Zhang Xuefeng wore a "I was wrong, I apologize" T-shirt in response to the controversy. (Photo: Zhang Xuefeng Weibo).
Author |Ab.
Edit |Su Wei.
Two days ago, a netizen consulted the volunteer question in the live broadcast room: the child has good math scores, but feels that the school that can be reported in science is "low-grade". Teacher Zhang immediately said that if he did not report science, the child could only engage in "low-grade" business in the future, and persuaded him in the tone of a passerby
All liberal arts majors are called service industries, and the service industry can be summed up in one word, which is 'licking'. Don't let yourself do the kind of 'licking people' for the sake of the so-called temporary psychological perception of the grade of the college. ”
Zhang Xuefeng's speech during the live broadcast.
Liberal arts majors, low-grade, service industries, licking people, the topic is full, and Mr. Zhang understands the Internet. Zhang Xuefeng's response followed: "I am also 'licking' myself, but I don't feel bad." ”
It seems to be an apology, but it seems that there is no one.
Opponents don't like Mr. Zhang anymore, because he is unsurprisingly running wild on the road to extremism. But fans seem to like Mr. Zhang more because he seems to be telling the "truth".
Who is supporting Zhang Xuefeng?
Although Zhang Xuefeng's golden sentence always carries the absolute "kill a boatload of people with a stick", it still has a certain guiding significance for some students who are closed to information.
Reality will tell children and parents who are looking through the volunteer book what it means to have a low tolerance for error. As a result, everyone craves a "right answer" that smooths out weaknesses with brevity and makes decisions as efficient as possible – even though the answer can be crude and absolute.
Is it better to study liberal arts or science?Is school or major important?What position has a better and more stable future?
Zhang Xuefeng was born out of thin air, pointing to the core of the anxiety of the times.
Zhang Xuefeng is indeed the just need of thousands of candidates. (Photo: Zhang Xuefeng Weibo).
His supporters also have a clear picture: they were born in small cities or even rural areas, their parents could not give much life guidance, and they were in a long-term environment where information was scarce, and they needed an efficient and easy-to-use information guide when it came to choosing a school and major.
Mr. Huang Deng, the author of My Second Student, mentioned in an interview with New Weekly:
Compared with the key universities, there are more rural students in the second school;In a thoroughly market-oriented employment environment, in many cases, individuals can only retreat into the most traditional family relationships, relying on the resources accumulated by the previous generation to find a way out. ”
As a result, many second-class students "have neither the support of their original families in economic and social relations, but also are trapped in limited educational resources, and are ruthlessly thrown out in the fierce competition for employment."
My Second Student".
Yellow light. People's Literature Publishing House, 2020-8
This is an era of anxiety with class divisions: social **, problem-solving, and large factory code farmers are the mainstream concerns, as if only the Kochi middle class is qualified to be anxious, and children with mediocre family conditions and academic Xi performance seem to be invisible, and their anxieties and demands are at most observed as a landscape.
Zhang Xuefeng answered these anxieties and demands positively, and to a large extent, provided an information channel that was enough to break through the barriers of the circle, filled the information gap, and told those students and parents who were at a loss that it was time to go.
His self-description is very representative: "I was born in an ordinary person, if my family is well-off, there are more choices, and there is no problem of being wrong or good;But most families, the conditions are not so good, choose a major to choose a suitable one, can let yourself eat!”
The simple and irrefutable "philosophy of eating" has become another kind of political correctness. Rooted in poor social sentiment and information, echoing a group that has been silent for a long time, Zhang Xuefeng's phenomenal popularity is epochal.
Who is against Zhang Xuefeng?
In fact, Zhang Xuefeng's remarks this time are still within the inherent concept of him and his fans.
Whether it is the theory of "the uselessness of liberal arts" or the binary opposition of "licking and **", behind it is Zhang Xuefeng's consistent pragmatism philosophy and hierarchical competition theory.
But what is different from the past is that in addition to the "postgraduate entrance examination teacher", Mr. Zhang has another layer of "top Internet celebrity" opinion leader status. He led the traffic, and the traffic shaped him, and stories like this abound on the Internet today.
Too much output is inevitably contradictory.
For example, in less than a year, Mr. Zhang can not only say "automation yyds" and "the graduation salary of automation majors will definitely not be low", but also say that "automation majors do not make money";"It's been eliminated, and the biggest way out is transcoding." For example, at the end of 2022, when the real estate giants exploded and the real estate market was pessimistic, he took architecture as one of the five most recommended liberal arts directionsWait a minute.
Zhang Xuefeng's speech during the live broadcast.
When the traffic is large, it is inevitable that it will be absolute and stereotyped.
For example, Mr. Zhang loves to talk about liberal arts, and the way out is probably to be normal and take the public examination, but there is a career discussion caused by young teachers, and then there is a cooling down of the graduate school entrance examination, and it is more difficult to take the public examination, and whether it is a good choice to go ashore has become a multiple-choice question.
The times are changing too fast, and Mr. Zhang can't guarantee that he can always stand on the cusp of the waves. As some people have said, if Zhang Xuefeng had applied for a volunteer ten years ago, a rural child would have chosen a civil engineering major rather than a computer major – but in the past decade, the gap between the two majors has widened.
