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The new crown epidemic has changed people's linear understanding of time in the past, and when we asked what impressed things in the past year, Liu Qing blurted out the word "epidemic", and then hesitantly explained that it was not so much the past year as the past three years, because the virus is crushing people's previous feelings about time in an unreasonable, illogical roughness. Chinese like to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and in Liu Qing's view, these three years are actually like the same old year.
Just as medicine, biology, and other virus research continue to advance, the intellectual community is also trying to respond to this drastic change, how to explain it?
Liu Qing feels that the biggest difference from the past is that the existing cognitive structure has aphasia in the current situation. In the past we faced a virus, even if it is the unknown part, we can still explain it. In the current epidemic, any explanation may be overturned at any time, and the experience has become unreliable. The pandemic has challenged the consensus of the globalization we take for granted, warning that our habits of the past are now fraught with risks.
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In the three years of waiting, Liu Qing's identity has also undergone some changes, from a knowledge disseminator who teaches and writes books to a cross-border scholar with more popular colors. In December 2020, iQIYI's self-made variety show "Strange Story" officially announced the mentor lineup for the seventh season, and Liu Qing took the stage as a philosophy professor to participate in a form that had never been experienced before.
Initially, Liu Qing had doubts, and he asked producer Ma Dong if he would mess up the show. It's hard to tell whether this is a scholar's humility or loss. As a result, the effect after the broadcast of this season was beyond expectations. Liu Qing's personal style quickly conquered a large number of people inside and outside the field, whether it was the relaxed dress on the field, the frank tolerance in the face of the next generation of students, the humor when communicating with the instructor on the same stage, or the self-sustaining cultivation in the face of the outside world, whether it was praise or disparagement. After that, Liu Qing appeared on the hot search many times and became the hottest scholar of the year. His old philosophical works and new books have hit all kinds of book best-seller lists, and his remarks have been repeatedly screened on social networks, and some say that he has awakened a retro trend, that is, the public's curiosity about philosophy.
Liu Qing is not surprised by the philosophical upsurge caused by himself, he has experienced that moment, the mind and senses are opened, you will find that you want to understand too many things, and at the same time do not feel anxious, which is a very pure happiness.
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From college, to getting, to the strange talk program, what has changed is the form, and what has not changed is the identity of the teacher. The accumulation of popular reputation has pushed him into unfamiliar territory, but he has not lost in it, and has always been alert to the noise of Vanity Fair.
Liu Qing said bluntly. After becoming famous, the new social activities made him deviate from the three-point line of his past life, the stratosphere was broken, and the world revealed a new look. He did feel a long-lost, long-lost respect for knowledge from the outside.
But at the same time as being watched, Liu Qing is also watching, like a movie that is promoted by a fast lens: classmates who have not been in contact for a long time have appeared, distant relatives have appeared, entrepreneurs who take turns to communicate at a dinner, young and promising entrepreneurs who come to the meeting, artists and writers who express their love at the opening ceremony; actors who attend the event to meet... In a mixture of novelty, exhaustion, and good intentions, he revised his past academic imagination of the outside world, correcting those biases that were not comprehensive enough, and at the same time could not help but wonder, is this the intellectual life he himself aspires to?
Fatigue soon struck, and after a few months, he pushed out most of the similar social and repetitive job offers, moved in, and began to re-plan his time. Like in earlier years, he would swim twice a week and read for hours every morning and evening. After moving, because the new neighborhood was not equipped with a swimming pool, he increased his reading time, and the sports part was replaced by playing table football with his eleven-year-old son.
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Just as he showed a youthful atmosphere when he first appeared in Qibao, breaking the image of a philosophy professor in everyone's established cognition, we can even say that There is also a change in the structure of Liu Qing. In the face of the new world, he did not retreat, but flexibly greeted it. With an energy that the public has long ignored, it stirs up the long-forgotten vitality of the public. Over the years of pushing the door out, every conversation with the outside world seems to be a hustle and bustle surrounding him, and it is also possible that Liu Qing also created a hustle and bustle, standing on the shore and throwing stones at the flowing water, those xu waves are not the answer he waited for, we don't know. The only thing we know is that whether it is the life of fame and fortune or the life of intellectuality, the key lies in the self in the grand stream.
