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After writing “The Catcher in the Rye,” American author Salinger said a puzzling sentence – this book will definitely tear apart the heart of this country.

The Catcher in the Rye is no stranger to Chinese people, especially young Chinese people with zits like platoon on their faces. Holden, the hero of the book, is a little rogue with a childlike heart like a pure soldier.

He deeply abhors the hypocritical adult world, and with just a few words, he can pierce through all kinds of smoothness and worldly wisdom. His life ambition stands on the edge of the cliff behind the wheat field, to be a wheat field guardian.

Whenever a child rushes towards a cliff (where “cliff” refers to the transformation of human nature from simple and cute to complex and greasy cliff jumping), Holden picks up the child and puts them back in a safe zone away from the cliff.

Holden’s subconscious here is to keep children, whose nature and spiritual energy have not yet been polluted, away from the “cliff” of adulthood and forever maintain a childlike heart.

This is what I understood while reading ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, but what about Salinger’s claim that this book will definitely tear apart the heart of this country (the United States)?

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Reality and history have annotated Salinger’s prophetic prophecies.

On March 30, 1981, US President Reagan was shot in the lungs by 26 year old John Sink using a revolver at the Hilton Hotel. After police investigation, it was found that John had two “cultural events” on his body that were closely related to the assassination of the president.

Firstly, John watched the movie “Taxi Driver” starring Robert De Niro and featuring scenes of assassinating presidential candidates 15 times. Secondly, John carried a tattered copy of “The Catcher in the Rye” with him.

Reagan was a man of great fortune. Although John’s revolver hit him in the lung, it was not fatal. More than 40 years later, Donald Trump, inspired by Reagan’s campaign slogan “Make America Great”, set his slogan as “Make America Great Again”. Later, he was assassinated by another young man.

Compared with John who assassinated Reagan, Thomas, the young man who shot Donald Trump five times in a row, is 20 years old, and Donald Trump also has Reagan’s hard luck, only his right ear was injured.

Reagan and Donald Trump, John and Thomas, two generations of old people and two generations of young people, echoed from afar in different historical coordinates at the intersection of time and space, which seemed to confirm the historical cycle of “talent comes from every generation” and silence is like a mystery.

At that time, that moment, as at this moment, it is unknown whether Thomas, who assassinated Donald Trump, was also affected by The Catcher in the Rye. But the current American society, as Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, said, is in a state of serious tearing.

The family of the murderer Thomas is politically torn apart. His father is a Republican and his mother is a Democrat. Thomas comes from a middle-class background, loves history, and never worries about food and drink. Unfortunately, at an age when he was struggling to write new words, he became obsessed with more speculative metaphysical topics.

Judging from his actions, it should be the kind that is intense to the point of risking his life.

We can imitate the tone of a host and ask, ‘What made this 20-year-old young man raise a gun?’.

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Thomas once applied to join the Bethel Park High School Rifle Team, but was not admitted due to poor marksmanship. His unimpressive marksmanship has now been seen around the world.

After graduating from high school, Thomas became a chef or food assistant at a rehabilitation center. I cannot immediately say that Thomas’ dishes have a “bloody taste”, as I have never tasted them before. However, according to the “oral history” of his high school classmates who have been with him day and night.

Thomas is a ‘lonely person’, Fu Lei said. If a child is lonely, he will create a world. Now we know that the young man is lonely and may even assassinate a US president.

It is terrifying to think that Thomas was an absolute conservative and an ardent fan of Donald Trump in his “former identity”, and had worn T-shirts printed with Donald Trump supporting content.

In just a few years, the 20-year-old turned from a conservative who supported Donald Trump to an assassin.

In a fickle environment with a magical reality atmosphere, a person who is still a moderate leftist in the morning may become a moderate rightist at noon, then a radical extreme leftist in the afternoon, and then a radical extreme rightist at night. After taking a “conservative” nap, they will return to a moderate leftist the next morning.

