People are divided into groups, and things are gathered by likes, and when you think about it, this is the truth.
Many times, a person will choose an environment that is suitable for his life, and at the same time, the environment in which he lives will in turn affect him, and then make his personality form a stable state.
Living in this world, we have to admit a fact that:Most people are products of culture, and they have always been in the culture, and they never jump out to examine the cultural environment in which they live.
Looking at the results of culture is an impossible thing for the vast majority of people.
On the contrary, it is relatively easy to comply with the requirements of mainstream cultural values, conscientiously become a drop of water in the torrent of mainstream culture, and increase the power of mainstream culture, but only by going upstream, can we go higher and higher, and we will only go lower and lower.
Of course, there is no difference between high and low culture, but there is a difference between distance and proximity to the origin.
Some people may ask, what is the difference between distance and proximity?
Or it can be said that the closer we are to the source, the more we can control our own lives, and the higher our initiative will be in the journey of life.
If life is a flying kite, then the handle that controls the kite is the original existence, and the wind that affects the direction of the kite is the mainstream culture of your life.
The handle is in the heart, only by holding the handle tightly, can you grasp the direction of your life, friends, the direction of the wind is not necessarily your direction, do not fly high and far away in order to fly high in the distance, just go with the wind.
If we are in the wind, we will only go with the wind.
When I first left my town to go to school in another city thousands of kilometers away, I was determined that I would have to change my personality and change my damn introversion no matter what.
In elementary school, I just didn't like to talk and didn't like places with a lot of people, but after junior high school, the head teacher said to my mother: Your child, it's okay to study, but he's too introverted.
When relatives at home come and see me, they always say that introversion is not good.
Of course, they don't mean anything, they just joke.
But, time and time again, I felt in my heart that I had to become extroverted, because there was success in speaking, but there was never a silent achievement.
When I entered university, I began to learn to speak to everyone, learn to speak in front of people with some "seniors", and learn to participate in various activities.
Naturally, I haven't learned how to speak until now, but I have learned how to speak.
Many people's impression of me is that they are lively and cheerful.
I often think back to that time and want to find out what kind of power has given me the standard of good and bad, why introversion has become a bad thing for so many people, while liveliness and extroversion are so popular
Later I found out that maybe we've seen too many stories about introverts failing, and we've seen too many careers that can be told by one mouth.
The kind of good and bad that you don't think about is just a torrent that you can't stop. Not only introverts and extroverts, but also many things, are accepted without thinking, such as being sensible is a good child, such as the delicacies of the mountains and seas are a good life, such as a person should be motivated, as if these results are divine will.
So far, the reason why the "divine will" is pursued is only because of the pressure of the "group", and a person who is in the trend, if he does not have enough strength to resist, must be ready to be carried away by the tide.
What is culture?When this trend comes together, it is culture. The loudest of all cultures is the mainstream culture.
In the society we live in, there is "culture" everywhere, the bedroom has a bedroom culture, the company has a company culture, and the circle has a circle culture... These cultures are a kind of underlying rules, and you need to follow them when you are in them.
When I was in college, there were four of us in the dormitory, and since we first got together, we seemed to have formed a consensus that we would go together at mealtimes, go to class, and go out to play together, and everyone was following this rule that had never been clearly defined.
It wasn't until the senior year moved and the dorm was reassigned that the dorm culture was considered to have completed its mission.
Outside of the dormitory, I have experienced a lot of culture among many other groups.
One of them is a group of people who are eager to succeed, eager to make money, and eager to quickly accumulate social experience.
At that time, we were keen to party, we were keen to drink, and we were keen to worship some idolized "seniors".
The aspirations of this group are also very simple, and they have the same thing very similarly in their hearts, maybe they are poor, maybe they want to suddenly grow up enough to take care of themselves, and we are desperately looking for some opportunities to learn from some people who are "very powerful" in our eyes.
At that time, I found that most of the people around us were like that, we wanted to succeed, we wanted to be rich, we wanted to be a person who could make money, and we wanted to be a person who was very "powerful" in the world.
