#10 UNION CANAL

Can you educate me? They’re not convincing







As this pandemic seemed to be endless, doubt and restlessness had been spreading in people’s mind. All kinds of messages gradually filled up the wall beside our peaceful Union Canal.

Most of the texts on that wall were opinions or emotional expressions, while this one was more of a crying for help in desperate.

Sometimes most people could only follow, without enough information to judge anything.
However, the idea of believing a small group of people should have real solution for this huge ciaos was even more unsettling.


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隨著疫情似乎永無止盡,懷疑與焦慮自然在人群心中不斷滋長。

我家後面運河邊的一大片磚牆也逐漸成為民眾發表各種意見與情緒的平台,以往安寧輕鬆的氣氛變得激昂卻也算是令人振奮。

我每次走過都會對這個在絕望中尋求出口的問句多看一眼,一方面提醒自己:

的確倘若沒有管道獲取足夠的資訊,大部分的人只能盲目跟從,這也是教育最重要的意義之一;另一方面,光是想到「將希望放在一小群人負責提出的解決之道」,就讓人覺得不大對勁。