Chapter 4 society 2

Yesterday, I went to the lotus market in Houhai, Beihai with a group of friends to attend the opening ceremony. It is now renamed Tianhefang, and it is a piano trio and a buffet.There are all kinds of people who go there, including foreigners in suits and evening gowns. It is a row of newly built restaurants and bars, which are said to turn Houhai into a new world of Beijing.Obviously, it needs to be different from another bar in Houhai. My sister just came back from North America and said that this kind of development is rare in North America, and it is completely like magic. In my impression, before "SARS", there were only a dozen or so bars in Houhai. Half a year later, Houhai was completely surrounded by bars, and the decoration and service became more and more luxurious. You can see the Spanish floor tiles, Funky psychedelic wallpaper, Pakistani overhead lights, and, of course, walls of sparkling glass mosaics.Deeply sunken sofa, from the second floor or the roof terrace, you can see that the entire Houhai sea surface is surrounded by intertwined lights, various styles of music are floating around, boats are swimming on the water, people are walking on the shore, Each other is the scenery.Shanghainese like to use the word luxury to describe a rich and lazy atmosphere, while Beijingers directly call it decadent. So many people have nothing to do between get off work and bedtime, so they flock to the street, in the dim light Enjoy a lifestyle that is the complete opposite of the day.Sometimes I think it's a kind of primitive resting pleasure, they do nothing, just let time pass as slowly as possible, try not to be noticed, which is very different from the pleasure caused by speed, which is a kind of change of concept.

During the day, these same people would like to use their hands and feet to provide fast and convenient services to our emerging commercial society, and get their own rewards from it.At work, they may be eloquent and persistent salesmen, CEOs who set out various contracts to maximize their own interests, department managers who fiercely stare at their subordinates to complete production quotas, or Programmers, designers, advertising planners who racked their brains and worked hard; and now, freed from work, from the thrill of work, from the vortex of business, they sit in groups by the lake, drinking Sipping tea, eating, and chatting with each other, instead of spending time in a hurry like during the day.

Here, outside of work, people are again divided into two groups: one group wriggles, jumps, shouts in discos, speeds on loops, eats and drinks in restaurants, gets thrills in cinemas, and enjoys pleasure. Traveling, searching, stretching the depression of the day, repeating the desire and fantasy of the day with the same anxiety and desire, it is the pleasure brought by speed, which makes people squander time and life wantonly in the storm.Another group of people changed their rhythm, or read a book, or were in a daze, or were stunned by the influence of alcohol, or talked or listened slowly.There is also a pleasure here, whose destination is quietness, leisure, and comfort, and another pleasure, a pleasure that is growing more and more.This kind of pleasure guides people from the noisy and exaggerated Sanlitun to the more reserved Houhai, and even people simply drive to the suburbs on weekends to spend by the stream, blue sky, and high mountains, away from the hustle and bustle, so that the trembling desire can rest.

I admit that the personal world is very small and pitiful, and even the president of the United States, I think, has far fewer spheres of activity than a small television can take us.Sometimes, I feel that the breadth of the world shown on TV is completely mocking personal experience.It occupies a very important position in people's living space, constantly making sounds and flashing pictures to remind people, look, how boring your life is, you sit opposite me for hours and hours, watching my Your eyes are full of envy and helplessness, how pitiful you are.But are people watching TV really pitiful?

I have read a lot of articles about TV, saying that TV culture is stupid and vulgar, a waste of people's time and energy. This kind of article surprised me at the ignorance of the people who wrote the article. I think that the power of TV programs can almost be "decisive "Such words to describe.It not only provides all kinds of entertainment, but also provides people with a social perspective and a moral standard to look at people and things in our world.Through TV news, we know what is happening in this world. Although what is happening has many similarities with what happened before, such as wars, we have to admit that there are always different places that attract us. Audiences who always watch football have to admit that watching it on TV is often more clear than watching it live. The camera lens captures exciting pictures from various angles, slows down the fast movements of the players, and clearly shows the trajectory of the football movement Come out, coupled with the commentary of experienced commentators, even a layman can quickly understand what is happening on the field.It greatly facilitates watching. It can be said that TV creates a rhythm completely different from that of the game on the field. For most people, this rhythm is clearer and easier to understand. In common terms, it is called better viewing. .

Not only that, television also creates a common time, that is, individual individuals scattered in small living rooms watch the same program at the same time.This is a kind of watching that is very similar to live viewing. Although the audience cannot communicate in real time, think about it, in the movie theater, the audience does not talk.Despite the appearance of being together, each is in reality a separate self.People enjoy a movie separately in the dark, but TV can gather a far larger crowd.Animal World draws thousands of viewers of all kinds who care about animals, worry about the fate of a baby elephant, or nervous about an African lion pounced on its prey, think if it is true If tens of millions of people are gathered together, what will happen? No one can guarantee this. Once the torrent of people is formed, there will be a collective unconsciousness. At that time, the individuals in the collective will lose themselves, and people will Like dynamite, it will explode at any time for a certain idea or common emotion, but it is far safer and more reliable for everyone to watch TV at home separately.

