Chapter 100 lazy (as used by men)

I have a friend who works as a boss in the city and leads an engineering team.I introduced Kuiyuan and the younger students who came with him, and working as a laborer there can be regarded as a job. A few days later, they knocked on my door and said with a bitter face that there was really nothing they could do.Well, there is really nothing to do. "what happened?" "Nothing." "Did you faint?" "I never get street-sick, it's just... the sun." "You mean in the sun?" "that is" "You don't wear a hat?" "It's still in the sun after wearing it."

"You don't bask in the sun in the countryside?" "I... never work in the fields." "What do you do all day?" "Don't do anything, sometimes I help Brother Yanwu collect some grain and collect some bills, most of the time I just play games, play cards, and sit with others." Kui Yuan smiled and gave the young man who came with him a wink. He stared at the TV and ate melon seeds, and smiled at the right time. "You are so young, just like this-lazy?" I said a very heavy word. "It's lazy, it's really lazy." Kuiyuan happily continued, "I'm a bit lazy in the house, I never collect firewood, I never carry water, and I still don't know how to wash rice until now. How it's cooked."

The young man eating melon seeds said: "Me too. If you want to ask me where the machete is in the house and how much the pigs in the house eat for a meal, I definitely don't know." "I went out to play cards, and a dozen lasted for half a month." "I don't play cards. I go to the third uncle's house in the county to play, ride a motorcycle, and watch TV." I was a little surprised.From their proud tone, from their somewhat exaggerated self-introduction.I discovered the metamorphosis of word meaning, a language redefinition movement that had already begun and I was still in the dark.The word "lazy" that I hate has already become a medal for them, and they compete to snatch it and wear it on their chests.The inertia I am accusing has already become synonymous with unrestrained, comfortable, dignified, and capable, and they yearn for and pursue them with bright eyes. How should I talk to them next?

Of course, they don't necessarily completely cancel the original meaning of the word "lazy". For example, when talking about looking for a wife, they say whose mother-in-law is lazy and whose girl is not lazy, but they depreciate being a woman.From this point of view, they just added a new dictionary for men, which is not suitable for women. It is in this new dictionary that "lazy" has gained its purposeful glory.It is conceivable that laziness is the case, so cheating, exploitation, reasoning, viciousness, treachery, scoundrel, embezzlement, theft, speculation, kitsch, corruption, obscenity, manipulative, etc., may or have already become the newest dictionary of men. Praise and praise—at least among a fair number of men.In their eyes, if there are still men who do not recognize this dictionary, it does not mean that this dictionary does not exist. It just means that these men are the opposite sex of some languages. in the shadow of history.

People's dialogues are often carried out between two or more dictionaries.Difficulties in word meaning translation, especially the pitfalls of word meaning translation in the deep feeling, not everyone is careful at all times.In 1986, I visited an "artist colony" in Virginia, USA, that is, an artist creation center. The word colony has always made me feel awkward.I later learned that in many Western colonial suzerains and many Westerners, colony does not have the images of murder, arson, rape, looting, and opium importation in the memory of the colonial people. On the contrary, it has a peaceful meaning and is just a residence Land, an alias for settlements; it even faintly exudes the romantic poetry of developers and pioneers, which is connected with various laws and testimonies of foreign aid development, voyage exploration, and civilization transmission in the memory of the empire.A colony is a staging place for the noble, a stronghold for heroes.Westerners have never found it inappropriate to use this word to refer to places where artists work hard.

