1978 Synthetic Writers

Chapter 382: Favorable Game
"There are no winners in the 'Hunger Games'."

"The tributes had to kill each other in order to survive and win, in order to win the final championship."

"However, winning the game does not mean being able to escape from adversity."

“Just like handsome Finnick is favored by the rich in Congress because of his outstanding appearance and is given to these rich people as a gift by the president.

Likewise, Katniss's mentor Haymitch suffers a tragic fate after her victory."

“They think winning is everything.”

"But they greatly underestimated the shamelessness of the tournament committee."

Jiang Xian spoke in a deep voice.

He was talking about the content of his novel, but every word seemed to have a hidden meaning, slapping everyone on the competition committee in the face.

“Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spake Zarathustra: Man is a rope connecting the animal and the superman.

This sentence means that the essence of man is a combination of three characteristics: humanity, animality and divinity.

But the proportions they hold in people's minds are different and not fixed, but are constantly changing. Sometimes people keep wavering between divinity and animality.

Some people's humanity becomes extremely fragile in the face of desires. In order to achieve their goals, they would rather abandon the humanity that people should possess and turn into man-eating beasts. This is the extinction of humanity.

Some people are kind and innocent. They are not profit-driven and always leave the most precious things to others even when faced with life choices. This is the moment when human nature is closest to divinity and it is the sublimation of human nature.

I named the country Panem, which comes from a Latin phrase meaning 'bread and circuses'.

I want to use such a name to metaphorically imply that rulers maintain their rule by distracting the public by providing entertainment and material needs.

The outcome of the Hunger Games is actually controlled by the rulers.

For example, children in relatively wealthy areas such as Districts 2 and 3 have been trained in physical fitness and Hunger Games skills since childhood, while children in other areas have a hard time just struggling on the poverty line, so when they enter the game, they can often only play supporting roles.

Including at the end of the novel, the organizers of the event can change the rules at will, allowing two tributes to win or limiting it to only one tribute.

When the outcome of a game is controlled, the game loses fairness.

Without fairness, it would just be a show, a self-directed and self-acted drama by the event organizers.

As for those guys who organized the event, they have long lost all humanity.

They did not treat the tributes as human beings with flesh and blood like themselves, but as animals in a slaughterhouse.

What is even more disgusting is that they have to watch and replay the video repeatedly after the game.

This indifference to human life and trampling on human dignity is a complete annihilation of humanity.

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Jiang Xian put his hands on his waist and spoke a lot while standing on the stage.

Every word he said was about "The Hunger Games", but it seemed like he was not really talking about "The Hunger Games".

The writers in the audience applauded, cheered, and whistled.

Lucian, who was sitting in the middle of the stage, had a tense smile and a tense body. People who knew him knew that he was suppressing his enormous anger.

However, this is not the end. After Jiang Xian finished his speech, he quietly placed his trophy at the bottom of his feet, then pointed his three fingers upwards, palms facing outwards, towards the sky.

A reporter raised his camera and captured this scene.

"What does this gesture mean?" Lucien asked the person next to him.

"what?"

"I say, what does this damn gesture of this guy mean?!" Lucien roared in a low voice, a little defensively, and then realized that he had lost his composure. Seeing that everyone around was looking at him, he coughed twice unnaturally.

"It's the three-finger sign used to express solidarity with the rebels," Creedon said.

Everyone's eyes flicked towards him again.

"It's in his novel."

Croydon shrugged innocently and explained, "It's a gesture he used in his novels during protests."

On the other side, Jiang Xian returned to his seat under everyone's worshipful gazes.

“This is crazy, man!”

Stephanie's eyes were full of excitement. "What a beautiful counterattack!"

However, Jiang Xian just looked confused, like a naive little lamb.

"What do you mean by fighting back? I don't understand you."

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Stephanie couldn't help but curse in her heart, "You're a piece of shit."

This small incident occurred during the award ceremony, which caused a commotion, but order was quickly restored and the award ceremony continued.

