Money has become the only standard

Reading Chen Yun's book "Spiritual Life in the Present Era" is a philosophical work published in 2008, which seems to interpret the era we live in in modern times from a unique perspective, and analyze the spiritual dilemmas and remedies we are facing.

Now the most direct yardstick for measuring a person's success is the amount of money. If you earn more, you will be great; if you can't earn, it will be garbage. So simple, so violent, so naked. Believe it or not, it's true.

As a result, we can feel that the whole society is striving for the same path to making money. In this struggle, more and more people choose to reject the sublime. Because the ratio of sublime to money-making is meaningless. Even the basic elements of life on which we live, such as love, family affection, and friendship, have surrendered.

Whether the benefit is or not becomes the yardstick for measurement. And this measurement is nothing more than the penetration of economics in the social sphere. In such a situation, more and more people choose short-term goals and no longer pursue the long term. If there is an interest in sight, then do it, and if there is no interest, then withdraw.

Along with this, on the way to making money, people increasingly do not want to insist on honest labor and legal operation, and they all want to find shortcuts and think of luck. The more you can get rich quickly, the more you are favored by people. Thus, the trickster's means are taken advantage of.

In addition to making money, people do not see or believe in the long term, so they indulge in temporary joy and have nihilistic behavior. A day is a day, where can control tomorrow, only to have wine in this day and drunk in this day.

Money becomes the yardstick by which everything is measured. People no longer believe in the content of emotional nothingness, but directly seek reality. People no longer feel that grand narratives have meaning, but instead take the dissolution of meaning as a direction to life, and life becomes meaningless.

We had a time of burning passion, which should be said to be the 80s of the last century. The reason why this happened is that in that era, people generally felt that their efforts were related to the grand goal, and they were part of the grand goal.

However, with the advent of international events such as the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union, coupled with the rapid development of the domestic market economy. Completely shattered people's passions. Individuals become smaller and smaller, even negligible. As a result, no one chooses to care about social topics anymore, but is trapped in their own small world, unable to extricate themselves.

Common, resonant, and less and less, people's interests have become more and more diverse, personalized, individualized, and become a kind of free choice.

From the loss of publicity to the acceleration of the process of secularization, from the determination of subjectivity to the loss of subjectivity, the spiritual life of the present era seems to be difficult to be condensed by a public event, and the increasingly atomized individual will eventually become a flat boat in spiritual life.