveillance is made of paper? Or is this surveillance comparable to AI, capable of accurately predicting “natural disasters”?

Did this happen? If so, did the surveillance really break down so coincidentally? After all, the school is the “party involved,” and their statements cannot completely become evidence. Did the surveillance really break down so coincidentally, or was it deliberately damaged, or did it not break down at all? The answer should be told to the outside world after the police investigation, to eliminate doubts.

But nothing was said about this.

Secondly, in the notification, there is such a sentence: “The public security organs, after conducting on-site inspections, reviewing surveillance, conducting investigations and visits, and examining the body surface, determined that the student died from a high-altitude fall.”

You can also see that there is a sentence “reviewing surveillance” in it. So, the contradiction increases, and the doubts increase again. Can you blame netizens for being unreasonable? Any normal person would have some doubts.

Is there surveillance, and if there is, did it really break down? At this point, who is lying between the family and the school?

What’s most puzzling is that the family filmed a video in the hotel, saying that the people outside were teachers from the school, sent to monitor themselves… One explanation is for humanitarian care, fearing that the parents were stimulated and couldn’t think straight for a while. But whether it’s really just this meaning, I’m afraid a big question mark is still needed.

There is also a point worth mentioning, if it is an “accident,” then this accident happened just after the conflict between the student who fell and the other two students, isn’t it a bit unreasonable? It’s not an accident earlier or later, but it happened after a conflict with the other two students and being called by the director to mediate.

This is too coincidental, it’s better to say it’s suicide, psychological problems, and so on. But if that’s the case, it’s even more necessary to provide the surveillance video of the director mediating the two sides in the duty room.

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I have said this point of view in many articles, some things themselves do not have the power to cause public opinion, but it is because of the “measures” taken out of concern that it will cause public opinion and controversy, which precisely triggered people’s discussion and increased people’s doubts.

Just like what was said at the beginning, it’s not that there haven’t been incidents of students accidentally falling to their deaths, and there have even been suicides. But did every time trigger public opinion? Obviously not. Moreover, flipping through the trending searches can easily find that people are discussing more, not the incident itself, but the strange situations that happened to the family afterwards.

So I don’t understand, when a normal person encounters something, shouldn’t they quickly clear the relationship, the more transparent the better? Why are there people who take the initiative to get involved?

Just like some time ago, there was a school that required students to sign a commitment letter, promising that any acts of suicide or self-harm were unrelated to the school, isn’t this to clear the relationship in advance? But this time, it’s more like forcing their way in.

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My personal view is very simple, what is the meaning of the notification? It is to make people believe. So how to make people believe? Conclusive evidence, reasonable explanations.

These things can best eliminate the doubts brought about by “coincidences.”

Some people will also say that anyway, the official notification has been given to you, that the surveillance just happened to break down, and the school is just sending people to monitor to prevent the family from thinking too much, what can you do if you don’t believe it?

Indeed, there is nothing you can do, but this will inevitably leave hidden dangers in people’s hearts. I can only say that it’s not worth it.

Time is not the best antidote. On the contrary, in many cases, time often looks more like a knife.

But when the “surveillance is broken,” people always suspect, then the power of the “time” knife has already been reflected.

Just like another trending search a few days ago, it said that a station in Guangzhou had won a 500 million yuan prize, winning 101 prizes. But a group of first prize numbers is only worth more than 5 million.

In other words, you have to magnify this “coincidence” 100 times. A prize of more than 500 million yuan, is to stare at the first prize number, buy 100 bets, can buy it.

This is already extremely “coincidental,” and what’s even more coincidental?

Some netizens revealed that the proprietress of this station saw two middle-aged men carrying briefcases enter the store and directly placed a 50-fold bet, and she saw that the two men had extraordinary temperament, so she also followed a bet, and the station won 101 first prizes.

Similarly, you say this is someone else’s “luck,” someone else’s “strength,” there’s nothing you can do if you don’t believe it, and no one can prove it to you.

Indeed, besides ridiculing a few words of “chosen one,” people have no way, and they can’t ask for any explanation.

But don’t forget, fewer and fewer people believe in lottery tickets, and under this kind of phenomenon, it will continue to decrease.

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Truth becomes clearer through debate, but lies always rely on silence to maintain. This is a famous quote by Thomas Jefferson.

Returning to the current situation we are facing, it is not that people are nosy, nor is it that the internet is harsh, but that the “explanations” are challenging the bottom line of common sense time and time again. You can’t always have coincidences, and you can’t always make people pay for “coincidences.” Just like the comment “not even acting” under the 101 lottery first prizes, if you want people to believe, you have to at least make a show first.