Doctor and the bad guy

(Baonghean) - I asked a newly retired industry leader why since his retirement he has rarely expressed his opinions about the shortcomings, limitations, and negative aspects of society on Facebook, while while in office he often expressed his opinions. This is very different from many people who only speak out and give opinions after retirement.

There are even people who, when in office, “don’t say a word”, but after retirement, they contribute a lot of opinions, participate in commenting on many social issues of concern, but when in office, they rarely have opinions. As a long-time acquaintance, he did not hide his thoughts but asked me to go to a coffee shop to “talk and resolve”...

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First of all, when talking about the reason why many people only express their opinions after retirement, he said that in fact, many people are very busy when they are in office. Only when they retire do they have time to care, to cover, to collect information and to spend time contemplating many social issues. From there, they can synthesize, analyze, and make proposals to demonstrate personal responsibility for social issues. It is not necessarily as many people think that when they retire, they no longer have any responsibility so they express their opinions.

In fact, when expressing opinions, one must always take responsibility, and for retirees, the sense of responsibility for expressed opinions is even greater.

As for him, since his retirement, he has not expressed his opinions in the press or on social networks. Many reporters and journalists came to interview him, but he refused to appear in the press or on social networks, but only talked and discussed.

The first reason is that he said he would not comment on any issue if he did not have full information. He is often very upset with the negative and existing issues that the press has raised, and the issues that people spread on social networks.

But he believes that the press, especially online newspapers, are not always correct, not all information is truly accurate and objective. As for social networks, we should not be too quick to believe, because the people who post news on our social networks are almost never responsible for the information they post. Therefore, it is best not to follow suit, not to rush to express opinions or conclusions when things are not clear.

However, that is not the most important reason. According to him, it is worth noting that now many people take advantage of information and critical statements of others about the negative aspects of society, to attribute them to the nature of the regime and society. There are many bad guys who are always lurking, waiting for critical, supervisory or evaluative statements from prestigious people, with social status, with influential voices, discussing negative issues, revealing dissatisfaction about the weaknesses or existence of society, to take advantage of them to spread, to defame the apparatus, defame the homeland and country, and distort the truth.

That is the most important reason why he is no longer as enthusiastic about speaking on stage as before.

The retired leader believes that criticism is very necessary. Social criticism is to point out the negative side, to point out the negative, just like a doctor examines and points out the disease for the patient to treat. Sadly, bad people only try to use the diagnosis of social diseases, then spread it around, as if the social body is no longer healthy but only full of diseases, making the social psychology become gloomy.

Therefore, it is important to have specific and effective measures so that bad guys cannot take advantage of this to carry out their evil and malicious plots...

I would love to chat more, but our weekend coffee is over...

Chi Linh Son