That is, in the United States, I met a man named Hansen who knew Chinese, married a Chinese wife, and worked as a reporter for the Asian edition of a major newspaper.After listening to me talk about the suffering of the Chinese people, he expressed deep sympathy and anger towards the creators of the suffering.But I suddenly found that after he was sympathetic and angry, he had a strange movement: a smile flashed in the glasses, and an index finger kept swipe back and forth on a certain position on the table, as if writing something in the air, Or an exciting music in the conductor's heart.He couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and when he finally called his friend in English, he invited him to meet me too, saying that some of the stories I brought were so touching and so precious!He believes this is the most wonderful story in the world!I find the word "wonderful" harsh.My father committed suicide, did he feel "wonderful" when he sank to the bottom of the river?A friend of mine’s younger brother was shot in a wrongful case. Did he feel “wonderful” when he couldn’t find the faces of his parents to see him off before his execution and wept?A friend of mine's son was accidentally killed by gangsters, did the father feel any "wonderful" when he got his son's belongings back from college and never dreamed that he and not someone else wrote the epitaph for his son? …I don’t want to doubt Hansen’s sympathy, no, he has been calling for justice in his newspaper, and has been helping the Chinese as much as possible, including helping me get the treatment and funding of a visiting scholar.But his "wonderful" comes from a dictionary I don't understand.Apparently, in that dictionary, suffering is not just suffering, but also material for writing or speech, a necessary condition for inspiring rebellion and revolution, so the deeper the suffering, the better, the more brilliant-- shine.There is a law implied in that dictionary: in order to destroy the creators of suffering, there must be more suffering to testify, so that more people can understand the necessity, urgency and nobility of this struggle.That is to say, in order to eliminate suffering, there must first be suffering.The suffering of others is the compassion of the rescuers, as well as their joy and comfort, and it is an important score on their heroic report card.

I didn't want to say anything more, and suddenly changed my mind and insisted that the other party not pay for my pizza, which puzzled him a bit. I have often discovered, with horror, that speaking is not easy, and that when my words fly out, they often sow misunderstandings. I also found that even a powerful propaganda machine has never had the control of understanding, and it is also mired in ambiguity time and time again.I need to mention the younger generation who accompanied Kuiyuan to my house.I later learned that his surname was Zhang, and he used to be an employee of the county film company. He was fired from public office because he had an extra child.It's not that he doesn't understand the consequences of extra births. The state's publicity on family planning rewards and punishments can be said to be overwhelming, and it has worn calluses on his eardrums.He doesn't like children either. In fact, the two sons he already had rarely saw his shadow, and it was difficult to get his smiling face. This has always been an obstacle and burden for him to plan to divorce.He has no reason to have another one.After my conversation with him, after my puzzlement, I can only come to one conclusion; he has a different vocabulary.In that system, the meanings of many words are beyond the imagination of ordinary people.For example, "violation of law and discipline" is not necessarily a bad thing, not necessarily a scandal, on the contrary, violation of law and discipline is often the proof of the strong, the privilege of the strong, and the most important source of glory and enjoyment.If the entry of "violation of law and discipline" includes corruption, smuggling, downfall of officials, whoring, running a red light, spitting, eating and drinking with public funds, etc., then none of them is not a good thing that this young man yearns for He didn't do all of this, just because the ability of the eye is not enough.

It is not difficult to understand that when Chaosheng is also included in one of the meanings of "violation of law and discipline", when this behavior has not exceeded his ability, he will make a decision without thinking. His transcendence is completely unreasonable, not out of the balance of interests at all, but out of the inertia of his understanding, out of the pursuit of all privileged behaviors.Perhaps, he once knew a bureau chief or a big manager, and that person had always been secretly envied by him because he gave birth to a third child in a grand manner.Therefore, once he also did something that ordinary people dared not do or could not do, this thing itself gave him a sense of being extraordinary, a feeling of being a bureau chief or a big manager.His efforts to cover up the fact of superbirth from relevant parties are like a million yuan of stolen money unknowingly hidden, enough to make him secretly complacent and constantly reflect on his daring achievements.

What good is propaganda for a man like him?What is the use of propaganda of law and discipline?Of course there was: it was to intensify his desperate passion, to seduce him day after day. I can't find any other explanation. If my explanation above is roughly correct, then the whole thing is nothing more than a linguistic event, an absurd exercise of passing and short-circuiting word meanings.Offenders end up losing their jobs.Paid for one or a few extremely common words.And the propaganda of the rulers to him is almost like seeking fish from a tree, and the opposite is true. In a completely unfamiliar dictionary, a completely unpredictable baby girl was born.The baby girl was actually not wanted by either party.But this mistake cannot be hidden forever, nor can it be painted over with a correction, nor can it be erased with an eraser.

She grows bigger and will live into the future. She is a mistranslation of flesh and blood.