Act 222 Lincoln's Election and the Ideological Struggle
"Amazing Story", "Fantesi", "Rhapsody".
These three fictional story magazines began to be distributed in the northern part of the United States.
Before that, the United States was not without it, but it was published in newspapers. There is no fixed publication time, and there is no fixed layout, so it is gone after reading it.
These three magazines appeared on the market with a fixed number of pages and a fixed time.
Gradually, a stable group of readers was cultivated.
In addition, "Amazing Story", "Fantesi", and "Rhapsody", these three magazines have gradually begun to have their own differences from the other two magazines.
"Amazing Story" began to gradually become more suspenseful and weird, "Fantesi" began to be more fantastical, and although "Rhapsody" is still science fiction, the content of hard science fiction is gradually decreasing, and the focus is more on people themselves.
Of course, the increase in sales of these three magazines from 10,000 to 100,000 copies is certainly worth celebrating.
But there is nothing else to celebrate!
It was Lincoln who was elected president of the United States!
Life expectancy in the United States, for its contemporaries, has never been top-notch.
The elected Lincoln was, in a way, not a young man either.
However, it is precisely because of his maturity and steadiness that Doug fueled the fire, not only in the election stage, but also in the final exchange of interests, he also reached a compromise and agreement with the vast majority of interest groups, and finally got the position of president of the United States.
As a result, Doug left the city of New Haven for Washington, D.C., the seat of the U.S. federal government.
Although, in the summer season, it looks like it is green, not only with blue skies and white clouds, but also with rivers running through it.
However, it does not feel like the capital of a country.
Why?
Because there are so few people here.
Even if you include the relevant government departments, it seems to be about the size of a small town, and the permanent population may not exceed 200,000.
But this is the capital of the United States.
The capital of the United States spun off from New York.
Lincoln's election, Lincoln's inauguration, and the departure of the previous president.
This town, which is usually almost exclusively composed of politicians and related businesses, has changed and revitalized.
All kinds of people came from far and wide to feel the town.
All of a sudden, the hotels here were full.
Although Doug had his own house in Washington, he did not live there, but was huddled in a hotel like everyone else.
So, in a sense, the people who are now able to come to Washington are "their own people."
They were all people who supported Lincoln's faction.
As for those who support other candidates, they can only gamble and lose in the hope of turning the tables in the next presidential election.
And now, these "own people" get together, in addition to congratulating Lincoln on his election, there is another meaning.
It is waiting for the benefits that you will gain.
The election of any president is never the business of this one person.
Rather, it is an out-and-out struggle of the line again and again.
The struggle for the line has been won, and the victors, of course, will have to share in the fruits of victory.
Of course, different people need different benefits.
It's like for Doug, if he was a member of Lincoln's cabinet, he would never do it.
However, this kind of position that he doesn't look down on, there are countless people competing for it.
As for Doug's most desired get, of course, it is the "central bank".
However, in the current state, it is not something that can be owned right away.
Because, judging from the current situation, although the US economy is steadily declining and slowly narrowing, there is no reason for the central bank to monopolize the right to issue money.
Not to mention, the central bank is not a government organization, but an organization controlled by Doug.
Doug knows this too, so he's not as anxious as everyone else.
His daily life in Washington is to communicate and exchange with one industry leader after another.
Even if it doesn't work now, there will be places for cooperation in the future.
Doug, on the other hand, because of the Bank of America and the American Press Group, will receive preferential treatment in various senses wherever he goes.
Because, in this Lincoln election, they have seen the great power of these two organizations.
Funding and public opinion.
These are two weapons of great power.
And Doug Clayden has it all.
Originally, those isolated towns may not know about the presidential election and the change of president.
Even on the day of the polls, there were very few people.
However, after the propaganda of the American newspaper group.
These empty spaces have become areas of support for Lincoln.
Much of Lincoln's support came from these once-neglected places.
And the people in these places are not even very clear about the meaning of the presidential election.
They only knew that Lincoln was an excellent person, and it was better to choose such an excellent person than to choose someone else who had never heard of it at all.
They didn't notice when they thought so, and they had become advertisers for the American Press Group.
Some people may expect to see the ad in one second and buy it the next moment.
But, more often than not, the role of advertising is simply to let you know that there is such a thing, and make you more inclined to buy the advertised product when you are faced with similar products.
And in this presidential election, Lincoln was a widely publicized commodity.
The most important thing is that the overwhelming publicity of Lincoln did not cause much disgust.
Why?
Because, the advertising for Lincoln is based on the story.
And the core of these little stories and chicken soup is a certain degree of "political correctness".
It is a beautiful quality that people generally desire.
Lincoln, for example, is running for president for the tenth time, so he has the quality of being indomitable.
Another example is how kind Lincoln's heart was, and how many people in need he helped when he was in the most difficult time.
No matter who it is, there is something soft inside.
They always want to have some excellent qualities that they can't do themselves, but they want to have.
And Lincoln was shaped by Doug into such a collection of excellent qualities.
As long as the American newspaper group covers the area, no one can defeat Lincoln.
Of course, this is mainly the case in the North.
The South, comparatively, is more subtle.
