Chapter 24 Ken

"Ken" is a willing verb, expressing willingness, permission, such as "approval", "willing to do", "willing to use your brain", etc., used to describe people's psychological tendencies.People in Maqiao use the word "Ken" much more widely. It can be used not only to describe people and animals, but also to describe everything else in the world.There are some examples like this.This field is Ken and Changhe.It's really strange that the firewood in my house won't catch fire.This boat is willing to go.It hasn't rained for more than a month on this day.The hoe in the original meaning becomes a person who refuses.etc.Hearing these words, I can't help feeling a feeling.Everything has a will and is alive. Fields, firewood, boats, sky, hoes, etc. are all the same as people, and should even have their own names and stories.In fact, people in Maqiao are very used to speaking to them, coaxing or cursing, praising or making promises, such as cursing the plowshare severely, and it will go much faster in the field.For example, if you put a hatchet on the mouth of a wine jar and smoke it with alcohol, it will be more powerful when chopping wood.Perhaps, if they hadn't succumbed to a kind of external imposition and scientific propaganda, people in Maqiao would not have admitted that these things were dead things without emotion and thinking.Only under this premise, when a tree dies, we have reason to feel sad and even miss it for a long time.In those places where the trees fell one by one without sorrow, the trees never lived, were never but cold costs and resources.The people there don't use the word "Ken" in this way.As a child, I also had a lot of anthropomorphic or animistic fantasies.For example, I would regard the flowers full of trees as the dreams of the roots, and the rugged mountain road as the conspiracy of the forest, which is of course naive.After I become strong, I will use the knowledge of physics or chemistry to explain flowers and mountain roads, or because I can explain flowers and mountain roads with physical or chemical knowledge, I will start to become strong.The question is, is the thinking of the strong the right thinking?For quite a long time, men have been stronger than women. Are men's thinking correct?The empire of the great powers is stronger than the colonies. Is the thinking of the empire correct?If there is a creature that is much more advanced and powerful than human beings in the alien space, should their thoughts be used to eliminate and replace human thoughts?this is a problem.A question I can't answer, a question of hesitation.Because I not only hope that I am strong, but also hope that I will return to my weak childhood again and again, back to the dream of tree roots and the conspiracy of the forest.