Original author: Huang Liangshun
As early as May 2013, at an event at Peking University, Yang Zhenning asked Mo Yan: "If you invite Edison to live in this world for a week, which one is the one he least expects?"
Mo Yan replied: "Mobile phone, I think it is a mobile phone." ”
Yang Zhenning said: "I also agree that it is a mobile phone, with this thing, we can talk to people who are far away in the United States, how amazing." ”
Telephone calls are the basic function of mobile phones, now called "elderly machines". I remember the first mobile phone I bought, in 2000, the "Samsung" brand, thick and big, heavy. At that time, the fashionable mobile phone cover, pinned on the belt around the waist, the mobile phone was inside, bulging, walking on the street, like a martial arts team entering the city. At that time, mobile phones could only call, send messages, and two-way billing, in and out of the money, the standard of phone bills is also higher than now, in order to save phone bills, many people are used with landlines, try not to answer or call.
I can't remember how many phones I've changed since. Now the mobile phone has become an indispensable part of life, it is like a killer, continuously killed landlines, cameras, televisions, game consoles, radios, flashlights, alarm clocks, watches, mirrors, letters, newspapers, books, dictionaries, wallets... Even the thief industry, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is about to come to an end. American writer Stephen Edwin King, who wrote a novel called "Mobile Phone", tells a wonderful prophecy story, the perpetrator sent a special pulse signal through the mobile phone, directly erased most of the information stored in the victim's brain, just like the computer hard disk formatting, human beings quickly mutated, the existing civilization also collapsed.
I can't predict what kind of "demon" the mobile phone will become in a few years, but it is foreseeable that in the state of not having a mobile phone now, the whole person is empty, if the mobile phone is lost or manipulated, the account is less silver, a little money is broken, it is a small matter, and I don't know how many "nude photos" appear, how many lovers can't become dependents, how many people directly "clear zero" in the first half of their lives...
I went on a business trip, handed in electronic products such as mobile phones according to regulations, cut off all contact channels such as the Internet, and was "held in captivity" in a hotel for several days. The "normal" life that is accustomed to being served by mobile phones suddenly comes to an abrupt end, and it is generally necessary to forcibly "rehabilitate drugs".
Turning off the phone, the only thing that can't be assured is its most primitive call function. Now who is missing, the earth is still spinning, but people are middle-aged, there are old and young, many things, I am the only shoulder they can rely on, have to wait for them 24 hours. So after reporting the dedicated recorded telephone in the workplace to the home, he was relieved to return to the "primitive" life.
Because of mobile phones, people are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, still a thousand words, affectionate, close at hand but look at each other speechless, even if the husband and wife are alone, they also hold mobile phones, and they swim separately. Received the mobile phone, a group of strangers from different places, less than a day to get acquainted, and chat speculatively, there is a sense of seeing each other and hating the night, if not closed management, it is estimated to go out for two drinks. Chinese chatting together, has been criticized by Westerners for a long time, of which eating is the most typical, Chinese food around the table and eating, pushing cups to change cups, eating out of family affection, eating out of friendship, eating out of career glory, while Western food is only a physiological need. Of course, those who call loudly as soon as they get on the high-speed rail, from negotiating contracts to directing warehouse delivery, to eating and ordering at night, taking a few buses, until the mobile phone is out of power, or the car arrives at the station and then hang up helplessly, is not the cultural difference between the East and the West, but a personal quality and cultivation problem.
Mobile phones and whipped eggs seem to be idle boring left arm right arm, "left arm" closed, "right arm" is still there, but I am born insufficient to make up the day after tomorrow card pair, extremely affect the team combat effectiveness, after dinner "foot" played a round, but also go back to the room first. In addition to the lack of Internet access in the room, there are other facilities, in addition to a small bookshelf, more than a dozen books, political history, investment to make money, leisure and health, literature and art, all have.
I don't know when, reading has become a petty bourgeoisie, just like when there was a mobile phone.
