This flattering story

There is a joke known to all women and children: once upon a time, there was an apple polisher who took pictures of emperors and officials. When the prince heard about it, he sent a kid to take him to the prince's palace, ready to sentence him to the frying pan. The man's eyes were ga zi ng, and then he plopped down on his knees and said, "Master Yan, it's not that I'm a mean person who wants to condescend. It's those people who like me to kiss up and flatter. If they can be as selfless as you and enforce the law like a mountain, then it is useless for me to flatter them! " Yan heard every word was true, so he released him and sent the imp to send him back to the soil.

You see, from guilty to innocent, how can we escape the punishment of "frying"? Kiss up! "Flattery", also known as "flattery", can make the subject unconsciously fall into the trap of the photographer, such as drinking and interacting with people, which shows the effect of flattery. The names "flattery" and "flattery" sound a little indecent, so the elite changed their names to "wearing a top hat" There is an interesting joke "Top Hat" in "Jokes of the Ming and Qing Dynasties": "The world calls flattery a top hat. When two students leave their posts for the first time, it is the same teacher. The teacher said that you can't be straight in your life, and you can send high hats to everyone. One of them said,' What the teacher said is true. How many people in this world don't like wearing a tall hat like a teacher?' The teacher was overjoyed. As soon as he came out, Gu Tong said,' Here comes the top hat.' "

Although the names "flattery" and "wearing a top hat" are intuitive and easy to understand, they both have shortcomings and do not reveal their own harmfulness. So now some people call "flattery" and "wearing a high hat" spiritual bribery. This is a good name, which tells the essence of "flattery" and "wearing a high hat", and makes people think of bribery at once, warning that its harm is no less than material bribery.

The author believes that the essence of "flattery", "wearing a high hat" and "spiritual bribery" is to take improper means of non-material bribery and use "spirit" as a "gift" to impress the briber in order to achieve their ulterior motives.

Now some people are good at bribing leading cadres mentally, which can be described as well-intentioned. The stepfather of a county party secretary in Lushi County, Henan Province died, and several of his township officials did not hesitate to travel hundreds of miles to his hometown to attend the funeral. They knelt in front of the mourning hall and wept bitterly, more grieving than the death of their mother, Lao Zi. No matter how hard they try, they can't stop it. Later, the secretary personally came forward and said, "Come on! All right! I know! " , this just stopped; Later, these township officials were appointed as the director of the county construction Committee, the standing Committee of the county party Committee and the minister of propaganda department, and the deputy county magistrate. Township officials in Lushi County play the role of "dutiful son" and show their loyalty to the secretary with practical actions, which is a means of flattery, that is, "spiritual bribery"-crying for the trust of the secretary and crying for his job. If these flatteries are still relatively traditional, then the present flattery skills are the original creation of modern people. Officials in Fushan County, Shanxi Province actually set up a monument to boast that a vice governor personally went to the grass-roots level to plant trees. The words "Governor Tree Planting Monument" were engraved on the monument. Ma Xiangdong, the former executive vice mayor of Shenyang, wanted to package himself as a pioneering and promising young cadre, so someone immediately wrote an article for him, talking about young and middle-aged cadres' outlook on life, outlook on honor and disgrace, and new thinking on urban strategy. Ma Xiangdong is a big corrupt official, but those who engage in "spiritual bribery" ignore it and try their best to package Ma Xiangdong as a "scholar" and a "great politician"! Of course, the personal purpose behind it can be imagined.

"More than 10 million, not much flattery", "thousands of people wear everything, but no flattery". From ancient times to the present, the tragedy of Huang Zhong's downfall and Wafu Leiming has lasted for thousands of years, and the harm of "spiritual bribery" is enormous. Spiritual bribery is different from material bribery, which is very deceptive and hidden, and it is extremely difficult for people to detect it. From the legal point of view, "spiritual bribery" does not constitute a crime, but it is essentially the enemy of people's thoughts and the bane of their behavior. Some leaders who are not clear-headed and determined are likely to fall into the ideological and moral defense line unconsciously and gradually degenerate in the process of "flattering", "wearing a high hat" and "spiritual bribery", while those who engage in "spiritual bribery" often enrich themselves and have a prosperous career. Therefore, we must be vigilant and guard against "spiritual bribery"