I don’t know since when, it seems that we are in some kind of dilemma collectively.
More deeply than ever, I realized what it means to be "all-around and not in chains".
Technology-
ChatGPT was born, and powerful natural language processing ability began to replace some manpower. People whose jobs are threatened are facing the same panic as spinning workers after the appearance of spinning machines in the 18th century.
Entertainment-
We surf the Internet for an average of 29.5 hours a week and 4.21 hours a day, and the number of short video users exceeds 1 billion. Everyone lives on the internet and is trapped in it. Compared with people and buildings nearby, behind the screen is a more familiar and secure world.
Out of focus—
We have lost the ability to accurately find one or several points to project, move forward and polish, and we have exhausted all our strength just to cope with the new challenges every day and not to fall too hard. Everyone’s inner world is like an unfocused lens, and only a vague outline can be seen in the frame.
What exactly is this dilemma? Why do we enter the situation where the technology is more developed and the heart is more confused? Why does life seem to have only one direction, and everyone will acquiesce in the same "good life"?
"Modern Times" stills
As early as 1964, the philosopher Marcuse put forward with anxiety"One-dimensional man"This concept—
"One-dimensional people are people who lose the ability to deny, criticize and transcend. Such people not only no longer have the ability to pursue, but also no longer have the ability to imagine another life different from real life. "
At that time, the western society enjoyed great material abundance after the second industrial revolution-cars, high-definition fax devices, split-level family houses and kitchen equipment became the soul of people’s lives. A worker can enjoy the same TV programs and roam the same resorts as his boss, and a typist can dress up as beautifully as her employer’s daughter. Leisure activities and aspirations of different social classes gradually assimilate.
Stills of "Home alone"
Everyone is comfortable, calm and steady, and becomes an illiberal "one-dimensional person" in a very consistent choice. Marcuse’s warning can be said to be "a prosperous time."
In the present era, are we, as Marcuse predicted,Is gradually losing the ability to judge and deny? Is losing space and time as a person? Are you questioning your own meaning and value?
Why don’t you spread out the problem, look at it carefully and find it?Reaffirm everything as a "person".
Sixth anniversary of triple secondary school readingOn the occasion, we send youKnowledge conferenceSincere invitation-Multidimensional Man: Rebuilding Man as a Man in the Out-of-Focus Era.
At this time last year, Sanlian middle school reading knowledge conference
The theme is"Back to the future"I hope to seek the strength to cope with changes from traditional culture. At present, we will turn our perspective to the social science field, pay attention to the specific people and things at present, and hope to see, observe and improve the surrounding areas.
Luo Xin, He Guimei, Dong Chenyu, Zhou Feizhou, Wang Min ‘anFive from history,Literature, communication, sociology, philosophyExperts and scholars will bring us about"A man is a man"All kinds of thinking.
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Luo Xin: Under the microscope of history, people are born perfect?
Luoxin
Professor of China Ancient History Research Center and History Department, Peking University.??
In recent years,"nobody"Began to enter the field of vision of historical research. A maid-in-waiting in the Northern Wei Dynasty, a child of a professional soldier, a man who wrote an epitaph …Ordinary people in the grand history are behind the feelings of the whole family, and also hide the complete social system and the changes of the times.
Luo Xin, a professor at China Ancient History Research Center and History Department in Peking University, wrote in his book:"Caring for the weak and speaking for the marginal people is not the important responsibility of the current historians?" Individual and collective, life and death, past and reality, the individual in history is every one of us.
Professor Luo Xin will take us to analyze:
What does the individual in history mean?
From the perspective of history, why are people "born perfect"?
As an ordinary person, how to compete for the right to interpret the times?
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He Guimei: How to open the humanistic imagination in the technological era?
He Guimei
Professor of Chinese Department of Peking University
When Marcuse put forward the concept of "one-dimensional man", he especially pointed out"imagination"Lack ofPeople no longer even have the ability to imagine another life different from real life. As early as 1959,Sociologist Mills put forward "sociological imagination": positioning himself in the era and paying attention to the relationship between individuals and society.
Today, when the society highly advocates technology and science, humanistic knowledge is facing a serious crisis. We receive a lot of information every day, but we are more and more anxious and can’t find an outlet for our emotions and problems. He Guimei, a professor of Chinese Department in Peking University, put forward "the imagination of humanities"-Open yourself up and discuss personal problems and literary problems in a big social structure relationship level, so that personal experience can be related to public issues.
Professor He Guimei will share with us:
How to recognize people’s passive state?
How can we open the "imagination of humanities" and activate people’s initiative from the inside out?
