A few months ago, I had a fight with an old gentleman online. The reason we quarreled was comical, just because I mentioned that I had read Mr. Mo Yan's essays in the magazine. The other party insisted that Mo Yan was writing a novel and could not write an essay, claiming that I had inserted green onions in my pig's nose and misled people's children, and his heart was reprehensible.
I wanted to patiently explain, but I couldn't resist the attack of a large group of people, and in the end, the sophistry could not be discredited. After this incident, I understood a lot of truths, began to learn to clip my tail and be a person, and I was also a little discouraged by things like culture. Because the man who took the lead in opposing me actually hung up the title of "cultural worker", and he was nearly sixty years old. Sixty years of experience should have understood a lot, whether it is true or false?
How could a great literati not have essay works? If you really don't understand, as a cultural worker, you are already ignorant to this extent, let alone ordinary people...
Maybe it's out of ignorance, or for some other reason. Some people can't make sense at all. You reason with them, they talk to you about quality. You talk to them about quality, and they throw on you and pour urine on you. All day long, they swarm, picking thorns and arching their mouths.
Ms. Zhang Xiaoben is just a person who likes to reason with others, and perhaps it is these truths that hurt her...
I have always believed that the New Culture Movement "De-Literacy Culture" is the only progress of Chinese culture that has practical significance in thousands of years. Therefore, I have not been very interested in things like literary texts and ancient poems. But I am not a king who is idle and likes to point fingers around, and I will not pay attention to how the authors of ancient poems look, how they write, and what they write.
This year, by chance, through the article forwarded by a friend, I read a poem written by Zhang Xiaoben. Curious, I went to the home page to take a closer look, and found that some of Zhang Xiaoben's poems were very well written and the essays were also very good. At the same time, I also saw a lot of "praise" comments under Zhang Xiaoben's poems.
In terms of attitude towards culture, I may be different from Zhang Xiaoben. Zhang Xiaoben may really take ancient poetry as a hobby, writing poetry almost every day, sometimes even several poems a day. These poems seem to have little income other than some praise.
I have always adhered to the attitude of "advancing with the times, putting money first" and pursuing the "pragmatism" of culture. What you write must first be exchanged for silver, and then consider hobbies. After all, the family conditions are not yet superior enough not to move bricks and regard culture as a hobby.
Although I had never communicated with Zhang Xiaoben, I found that she seemed to have some arrogance in her, often arguing with some "people" by name. What happened next, I am not in a position to dwell on too much, and most people who know Zhang Xiaoben are aware of this person.
What surprised me was not that Zhang Xiaoben was "gone", but what happened after she disappeared.
When visiting the website, I accidentally found Zhang Xiaoben's account on some other small platforms, and the number of fans was a little scary. At the same time, under the recommendation of the platform, I often brushed the same "new influencer" video and advertisement in recent days, and brushed it more than a dozen times a day. The Internet celebrity looks like "one eye standing guard with the other eye to put on the whistle", dressed in rags like a "fool" who quarrels and flirts with female anchors.
Today, when I opened the short video website, the official just pushed me into his live broadcast room, and it seemed that I had to go in and feel the warmth of the "advanced era of happiness".
This look, startled, there are 350,000 online viewers...
On the web, this is not bizarre. Some anchors spread the Dafa of bubble girls all day long, telling some emotional stories of women's uterus being tossed off... Some anchors hold a large piece of mutton in their hands all day long, allowing people to brush gifts in exchange for making money Dafa... Some anchors specialize in finding broken houses to show their superb acting skills...
From these, I judged that those fans of Zhang Xiaoben's past had few iron fans. Combined with the experience of myself and other writers, I have to admit the fact that the appeal of words is far less attractive than funny entertainment, and the cohesion of text writers is far less than that of an ordinary anchor.
Zhang Xiaoben wrote for several years to accumulate 10,000 fans, and there were few iron fans. What is certain is that even if you don't "wrestle", it is difficult to break through, and the ending may only end.