(Continued above).
part.02
There is something wrong with the cultural model
The new soul created by the new world is forced to operate in the old machine
It is necessary to accept a reality and take it deep into the brain and become an unthinking cognition.
That is, everything in the world is constantly changing and evolving.
It seems simple, but in reality, people often think that things in the world are fixed and unchanging.
People tend to look at someone with a fixed eye, or even look at the current person with the impression of 20 years ago, and rarely think about whether the other party has changed in the past 20 years.
People also tend to have a fixed view of today's life, especially when it comes to educating their children.
I and my predecessors basically relied on obedience and obedience, learning Xi the experience and knowledge of their predecessors to get to where they are today, so they also use this set of Xi to treat today's children.
But I didn't expect that today's world has completely changed.
We are at the crossroads of change between the past and the present. The world has not changed much in the past one or two hundred years, the way of life of the previous generations, the growth path is roughly the same, the descendants only need to imitate and learn Xi from the predecessors step by step, and the elderly in the society, because of their experience, can be respected by everyone.
But today is different, the Internet and urbanization have turned people's access to information and lifestyles upside down. Overnight, the way of life that had been admired by human beings for hundreds or even thousands of years in the past was overthrown, and the corresponding concept of understanding the world was also overturned.
However, our parents and schools are still educating their children in the same old way.
is still using old methods to instill old knowledge in children.
They don't even notice that today's children are exposed to the Internet and a lot of electronic products since they were young.
On the surface, it is stimulated by a lot of information, but at a deeper level, the brain's perception of the world and life, as well as the understanding of the logical laws of things, are different from those of the previous generation.
New things emerge one after another, and new humans can immediately understand and accept them, but the old people have been abandoned in the old era.
The conflict lies in the fact that children who live in the new world and have new thinking skills, because they are still young, have no say in life, and the control is still in the hands of parents and teachers who do not understand the new world.
This situation, like an artificial intelligence car, must comply with the old man in the village to herd cattle, and problems with the car are inevitable.
Anthropologist Margaret Mead has studied this question, and those of you who have listened to my class must understand it very well.
In Culture and Commitment, she divides the cultural types of human society into three types. They are:
Pre-metaphorical culture
In a certain society, the social form has not changed for many years, and people have mastered the knowledge of the world and life, mainly by learning Xi from their predecessors.
Knowledge is passed down from generation to generation.
In this kind of society, there is basically no generation gap, and people are prone to obey authority and the elderly.
However, due to the lack of new changes in this kind of society, knowledge is gradually lost in the process of inheritance, and the society will inevitably gradually decay and become lifeless.
Our land, before foreign culture came in, was basically a pre-metaphor culture.
This kind of society is seniority, there is little innovation, and it is full of corruption, but people communicate with each other relatively smoothly.
Because everyone's life experience is roughly similar, their understanding of the world is basically the same.
and metaphor for culture
In a certain society, new changes begin to appear, and new things appear that no one has seen or understood.
This situation is actually a transitional period of social evolution, and it will not stabilize in this state for a long time.
After the emergence of new things, there will be several different voices in society, and some people reject new things, feel afraid and pessimistic, and will deny new things without understanding, hoping to pull society back to the old state.
Some people find it novel, so they continue to explore, Xi, and accept new things. In the process of learning Xi, it is inevitable to constantly communicate with others and make progress together.
Everyone is learning from each other Xi new knowledge they have acquired, and at the same time passing on their new discoveries to each other. This is a metaphor for cultural society.
When the Internet first appeared and urbanization began, our society was in this state, and people were amazed at how their neighbors were so indifferent from the countryside when they first moved to the cities.
As a result, everyone exchanged their feelings, gradually accepted the reality, and changed their lifestyles in order to adapt more to city life.
When people first started online shopping and online socializing, they discussed with each other whether there was a good online business, how to prevent being deceived, and exchanged experiences with each other.
This state will not last long, it is a transitional state, once the new social form becomes the norm, the main cultural form in the society will no longer discuss with each other, help each other to explore together.
Rather, people who have mastered the new world and mastered the new way of thinking have begun to teach others in order not to leave others behind and to maintain communication.
This is also the stage of post-metaphor culture.
Post-metaphor culture
In a certain society, new technologies emerge one after another, new ways of life replace old ways of life, and new ideas and ways of thinking in the crowd gradually eliminate old ideas.
Social change is happening quickly, and young people who are receptive to new things are more likely to integrate into new trends.
In this case, the middle-aged and elderly people are obviously lagging behind, and in order to adapt more to the new world, it is necessary to continue to learn from the young people Xi.
So education is reversed, it is no longer the seniors who educate the younger generations, but the younger generations who continue to feed back what they have learned to the seniors.
In this case, people's sense of authority will gradually disappear, and society will gradually stop judging seniority.
For example, in recent years, whether people travel, see a doctor, or study Xi, they have gradually used mobile phones to operate through the Internet.
Some older people are starting to feel that they can't move an inch, and if they want to continue to live comfortably in the new world, they must put down their shelves and learn from the younger Xi.
Not only does it refer to the operation of new technological products, but also the elderly must abandon the old ideas and accept the new ones in order to adapt to the current society.
China's cultural circle with a long history has been a cultural model of respecting the elderly and advocating experience for thousands of years, and the pre-metaphor culture has lasted for thousands of years. People's ideas and thinking Xi are deeply rooted.
So in the current stall of ancient and modern changes, it is difficult to turn around easily.
So, the main problem our children face is:
I have formed a new way of thinking and a new concept in the new world, and my parents and school teachers do not understand and cannot communicate.
The lack of understanding from their parents, and the loneliness that comes with it, is worse than any other generation.
But at the same time, the social order is still the same, and the children are not respected enough and have no right to speak, and they need to continue to obey the arrangements of their predecessors.
The soul of a new world, dominated by the machines of the old world.
Can you not be aggrieved?When I was still weak and powerless to struggle, I could only suppress it and become depressed in the end.
The continuous progress of mankind is the process of continuous innovation of the new generation, challenging the previous generation, and negating the previous generation.
When the strong social inertia constantly suppresses the new budding little souls, they will inevitably not be able to thrive, and finally something will go wrong.
part.03
Adults have to put down their shelves
Give young people space and learn Xi from young people
The Greeks killed their fathers, and the Chinese killed their sons.
These two cultures formed naturally in history.
The formation of the semi-closed culture of killing children of the Chinese is caused by the agricultural civilization brought about by the geographical environment. I'll talk more about this in other articles.
But today, with the advent of Internet technology and urbanization, the Internet has helped people transcend the limitations of space, and the way people live and access resources is no longer determined by geography.
Since then, the world has opened up and gradually transformed into a Greek-style outward exploration.
Therefore, the current way of education and the way of treating young people must also change to a post-metaphorical culture.
Putting down the shelf, giving up the obsession with authority and status, Xi learning more new things from young people, and giving them more space and rights, can we let each other enter a virtuous circle, and everyone will become healthier and healthier.