Chapter 50 <chameleon>

In his short story "Chameleon", Chekhov, a famous Russian writer in the 19th century, profoundly satirized and exposed the flattery and flattery of the Tsar's running dog through his contradictory artistic description of the police officer Ochumelov. The ugly nature of bullying. The general idea of ​​the story is: a small white-haired dog of unknown origin bit the finger of the goldsmith Khryukin, and the police officer Ochumelov is responsible for handling the dog-biting dispute.At the beginning he said this: Whose dog is this?I will never let this matter go easily!I'm going to show some color to those who let their dogs out and run around!When he, that bastard, gets fined and loses money, I'll let him know what it's like to have a dog and I'll give him a good lesson!

However, when he heard someone in the crowd comment that it seemed to be the dog of General Shigarov's family, he immediately changed his attitude, turned his head and reprimanded Khryukin and said: "I don't understand one thing, how could it bite you?"Could it bite your finger?It is so small; and you are so big!You must have broken that finger with a nail, and then you dreamed of getting some kind of damages.People like you are famous!I know you bastards! Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the patrolman told him that all the general's family kept big hounds, and this puppy must not belong to the general's family.So he immediately changed his tone and said: "I also know that the general's family is full of expensive purebred dogs; this dog's coat color is not good, and its appearance is not good. It's a completely low-grade bastard. Someone raises this kind of dog!" ?Where did this man's brain go?You Khryukin is injured, we must not leave it alone.

However, the police officer heard someone say that this is indeed the dog of the general's family, and that he had seen this dog in the general's house with his own eyes.His attitude changed again.He said to the patrolman: You take this dog to the general's house and say that I found the dog, and tell them not to let the dog out on the street again.This may be a noble dog; but every swine pokes its nose with a cigarette. Dogs are delicate animals. Finally, the cook of the general's family came and told the police officer that it was indeed not the general's dog, so Ochumelov changed his words and said, "It's a wild dog!"There is no need to waste time talking empty words.Just kill it.

However, the police officer was too quick to express his opinion. Unexpectedly, the chef added: This is the general's brother's dog, and the general's brother likes it very much.The brazen police officer then changed his tone and said: "Oh, my God!"I didn't know it was his old man's dog, take it away!This puppy is not bad, it's so clever, it bit off this guy's finger with one bite!Hahaha, what a puppy! Bad luck for Khryukin!Before leaving, the police officer threatened him again: I will punish you sooner or later! It can be seen that the whole story revolves around who is the owner of the dog.Whether the owner of the dog is the rich and powerful general or not, there were five different opinions in succession among the crowd, while the police officer Ochumelov made five different opinions completely based on the change of the dog owner's social status. Performance.He kept changing his tone and posture like a chameleon, and kept punching himself.

Some political figures in real life are people like Ochumelov.For their own self-interest, their faces and speech often change with the changes of the political climate. Now they have a face and a different tone. Beifeng, he is also a Beifeng faction ("Selected Works of Mao Zedong", Volume 5, page 286).This kind of people is indeed a master of sophistry, with a three-inch tongue, no matter how reasonable they say, no wonder people call them often reasonable.This kind of people dare not stick to principles, dare not stick to the truth, but opportunistically, depending on the wind to make the rudder.

In their minds, there is no objective truth at all. The so-called truth, in their view, is just a tool for coping with the environment, a tool for gaining fame, a tool for self-protection and self-satisfaction.Another characteristic of this kind of person is that they have a particularly thick skin, capricious attitude, and extreme flexibility.