“The next award is the winner of the first prize of the Creativity Award.”

Lucian announced with a smile on his face, “Let’s congratulate Felicite and his novel, The Pacific in Amber!”

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa."

After a round of applause.

Everyone looked around, but no one saw the guy named Felicite stand up.

"What about people?"

"I do not know."

".Felicite."

Lucien reminded again, "Please come to the podium from your seat."

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After he gave this reminder, still no one appeared on the stage.

"Felicite?"

Lucien looked towards where Felicite was sitting in the audience in confusion.

At this moment, Felicite seemed to have glue on her butt, stuck to the seat motionlessly.

"Don't be distracted, buddy." Lucien smiled, "Aren't you going to come up to the stage to accept the award?"

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Felicite didn't answer, but just shook her head slightly.

So at the "Creative Award" ceremony carefully prepared by "Simulation Science Fiction and Reality", a very embarrassing scene occurred again.

Felicite, the first prize winner, refused to accept the award on the spot.

"Haha, there's something good to watch now."

"Well done, Felicite!"

"That's how it should be. Why would Lucien, who has never written a science fiction novel, get involved in our science fiction business?"

Listening to the laughter and discussions from the audience, Lucien felt his face getting hotter and hotter. At this moment, Lucien looked very much like Ang Lee, who was embarrassed when Gong Li refused to present the award together at the 91th Golden Horse Awards, and also very much like Xiao Ge, who was publicly humiliated by Xiao Ye at the Soviet Union Conference in .

He never expected that Felicite would be so ruthless as to refuse the award in public.

This really embarrassed him.

While Lucien was quickly thinking of a way to rescue himself from the situation, he was cursing Felicite madly in his heart.

In the eyes of others, Felicite suddenly became divine.

They still remember what Jiang Xian said just now.

Some people's humanity becomes extremely fragile in the face of desire, and they will do anything to survive.

Some people are kind, innocent, and not profit-driven. Even when faced with life choices, they always leave the most precious things to others. This is the moment when human nature is closest to divinity and it is the sublimation of human nature.

At this moment, Felicite refused to accept the award out of respect for "The Hunger Games". There is no doubt that this was the moment when he was closest to divinity.

"I think Felicite isn't feeling well, so we'll present the award to him privately later," Lucien explained very tentatively.

However, this has become a joke in the ears of others.

Along with the "Creativity Award", it has completely fallen from the altar.

Which writer would want to receive an award when the first winner directly refused to accept it?
As mentioned before, the meaning of the award is given by people.

When everyone felt that the "Imagination Award" had become a joke, the competition that "Simulation Science Fiction and Reality" had spent a lot of effort to organize was doomed to fail.

However, this is not the end of the incident.

The reporters who were invited to cover the story were like flies smelling rotten meat.

Damn, you didn’t tell me it would be so exciting before I came!
Seeing that reporting on the "Imagination Awards" is already a rubbish topic, it would be better to report on the uproar caused by the "Imagination Awards".

Felicite naturally became the target of reporters.

This guy didn't hide anything and just said whatever he wanted to say, clearing out all the doubts in his heart.

Soon, these articles appeared in newspapers.

Psychological research shows that because in the process of evolution, paying attention to negative information is more important than paying attention to positive information for survival and reproduction, people's brains are more likely to pay attention to negative information.

In addition, "The Hunger Games" and Jiang Xian already have considerable fame in the United States.

Therefore, the scandal caused by the Creative Idea Awards quickly attracted attention from all walks of life.

The Los Angeles Daily News stated that Jiang Xian, who wrote "The Hunger Games", could not escape the control of the real country of Panem, and the science fiction world staged a real-life version of "The Hunger Games".

"The Hunger Games" has quite a large number of readers, and many readers who had not known about the Imagination Awards before were quickly ignited with anger by these articles and denounced the organizers of the "Imagination Awards".

The people are full of resentment.

