Chapter 16: Reversal

To be honest, it's been a long time since I've shouted so loudly in front of everyone. The last time I did that was in the national final, when the team was equalised, I tried to encourage my teammates. Of course, fortunately, I thought I was shouting well this time, and I was full of confidence, and I didn't shout my throat.

In the surprised eyes of everyone, I separated the crowd, slowly walked to the rostrum, passed by a group of stunned student union members, knocked on the microphone, and prepared to speak: "Everyone present, some of you may know me, some may not know me, of course it doesn't matter, because, you are all about to know me, first of all, let me introduce myself, I am Kazuya Hihama, although I have changed into this school uniform that I don't need anymore, but I did graduate half a year ago- Of course, I am a close associate of the so-called Secretary Sugiura, whom you have been talking about just now. ”

There was an uproar beneath the podium, and I could catch the undisguised hatred that Asada threw at me in the crowd—an expression I hadn't seen in a long time. When I went to high school, I was like a little sheep, and I couldn't help but laugh at what I was doing. However, the student council accountant named Kamihara was just standing beside me with her head down, and I couldn't turn my head to see her expression, which was a bit surprising.

"Now, I found what you want to say, the person I defend is speechless, I'm ready to stand up for her, right?" I smiled and looked at the chattering crowd below, I enjoyed the feeling, the feeling of looking down on everyone from the top to the bottom, "Or, you can ask Secretary Sugiura if she wants me to show up now." ”

"—Of course, you don't have to ask," I stopped Koharu as the crowd turned to Koharu, who was standing dumbfounded, biting her lip at a loss, "do you believe what she says? You don't believe it, you don't believe what she says, so why do you even ask her? You just want her answer, and then attack her with your most vicious, malicious, and self-righteous rebuttal— In other words, let me tell you, you are just a bunch of puppets who have been guided by your own impulses like walking corpses. ”

"Yubihama-senpai, what are you here for?" Finally, there seemed to be a person in the crowd who was unwilling to accept my taunts and stood up, and it seemed to be the boy who questioned the student council at the beginning.

"Yes, very courageous, you were the first person after I came on stage to finally realize what I wanted to do, and then expressed my doubts - others, let me ask you, did you really think about it when you were watching the excitement here? Do you really think that you have resisted, you have questioned, are you sensible like this?"

Finally, under my constant ridicule, the emotions of the people in the audience exploded.

"Even if it's a senior, you're not qualified to say that about us!"

"Questioning the student union is our right to fulfill our rights, and if you have graduated, don't go wild in Qingquan Middle School. ”

"Besides, after losing that final in January, you're still in the mood to point fingers at us, are you crazy? Who do you think you are?"

Compared with the questioning of the student union just now, this time the contempt for me is even more invective, because of my provocative attitude at the beginning, and because I have no relationship with them now.

"So, I think you're all a bunch of fools, a bunch of hopeless fools!" the microphone was loud enough that I could overpower them with my own voice, "you think you're doing your right, but do you remember what I said about you at the beginning? That's right, I want to say not only you, but also the members of your Qingquan Middle School Student Council on the field, I didn't expect that it has been more than half a year since I graduated from this school, and the student union is still so good, and your ideas are still so easy to understand - of course, the tricks of the people who play with intrigue are still so clumsy!"

A person often does not have an advantage in the face of a group of people, because when the collective will of a group of people is crushed, a person is powerless to resist; however, when a person fights against a collective, he may not have a way to break the game, it is very simple, because in the vast majority of cases, a group of people are a piece of loose sand, their courage comes from the other people around them, when the other people around them have the courage to roar and attack, they will also attack and roar with the crowd, but when the people around them are silent, they will not want to let themselves become the one who guides everyone and does not let everyone be silentand will only choose the same silence as everyone else.

Zhao Yun's seven in and seven out of Nagasaka Slope may seem like a myth, but if you consider the mutual influence of the atmosphere between the collectives, it is not surprising. And the group of middle school students in the audience, naturally, could not do better than the adult soldiers, and when I completely ignored their attacks on me and retorted with merciless words, they fell into silence - maybe one or two people felt that the situation was a little strange and did not want to be silent, but they could not raise the consciousness of resistance when the people around them did not dare to speak.

"If you're quiet, listen to me!" I looked at Chairman Kimura and Koharu on the podium, and they probably didn't understand whether I was friend or foe right now, so they didn't know what to do with me, and in the end, they just looked at me at a loss.

"When I heard about this inquiry, I was very curious, because I didn't understand what it could bring you. The boards of directors of the two schools have already begun to discuss plans for cooperation between the schools, and it is much easier for you to stop the boards from doing this than it is to play a game with the student council now. The most you can do is to overthrow this year's student council -- but what can this do? How much can the new student council make changes in the face of a cooperative project that has gone deep into the final stage of implementation? In the end, you will find that the result of your so-called struggle is still the same -- in the final analysis, this kind of struggle only satisfies your superficial self-righteous desire to resist. Of course it doesn't matter, Koharu made a mistake, that's better, your attack is more justified, Koharu didn't make a mistake, and it doesn't matter, because at least you've questioned, resisted, and won spiritually, right?"