I took a copy of the "Selected Essays of Lin Yutang" from the bookshelf, and one of the "Commentaries" in it was very interesting, he said: "Fame, profit, sex, and power can all make people uncertain." Just this funny word is good for the body and mind." Nowadays, information is accessible, food can be desired, and what can be done, life has become "boring". Fun, what exactly is it? Lin Yutang said: "It is really not easy to understand the spirit of the rhinoceros, sometimes the Zen master only knocks on your head, you think about it deeply, and you will suddenly have a wonderful understanding." I think it is also, the word "fun", "walking" is the front, "ear" is the middle, listening to the left and right, so repeatedly (again), how much poor reason, the knowledge of the grid is in this "fun". The key to "fun" lies in "taking", people live a lifetime, gain is to take, loss is also to take, to see profit and forget righteousness is to take, to give profit to take righteousness is also to take. The fun of today's daily life is taken from mobile phones, but it is also lost to mobile phones, just like the "yellow flowers" in the field, a touch of yellow, very good-looking, but flooded, it is also boring.
Before coming here, I planned to use the "lockdown" to write something in these days, and the public account ("rural gossip") has not been updated for more than half a month. I am a person without "literary debt", the so-called debt, first of all, must have assets and capital, most of the text I wrote was posted on the public account, the submission was not published much, let alone others' appointments, that is, Lin Yutang said "interesting" word. In accounting language, capital (owner's equity) is equal to assets, and naturally there are no liabilities. The only thing I feel indebted to is that these two or three thousand readers who pay attention to my public account open their mobile phones every day and see that in the "subscription number assistant", some people come in, and some people quietly leave. Their expectation should be my "contingent liability", although I have not seen them for a few days, but I always have it in mind, which is also the main motivation that spurs me to keep writing.
However, when I found the paper and pencils available in the hotel and sat down cautiously, I did not know how to write. Just a few lines, I was crossed out by myself, written again, crossed out again, and even many words could not be written. So I wrote and scribbled, scribbled and wrote, and as the hours passed, the two pieces of paper were painted beyond recognition, but only the beginning was written that even I did not want to see. I wonder if one day, without mobile phones and computers, will we become illiterate? Just like some leaders, the secretary is not there, and they don't know what to do.
Books can't be read, articles can't be written, and the programs on every station on TV are similar, only washing and sleeping.
In the past, after going to bed every day, I would pick up my mobile phone and browse the WeChat of the day, what information was not returned, which "group" was not done in the business, and the "happy life" of those "friends" in the circle of friends should be liked, and by the way, browse the lace news.
At this moment, there is no mobile phone, and there is no such worry, just like the "second half" of life.
Most people's "first half" is the same as browsing mobile phone information, hurriedly reading, exams, employment, love, marriage, having children, saving money, buying a house, working, competing, promoting... At half-time, I suddenly found that many of the original efforts were only to win the approval of others, just like sending friends and others to like.
By the "second half" of life, there are not so many dazzling temptations, and there are not many worries that cannot be abandoned. In the face of the continuation of the "first half", if you have taken the lead, you must be steady, watch the door, keep the bottom line, do not be greedy; temporarily backward, do not have much worries, at this time do not fight more and wait for when, can score a goal, is earned; if you really can't win the field, don't take advantage of the old money, lose gracefully, it is much better than winning with a dead face; if you have to fight with the evil people, don't be too fierce, talk about martial virtue, after all, you are about to quit.
Work during the day, sleep at night, and occasionally read idle books. The week of sunrise and sunrise ends quickly. Like chasing souls, I can't wait to retrieve my phone and find that the power has been exhausted, only because I forgot to turn off the alarm clock and automatically turned on the computer when I turned it off before.
Many things in the world are like the alarm clock in this mobile phone, whether you forcibly give it up or deliberately avoid it, it is there.
The same goes for mobile phones.