A few days ago, I saw a passage from Yu Hua: Now if someone comes to tell you again, you have to work hard, you have to be self-motivated, you will get a good return, that is chicken soup, not a fact, times have changed. 
After reading it, I looked around the desk of my colleagues in the editorial department, and it was either a fat sea in a thermos cup (recently concentrated on throat treatment), or an ice American style that was more bitter than life. Indeed, we can pinch our noses and pour a lot of things these days; But I can't drink chicken soup anymore. 
What is chicken soup? This was not a derogatory term in the past, but a spirit of striving for the top. In the 90s, it was Zheng Zhihua's gravel-like voice in "Sailor", what is this pain in the wind and rain, don't be afraid to wipe away your tears, at least we still have dreams; 
Around the turn of the millennium, it is Pu Shu's expectation for the dream of the new century, it is - "wear new clothes, cut a new hairstyle, relax windows98, it is 18 years old, it is heaven, and our life is as sweet as sugar"; 
In the 00s, it was a classic line in "Ma Dashuai", which was:You used to have an inner head, you have to stand up; 
In the 10s, it was an advertising line that young CEOs were still in high spiritsI speak for myself. In the 20s, only elementary school students were still popular "love you walking alone in the dark alley, love you not kneeling". 
We who grew up in the chicken soup pool have grown up, eaten and seen; Seeing through life is not the steel forest and red-soled shoes in "Little Times"; It is an 8-square-meter secondary bedroom where you can only put down a 1.5-meter bed and a wardrobe of the North Drifter; 
It is the Huabei repayment on the 10th of each month; It's the feeling of pushing your back when you're squeezed onto the subway by Big Brother; It is medical insurance and social security; It was you who entered the company in the morning and the leaders informed you to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and you were kicked out of the DingTalk group chat that night; It is you who love the truth, and you love five insurances and one housing fund even more. So you work overtime at one o'clock in the morning to carpool back to the suburbs (non-reimbursement version), lightly afraid of making noise and forcing your roommates, wash your feet and lie down in the quilt to brush Tik Tok, your eyes are closed, you ask what your dream is? In lyrics: I don't know if I don't know and don't want your heart; In Cantonese: You're a complete hen. The showdown is not pretending, in the 20s, you have thoroughly practiced the Stanislavsky experientialism; 
You can't pour that chicken soup. Tear off the candy paper wrapped in colored sugar coating, you sing what a painful realization; It turns out that life is not "we are sugar, sweet to sadness", under the sugar coating is medicine. What were we talking about in the 20s? The second uncle in the countryside is not cured, and the spiritual internal friction is not cured; Kong Yiji, who graduated in 985, should take off his long shirt; 
is looking in the mirror at "Koreans going crazy to take the public exam"; is an only daughter in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, who is envious of the reincarnation; Doubting love, not even bothering to doubt love. Nowadays, when someone mentions "you can't afford it, you should reflect on your hard work"; This chicken soup turns into a sharp sword, poking directly from the throat to the lung tube, you can't spit it out, let alone swallow it. We all smell it, this pot of chicken soup has changed, even rancid; It is no longer based on the positive energy inspirational words of the times; It is the emperor's new clothes, the rhetoric of the superiors, and the advice of experts not to advise again; In times of opportunity, chicken soup is a placebo; In the era of sinking, chicken soup became a deception; Even this deception seems cruel.
Nowadays, the speed at which a chicken soup becomes popular is far less fast than the speed at which it fails. Yesterday we talked about "Life is not a track, it is a wilderness"; It is an analgesic for those who have been laid off, and it is the little red book tag of digital nomads in Riyue Bay, Hainan; It is a good prescription for the value of the major self-sufficiencies; But soon, when he went into the wilderness, he found that there was nothing; It becomes deconstructed by humor: Mom, life is not a wilderness, it is absenteeism.
It has become: Mom, life is a roasted sausage; Cheap and cheap, lying down for a long time, not very healthy, occasionally turning over.
We're tired of calling ourselves "back waves" and replacing them with cheap grilled sausages, humble rats, clowns.
It's not that there is no packaged chicken soup in the short **. Brave people enjoy the world first and become rich people's globetrotting copywriters; The gears of fate began to turn, and it was intuitive in the KOL ** of millions of fans. The sudden explosion of ordinary people Yu Wenliang's ** seems to let us see a trace of the recovery of the romantic era. But soon, in the remarks of "circle money", we were pulled back to reality, and even with the anger of being deceived emotionally.
This year, the domestic drama advertised as realism has also become everyone's joke; The struggle process of the little people is illusory, and the urban life of the middle-class nouveau riche is suspended; Tyrannical love has become a tasteless and funny sci-fi film; In the cheap touch of "white porridge", we despise contemporary love.
Whether it's love or work; The era of hard work and success is over, and it has become a joke. In recent years, Northeast literature and art have been repeatedly mentioned, and "look forward, don't look back" has become an emotional resonance that transcends the era.
The Northeast has become a microcosm of current life, and in the face of concrete problems, we can no longer romanticize it with chicken soup. Who is the person who is still pinching our noses and grabbing the chicken soup? It's the boss who can't swallow the pie; It is the father's lesson of the profiteer. In The Arrogance of the Elite: How Does a Good Society Define Success? "The arrogance of the elite reflects the tendency of successful people to overindulge in their own successes and not remember the timing and good fortune that helped them succeed." Those who make it to the top smugly believe that their success is their due, while those at the bottom are to blame. ”
The arrogance of "taking the blame on yourself" made the high-ranking people who were still practicing PUA look hateful, and ordinary people raised the bowl of chicken soup in their grievances. From drying up the chicken soup, to angrily raising the chicken soup, to our disdain and ridicule of the chicken soup. It is because we will eventually realize that the force that strives for the upper reaches is no longer a centripetal force. It is the friction of human flesh being pressed against the floor and rubbing it so that the flesh is blurred, and it is difficult to move forward. Raising chicken soup is a kind of self-stranding helplessness, a tired "forget it", and a "pull down" with wind bones; But it may also be a good thing, at least we see through the unsolvable propositions of life, which is the wisdom of young people in the 20s. Finally, if there is any chicken soup that is a must-drink today. I'd like to turn the angry chicken soup into a blessing. May everyone "not be blown down by the strong wind".
If it really doesn't work. The last "blessing" is the red letter on the black background on the cover of the book:Alive.