Chapter 176: Empathy is the focus of the article
The key point of whether "Texas and Mexico Record" can make readers' heartstrings tugged at by the article is whether the content of the article can get the reader's empathy.
Just like the events of popular experience,
Only the decisions made in the experience and other actions in the article, such as what the reader himself did under that experience, can better arouse the reader's empathy and sense of substitution.
In "Texas and Mexico", Tom constructs the slave owners of the Civil War as working people who have traveled all the way from Europe to try to live a better life in the United States.
This characteristic is similar to that of the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class in most of the old Yankee cities of the United States.
Tom also focused on several laws restricting southern slave owners issued by the old Yankee government before the war, to describe the embarrassment faced by the southern slave owners - if you are not independent, you will be eaten away by the old Yankee, and independent will be faced with the old Yankee government that is stronger than yourself.
Tom went out of his way to attribute the reason for the edict issued by the elder Youngster to restrict the slave owners in the south, in order to use the property of the southern slave owners to fill the shortfall in the government's finances.
Then, the reason for the outbreak of the Civil War was written by Tom in popular terms, as a slave owner who wanted to go further and enter the center of power in the United States, and after being obstructed by the old Yankee, he was brutally exploited by the old Yankee government, and was forced to organize the Revolutionary War in desperation.
There were many reasons for the outbreak of the Civil War, and the fact that the old Yankee Consortium led by the Boston Consortium did not give the Southern slave owners due political power was indeed one of the reasons for the outbreak of the war.
But Tom's deliberate magnification of this reason, and the fact that the Southern slave owners had in common with the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class in the old Yankee city, is a deliberate attempt to stir the reader's emotions.
Today's urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class in the old Yankee area are hard not to empathize with the Southern slave owners in the first half of "Texas and Mexico."
are all Europeans who want to come to America to go further,
are all "successful people" who have just had a small career after working hard,
They are all groups that have been brutally oppressed and exploited by the old Yankee government.
It's all ......
As Tom describes the "truth" of the Civil War, the reader increasingly feels that he is the next Southern slave owner in the eyes of the old Yankee administration.
What's more, they are now going through the same experiences as the Southern slave owners.
The fact that the old Yankee government was short of finances due to wars and multiple economic crises is a fact that all the small bourgeoisie and middle class in the city know.
These cultural people who have read poetry and books, take a little look at the crooked "history" written by Tom Smith, and then combine it with the current situation they are facing, they can analyze a conclusion that makes them sweat coldly - they are simply the new "Southern slave owners" in the eyes of the old Yankee government.
A poor man who could forcibly take away his entire property at any time.
The traffic control blockade order is simply a "Civil War" specially prepared for the exploitation of these "Southern slave owners"!
What frightens the petty bourgeoisie and middle class of the city even more is that they also know that under the traffic control order, the farms and factories in the old Yankee area have not stopped production, only the inner city has stopped operating. ….
I think more and more about the "Southern slave owners" that the old Yankee government will harvest next.
With Tom Smith's use of T· The spread of the "Texas and Mexico Record" written by S for a pseudonym, the content of the first half of the article must have had an indelible impact on the rule of all cities in the entire Yankee Old Area.
And the second half of this booklet, titled "Texas and Mexico Facts", is a slap in the face to all the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class living in the old Yankee city!
In the second half of the booklet, Tom Smith vividly describes how employees in the Smith plant in Texas and Mexico enjoy this kind of treatment - no worries about food and clothing, no economic crisis, free food for unemployment, and meat products every day......
Tom Smith used this booklet called "Texas and Mexico Record" to kick off the first time in human history that the behavior of "comparing better" between countries and between polities was "better"!
This behavior, which originally appeared between the Soviet Union and the United States until the Cold War, was advanced by Tom nearly a hundred years ago and used in the comparison within the United States.
Tom doesn't want this way to directly defeat the old Yankee government, Tom just wants to do this way to make the old Yankee government more turbulent, as for how Tom got the inspiration to use "better than good"?
The source is the era when Tom grew up.
Tom grew up in an era of "worse than bad", and governments rushed to report on the shortcomings of other countries to appease the oppressed and restless hearts of their citizens.
But Tom's parents and grandfathers lived in an era when the Soviet Union and the United States were better.
The first half of the era known as the Cold War was the only time in human history that the great powers were on par with each other, and it was also the era of the most intense confrontation between the two polities.
It was only in that era that the people were the people.
Even the United States of America, in the free world, completed a huge transformation in that era in order to be better than the better—human rights, national health care, people's livelihood, and other aspects of concessions to the people.
Tom wants to use the better to shake the stability of Yankee's old interior.
Because Tom is now the dominant party in productivity, Texas is the absolute dominant party in the per capita productivity of society, just like the United States in the early stage of the Soviet-American hegemony competition.
As long as this advantage remains, Tom will be able to proclaim to the people of the old Yankee area how rich his people are, just like the United States in the early Cold War.
Tom is not at all worried that the Yankee will be able to catch up with Texas in terms of per capita social productivity like Sue in the Cold War - to catch up with Texas.
Because Tom has not yet fully developed the chemical technology of later generations.
What's more, even if Elder Yanki's per capita social productivity catches up with Texas like the Soviet Union in the Cold War,
Knowing that the winner of the Cold War was the United States, Tom had other tricks left for the old Yankee administration to catch up with him.
In any case, Tom's move was also the first time in human history that a regime had publicized the beauty of its policies to a hostile regime on a large scale.
The first half of this book, which is written about the oppression of the small bourgeoisie and middle class in the city by the old Yankee consortium relying on traffic control orders, and the second half is a booklet about the good life in Texas and Mexico.
Let every reader in the old Yankee area start to get restless.
The fish which can cat