How can a poem, a novel and a movie help us understand, recognize and change the world?
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Dong Chenyu: Platform society, how do we meet?
Dong chenyu
Lecturer, School of Journalism, Renmin University of China
Network anchor, takeaway, network car driver. Three occupations that have emerged in recent years and are inseparable from most people’s daily lives. Their appearance means that our real life takes place in the platform society.
Social networking has brought people closer together. In recent years, with the development of Internet platform economy, people can even be directly "stitched" together like cloth.During the epidemic, when it was impossible to eat in the restaurant, the takeaway staff sewed up a kilometer between the home and the restaurant; When there is no offline activity, the live broadcast sews up the lack of entertainment. In such a society, what marks are left by people as stitched fabrics?
Dong Chenyu, a lecturer at School of Journalism, Renmin University of China, will take us to discuss:
In a platform society, how do we deal with ourselves?
How did the online car driver who got the job opportunity be wiped out?
What’s the difference between a network anchor and an assembly line worker?
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Zhou Feizhou: Does everyone have to be a "social person" unless he is a "social cow" or "social fear"?
Zhou feizhou
Professor and Director of Sociology Department of Peking University.
Modern people have their own cognitive way of "society": being able to communicate with the outside world without fear of being laughed at is a "social cow", and being afraid of communicating with the outside world without being concerned is called "social fear". However, no matter what kind of personality, such a division separates itself from society and forms opposition.
As one of them, obviously we can’t be separated from society, but we are cutting with society all the time.How to truly "enter the society"? How can we be more open to ourselves and others?
Professor Zhou Feizhou, director of the Department of Sociology of Peking University, will share with us:
Should society be a tool for individuals or the only way to freedom?
What is the basis of the benign interaction between man and society?
How to reduce the anxiety of the times and become a real "social person"?
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Wang Min ‘an: In the face of AI, can human beings maintain the potential of "not doing it"?
Wang Min ‘an
Professor, Tsinghua University College of Humanities
What can we see when we gaze closely at our time? Climate warming, artificial intelligence, economic turmoil … all contain the possibility of human destruction. We can’t continue to live on the earth, become enslaved objects, and may fall into a new whirlpool at any time. We personally participated in the crisis.
But don’t be swallowed up by the mud and lose the ability to look out. Raise your head and look farther away, where there may be another possibility of saying "no"
Professor Wang Min ‘an from Tsinghua University College of Humanities will take us to discuss:
The more powerful technology is, why do people become "technology" or "tools" themselves?
In the face of AI, can human beings maintain the potential of "not doing it"?
What are the neglected risks of anthropocentrism?
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Born as a human being, we can undoubtedly follow the rhythm of society and March towards the recognized "good life"; But we need to keep our thinking ability and find our own answer to "being human".
May 27th, andTriple readingTogether, the problem is heavy.New spread, towards more dimensions, ask questions.
"Middle School" is 6 years old.
Between the habit of "slow reading" cultivated by traditional books and magazines and the way of "fast reading" innovated by the Internet, we are eager to find a new form of acquiring knowledge, which is what Chinese reading has been exploring.
"Chinese reading"
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From 2017 to 2023, Sanlian Middle School entered its sixth year.
Sanlian Middle School Reading is a knowledge service platform created by Sanlian Life Weekly. After the App was officially launched in May 2017, we established new connections with a group of "lost" Sanlian old readers and a large wave of "knowledge seekers".
In the past six years, Sanlian Middle School has integrated audio and video lessons, digital journals, audio books, podcasts and other media content into one, and has become the spiritual home of five million users.
Some excellent courses
The "Why Do We Love the Song Dynasty-Ten Lectures on Aesthetics of the Song Dynasty" launched in July 2018 is the first "phenomenal" audio quality course read in China.
It brought together ten scholars from across the Taiwan Strait and three places, and laid the "humanistic" tone for Chinese reading.
Nowadays, hundreds of good audio and video courses have been accumulated in middle school reading-you can touch the national character and thousand-year-old philosophy engraved in ancient buildings; Listen to the history of Chinese civilization written on the archaeological site deeply and systematically; Through the classical rereading of literature and thought, we can know who has shaped us and who is writing our times …
In April 2021,
The "Digital Journal" is brand-new online.
Including the digital issue of Sanlian Life Weekly,
Readers can not only get close to all the reports accumulated in the past 28 years, but also enjoy the three-dimensional experience of listening, reading, watching and commenting on 52 new issues a year.
Reading and Philharmonic magazines are also among them.
Recent digital journal
365 days a year, get your knowledge ready for middle school reading and wait for you.
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