If you want to make a summary of the past three years, Liu Qing seems to be at a junction, on the one hand, the estrangement and restrictions of the big world are unpredictable, on the other hand, a part of the self in the small world is connected with people he never thought he would meet before. Everything is still uncertain, but Liu Qing has some expectations of his own, just as he has never tried to express it accurately, he does not easily promise himself a definite direction, but is willing to wait.
This is Professor Liu Qing's waiting year, will it also be the waiting year in your and my heart? In the face of this era of disturbing and imaginative changes, the old order seems to be disintegrating, the new order has not yet emerged, perhaps like Liu Qing, we are all waiting for an answer, what kind of dreams should we have for the future, and what kind of world we need after that.
ELLEMEN：
What has changed us the most?
Liu Qing:
It is hard to believe anymore that the argument is that there is no change. In the process of modernization over the past few centuries, people are highly dependent on each other, whether it is technology, medicine, economics or politics, each of our lives has become more and more complex, and the belief once and for all remains in the past almost forever. The epidemic has magnified these complex sides, the situation has become more severe, when science can not bring absolute security for the time being, when philosophy can not explain the moral dilemma behind different epidemic prevention policies, we will find that life is extremely easy to get out of control, more and more uncertain, many variables, and constantly changing.
How should the public face these changes?
The most basic point is to pay attention to learning. The epidemic is actually forcing us to learn, and the epidemic has magnified the uncertainty in our lives and exacerbated our uneasiness. The German sociologist Ulrich Beck once coined a concept called a "high-risk society," and we are now in reality in such a high-risk society that there is no absolutely safe and secure form.
But the complication is that the increase in knowledge has now exploded in a web of ways. The burden of knowledge falls on everyone as the world develops. In the past, after reading two or three books, people could get an answer that was even plausible, but sufficient. And now, even speciousness may not be able to do it. Learning is difficult, but we have no choice but to keep learning and update our cognition at any time in the process of change in order to avoid some possible risks.
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Do you think that the extreme change in the direction of public opinion in the epidemic has exposed the lack of philosophical speculation training in our education?
In fact, I think one of the problems of our time is the lack of meaning, people are afraid to understand others, afraid to understand strange things, I think part of the reason is because of the lack of self-formatting training. Philosophy, on the other hand, can actually cultivate and build such an ability in the general education stage.
General education is difficult to be specific to individuals to make strategies, but I think at least to cultivate a kind of thinking that breaks the fixed format, let thinking become a habit, after leaving the campus, everyone will enter different systems, these systems have their own rules, their judgment mechanisms are also different, maybe at one stage you insist on the way in the next stage is completely different.
We cannot completely blame general education itself, there are many elements of influence, some may lie in personal initiative, personal learning potential has not been benignly developed; some are trapped in educational conditions, which is a more realistic dilemma. As an educator, I personally want to be able to do something within my ability, like going to a place where it is almost impossible to get in touch with philosophy education.
When you walk down the pulpit over the years, you're actually taking philosophical education to more places.
But it is certainly not enough, my activity trajectory is still in the city, especially in the first-tier cities, there are more, rich educational resources. I myself have thought of going to a village to teach for half a year in a program similar to exchanging lives. Of course, this is a passion for being an educator.
In addition to enthusiasm, tests and problems are also like this era, constantly innovating. The emergence of the epidemic, in fact, is the same for us, there are too many variables and randomness. Some of the activities I have been doing outside the pulpit over the years, sometimes when I am educating others, I am actually being educated by others. Some of my personal boundaries are also constantly changing, and like I said earlier, I'm also learning all the time.
Before the most satisfactory answer appears, my only requirement for myself is to accept change, adapt to change, do not stop learning, I hope that I, and I hope that everyone can embrace the grand flow of life, but occasionally remember to go ashore to think.
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