This incredible phenomenon, comparable to genetic mutations and neurological disorders, has become commonplace due to the manipulation of media and the control of propaganda machines, amidst the ever-changing winds blowing from left to right, up to down, south to north, east to west.

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Vance, Donald Trump’s deputy, is also a 39 year old young man who is good at jumping back and forth and probably has watched The Catcher in the Rye,

In the 2016 presidential campaign, Vance used aggressive language to refer to Trump as Hitler, but now he has undergone a major change in attitude by saying ‘I am today, I am yesterday’.

We don’t know if this transformation is 180 degrees, 360 degrees, or 540 degrees.

John, who assassinated Reagan, and Thomas, who assassinated Donald Trump, were too young after all. They stabbed because of their passion and in vain killed Qingqing. However, they did not know that people’s minds would change, or even become completely human again from the womb.

If you know what groups the Americans who pushed Donald Trump to the presidency are, you must also know that these groups have a general nickname – Red Neck, and Vance is the real Red Neck.

Salinger has made The Catcher in the Rye the youth bible of generations through his wonderful grasp of youth life in words, and Donald Trump’s deputy Vance is also a best-selling writer.

His poem “The Lament of the Countryside People” is also a grasp of youth, but the youth in his writing is red necked youth. Compared to “The Catcher in the Rye”, “The Lament of the Countryside People” is more “heavy”, filled with hardcore rock and even death metal rhythms between the lines.

Vice President Vance’s “The Lament of the Countryside People” can be regarded as a hall level guide to understanding the “red neck”. Vance recalls his youthful years emitting a rust smell, as well as his father, mother, grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins and other powerful people, recording their shocking and heroic deeds without any embellishment or embellishment, and is full of gimmicks.

This book is also equivalent to a portrait of Mr. Trump’s fans. When you open the book, you can learn why Mr. Trump, a super tough guy, has an appetite for these red necks.

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Vance spent his childhood in the town of Brest in Jackson, where the people were fierce and known as the ‘Bloody Brest’.

Once, a young girl in the town was raped by an old man. A few days before the trial, the old man’s body appeared in the local lake with 16 bullet holes in her back. The authorities did not conduct any investigation into the murder case, only a newspaper casually mentioned on the morning of the day the body was found: a man was found dead in the lake, possibly murdered.

After reading the newspaper, Wansi’s grandmother clapped her hands and laughed heartily. Perhaps she was murdered? You damn right, the bloody Brest will make this son of a bitch deserve his punishment.

These so-called rural people, with red necks and a pursuit of simple morality, have crossed the boundaries of the law, mixed with bloodshed and violence, but never feel ashamed of it. Instead, they see it as a deep-seated pride.

Vance’s uncle, Pet, opened a grocery store in town. Once, a truck driver came to deliver goods. The truck driver was a famous rough man in that area, nicknamed the Red Haired Fat Boy.

Red haired chubby guy said casually, ‘Son of bitch, hurry up and unload the goods.’.

Uncle Pet interpreted this sentence literally and responded, ‘By saying that, you are calling my dear old mother a bitch. I implore you to speak carefully.’. The bulky red haired chubby guy remained unmoved and repeated, ‘Son of a bitch, hurry up and unload the goods.’.

Uncle Pet didn’t say anything this time. He walked up to the truck and pulled the red haired chubby guy down. He punched him with an old punch, making him scream loudly. Then he picked up a chainsaw and swung it up and down at him. The red haired chubby guy almost bled to death, but luckily he was sent to the hospital by kind-hearted people in time, and he was able to save his life.

Surprisingly, Uncle Petr did not go to jail because of this, as the red haired chubby guy was also a “red neck”. He refused to disclose the incident to the police and did not want to file a lawsuit. This group of people had an unwritten creed: they would not see officials in private fights, admit defeat, and stand firm after being beaten.

Wansi’s grandfather and grandmother, childhood sweethearts, had children at an early age. At the age of twenty, they came from the countryside to the city to make a living, but they did not change their red necked nature. They were poor and ambitious, and walked horizontally wherever they went.

