Chapter 3 society 1

I feel that we are seriously wanting a social life, that is, a satisfactory political life.In addition to going to work, we still have a lot of time and energy. We spend this energy on the so-called rest. The rest places provided by the society are nothing more than shopping malls, restaurants, cinemas, theaters, gymnasiums, nightclubs, and at most There's a little tourist activity, a few parks or attractions, and then, nothing more.Of course, there are some bad places we don't want to go to, for example, hospitals. However, according to my experience, after taking a rest where I can rest, I feel that there is really nothing more distressing than rest. Rest is so tedious that sometimes I really want to stay in work all day long. .

We usually have a few familiar friends who we don't see twice, and of course, we have a home, including TV, books, and the Internet.It sounds like we have a lot, but what matters is who we are with, what we talk about with them, how we feel when we are with them. I think meeting an interesting person is more exciting than all the places to go mentioned above put together.With a person who can enable us to communicate better, all places will have new meanings for us, that is, the key question is, what means does society use to allow us to meet some new people. 〖JP2〗 The strange thing is that there are almost no such institutions in society, except for marriage agencies and job hunting places, it is very difficult for us to meet new people.Everyone lives in a relatively closed environment, which also makes us narrow-minded.We see nothing new, are bored with the old, and even if we read a good book or have a new idea, we cannot share it.We all live in a prison of our own self, guarded by our own distrust of the outside world.This mistrust is made of our experiences, and we have all been hurt by it before, so we dare not rush to it again.We are increasingly lonely, sensitive, and pursuing perfection. In fact, we are closing ourselves off. 〖JP〗

Some people say, go to nature and see the mountains, rivers, flowers, plants and trees, and you will feel happy.However, nature is cold in most cases, because no matter how beautiful nature is, it does not contain emotions. I would rather hug a lover tightly in the snow than walk alone in a fairyland.Because the freshness of the fairyland will soon disappear, and there is no kind of cordial communication between me and the fairyland. Slowly, the fairyland can only make me feel relaxed and numb, and arouse my loneliness and loneliness. Rather than a continuous pleasure or pain, in short, nature cannot arouse in me an emotion that is exclusively human.

The lack of social life makes me feel depressed, makes me hesitate, and makes me feel that life is gradually losing its meaning.Material prosperity saved me from running around for the survival in front of me, and saved me from one of the most terrible anxiety, but it got me two other extremes, one is success anxiety, and the other is spiritual emptiness. With regard to success, we know that it is a state that is infinitely close but not attainable.With regard to emptiness, we know that it is a boring and confusing state.Both states are unsettling, and no matter how much we do for them, it seems like not enough.In fact, I think these are two dark abysses, based on the insatiable nature of human beings. in the process of resting.We are elated or saddened by it, excited or depressed by it.However, these two states are purely personal states. I believe that if people have a sincere social activity in which they can communicate, understand and understand each other, then people's lives will be easier.But how or how does society provide this kind of life? I think this is a very important question of this era.

What content for political life does our commercial society have to offer? Take a look below. Some jumbled words that are often used in the media can help us understand. Such as globalization, internationalization, democratization and the like.Except for some empty and obscure new things, these words have no actual corresponding new institutions. In particular, political promises never include the content of spiritual life, which makes those promises strangely banal and empty. In business, the ultimate moral is honesty, which is the most basic group contract in a society, but it cannot be extended to the political field.

The emphasis on cooperation leads to shameless kitsch and indiscriminate tolerance and submission. As a result, the entertainment industry has risen, and the entertainment industry has replaced the previous propaganda. Of course, this cannot help to establish a social criticism system. Class consciousness has been removed and replaced with meaningless slogans such as common prosperity and sustainable development, so as to cover up the control of society by individual new and old interest groups.The control methods of these groups are more flexible and covert than before, and social dissidents are quietly swept out invisibly.

Emphasizing the comfort and safety of personal life is completely applying the slogans of the real estate and decoration industries, leading to laziness and superficial and formalized life. What is the attitude towards others? It is not justice, but general social indifference. The loophole in the education system still lies in moral education. The textbooks are diametrically opposed to the reality, making education a hotbed of rhetoric and lies. The spirit is broken. Children neither carry history nor have new sustenance. This makes our future generation have no rules. Acting, making the future of society unprecedentedly confused.

