In my previous cognition, young people are generally under the age of 25, immature, energetic, full of vision for the future, idealism and curiosity. But in the usual context of China, people in their forties can still be young. The most typical is so-and-so young scholars, as well as the "takeaway brother" running all over the street. Most of them are middle-aged people with wives and children, and there are "greasy" young people who work overtime in Internet factories. "Youth" is not an era, but a state in which a person cannot control his own destiny and is exiled to the surrounding areas.

Speaking of youth, I think of students who committed suicide in colleges and universities in recent years. What's even more incredible is that four students committed suicide in a school in Nantah within six months. The junior students of Beijing Jiaotong University quoted Ye Saining's poem "Goodbye, My Friend" in their suicide note. He is so brilliant and loveless, and the suicide note in the laboratory of Dalian University of Technology is so scary, hoping to be confessed and abandoned by the world. Even after studying as a postdoctoral fellow and making green peppers in colleges and universities, people are still discussing the sadness caused by Sun Yat-sen University's "promotion or not". The expansion of education in China in recent ten years has enabled countless young people to enter universities, but the hollowing out of education is making this generation rapidly aging and look like death. In order to live, it took away the last trace of youth.

Speaking of young people, I think of some groups, some of whom are older and advocate not getting married, because marriage means all kinds of responsibilities, unhappiness and constraints. And they can live well if they are single. There are also some feminists who tell stories about the women's era and bravely hope to change it. They don't want to regenerate, which is a kind of bondage. Although the current policy has repeatedly called for marriage and children, and public opinion has also spread concerns about the population problem, ideals leave young people with no time and spirit to think about the other half. They don't lack food, but they can't stop for a better life. They have no time, no desire and no ability to think about the procedures of life.

The faces of these young people I think of are just some of thousands of faces, but they are "exposed", the expressions of young people's bodies, and they are real. People use "migrant workers" to stop complaining. Oxford sociologist Xiang Biao believes that this is the anxiety of the middle class. The real bottom has no time to express, they are more bitter. In fact, people use the word "migrant workers", which is not a monologue from the heart of young people. Its scene is that office workers and security inspectors in the subway "smile at each other" and are suppressed by labor, which is a real and universal living condition. In this depressed mood, there is a long "intergenerational involvement" because this generation of young people can't bear the burden of life alone. They grew up under the watchful eyes of adults, and their marriage, real estate and career choice also need two generations of "migrant workers" to complete together. They are children who don't grow up and young people forever.

When young people enjoy the fatigue brought by the expansion of education and have to bear the fate of continuing to work, they feel cheated. After doing the problem, the hypothesis of changing fate no longer holds. Eighteen years of learning the sea is boundless, and once they enter the society, they become migrant workers, completely disillusioning their idealism. The rumbling "screw" teaching sound rings in the ear, and it is time to start work on the assembly line. Not only can't you change your destiny, but you don't care more and more about getting rich through hard work. The market share was cut off by monopoly, and the digital platform made the entrepreneurial dream of small consumers disappear. "involution" refers to a state where there is no hope of rising and demand continues to work. Contemporary youth are trapped in such a situation, and the generation trapped by such a situation is called the "involution generation".

The "involution generation" is a generation at a turning point in history. The forty years after the reform and opening-up are the forty years of great changes in China society. It is not an exaggeration to say that China society has invented the miracle of human poverty reduction in just 40 years, which is worth confessing. The younger generation has benefited from this and has made unprecedented progress in all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation. The way to do it is worth pondering. Large-scale infrastructure investment based on real estate is at the expense of overdrawing the future life of young people. Of course, before they overdraw their children, they have overdrawn their parents. The documentary of pneumoconiosis patients filmed by independent filmmaker Jiang Nengjie truly records the cost of development. If there is a will, Jia's "The Good Man of the Three Gorges" outlines where we come from.

In the next 30 years, the "involution generation" will become more and more difficult in such an economic environment. Because they need to repay the cost of development, they only want money, and then treat everyone around them as a commodity. The consumer society and materialistic world that we criticize today will become more severe and flat in the future, and even acquiesce in the "life-and-death struggle". It is not that you want to live like this, but that the whole economic structure must be considered like this. The group's mind will become more anxious and flustered, and people will become more lonely and indifferent. However, due to the excessive development before, this price will be more intuitively distributed to young people. It's ugly when you die.

In the intergenerational rights relations in China society, young people have no right to speak. Only by passively exercising, honing and being more obedient can they have good fruits and a future. It seems that this generation of Qian Lang, who enjoys the dividend of change, doesn't care about the next generation behind them. They only care about how to send their children to Europe and America to fulfill their life value. They don't care about their "children", but are exquisite and self-interested, facing the involution in an evasive way, and then leaving the mess to young people to roll in. They hold important positions in society and control resources, but they don't want to make this land better. Instead, they enjoyed it and stared at future generations numbly. This is the "post-wave perspective" and this is "the generation is not as good as the generation".

The former wave generation has the psychological structure of reform and opening up, that is, the social Darwinism spirit of daring to think, dare to do and dare to fight, not afraid of hard work, but also "superior" and strive for a way in desperation. This is intrinsically related to the heroic sons and daughters' courage to fight without fear of sacrifice in the reactionary period. Therefore, they continue to encourage the "involution generation" to work hard and work in a state of "no self". Passion will cool down and become a "lying flat" and "fishing" cultural society, which is not produced by strength, but by knowledge. Recognizing the involution dilemma of young people and actively improving the social structure under personal circumstances need social care, fairness and justice, democratic speech, free discussion and idealism, rather than using some fabricated words to curb the passion of young people.

China's social development is dominated by political elites, the broad masses and young people. If these young people think they are children, or children who are ordered to demand before they know how to walk, then they can only bear the fate of being caught up. Not as good as the previous generation. Fortunately, there are a few skipping joys, which is also the preference of survivors. Young people must first wake up from those boastful words, whether they are struggling or trapped, first lose their dreams and live their true selves. It is hard enough for me, but it is the road to sobriety and youth. After a period of time, most young people dare not continue to fall asleep. When they wake up, they can only wait for the master to automatically take off the chain tied around their necks. The young people who woke up soon fell into disappointment again. I think disappointment is the background of society, and lying down is the most correct posture. Disappointment is fiercer than a virus, it will spread rapidly, and in the end it will be nothing more than self-destruction. This is the tragedy of waking up, but not as vulgar as falling asleep.

If we young people still have hope for the future, then this hope should not be pinned on others, but should take root and sprout in your heart, blossom and bear fruit. Make every aspect of your life colorful. We want them to see that in the involution environment, we want to be a free man with a heart. This is a young man's posture. However, this comfortable posture is not an appeal divorced from material life, nor is it a dream of true passion.

It is the road under your feet, the need to support your family and the need to face the daily affairs of your boss and colleagues. It is necessary to nest the flesh in policy activities, so sober young people are suffering, sober young people are entangled, and sober young people are depressed. Depression is right, that's the meaning of being free from the body. At this historical crossroads, we bravely chose a road of self-awakening, be my hero in this ordinary world, and stand out for a living. Even an accidental compromise can't stop the trend towards the light.