Chapter 12 2.The secret of social value sorting can continue: You must not treat people as people

Social value ranking is a kind of psychological food chain: in order to survive psychologically, the big fish eats the small fish, and the small fish eats shrimp. To not want to be eaten, one has to climb up. Let's take a look at Su Qin, the famous mouthpiece of the Warring States Period.For the liberation cause of becoming an official and making a fortune, he is not afraid of suffering, and he is not afraid of death. After lobbying Qin to defeat the six countries, he endured the eyes of everyone, and then went to lobby the six countries to "unite" against Qin, and finally took charge of the six countries. , and made his sister-in-law who once looked down on him crawl like a snake to apologize.

We have to ask, Comrade Su's deeds of revolutionary heroism of "hanging the head from the beam, stabbing the buttocks with an awl" fully prove that he was made of special materials.What kind of spirit is this?His sister-in-law is condescending to him, what kind of mental illness is it? Comrade Sima Qian told us in "Historical Records" that this is a spirit of "taking honor".Without "honor", it is at the bottom of the psychological food chain, and it can only be eaten.Who is Su Qin, how could he be willing to be a shrimp? His sister-in-law is the most devout believer in social value ordering.As a shrimp, apart from seriously despising Su Qin, who has been miserable, and imagining herself as a small fish, she can find some joy in life. Psychologically, should she still live?And when Comrade Su Qin succeeded in the revolution and became a big fish, she had no other choice but to please her quickly.

Not to mention, flattery itself can make her have the illusion that she is no longer Xiami, because she is Su Qin's sister-in-law, and she can show off in front of all the sisters after sharing Su Qin's fork. I don’t know if you are surprised: Although Comrade Su Qin has changed from a proletarian to a leading cadre and his status has changed, he is still the same person. Why is there such a sharp contrast in his value in the eyes of her sister-in-law? This involves a big secret of social value ranking, and it is also a big loophole.Let’s start with one commodity: boots.The boots are glamorous, and with a pair of silk stockings, it's absolutely classy for a woman.There is no problem with that, we can understand that the whip looks beautiful on a pair of beautiful feet.

Boots come in different brands and have different prices, which is also normal as a phenomenon. But then there was a problem: two women with similar looks went to buy boots, one went to a brand-name store, and the other went to a street stall.After a while, they were all showing their boots in the street.When you see this scene, does it have this feeling in your head: women who wear brand-name boots are more luxurious than women who wear street boots? We are so familiar with this phenomenon that we don't want to ask why. Do we succumb to the power of money by thinking that a woman who visits a brand store is high-end only because we presume she is rich?It's only half right.The truth of the matter is that in our psychology, the difference in commodity prices is itself a sort of value, which is transformed into a sort of value among people who buy commodities—different prices for commodities mean different prices for people.

The things that a person possesses, that is, things outside the body can be compared, but can the person himself be compared?Who dares to say that in terms of life, the life of a billionaire is worth more than that of a beggar?If he kills the beggar, throws out a million dollars, and says, "This amount of money can buy your life for several lifetimes." Are you convinced?We can't ask these questions at all, because human life and human value are incomparable, let alone measured by money. Then why does social value sorting occur, and people are divided into high-end and low-end?

At a party, when we introduce two people, we will point to A and tell B, what is A's name, what does he do, or who are we.Did you find out that if A has no name, occupation, identity, or has nothing to do with us, we have no way of defining A at all, and we have no idea who he is.Such an A is a mystery. Why do you feel a little uncomfortable when you bump into a stranger in a dark, narrow alley?Because you can't define him at all.Yes, he is a man, but you don't know what he is.And this is a threat to you, you have to guard against it. Therefore, we must define a person and grasp him.So what defines a person?Isn’t he a kind of existence, easy to handle, just use his existence attributes, such as gender, age, place of origin, occupation, identity, relationship with whom, etc., are the existence attributes.We say that Bai Yansong is a CCTV news commentator, and Yao Ming is a football star.

Originally, a person is a doctor, and he is 35 years old. This kind of existence is only used to refer to a person, just like a language symbol is used to refer to a thing, the referent and the referent are not the same. It's one thing.However, in our brains and hearts, the situation has completely changed, becoming a person is his attribute of existence.When we "experience" a person, we experience him with his most obvious attributes of existence.Don't many people experience the big beauty Gillian as a pure star?When you saw the body art photography works of her and the outstanding photography artist Comrade Edison Chen, were you surprised?

The strange thing is that the way we experience a person, he experiences himself in this way.A person is a migrant worker, and he also experiences "migrant worker" as his self, although it is a somewhat shameful self; a person is an urban management, and he also experiences "urban management" as his self. This urban management is in his eyes, do you still want to set up a stall, huh? Although a person's existence is really not something that he possesses, psychologically, we just think that a person is something that he possesses.The logic of social value sorting is: everyone is a unique individual, just like a pen and an apple, they are not comparable.However, I converted them into money, can you see which one of them is more valuable?

The same goes for people. Honestly admit that the game of social value ranking is most beneficial to the strong. If you have so much money and so much power, you still can’t feel that you are awesome in front of others, and you can’t vent your anger and trample on it legally. The desire for the dignity of others is not so depressing to death, how much meaning can life find?However, for the weak, throwing away their true value and participating in this game is doomed to lose psychologically.