Chapter 16 what a dreamer can do

Once a reporter interviewed "Hua Hua Tai Sui" Dennis Rodman, roughly saying, look at you, you look like you have been run over by a truck hundreds of times, why are you the one who grabs the most rebounds?He replied, "Because I was trying so hard to get that damn ball!" I was like, hey, that's the real recipe for success.From this, I remembered that one night when I was a child, my house was full of friends, and my grandfather called me from a distance through the crowd: "Hey Dapeng—" I replied: "Hey—" He asked, "Why are you so ugly?" ?” If I had read Rodman’s maxim, I would have answered him, what’s wrong with being ugly, as long as I am ambitious and desperately trying to grab something, then even if I can’t be Huahua Taisui, I can be a middle class class!But I didn't know this at the time, so I exclaimed in a romantically silly tone: "Maybe it will look good when I grow up—"

Now that I take a selfie in the mirror, I finally know that there is no "maybe" in life.I don't know if the evil power in fairy tales really exists in this world. Anyway, in the long years, I have not changed at all like a frog that has never been kissed by a princess.I also found that I couldn't rebound, didn't want to rebound, and worse, I didn't want to rebound at all. There will always be some people in this world who will be the opposite of Rodman, closer in temperament to dreamers than doers, and I am unfortunately one of them.Sometimes I have some very nasty thoughts, imagining that something great and good will happen to me, for example, suddenly one day I bought a cruise ship, and I called all my friends on board, "wear Go to the cotton monkey, let’s go to the North Pole to catch penguins!” At other times, I would have a little upper-class thinking, for example, can our country be better?

One of the wonders of human life is that empty fantasies can be as valuable as actual actions.Apart from some of the most extreme cases, in general, dreamers can do one very basic thing, which is to monitor the present world by the standards of a better world. In my opinion, the great novelists of the past and present have all done the same thing, which is to identify what is SB in this world.Pointing out that the combination of patriarchal system and pragmatism is a nasty thing, saying that the noble spirit in war is a stupid thing, more modern novels are unwilling to be too obviously critical, but they are better than their predecessors in identifying SB, Many works can point out at least one hundred kinds of stains on human nature in one package.Sometimes journalists do the same thing.Someone who has absolutely no imagination for a better world may say: What a wonderful world I manage, and if novelists make any trouble, I will die!But the fact is that Er Cao's body and name are torn apart, and novelists are still immortal.

Corresponding to the worldly tendencies of journalists, novelists are always visionaries.When you read these works, you will find that the writers condemn everything on a beautiful scale, and that the condemnable world in the book is not different from the one you and I live in. In my opinion, our world is really not very good. People mature early in sophistication and late in shame. Teenagers are very shrewd, but they may not be ashamed when they live to be old.According to game theory, this is "Nash Equilibrium". Children are good babies when they are born, but when they grow up, others are fucked up. If they don't fuck up, they will have no way to survive. What can they do?Theoretically speaking, this is the direct origin of the "national character" that makes many people here feel sad.

However, what can be done?In fact, it only needs to change the reward mechanism of society.How can a society always reward cheating, kidnapping and stealing?This is simple to say, but it is actually quite magnificent in practice. The ancients said that "the family is in order to rule the country and the world is flat." If you do this, it is equivalent to "governing the country".However, there is nothing to be ashamed of in governing the country. This country is mine, and it is only natural for me to govern it. Dreamers can also do something higher, not only overseeing the present with the standards of a better world, but creating a better world.For example, like Hemingway, you can describe the snow-white mountains, tell a story of a cold winter rain, and reflect on failure and death. After reading this, readers of later generations will be fascinated by it, like a gentleman.If you have no ability, you can still do something more simple, that is to be alone, at least not as keen as others to embarrass yourself.At least you can curl up, daydream, stay home and look in the mirror.You know what's going to happen next?This is really another grim and funny story that can comfort my grandpa: You can't wait for yourself to be good-looking, but you can wait for others to be ugly.