It was the loudest voice around me at that time.
In the beginning, I was keen on this kind of thing, going out for three days to hang out with people, drinking and chatting, and whenever there was a party, I wanted to go and see it.
I didn't know why I had these thoughts, and I did it.
But at that time, I didn't do what he thought, I just did it, and it seemed that as long as I did it, it was good.
Looking at it today, there was indeed a kind of ignorant simplicity at that time, with a kind of blind sincerity, the dream was simple, and the practice was very simple. What guides us is nothing else, but the cultural attributes of the group in which we live.
Eager to succeed", "dream of getting ahead", many people are desperate to make money, desperately chasing the desire to catch up day and night, which is inherent in not wanting to be a "loser" in the cultural group they are in, perhaps, in the words of that cultural group, it should be a life in which we do not accept failure, and it is necessary to achieve a standard life.
This kind of culture is perhaps the biggest trendy culture, whether it is the struggle of introversion and extroversion, or the simple pursuit of making money on campus, or the desperate pursuit at work. Isn't it all a "successful" culture?This kind of culture is so gripping with people that it's addictive.
The formation of a culture may be a group of people who adhere to some rules together, or it may just be a group of people who regard a thing as a norm to be followed.
It's just that some persistence is short-lived, while others are so long and powerful that it is impossible to resist.
When I was young, the culture of our dormitory was neither short nor long, only three years.
However, in China's thousands of years of feudal tradition, the feudal ethical culture of male superiority and inferiority of women has been formed for a long time, and how great the destruction of human nature is.
However, for thousands of years, people did not rise up to resist, and it was not until the Xinhai Revolution that it was gradually changed. Isn't the reason why it doesn't resist because its trend is too strong and too powerful?
He can easily drown people.
When a culture is strong enough to a certain extent, the individual is too small in front of it.
The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear.
People who are in a certain cultural trend do not think it is strange, but think it is normal, because they lack the ability to scrutinize, and they also lack reference things, and the things that belong to "people" are rigidly suppressed by the trend culture.
The irony is that culture as a whole is constantly changing, while culture as a part is constantly changing.
Perhaps, some of the rules and standards that are enshrined as classics today will suddenly be spurned by countless people tomorrow.
Over the years, in every popular culture, there is actually a feeling that it is not ourselves that guides our lives, but some unspoken rules in that culture, those rules that are not written but are followed.
It's like we're walking down the road, whipped by the rules. It is like an old cow cultivating the land, desperately cultivating the land formed by the mainstream culture.
It is undeniable that human civilization is created from generation to generation, one person after another, and no matter where we are or what we do, it is a cultural activity in itself.
In the past two years, Li Ziqi has become popular all over the world because of his pastoral style, and even once became a representative of Chinese culture
We are always in the culture, whether you admit it or not, every behavior you do may be the result of a certain culture, but the cultural attributes are different, and the results are different.
About cultural attributes:
There is a description in "The Distant Savior": A strong culture creates the strong, and a weak culture creates the weak. This is the law, and it can also be understood as the way of heaven, which is not subject to human will.
A strong culture is a culture that follows the laws of things.
Disadvantaged culture has become a popular breed because it is easy to learn, understand, and use.Of course, the strength here is not the strength or weakness in the secular sense, and the strong here are not the successful in the secular sense.
After two world wars, the United States became the most powerful country, and its economy was far more developed than in many places, but after Mother Teresa went to the United States, she sighed: This is the poorest place I have ever seenAs the most developed capitalist country, everyone in the United States is eager to pursue more material, which is not "standard", but "standard".
Materially, the United States is indeed powerful, but Mother Teresa still feels poor, and this is the weak made by a weak culture.
Of course, it is not that the strong culture is good and the weak culture is not good, but the focus is different, the scenery seen is different, and the things pursued are different.
Everyone is a product of culture, but some people are dominated by culture, and some people learn to dominate culture.