"—Of course, I know what any of you have to say," I continued, stopping the trembling hands raised in the crowd, "what you want to say is that the most important thing is not the result, but the spirit of rebellion against authority, and if it were me, I would have added to you such lofty reasons as 'this is the awakening of civic consciousness'—and I have no objection to this, and I appreciate it very much, which is why I have been looking forward to this inquiry before. But, as I said, your inquiry is a farce from beginning to end!"

"What did I see? I saw that you kept changing your orientation because of the completely unfounded words of a few people? The guy named Asada over there told the scandal of Secretary Sugiura, and you believed it, and then questioned Secretary Sugiura's work attitude; then Secretary Sugiura explained your emotional orientation, and you felt that her words were more reliable, and then you were ready to give up this question hastily; and finally Kanihara-san, who was here to tell you the so-called ' in the way of his own shy answers. 'The truth', you think she has a point, and then you start attacking the student council in a swarm. Okay, let me ask you, where is your independent thinking when you are questioning? Where is your self-consciousness? Where are you standing here, where is the basis for your questioning? If I stand on the stage at this time, and Sugiura Koharu snatches my microphone and kicks me offstage, do you think Kamihara-san is lying?"

"Yes, you are starting to think more rationally at this time—but is it useful? Do you know that just when you feel rational thinking now, your rhythm, your path of thinking, has been taken by me from turn to turn, and you have changed I don't know how many times? Do you remember what I said at the beginning? At first, I stood on the stage peacefully, and you thought that I might have to defend Secretary Sugiura, so you waited for my explanation, but I didn't do that, and I scolded you with the most fierce words, so you got angry and thought that I was the clown who provoked you. But after you've used your collective pressure to neutralize my attacks, you've flinched, and you'll feel like it's okay to listen to this guy — and finally you'll think it makes sense, and finally you think you should think for yourself. So the question is, since I came to power, have you ever broken away from my control over you, and have you ever done something that I didn't expect? No, isn't the conclusion obvious? You are a bunch of fools, and I can steer your thinking 10,000 times if I want to!"

To be honest, I don't actually think it's strange that a group of second-year teenagers or girls have this kind of collective condemnation and group fanaticism because of their momentary enthusiasm - because even the so-called sane "adults" can be led into the trap of the collective unconscious by all kinds of clever remarks, and the so-called "rabble" exists everywhere.

The Creator has given human beings reason, but not everyone can use their reason well, and not everyone can use their reason to remove the obstacles caused by emotional fanaticism and discover their true freedom.

But I must now use the most fervent rhetoric to break the most self-righteous illusions of this group of young girls, who just now felt that they were the messengers of justice, unflinching in the face of the oppression of the powerful, but if they broke the kind of judgment of which they were so proud, and made all of them feel as if they were being led by the nose by a few men and could not think rationally, they would fall into the realm of unconfidence in their own judgments.

"Of course, I'm here, and I have a rough idea of what you want to question, and from the point of view of my identity, I also think that the so-called facts that I have come to tell you are really too unbelievable, but I just want to ask you a few questions: Are the rumors you have heard chasing after the wind and shadows, or are they really true? Are you asking now for the sake of justice or self-satisfaction? Is what you are doing now for yourself, or is it being used by some people with ulterior motives? After you have thought through these questions, you will have a reliable and truly your own inquiry meeting, so that it will not become a complete farce like today. ”

The audience stumbled and discussed, the discussion became louder and louder, and then more and more chaotic, and finally, the students gathered together began to work in twos and threes.

I didn't have applause for my speech, and I don't need applause, and if everybody is unanimously supporting me, it's not going to have the effect I want

In fact, I just planted a seed of doubt in everyone's hearts. Among those students in the audience, there will always be a group of people who will continue to question the student union, continue to doubt Koharu, and even still suspect that I am the person who the student union invited to help them. However, there will always be those who will side with the student council and oppose the doubters.

This confrontation of views is enough for the student council, and in the final analysis, even if the student council behaves perfectly this time, it can only make the students convinced of its actions this time. Even if all the people behind this rumor are found out this time, it will not actually help. Opponents hiding in the shadows are always more terrible than the student council standing in the open.

However, if opponents want to overthrow the student union, they can only use the so-called "public opinion", and moreover, it is a unanimous, distrustful "public opinion", and when the public opinion is dispersed, it will never be the climate.

As I said, human beings are always too smart, too clever to think that they have seen through some kind of conspiracy, some people think they have seen through the conspiracy of the student union, some people think they have seen through the conspiracy of the opponents of the student union, and then the two factions of the student union attack each other. Until their mutual questioning leads to a result, which they may never find, the student council will always be at ease.

I looked at the group of thoughtful students and suddenly felt a little sad - until the end, when they thought they were really thinking rationally, they were still misled, so easily misled.

Of course, behind the scenes, the treatment of those who are interested in taking advantage of this commotion, or who are really naïve enough to expand it, is not something I need to focus on. If these problems can't be solved by Koharu, then there is no need for me to help her.

Under normal circumstances, achieving one's goal and then retiring is the most exemplary performance, and I really want to do that

It's just that I didn't expect Sugiura Koharu's reaction to be even faster than I imagined: "Yubihama-senpai, can you wait?"

PS——

I've always wanted to write that kind of incendiary speech and then reversed.,Personally, I think and these words are really incendiary.,But in the end, it seems to make him the image of a big demon king instead of a hot-blooded leader-Sure enough, this guy is not suitable for blood-flowing, isn't it?

And, 250 votes have arrived, and there will be more tomorrow.