"Simulated Science Fiction and Reality" also reacted quickly and immediately issued a statement in major newspapers. Well, it was the same old thing. First, they apologized for occupying public resources, then stated that the "Creative Award" was absolutely fair, and finally held the rumor makers accountable for legal responsibility.

However, such a statement is simply not convincing enough.

The incident escalated, and since the matter was sensitive in the first place, it soon developed into a discussion of "race" issues.

Every country has its own zzzq.

Americans are quite active and sensitive in these sports.

When it comes to race, it becomes a huge problem.

USC immediately stepped up to backstab.

USC said it had nothing to do with the Imagination Award and that it was only lending the venue to the organizer and had no knowledge of the inside story of the award selection.

USC stated that it had close ties with the Methodist Church when it was first established. Although it later became independent from the Methodist Church, it still has strict regulations: "Students must not be rejected because of race." Therefore, it will never condone or allow racial discrimination to occur.

USC's sliding and kneeling did not reduce the heat of the incident, but instead became the starting point of the climax of the incident.

"The American public is still very jealous of evil."

Zhu Lin sighed, "I didn't expect that your novel, which was marginalized, would attract so much attention."

"how come."

Jiang Xian was very clear-headed. "Things have developed to this stage. My case is just a tool they are using."

There are too many people in the United States who are preparing to engage in various sports every day.

Jiang Xian had not expected that his incident would escalate and become so heated in such a short period of time.

These people must have contributed to this.

But Jiang Xian didn't care. No matter how the situation developed, it would be good for him anyway.

Besides, he was about to return to his country, so he didn't have to worry about the chaos here.

In the following days, massive criticism broke out.

To put it in a trendy way, the "Simulation Science Fiction and Reality" story has collapsed!

Whether it is industry insiders, science fiction enthusiasts, or science fiction writers, they all criticized "Simulated Science Fiction and Reality" for destroying the simplicity and purity of science fiction and the unity of science fiction fans.

Even the science fiction giant Asimov came out to denounce the practice of "Simulation of Science Fiction and Reality".

Asimov holds an extraordinary position in the science fiction world.

In later generations, there was a game called CSGO, in which the accessory named Asimov was built to pay tribute to this science fiction master.

There is also Isaac of Tec9, who is nicknamed "groundwater", and his name is also taken from Isaac Asimov.

After Asimov spoke out, Heinlein also criticized "Simulation of Science Fiction and Reality", believing that their actions were destroying a science fiction writer.

The fate of these big guys undoubtedly escalated the situation to a higher level. For a time, "Simulation Science Fiction and Reality" was criticized by thousands of people.

What surprised Jiang Xian the most was.

Among the group that accuses and criticizes "Simulation Science Fiction and Reality", there is also a feminist group.

Feminists have spoken.

In traditional romance novels, male characters are symbols of power and rulers of the emotional world, while female characters are often in a dominated position.

But in "The Hunger Games", the heroine Katniss appears in a capable and strong posture as soon as she appears on the stage, carrying a bow and arrow, and moving nimbly through the jungle in search of prey.

In previous literary works, hunters were mostly male, while women were more likely to engage in activities such as picking and farming.

"The Hunger Games" undoubtedly reflects the changing status of modern women in social life!
Therefore, the oppressive novel "Simulated Science Fiction and Reality" "The Hunger Games" is also the oppression of women!

This made Jiang Xian laugh and cry.

He didn't expect that the novel "The Hunger Games" would be so popular among various sects in the United States.

It’s so cool to play in a favorable situation!
When I hung out with my brothers before, I would go hungry for nine meals in three days. But when I hung out with the Jimei girls, my life suddenly became different.

However, in Jiang Xian's memory, "The Hunger Games" has a huge impact on reality.

It is said that after the movie was released that year, it directly promoted the rise of women's archery.

In addition, the three-finger gesture from "The Hunger Games" has also been widely used in real protests in many countries around the world.

(End of this chapter)