See the world with prejudice: Xu Zhiyuan

"Our mediocrity seems to be that we never dare to face ourselves naked and lack lasting care and trust in our inner world."

It has always been thought that the changes of the times will definitely affect the choices and trends of generations of literati. No one will have their own time, and of course no time will exist for someone. It was not until I got to know Xu Zhiyuan gradually that I felt that he belonged to this era. Perhaps this evaluation is too exaggerated and vague for him, but I have to admit that his height is admirable, frightening and even frightening.

That is a writer with an "interesting soul" and a sincere intellectual who "sees the world with prejudice". Xu Zhiyuan said, "Everyone should try to find himself." Probably spent the first half of my life like this!

Xu Zhiyuan, a famous intellectual, reflected an intellectual's thinking about China's past and future in his article, full of anxiety. If you are tired of reading newspapers and reading those cliches every day, Xu Zhiyuan is undoubtedly the most likely person to throw cold water on you.

I met Xu Zhiyuan in thirteen invitations. Xu Zhiyuan in the screen is like the image of a wise man in his eyes: a traditional European wise man with instant noodles, curly hair, black-rimmed glasses, a gown and a book with him. He has a unique intellectual atmosphere and uninhibited attitude towards life in his bones.

? Thirteen invitations are thought-provoking. Xu Zhiyuan took a risk and produced a unique program in The Times. His questions may embarrass others, and others' answers may also embarrass him. Of course, it is worth noting that more and more people gradually understand Xu Zhiyuan's values in anxiety.

At first, Xu Zhiyuan introduced himself. I am an unreliable writer, trying to capture the spirit of the times, but I often hate the popular emotions of the times. I am a reluctant entrepreneur, trying to succeed in business, but I don't fully believe in the logic of business. I also run a bookstore, which only sells books I want to read. I am dissatisfied with this era of excessive entertainment and shallowness, and hope to break the inertia in everyone's thinking. I also want to know the new motivation, new emotions and people's inner world in this rapidly changing era. I will start with my prejudices and wait for them to be broken or confirmed again. Prejudice is the soul of Xu Zhiyuan.

In the first season, Xu Zhiyuan talked with Luo Zhenyu, and Luo Zhenyu said, "I don't care about the mental state of this era. I can't care and I can't care. I sympathize with those who sing the elegy of the times, and I know why you became an elegy singer, because we have tasted the sweetness in the world of different values. " I have seen various platforms condemning Luo Zhenyu's remarks. I think without Luo Zhenyu, there is more helplessness behind indifference, so this attitude is understandable. Of course, maybe this is not indifference in essence. How many people can remain rational and take the time to analyze the world in an era when values are falling apart?

I am confused and hesitant about Xu Zhiyuan. I don't know whether Xu Zhiyuan's ego is too strong, or whether he has broad vision and rich experience. Xu Zhiyuan likes traveling. Everywhere he goes, he will have a unique position in his mind, so he is always realistic and expecting. He went to Bangalore: a expressway leads to the city, and the street lamps on both sides give off milky light, one by one. Taxi is clean and spacious, and the driver is fluent in English. He also uses the meter. This is in line with my imagination of Bangalore, perhaps too much. Perhaps in the eyes of most people, India is shabby, poor and backward, and so is Xu Zhiyuan. In his heart, there is always a tower, and everything is clearly visible.

Maybe it's hard for the public to understand Xu Zhiyuan. Just like this anxious era, Xu Zhiyuan is heartbroken, sad and helpless. He wrote about Beijing: it claims to have a history of 3,000 years, but Beijing is a brand-new and restless city. Time has not given it wisdom and calmness, only confusion and anxiety. The ubiquitous noise, rising tall buildings, flashing neon lights, the sky shrouded in dust and waste gas, and the dark crowd ... under its ever-changing and energetic appearance, it is a moral and aesthetic landslide and spiritual rigidity. The logic of power and money rules everything, including the appearance of buildings, the width of roads, the quality of air, artistic taste and people's hearts. Because there are no internal rules, people are attracted by speed, scale and excitement. Because of this speed, scale and excitement, people have no patience and opportunity to establish their own internal norms. He wrote about contemporary China: for many years, I criticized her as a distorted, alienated, rootless and shallow society. Now, I may need her more than ever. It seems that it is in this criticism and the reaction it caused that I realized my value. He loves his motherland more than most people, so he is willing to change the pace of this country and the media age and lead intellectuals to discover, analyze and criticize. Xu Zhiyuan can't turn a blind eye to shallowness.

If we can give a one-way definition to modern China, it is probably: emptiness, distortion, anxiety and fragmentation. I try my best to imagine Xu Zhiyuan's psychology, be silent, think, empty myself in time, and refute shallowness in time. He tried to draw a line with the times, but he didn't expect the audience to love his painful struggle to draw a line with the times.

"People don't listen to their inner desires, escape loneliness and anxiety, and lag behind the prevailing rules, but people will eventually find that this kind of life is actually not worth living. The more you avoid your heart, the more you are at a loss. "

Those sad young people, generation after generation, go deep into the world with confusion, pursuit and prejudice!