One day, Vance’s grandparents brought their 6-year-old son Jimmy to a shopping mall. The mall was bustling with people, and the grandparents asked Jimmy to go around first, looking for his beloved toys. Little Jimmy saw a shop selling remote-controlled airplanes and rushed in to enjoy them. However, due to his messy attire, he was looked down upon by the staff.

The shop assistant asked Jimmy to put down the plane and scolded him.

At this moment, my grandparents happened to be strolling around here and saw little Jimmy hesitating outside the toy store. They asked him why he didn’t go in?

Little Jimmy said, I can’t go in.

Grandpa asked, why?

Little Jimmy replied, I just can’t.

Grandpa was in a hurry and asked, quickly tell me why.

Little Jimmy pointed at the shop assistant and said, ‘That person got angry with me, asked me to leave, and didn’t allow me to go in again.’.

Before they could finish speaking, Grandpa and Grandma rushed into the store and questioned the staff why they were so rude. The staff explained that the remote-controlled airplane was very expensive and they were afraid that the child might damage it.

After listening, Grandpa took the toy in his hand and asked the shop assistant if it was this one? The shop assistant nodded. Grandpa immediately smashed the remote-controlled plane to the ground, causing it to crumble. Then he picked up a toy and threw it over, walking aggressively towards the shop assistant.

Grandma wasn’t idle either. She picked up toys from the shelf, threw them around, and shouted at Grandpa, beat him up, beat him up!

Grandpa said to the shop assistant word by word, ‘If you dare to say no to my son again, I will immediately twist your neck.’.

The shop assistant was scared and apologized repeatedly, while the grandparents and their family swaggered out of the store and continued shopping as if nothing had happened.

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In the red necked version of “The Catcher in the Rye” – “The Lament of the Countryside People”, Wan Si records a group of people. Interestingly, the characters in Wan Si’s works are not strictly good people. They either drink excessively, fight, or even commit illegal and criminal acts, almost all of whom are in a state of poverty. But between the lines, Wan Si revealed a warm and affectionate attitude, and repeatedly claimed that he deeply loved this group of red necked people in his hometown.

Whenever a funeral procession passes by, the red necked people will stop and walk out, standing solemnly beside them. Wan Si asked his grandmother why everyone would stop every time the hearse passed by.

Grandma answered, my dear, because we are the people of the mountains, we respect our deceased.

“Elegy of the Countryside” made Vance famous, and even became his “vote” to join the Donald Trump camp.

Today, the combination of Donald Trump and Vance running together for the president and vice president of the United States is like a match made in heaven, which links the theory of red neck with the reality of red neck. This cooperation between the old and the young makes the American election a foregone conclusion.

As soon as the news of Vance becoming Donald Trump’s deputy reached Europe, European countries were devastated and howled, calling it a disaster in Ukraine.

Vance once said to himself, ‘I must be honest with you, I really don’t care what happens in Ukraine.’. Since you Europeans always say that the Ukrainian war poses a threat to European production, why don’t you spend money to increase military spending.

This red necked figure, who may soon become the Vice President of the United States, shows contempt for the power consensus forged by the United States after the war.

The United States is ultimately serving the people of Wansi.

In the era when the Mayflower arrived in the New World, a pastor preached to the Puritans on board, saying that you were like a city on a hill, and your way of life would become an example for all mankind.

Now, Wansi doesn’t want to spend energy on being this “worshipped” idol, they want to be themselves again.

Rather than being citizens of the world, they want to be Americans born and raised here, and the interests of the United States take priority.

Youth does not understand the red dust of war, and rouge is stained with the dust of thought. When the protagonist Holden of “The Catcher in the Rye” stands on the edge of a cliff, guarding the innocent heart of an ideal world free from adult filth, Wan Si in “The Lament of the Countryside” has already gambled his youth on tomorrow and stood by the side of the “American Godfather who can dodge bullets” on the road to the real world.

The curtain has opened, blood is destined to burn, and dog blood is also destined to burn.