Fewer and fewer people know that 1+1=2

I first read Wang Xiaobo online, in The Golden Age. At the time, Professor Amira Katz of Hebrew University was considering compiling an anthology of classic modern Chinese writers, and I recommended Wang Xiaobo.

Wang Xiaobo’s achievements are higher in prose than in fiction, although his fiction is also top-notch in contemporary Chinese literature.

I once gave a class on the study of Wang Xiaobo’s works. My main view at that time was that Wang Xiaobo’s relevance was mainly to liquidate the “anti-intellectual aftermath of the culture revolution”. As time goes by, the influence of anti-intellectualism in China will become less and less, until it becomes insignificant. My prediction at that time was that in ten years, twenty at most, people would read Wang Xiaobo and find it as tasteless as if someone had repeatedly explained to you that 1+1=2.

Then I was so wrong!

Wang Xiaobo is becoming more and more relevant, and fewer and fewer people know that 1+1=2, which I never dreamed of

@heisenberg

I’ve noticed that some people on the internet are not just uninterested in intellectual content, but resentful and even hateful, which is quite strange to me.

For example, our country has recently made great progress in the field of space, and everyone is discussing about the moon project, and then the conspiracy theory that “the American moon landing was a fake” comes up again. The conspiracy theory that “the American moon landing was a fake” was brought up again.

Mr. Ouyang Ziyuan, who is known as the “father of Chang’e”, came out to do science popularization, explaining why the American moon landing was not a fake, and the reasons behind many of the so-called “breakdowns”. The scientific principles behind many of the so-called “breakdowns” are very clear.

Hey, who thought that the old gentleman just finished, the moths came, a group of people around the old gentleman scolded, saying that he was nonsense, that he and the United States have collusion, but also said that they have the United States falsification of hard evidence, questioned the old gentleman dare not respond.

I remembered that a science teacher saw someone online nonsense, the whole conspiracy theory content, he sent a video to clarify, but also by people siege, saying what “you know more? ” “Blindly show what? Show you know more? “”I just believe, what? ” and so on.

I was muttering in my heart before, thinking that this is what people are, people are kind enough to share their knowledge with you, how do you not know what’s good for you? As a result, when I recently updated the science content on the black short video platform, I was also surrounded by people scolding, I saw the most is “I just want to watch a movie, I do not want to know this! I don’t want to know about this!” “You’re the one who’s raising the bar! What’s wrong with the appearance of chili peppers in the Spring and Autumn period? “”Watching movies is for entertainment! Are you tired of saying this? “

I am very puzzled, it is difficult to understand the motives of these people, you say you do not like the content, you do not look on the line, you not only look, but also spend time and energy to leave a message scolding, this is why?

Later, a friend of mine told me, in fact, the problem does not lie in the knowledge itself, but in self-esteem, why the conspiracy theory content is so popular? Because he can bring the audience a sense of superiority that he knows a huge conspiracy, so that his simple mind is not simple, while some knowledge in the process of dissemination, but simply make some people feel ignorant and uneducated, they were pricked pride, of course, will chase the scolding.

“1+1=5.”

“Well, it’s true that there are some people in the world who share your viewpoint, but 1+1 actually has an answer that equals 2. You might want to remember that first, and when you meet people who don’t know later you can talk to them and educate them. “

This will probably work well.