The Parasite tells the story of Ji-woo’s family, who come from a poor background and live in the basement with no cell phone signal. Just when the family thinks they can finally get their wish to be part of high society. At a birthday party, the host stumbles upon a familiar cab driver’s scent and speaks up, and Ki-woo’s father, played by Song Kang-ho, kills the president in anger. This movie shows how deeply entrenched class is in Korean society, and that even after changing clothes and jobs, one’s own origins are still difficult to be recognized by society, and one’s inattention can reveal one’s fault.
It just so happens that I recently read a public article “Who is not a small-town problem solver now?”, which was combined with another tweet “The class nature of social animals and the way out”. It is about the young people from the bottom class or second or third tier cities or white collar workers who are confused about their own social way out because of the class solidification.
The article “Who is not a small-town problem-solver yet” is probably a response to another article in Douban, “A letter to small-town problem-solvers”, in which several students from small towns describe themselves as “small-town problem-solvers”. “The journey of the mind. The so-called small town, according to the author, is a kind of fusion of the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat, probably the urban fringe.
The definition of “small town” is subtle in the word “town”. I understand that this group of people neither live in the remote and isolated live broadcasts of Quickstart, nor are they far away from the life of Little Red Book and Shakespeare. If you want me to define it, I think the temperament of small-town youth is a subtle blend of the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
This type of marginalized people, in order to gain social recognition, move from second and third tier cities to first and second tier cities, in this case, Tianjin. Due to the existence of the dual urban-rural household registration system and the college entrance examination admission policy in favor of the big cities, people living in large and medium-sized cities have a higher chance of being accepted in the college entrance examination. So living in a large or medium-sized city has a big advantage over small cities in terms of college entrance exams and employment.
The questioner, on the other hand, is a self-deprecating statement. The explanation from Zhihu is that a problem-solver is someone who pays more attention to the paper effect than the actual effect. From the perspective of the soul, it essentially refers to a person’s understanding of and attitude toward rules.
The title “small-town problem solver” combines the funeral culture of recent years, the culture of losers. It embodies a kind of anxiety about one’s own identity, a kind of helpless self-deprecation and irony about the solidification of social class, and also implies a slight inferiority of one’s own birth status.
In order to be on par with middle-class people in big cities, people from small cities are forced to use various brands to show their identity.
The other day I was walking down the street in an only dress and noticed that the first floor of this shopping district was filled with Coach, AJ, and Tiffany’s, with cosmetics counters ranging from channel to Dior and Bobbi brown, a brand I didn’t even know at the time. It was like walking into the editorial department of the ME, like Lin Xiao, and it had to be the low version.
As a girl growing up in Hunan, I didn’t understand that there are different kinds of luxury brands until I entered college. I’ll tell you, to what extent am I dirt poor? Just before I went to college, the most expensive brands I could see were Adidas, Nike, and Vance.
However, as a small white collar worker, I still bought some second-tier brands from the sea. I’ve come to realize that the brand does not bring status enhancement. I thought that the second generation of officials in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai were too many to be compared to the second generation of rich people.
Last summer, I spent $600 on two bags, one MK, one Coach; one for me, one for my mom. It is reasonable to say that carrying a $2,000 bag is quite satisfying to a young girl’s vanity, at least it is more dignified than carrying a small ck.
The first two years of the network popular Phoenix man and phoenix woman, the story is still about a golden phoenix flying out of the mountain nest, at least through personal struggle to change their fate narrative. It’s also a good idea to use a little bit of the same old “I’m not going to do that.
Now this kind of small town questioner narrative, is no matter what can’t fill the huge gap of class difference, read up and let a person is very sad. So the author has an epiphany that it’s not the luxuries that reveal status. It’s not the luxuries that make a person’s status obvious, it’s the things that don’t make a person’s status better.
It is always the case that materialistic desires are not important to me, and vanity is not so important either. The small-town problem solvers just want to get over it. No one wrapped me in luxuries growing up, so don’t buy luxuries.
The way out for social animals
The other article on Shachiku is a harsher reflection of social reality. According to Wikipedia, the word “shachiku” comes from the Japanese language, and “shachiku” (Japanese: “shachiku”, “しちくShachiku”) is a self-deprecating term used by the lower-class workers in Japanese companies, from “kaisha” or “company”. “and “livestock”, meaning The term “corporate livestock” first appeared in Japan in the 1990s, and has since become popular in East Asia.
It is generally used to mock or ridicule others who give up their dignity as human beings, sleep and eat haphazardly in order to work hard for a company, and is also applicable to wage earners.
As the text says.
In fact, social class has never been determined by education or income. The fundamental determinants of social class are the amount of control people have over the means of production and the degree to which they sell their bodies and souls.
The social animal refers to the working class at the bottom, in a position of exploitation by the company. Basic social needs have been lost. The upward mobility of the job has also disappeared, and only the most basic survival can be satisfied. The case in China is the vast number of “996”, or workers on the production line at Foxconn. The company is squeezing the value out of the labor force by maintaining the minimum needs of life.
The natural tendency of social animals is to be introverted and rational, rather than social and emotional. Socialization has never been a natural human instinct, but more of a skill.
Why are social animals a low-social skill creature?
Because there are two necessary prerequisites for socialization: an independent soul, and a resource or information that can be exchanged. The social animal does not have either of these things. Because they have sold their souls to corporations, social animals no longer have full control over their own souls. Because of their complete instrumentalization and high degree of homogeneity, they have little or no access to valuable resources or information that can be exchanged.
Basically, the primitive accumulation of capitalism and China’s domination of the international market with its low human rights advantage relied on a large amount of this cheap labor to increase competitiveness by reducing labor costs.
The life of a social animal is not so good, but after all, it is a comfortable slave. Being able to enter Ali 996 is still a blessing for most people. However, this last comfort (a small blessing) may not last much longer under the tremendous impact of technology.
In a highly mechanized and industrialized society, where human creativity as an individual is increasingly sapped by repetitive mechanized labor, Steve Jobs redefined the smartphone, and the production of cell phones over the past decade has become increasingly homogeneous, with fewer and fewer differences between products from different brands. As portrayed in anti-utopian movies (e.g. Matrix), people are increasingly losing their individuality, lacking independent thinking, and their minds are filled with grand narratives like nationalism and dreams of a rich country, a strong army, and a great nation. The purpose of university education is to cultivate people with the “red mark” as the product of the production line, while the people produced are more likely to have their edges cut off. “The screw of the homeland construction. From the screw, to the social animal, is just a step away.
Small town problem solvers, although they can through their own efforts, through the test education training, to enter the 985 institutions of higher learning, after graduation to stay in the big city. But after graduation, if you want to enter the Internet factory, you will inevitably be 996 (as Jack Ma said, it is lucky to be 996), and become the back wave called “leek”. Social animals, too, are just a step away. The slogan “knowledge changes destiny” is a popular slogan in a world where class entrenchment and the emphasis on It’s not necessarily the case that the “father-figure” concept will come true today. It’s not just a matter of time, it’s also a matter of time before you get a chance to see the world. Driver’s Taste.
Anyone who has seen Chaplin’s 1936 silent film, Modern Times, knows that it depicts the story of factory workers in the United States during the Great Depression. In the first 20 minutes of the movie, it describes how human beings are disciplined by machines of their own invention, and finally have a nervous breakdown and are sent to a mental institution.
The current low-tech, labor-intensive industries, such as Foxconn’s production lines, have been declining with the decline of economic globalization. With the massive unemployment, it is unclear whether the social existence of livestock can continue to sustain steady economic growth.
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