The expansion of the American Press Group and the Bank of America, like all other northern industries, is very difficult.
Why is this so?
The reason is simple.
It is because the North of the United States is not the main trading partner of the South of the United States.
The main trading partner of the South was the British Empire.
As a result, the Bank of Bahrain in England was the favorite bank of the slave owners in the South.
Therefore, American customs are very popular here.
Even newspapers, the ones people here prefer to read are British newspapers that have long since lost their timeliness.
And not the newspapers of the so-called American newspaper group.
The only thing that might be a little bit more infiltrated.
There are only three magazines, "Marvel Story", "Fantesi", and "Rhapsody".
However, although these three magazines circulated among young people in the south, when their elders saw them, they would not hesitate to tear them up.
Why?
Because there is something in it, it is too dangerous in the eyes of the elders.
Among them, the most dangerous is the so-called robot liberation.
Since the story of robots enslaved by humans and beginning to find the meaning of their lives in "Rhapsody", the theme of robots rebelling against humans has become a popular theme.
And this kind of theme, for young people in the south, is energetic and exciting, as cool as doing a roller coaster in the brain.
But for adults in the South, it was a terrible cultural invasion.
Because, the foundation of the South's foothold is the plantation system.
After the invention of the cotton gin, the heaviest job of growing cotton was to pick cotton flowers in the field.
Who are the cotton pickers?
It's black.
What is their identity?
They are slaves.
They are like robots in the book, they don't enjoy the treatment of people, they sit on some kind of repetitive work, from life to death.
This hateful American newspaper group is insinuating!
However, sometimes things are just that weird.
Whenever adults want to ban something, something spreads more and more.
Even, many children who were not interested in "Amazing Story", "Fantesi", and "Rhapsody" also became interested in these stories because of the fierce reaction of their parents.
One of the characteristics of fictional stories is that they can be imitated and learned relatively easily.
As a result, although the magazine is gone, there are word-of-mouth stories.
These stories, without exception, are full of violence and gore, full of violent confrontation between one group and another.
Because, only these crude and superficial things can satisfy the exuberant desires of young people.
And the template of their fantasy is based on the resistance of robots.
Although, they don't know what a robot is.
Probably, perhaps, it's about the same as a cotton gin.
Well......
From this point of view, their understanding and fantasy of robots is very new-wave......
And when they create fantasy works, they will use the things around them as a reference in reality.
In the midst of this continuous creation, these originally superficial children encountered a problem.
What's the problem?
It is.
Are we the villains in the story?
And those rebellious robots, whether they are cotton ginners or blacks.
They start thinking about it, they start to get confused, they start to get confused.
Whether it is fiction writing or non-fiction writing, in the strict sense, it is a story created from the real experience of human beings.
Therefore, no matter what type of work it is, it will eventually reflect reality.
Even the story of the beast and the beauty, the story of the vampire castle, is a reflection of reality.
The former represents the desire for beauty of ordinary people who are more like beasts than beauties.
The latter is the common people, yearning for and fearing the aristocracy of old Europe.
However, when the creator of the story discovers that the beast cannot have a beautiful woman, the beast becomes a prince.
When people were both afraid of vampires and eager to be them, strange literature of the vampire genre emerged.
The former is an indictment of one's own identity and a compromise of reality.
And the latter, no doubt, is also a reflection of reality.
Reflecting that if you want to become a "human being", you have to become a vampire.
Of course, the creators may not realize what they are expressing.
Because, they just make decisions and choices based on their own feelings.
It was also by chance that Doug learned about the story that happened in the South.
He felt it was an opportunity.
Therefore, he began to consciously guide the content of "Marvel Story", "Fantesi", and "Rhapsody".
Let these fictional things influence the younger generation in the South and make them start to question themselves.
However, there are two sides to everything.
The fantasy stories of the North, although to a certain extent, deviate from the worldview of many Southern children.
However, there are also young people in the south who have launched a counterattack.
Although they are also writing about robots.
However, their main thrust is that only humans are real people, and robots are just robots anyway.
And this, like skin color, is innate, and it cannot be changed.
Therefore, in the face of the robot riot, it is necessary to suppress it with even more brutal means.
And there is no doubt that such stories are also full of blood and violence.
Like the stories in "Marvel Story", "Fantesi", and "Rhapsody", there are "vulgar points" that attract people.
And such a worldview, there is no doubt that it is more in line with the perception of young people in the southern United States.
When they read this kind of story, they only strengthen their identification with their own environment.
And the American South is not all rough men.
They discovered this and also began to import special printing machines from England and began to print this kind of story.
A war on ideology began.
However, the vast majority of people, with the exception of a very small number of people, do not realize that this is an ideological war.
Even, I think it's a war, it's just a joke.
Why?
Because, it's just some random words.
Do you want to see reality in fantasy?
Are you sick in the head?
And this, this has become a weapon for many young readers.
What they want to see is always what they won't let them see.
And they don't think they're going to be influenced by things they don't want to see.
Because, that's just some virtual stuff.
They just like it.
What the?
You don't let us like it?
That's what you don't understand!
Of course, for such a bear child, it is good to take a beating.
Genius one second to remember the address of this site:. Mobile version reading URL: m.