Keep a low profile

One essay written by a middle school in Mainland China was titled “Low-key”. The first sentence is “be low-key”, with an elderly tone, and then: “I have lived on the earth for more than four billion years, basked in the sun for more than five billion years, every day ride the subway worth tens of millions of dollars, every month have economic contact with jack ma, do you see me flaunt wealth? Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, made the computer for me.” At last he said, “Am I bloated? Am I proud? No.”

It may be that adults take a chance to call a child to transcribe, handwriting crooked, add a red pen teacher praised the case, into a very philosophical web celebrity.

For thousands of years, there has been no “low key” or “low profile” in Chinese life. In China, there are such sayings as “hide one’s strength in the market”, “Hide one’s brightness while biding one’s time” and “hide one’s strength while hiding one’s face in the busy market”. There are thousands of idioms that have taught the next generation not to be shot and killed since ancient times. They teach you that no matter whether one has real material or not, one should keep a low profile in order to survive.

But in the modern Internet world, once you have video, SMS, TiKToK, plus karaoke lounches, couches, and a microphone, it’s not that you want to be low-key, it’s that you’re obviously low-key, and other people turn you into a high-profile.

For example, at a closed-door dinner, the front of a central Television station made a few jokes about MAO Zedong. I don’t know if I have drunk two glasses, or I feel that the depression itself should be released. A few words of Guangzhou humor, how do you know the spot pig friend dog friend candid, uploaded to the Internet, 1.4 billion people “share”, so that a SAO.

There are two kinds of high profile in the world: benign and malignant. Benign is “professional high profile” : celebrities, scientists, virologists working on vaccines, Nobel laureates, when the time is right. Such a high profile contributes to humanity.

Malignant high – profile is divided into “wine meat sex high – profile” and “frame sex high – profile” two. The former is a lifelong mediocrity who barks at his perceived influence but strives for instant dominance. The latter are candid photos of celebrity gaffes, or the first to hit a stick to win favor in a criticism campaign. Such as criticism of the red scholar Yu Pingbo’s new beast of learning Li Xifan. Both of these high – sounding people are bound to be short-lived, quickly submerged between the tide of The Times.

In the network generation, malignant high profile with a dance famous dama, think can temporarily high-end for a while, more rampant. Therefore, or this middle school student to return to nature, know the low-key way, unity of nature and man, may be called the ultimate model.