Ideology has become a specialized technique, it has become a school of its own only in extremely small circles, and it maintains an incomprehensible interpretation of political content in obscure terms.All kinds of political thoughts are mixed together, or randomly copied and collaged, and all kinds of intransitive concepts are replaced and distorted casually, confusing them into a kind of political postmodernism that makes people feel at a loss.We can simply call it economic politics, which is an ironic status quo, with economics brutally replacing politics. This is the characteristic of our society, childishness, superficiality, ignorance, and the extreme formalism that comes with it.On the surface, this kind of life disintegrates the previous subjective, fanatical and paranoid idealism, but it makes life fall into another, more evil trap.Here, personal whims or surreal fantasies take the place of long-term social goals.Dazzling material life has replaced powerful spiritual life, greed and selfishness have become a social quality that cannot be blamed, and muddleheadedness has become the primary characteristic of a huge and numb crowd.What it pursues is the stability of the present, rather than thinking about the future. What it pursues is the superficial material prosperity and empties the spiritual needs behind the material.Here, human beings, a concept honed by history, are reduced to a meaningless survival activity.Its content is feeding and breeding, not more aggressive planning, and its morality is a mutual tolerance backed by deceit, not a tolerance based on understanding.The struggles and pleasures it offers are meaningless, but a makeshift hodgepodge.And the response that society has to give is satisfaction, then, I would say, this lifeless life is terribly lacking in vitality, it is only a far-fetched imitation and a disgusting corruption.

In the late 1980s, some dimly lit public places appeared in Beijing. At night, candles were lit in these places. After entering, everyone looked better than in broad daylight.The drinks sold in these public places are several times more expensive than those in ordinary restaurants, but people quickly accepted the shameful price, because when they bought drinks, they also bought something called mood.This is the predecessor of the Beijing bar, some specious and vague public places, which sell some packaged food - plums, peanuts, instant coffee, alcoholic drinks and so on.It was the first time that Beijingers enjoyed some kind of public environment with an aesthetic nature after experiencing a long period of material deprivation. People entered this kind of environment, talked about love or exchanged certain ideas that matched the environment.

Twenty years later, bars have become a common public place on the streets of Beijing. At first, they were stereotyped bars, each bar no different from others. Then, bands appeared, and then, fresh coffee appeared, all kinds of imported beer and Red wine appeared.In Sanlitun, bars form a street. In order to distinguish themselves from other bars, each bar is constantly improving to find its own style.The competition among the bars started like this. The bar owners changed again and again. The northern owner opened the bar to crowds of friends.Every night, the lights are feasting, and people of all colors in night clothes walk through the bar inside and outside, a decadent and boring scene of prosperity.