Bilibili review. So who can guarantee that Mr. Zhang's sworn suggestion today will be right in the future?
Putting aside those slogans of "professional equality", Zhang Xuefeng's more and more extreme expressions have a question mark on how much reference significance there is for low-level students. After all, the road of life is long, the ups and downs of the times are unpredictable, and the future is always a topic that is difficult to transcend.
Zhang Xuefeng, an Internet celebrity, can't really solve the problem of fans.
For students with limited conditions and long-term neglect, it provides concise and pragmatic suggestions to help low-level candidates smooth out the information gap, which is an Internet celebrity track that is constantly being subdivided and emerging talents.
In addition to the frontrunner Zhang Xuefeng, the new mentors also include "Uncle Tyrant", who guides low-scoring middle school students to study abroad and curvy returnees, and Mr. Yoshida, who guides low-scoring middle school students to choose a junior college, and so on. As netizens summarized: "Zhang Xuefeng in good times, Yoshida in adversity, and Uncle Tyrant in desperate times." "In times of complexity, the appeal of a short answer is infinite.
Returning to this controversy, it was not Zhang Xuefeng who first injected value judgments into the question, but the consultant. This student first felt that the science college was "low-grade", so he had a follow-up dialogue.
College Entrance Examination Cinderella" stills.
How did the idea of a low-grade science college come about?Whether it is the liberal arts or sciences or the choice of career, despite the differences of one kind or another, according to the consensus of modern civilization, all have their social contributions and are equal.
The child's problem and Zhang Xuefeng's problem are essentially two sides of the same coin, both trying to distinguish between high and low in liberal arts and sciences and establish a chain of contempt - of course, all conceptual problems are practical problems, and the differences in reality are too big to ignore, which is the soil for Zhang Xuefeng's survival.
Zhang Xuefeng Xi habitually entered into the logic of the debate over which is superior or inferior in liberal arts and sciences, opposed the low grade of science, advocated the low grade of liberal arts, and tried to use one kind of extremism to persuade another kind of extremism. His criticized "licking people" remarks are exactly what many supporters think is a cold reality: the vast majority of people at work are Party B, you and I have to "lick", and it is happier to lick than not to lick.
Zhang Xuefeng's speech during the live broadcast.
From "licking the dog until there is nothing left" to "having to lick is better than not licking happiness", it reflects the changes in social mentality: understanding envy to become Wang Ziru, endorsing emojis, and writing crazy literature are not only "popular stalks" and "subcultures" for young people, but also accept the workplace atmosphere, hierarchical order, and competitive nature of different levels between people.
Going to a good school, getting a good job, and becoming a good person are the only indisputable ways to succeed. Zhang Xuefeng's fans, who were restless because they fell behind in the race of the times, tried to follow the "bright road" pointed out by Mr. Zhang, catch the Times Express, and achieve corner surpassing, so as to choose good luck over hard work, and leap from "licker" to "**".
As everyone knows, this kind of "licking and **" without a sense of respect is the main one of social anxiety. Do netizens who support Zhang Xuefeng realize that this "toxic" working atmosphere is constructed by the chain of contempt and superiority?Aren't the unreasonable difficulties they endure in their work stem from such a singular competitive pattern?
Zhang Xuefeng's speech during the live broadcast.
As long as you are immersed in it, you will never be able to completely get rid of anxiety.
Recognizing the rules of society and agreeing with such rules are two different things. Some netizens said: "Teacher Zhang Xuefeng often tells us what reality is like, which is indeed good." It's just that I feel that he rarely reflects on whether reality should be like this. ”
But such remarks were quickly drowned out by the criticism of fans. Of course, it is not realistic to expect Zhang Xuefeng to solve all problems, because the problems faced by his fans are not caused by him, and naturally they cannot be truly solved by him.
Anthropologist James Suzman, in his book The Meaning of Work, puts it this way: Australopithecus thought that putting rocks together and grinding them against each other might produce sharp flakes that were easy to cut was more likely out of boredom than instinct. Similarly, the reason why our ancestors later became interested in fire and found that rubbing sticks together produced enough heat to burst out a little spark was more likely because boredom drove their restless hands.
The Meaning of Work
By James Suzman.
Translated by Jiang Zongqiang.
CITIC Publishing Group, 2021-3
Thousands of different individuals have been aligned by the Internet, and the granularity of contemporary life has been refined by the Internet. Everyone is more than enough, and they are eager to find a "version of the answer" in "Earth Online". Of course, we recognize that life is complex, and that it is precisely because it is too complex and indescribable that people give up thinking, look for insights, and embrace violence.
Just when this controversy has not ended, Mr. Zhang Xuefeng has already started the next topic: on December 10, Zhang Xuefeng threw out "We Henan people don't like to deceive people", and it was no surprise that it was on the hot search.
Zhang Xuefeng spoke on Weibo. (Photo: Zhang Xuefeng Weibo).
Accurately find the majority of people in society and output the expressions they want to hear - Mr. Zhang, who once came out of the circle with reason, is running all the way on the road of extreme Internet celebrities.
And most of the young people who pay attention to him because of confusion are still standing at the crossroads of life and the times.
Author丨Ab.
Editor丨Su Wei.
Proofreading丨Lai Xiaoni.