Television is also a link of communication between people. This link is different from any link before there was no TV.When people face TV, it is equivalent to facing the whole world in real time as individuals. On TV, groups and groups, nations and nations, countries and countries all appear in a real and illusory image. A position seems to have nothing to do with the individual, but it seems to be related to the individual. In fact, the TV information quietly adjusts the individual's thinking, making him secretly determine his position in this world. According to his position, determine His actions, this process is long-term and subtle. The information on TV itself gathers from all corners of the world, and these information are aggregated on TV to form an unstoppable trend that outlines the trend of our lives. Although we They are acting alone, but they are moved by some inexplicable and omnipresent thing. In this kind of movement, people can make up for the shortcomings of life composed of their own narrow experience, so as to connect with more lives. Generating understanding and identification, I believe that one day, when television can overcome the barriers caused by language to people, no doubt, the dream of a global village will be one step closer to people.

From time to time, I see some photos about home furnishing in the magazine "Fashion Guiding Consumption". Those photos tell me that people are arranging their private life with unceasing enthusiasm. Touching scene, modern technology from the West has made great poverty disappear, and people have begun to have some ability to pursue private comfort and leisure. People build their own new homes or renovate old ones, making life more worth living and personalized. Even a faucet has to obey people's aesthetic needs. Even so, in my opinion, there will still be ancient ghosts lingering on the soft bed, on the coffee table in front of the sofa, and in the bathtub in the bathroom. Yes, I'm talking about emptiness and boredom.

I believe that in the commercial world, the dream that people work hard for will be eaten away by the general emptiness and boredom. All the comfort often means only one thing, that is leisure, but leisure makes people crazy. The empty days that people are caught off guard by, the leisure in which their general poverty of spirit must be exposed, what will people do in their modern homes? Work, eat, exchange chromosomes, clean, try on new clothes , raising children, after doing all this, people look around at a loss, can not help but feel deep sorrow for what to do next, people will find that their life is one step closer to death, in fact, people are making strides Towards death, people have no choice but to let out a long sigh of helplessness.

The primary feature of the home is a kind of privacy, which distinguishes it from public places. I think this feature comes from the need for sex. People close their doors and secretly do the same thing in unison. It is to copy a self that is both familiar and strange to satisfy one's fantasy of immortality. This is the core of human life. People can only use tricks to deal with the iron law of the creator. People's lives are busy around sex, and sexual desire Appearing in various masks, driving people towards a fixed trajectory of life, actively building and maintaining all dreams about life, I believe that all hatred and dissatisfaction are false, people love this world unconditionally , love the mountains, rivers, waters, plants and trees in this world, especially, people love their own kind and partners, only jealousy can destroy this kind of love and make it incomplete, however, jealousy can't stop people from yearning for life All kinds of imprints, especially the imprints related to sex, these imprints are deeply imprinted in youth, children and households. After all, people have not found any world higher than life, and people's emotions are firmly grasped by dreams about life. , although the dream is so unreal and unapproachable, the fact that it is a dead end is really frustrating.

In the long run, human life comes from nature into the home. The home is the coat of human beings. It protects people from the influence of the weather and greatly improves the quality and efficiency of people's work and life. , in daily life, people will have a short-term specific goal, and people will rush for it, but wait a minute, once people take a break, stop for a while, think about this one thing, that is, outside of all the trivial things , when there is something else in life, the emptiness falls from the sky, and a sense of uncontrollable boredom arises. In fact, even in a perfectly furnished home, people get bored very quickly, just like People will soon get tired of any kind of artwork. People who lack the spiritual world will leave their homes as soon as possible to seek novelties in various places to satisfy their senses and spirit. Here, I must point out that A picture of people sinking deep in a comfortable sofa, all desires are temporarily quelled, this happens when the energy is low, it will be drowsy, but unfortunately, more often, people still have spare time Energy, then, who would enthusiastically appreciate the home that was once portrayed as endless? Yes, people don’t, people live a false public life through TV, and try to find something related to themselves. However, the illusion will soon be exposed, because public life must first be a life of communication, and that is comforting, so people go to the Internet, unfortunately, again The fast Internet is not vivid enough, monotony finally controls everything, because all these are virtual, and what people pursue is flesh and blood, colorful and authentic. I am often at home myself, and I have done things like furnishing my own room and beautifying the family. The monotony of passing time often makes my nerves unbearable. No matter what new daily necessities I buy, whether it is flowers and grass, cats and dogs, or living with others, it cannot make up for the uniqueness of private life. Loneliness is a kind of helpless suffocation. Being alone at home is really alone, like being in a cage, and I feel troubled and hopeless. In fact, I now think that the joy of life of ordinary people depends extremely on healthy and safe public life. And look around, where is that life? Human beings have had some successful precedents in public life, such as Montmartre, Greenwich Village, etc. I think this kind of life is the ultimate refuge other than personal home life. Generally speaking, it is for a richer public life. In life, people would rather give up their private lives. If there are some good places that make me really linger, I would rather burn down my home. People build their own nests, and the next step is to leave It's over, I don't believe that there is any warmth in staying in one's own hut in a daze all day long, put on music, drink a glass of stuffy wine, the taste is so difficult and bitter, it makes people daunting out of thin air, and the colorful and interesting public life is even more so. It depends on the energy arrangement of the society, that is a more critical part of the human way of life, it is a creative life, it is part of the concept of human beings involved in happiness and joy, in fact, as a Beijinger, I sincerely appreciate it expresses despair, for neither looking back nor looking ahead I see no sign of any action being taken by men about it, it seems that this ancient people had a marvelous tolerance for tedium, in other words, spiritually, people were It is so easy to be satisfied, which makes people's life extremely poor and boring, it is really stable enough! Although I am particularly puzzled by this, I still express my sincere admiration-it seems that those demons who linger in Chinese homes are still Sleeping, alas, I hope they can sleep forever.