First of all, about involution:
(1) involution, a new term rising in recent years. From a macro point of view, it refers to the phenomenon that human society stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model after reaching a certain form at a certain stage of development. Of course, the word involution is also closely related to our college life. It is not only a self-mockery of college students, but also a true portrayal of many pressures faced by college students in their studies and self-development. How to crack involution? It is also a life topic that every college student needs to complete seriously.
② involution in different fields
Art field: involution means: inward evolution, low complexity. For example, we see carved beams and painted buildings on buildings, which are very delicate and laborious. However, it is only an infinitely refined repetition of some basic patterns. Like Gothic architecture.
Education: For example, early education is not the sales of early education institutions, but other parents who send their children to early education classes. This is the involution of education.
③ Will involution go to other areas of society?
Premature involution: this phenomenon of involution mostly occurs in the agricultural field. For example, the population exploded in the Qing Dynasty, but the labor productivity was not improved through the technological revolution, and the population was not exported to the outside world for colonization, so as to ease the tension between people. Instead, the imperial power was consolidated by closing the country to the outside world, blocking foreign trade, and constantly squeezing farmers, which eventually led to the overall poverty of the country.
The current involution: gradually transition from the agricultural field to the educational field. With the rapid development of society, the overall quality level of our people has made a qualitative leap, from many illiterates to a surplus of college students. Therefore, with the progress of society, involution has quietly moved into the field of education.
Second, why is there involution?
(1) A manifestation of social progress.
Competition is the constant melody of the times. With the progress of the times and the intensification of competition, involution naturally appears. Take education as an example. Many people strive to improve their academic qualifications in order to find a stable job. Therefore, after years of efforts, the overall quality level of our people has made a qualitative leap. From the initial illiteracy to the present college students, it seems to be everywhere. Isn't this the embodiment of social progress and national prosperity?
② Scarcity of resources
With the beating of the tide of the times, the speed of social development can't keep up with the speed of human growth, so there is a shortage of resources. Take the college entrance examination as an example. For those who are truly capable, they have long regarded it as a treasure and entered a prestigious school. For those who are not outstanding in ability, in order to enter excellent universities, they have to fall into and join in this involution struggle.
3. What did the involution bring us?
① Increase the pressure
The papers on campus cause all the students to study crazily, so as to keep up with the pace of others, and those who can't keep up with the pace will be eliminated from the campus. The involution of work leads to the increase of work pressure and the decrease of work efficiency of all employees. The involution process, which was originally started for a better job, turned into the helplessness of bad money driving out good money, which also doubled the pressure on all of them.
2 disrupt the rhythm of life.
This is a common phenomenon in life. For example, it is a reasonable choice to get up at six in the morning and endorse. But it happened that some people got up at five o'clock to endorse in order to compete with others, so in order to keep up with the competition, more people got up earlier than one. What follows is to destroy the rhythm of life and change the track of normal operation of life.
Fourth, how to deal with the internal volume?
If you aim the camera in different directions, you will find different things.
Focusing on micro-individuals, we often see them struggling in the mire of involution. Sometimes they are determined to fight, sometimes they slack off, because this is their hell and sometimes their home.
Focusing on the macro world always makes us feel powerless. In the face of society, system, human nature and law, we always tend to be obedient rather than rebellious, which has even become the rule of this world.
Crush diverse people, and diverse worlds are barren. Among them, we should seriously think about where the source of involution is, and how to face it and do it.
① Rational thinking
Only by rational thinking and talking about "involution" can we really break through. In the noisy era, if you want to keep yourself from being overwhelmed, you need to keep an independent self and have independent ideas, instead of following other people's suggestions. Only when we have a clearer understanding of the inside story can we make a scientific choice.
② Sublimate yourself.
As young people, we should not take social involution as an excuse for our stagnation, and we should not take lying flat as a reason for not working hard. Only by constantly improving yourself and subliming yourself can we jump out of the bottomless whirlpool of involution. When others are working hard, we should also learn from others and work hard for the life we want, instead of secretly complaining about others' involution. Because life is your own, if you want to live well, you need to pay something to get something. When you try to get close to a better life, you may not find that it is quietly approaching you.
③ Learn to reconcile with yourself.
If we want to be a strong person in life, we must make sure to learn to reconcile with ourselves and learn to reconcile with ourselves on the road of growth. This is an important thing in life. This reconciliation is not a conscious attempt to knock yourself down. True reconciliation is a kind of acceptance and understanding, which comes from understanding the truth of life and from love for oneself. Remember not to attack yourself, choose to believe in yourself and respect the essence of the truth.
Five, the involution around me
① Monitoring learning
At school, Lu Xiao had such a habit. Go to the library in the morning and go back to the dormitory at night. Then a roommate likes to ask one by one where you have reviewed, and then, or someone says to get up early tomorrow to review, she must ask clearly what to review and what subjects to review. This is a kind of monitoring learning, and it also belongs to unreasonable involution.
② involution of academic qualifications
For example, it is clear that society only needs 10000 undergraduates and 1000 postgraduates to operate normally, but now there are only 1000 undergraduates, and the company can only recruit postgraduates, so most people can only study hard for another three years before they can do the jobs they were competent for three years ago. This phenomenon is also very common in university campuses, and it also belongs to an unreasonable involution.
(3) secretly learning
In a stressful environment, people around him are secretly studying, and Kerwin Chen Jr. has to join the involution struggle. Every time I go back to school on holiday, a group of people get together to discuss how to play during the holiday and how to pass the time. But what is the truth behind these words? Everyone studies hard and refuses to miss any chance of competition. So Kerwin Chen Jr. was caught in this whirlpool and could not escape.
Six, the involution in my eyes
① Low-grade complications
The complexity of the inner paper consumes a lot of ability, energy and resources, but it does not improve the overall level.
(2) divorced from the essence of learning.
The essence of learning is change, promotion and progress. Learning is a social activity in which human beings gain experience and knowledge in the process of cognition and practice, master objective laws, and develop their body and mind. The involution just broke away from this beautiful original intention and became an unreasonable vicious circle, which made people who were deeply involved in the involution feel pressure and could not really enjoy learning.
③ Effort is not involution.
Fighting for the life you want is an act worth advocating. Don't tell others how to get out of here just because we see others pursuing their dreams purposefully. This is a way of life, and I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Why not learn this spirit like others and get physical and mental growth through continuous efforts?
(4) reject the idea of "lying down"
With the increasing social participation, many young people have the idea of lying down. I studied hard in the cold window for more than ten years before my undergraduate course, and even worked as an assembly line worker between cigarette factories. Similar news has been common in recent years. What is even more worrying is whether this is the real choice in our hearts, or whether we have to blindly pursue stability and compromise with reality? In contrast, Wei Dongyi, a high flyers of Peking University, faced with involution, he chose to lie flat and struggle, and feel at ease in his own learning world, regardless of outside eyes and opinions. Find the value and meaning of your life in the world of mathematics.
Seven, small conclusions
It is not a good thing to delve too much into the origin of involution. In the exploration of the real world, we can get most answers that are helpful to our own development and belong to everyone. Oppose malicious and meaningless competition, stress facts, pursue truth, not feel inferior or arrogant, try to observe and treat everything and everyone in this world with a calm and rational vision instead of utilitarian anxiety, and then boldly and truly pursue the beautiful life you want, instead of falling into the deadlock of this vicious competition.
Yes, that's it. To love, to think, to learn and to live. Between countless anxious and frivolous people and gossip, you are the shining star.