英語検定ライティング準１級（第459回）

カニバリズム「中国の農村であった話」

大躍進政策の最中にこどもを親が殺して食べた話は聞いていた。ワイルドスワンには突然こどもが誘拐されてウサギの肉として売られていた場面が出てくる。こんな具体的な話はソーシャルメディアにもない。この章からこの物語は加速していく。
During the “Great Leap Forward” in China in 1950’s, the rumor that numerous parents ate their own children due to terrible hunger hit on us, so most of us have been informed of these facts, but we haven’t any experiences to learn that numerous children kidnapped by someone vicious because he or she wanted to become profitable by selling children’s meat, although the fleshes was sold as the rabbits’ meat, after all, in the “Wild Swan,” we encounter numerous surprising incidents in those days.
Even in social media , these disgusting scenes haven’t been posted, and such astonishing and repulsive stories would be told by the author from this chapter on.

テレビでは２日前にあった次期総理に近い候補者の報道であふれている。多くの人に囲まれながら演説する彼は立派に見える。印象操作だ。ソーシャルメディアではこの世襲議員の父親が日本を駄目にした経緯が流れる。テレビは洗脳装置なのだ。
Various kinds of TV programs are filled with numerous reports about the next prime minister two days ago, although he would be the president of the government party, which absolutely operates the ordinary citizens’ impressions about him, actually, he has been exposed to the public about his love affairs with someone female except his wife called the “Omotenashi Lady,” she says.
His father used to be the notorious Diet politician in the third generation, who brought Japan’ economy into the deadly, critical, frightening and threatening situations.
However, these facts absolutely cannot be broadcast on TV because the TV station must brainwash our minds as we shouldn’t be interested in something inconvenient.

支配層の目的は自分の頭で考えて自分の考えを持つ人間を育成しないことだ。つまり独裁者の命令を無抵抗に受け入れる人間を作ることだ。共産主義であろうと資本主義であろうと大衆は洗脳されて操り人形となる。後者に収容所がないだけなのだ。
Controllers, dictators, tend to force ordinary citizens not to think about something political and not to possess their own thoughts, in short, they must create someone obedient and reasonable to accept their demands and commands without any resistible attitudes, she assumes.
It is because someone resistible might be their enemies.
It doesn’t matter whether their principles are communism or capitalism, numerous ordinary citizens cannot fail to be brainwashed to become their convenient puppets.
The latter won’t own any concentration camps, which might decisively be different from the former, we assume.