Beijingers are also quietly changing these bars according to their own hobbies: bobbleheads have turned some bars into bobblehead halls, where people listen to Hi tunes, eat poison that provides excitement and happiness, and enjoy themselves to the fullest. Their hallucinations can only be interrupted until the police rush in; other bars are occupied by card fans, and people gather together to do nothing but play cards; The happy people shake their heads and shake their backs, exaggerating their happiness. From around 1995, I started to hang out in various bars with some friends. Before that, I was in small restaurants.The reason why small restaurants can't survive is that everyone eats more and gets fatter, and they are so fat that they don't like to look at themselves. I really wish I were someone else, so I moved to the bar.Although the money is spent faster, and you are less sober after you are done playing, you still like to hang out, at least it is better than going to the theater or movie theater, because you can smoke, drink and talk in bars no matter what, and you don’t have to eat all the time. This is a bar. The strengths of the bar, I respect the strengths of the bar. The area with the most bars in Beijing is Sanlitun Street. I remember the name is White House. The owner is Henry. He is from Shanghai and is good at business.Later, he opened No. 88, which played the most avant-garde electronic music, hired a black man to watch the door to collect tickets, and sometimes received old customers, which drove away many old customers.But now No. 88 is finished, but the White House is still there. At the beginning, some friends and I always went there. We usually went to the White House to talk about things, or we were free. We wandered around during the day and asked each other where it was. When you meet, the answer is mostly a white house.Those who went first waited for those who went later to order a drink there, and then someone who sold pirated CDs came up and asked if you could buy it. Once you bought it, you had to choose, and it took half an hour to choose, and then The people waiting gradually gathered. After they are all gathered, if you ask everyone where they want to go, the answer is usually anywhere.This group of people are too easy-going, that is to say, no one has an idea, so they continued to stop at the white house, chatting about literature, music, movies and telling jokes.The party is much more fun if you can have some nice girls, especially the kind who are interested in the arts.In fact, pretty girls five years ago were really interested in art, they read like men, they had fantasies, and those fantasies were usually confined to the emotional realm.They are kind, curious and want to get to know others.But today's pretty girls are only interested in images, especially their own images, and they prefer to be enchanted by a changeable material picture. I have also visited bars in Shanghai, bars in Guangzhou, and bars in many other cities.In the bar, I listened to all kinds of people talking, and found that only in bars in Beijing can there be such a scene, that is, a group of people are talking happily. The bar is almost a mess. Generally speaking, bars in Beijing are centered on people or things. The decoration of the bar may make southerners feel rough and simple, but people will tell you: this bar gathers a group of people from the 1970s; , Cui Jian and a group of friends went to play jazz for self-entertainment; the owner of another bar was Wang Shuo, and people who were engaged in literature and movies were often exempted; Help yourself, and you can also hear young directors talking about movies there.These words suddenly make you feel like you have come to Paris in the 1920s. Who makes Beijing have so many celebrities?Of course, most of these celebrities are cultural celebrities, there is no way, if you want to have some fun in Beijing, you must have some culture.In fact, to put it simply, in any small bar in Beijing, there is a small circle of people who know each other. This is the so-called small circle doctrine in Beijing.In my eyes, this kind of cliqueism really has indescribable enthusiasm. Think about how tiring it is for you to get to know everyone one by one in other places.Sometimes I really want to call it a loose sand in other places, where the difference between bars and restaurants is only from eating to drinking. There are many resident singers in bars in Beijing. Most of them hold guitars and sing their favorite songs. You will find that some of these singers have been singing for more than ten years. nothing has changed.Come to think of it, for 10 years, they could do anything and they're still out there singing, which means they really love singing, they love that way of life.This is a kind of sincerity, and if you want to have this kind of sincerity, you must have a little character, and they have that kind of character. It’s hard to find madness in Beijing’s bars. People in Beijing are not that violent. Even if someone drinks too much, most of them will be stopped by friends. As far as I’ve seen over the years, there are very few violent tendencies in bars. On the contrary, there are more and more violent tendencies in bar music, but most people will dance and dance in that kind of music to stretch their tired waists. Why do people go to bars? Especially at night, every bar is full, it is incredible.Sometimes I look around and come to a conclusion: the seats in the bar are definitely not as comfortable as the sofa at home, the music is so loud that people can’t talk, it’s not convenient to make a phone call at home, and of course what to drink is more expensive than buying from the supermarket, plus the smoke , the lights are dim, you can hardly do anything in it - why do people go? But people just want to go, and there is only one reason, and that is loneliness.It is loneliness that drives people here, there are their kind, and perhaps people feel a little better among their kind. When I was young, I liked to find my own romantic affair in the bar. No matter what others thought, I stubbornly believed that the girls in the bar were easy to catch up with, otherwise why would they go out at night and dress themselves up beautifully, Is it a fantasy? And, why did they come to the bar? The truth finally shattered my thoughts, and when I recalled my shameless and flirtatious figure in the bar a few years ago, I couldn't help but smile at the corner of my mouth. A gratified smile.I think there are quite a few people out there who have had as many misses with girls as I have, but I don't know if they'll be relieved.Now, my age has passed, and I feel that it is not appropriate to be as coquettish as I was when I was young. I can grit my teeth with a fashionable haircut, but when I wear tights, my stomach will protrude disgustingly Come on, and leggings also make my crotch uncomfortable.Although the obscene thoughts in my head were the same as before, and even more intense, it would be so embarrassing to think of rushing into the bar like this, and going home with nothing.I don't want to humiliate myself like this, and then go home late at night, looking at myself in the mirror, I feel so sad, I feel so itchy that I want to hire someone to slap me in the face to be more comfortable, forget it, respect yourself, let the young people Go fuck yourself, the bars in Beijing are for these people.