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Harmony is not that a hundred people make the same voice at the same time, but when a hundred people make different voices at the same time, they can also respect each other.
Author | Pick up the widow
Source | Shiyi201633)
In the last year or two, the entire Internet environment has deteriorated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Little John Khan" has a very apt saying: everyone is trampling on everyone.
Click on a hot search, click on a topic, almost every hot Weibo below, there are people arguing, there are people insulting, there are people in the party, the reasons for quarrelling are various, region, gender, epidemic, war, idol... Everything can be the fuse of quarrels.
We all think that we are "in the hands of the truth", and the people on the opposite side are brain-dead, so we always want to teach each other and destroy each other, so we spray each other, insult, insult... So blocking, reporting, breaking up...
Since I learned to go online 20 years ago, I have never seen the internet environment so bad.
In the face of an increasingly bad Internet environment, I felt the need to talk about the "Will Smith Social Experiment."
About the Will Smith Social Experiment
01
At the Oscars a few days ago, the famous actor Will Smith slapped the host Chris.
After this slap incident, a teacher named Hong Huangxiang in Taiwan used this slap incident to do a very interesting social experiment.
He posted the experiment on Facebook and caused a lot of people to think.
This experiment goes like this.
Hong Huangxiang first did not care whether the students knew about this matter, he directly told the students:
"Talk show host Chris, at the Oscars, joked about the bald head of Will Smith's wife, which caused Will to be upset, and Will came on stage and slapped Chris."
After Hong Huangxiang stated this matter, he asked the students to raise their hands to express their support for Will's behavior.
Result: About 40% of students supported it.
Next, Hong Huangxiang said to the students:
"You know what? Will's wife lost her hair because she was sick.
Because the loss of hair was very serious, she had to shave her head as a last resort. But Oscar host Chris, in front of the world, ridiculed and mocked her bald head. ”
After stating this, Hong Huangxiang asked the students to raise their hands and express their support for Will's slap.
Result: Nearly 90% of students supported.
02
Next, Hong Huangxiang said to the students:
"Sarcasm is of course verbal violence, but hitting people is more serious violence, and even if we are teased, we should not resort to violence, but should seek other solutions."
What's more, Chris explained afterwards that he didn't know that Will's wife had shaved her head because she was ill. Will didn't give Chris a chance to explain and resorted directly to violence. ”
After stating this, Hong Huangxiang asked the students to raise their hands and express their support for Will's slap.
Result: Supporters fell back to about 40%.
Next, Hong Huangxiang said to the students:
"Will is a witness to domestic violence, and when he was a child, he often saw his mother being beaten by his father and covered in blood, so he vowed to protect his family.
This time, he was shortlisted for the role of the film emperor, and he also happened to be the brave defender of his family.
His wife lost her hair due to illness, and was once very depressed and closed, and it was difficult to walk out with the encouragement of her daughter.
And now Chris's taunt made her hurt again.
That's why Will stepped forward to protect the people he loved the most. ”
After stating this, Hong Huangxiang asked the students to raise their hands and express their support for Will's slap.
Result: Supporters soared to around 80%.
Next, Hong Huangxiang said to the students:
"This Will slap incident is the first time that violence has occurred since the 94th edition of the Oscars.
This picture of beating people will be witnessed by hundreds of millions of people, which will inevitably cause a very bad impact, and may even cause some people to follow suit. ”
After stating this, Hong Huangxiang asked the students to raise their hands and express their support for Will's slap.
Result: Supporters fell back to about 50%.
At the end of the experiment, Hong Huangxiang asked the students another question:
"I have asked you to make 5 statements, whether it is against Will's slap or in support of Will's slap, in 5 statements, people who have never changed their positions should raise their hands."
The result of the raise of hands: less than 1/4 of the attitude remains the same.
Thoughts on this experiment
01
Teacher Hong Huangxiang's experiment is really worthy of our deep consideration.
The problem presented by this experiment is a microcosm of the current Internet.
Whether it's an expert or not. Whether it's the big V or the media, in many cases, the information they let us see is actually just the information they want us to see, and they will deliberately conceal or not mention the information they don't want us to see.
So the information we receive is not necessarily the truth, or it is only a kind of truth after being screened.
Therefore, when we face some hot events, we should do the following:
● Do not easily take sides or easily determine your position without sufficient information;
● When facing an unknown thing, do not easily give all your trust, and maintain the thinking of questioning and exploring the truth;
● Before making a judgment, consider things in many ways, and do not trust the words of one party;
● We should try to avoid taking a position first, and then decide our position after comprehensively collecting, sorting out and screening information.
02
Through this social experiment, Hong Huangxiang also wants to tell the majority of netizens: We always think that there can only be one truth.
But in fact, in many cases, the truth is a polyhedron, and each side is real, depending only on which side we stand on.
Just because one party in an incident is a good person does not mean that the other party is necessarily a bad person.
The reverse is also true, just because one party in the incident is a bad person does not mean that the other party is necessarily a good person.
More commonly than a showdown between good and evil, two good people are fighting for "justice" of different values, or two bad people are tearing each other apart for some kind of benefit.
So truth or truth is never absolute, it is always partial and limited.
Therefore, when we face hot events, we should do the following:
When the viewpoints and positions are different, don't easily regard the other party as an enemy, and don't easily treat the other party as a fool, the world is multidimensional, the truth we think we have is only a partial truth, and to regard our own views as complete truth is nonsense.
Don't think that you are from the "Truth Authority", do not think that what you know and see is the truth, and measure everything by what you know and see. There is no complete truth in this world, all truth is partial truth, and it is a kind of violence to understand all things only from one's own standpoint.
● We must embrace the pluralistic thinking of "one body and many aspects" and abandon the dualistic thinking of "either-or" and "black and white". When it is confirmed that one possibility exists, it is not denied that there is another possibility. Just because there are fish in the water doesn't mean there won't be anything other than fish. The truth of the world is that anything is possible.
● There are some things that we can't understand, but it doesn't mean that the thing is wrong. Just because we can't understand, we feel that the other party is not normal, then this is the real abnormality.
03
I don't know if you have paid attention to a point, that is, in this experiment, the students go to the extreme, in fact, it is the time to obtain one-sided information, in fact, it is the time to obtain one-sided cognition.
After getting enough information, after gaining sufficient understanding, when the students raised their hands to express their positions, they became hesitant and balanced, and the final result was "support and support for half of each."
What does this mean?
● The more fragmented the era, the more we should not judge a person from words, not only for the sake of cognitive prudence, but also out of the responsibility of being a person.
When you know a thing well enough, you will find it difficult to say who is right and who is wrong, most of the time, it is just that their positions are different.
The opposite of the good is not evil, but ignorance. Luo Xiang has a good saying: the poorer a person with knowledge (cognition), the more he has an inexplicable and strange courage, and an inexplicable sense of pride, because the poorer the knowledge (cognition), the more absolute what you believe, and you have never heard the opposing point of view.
Chai Jing has a good saying: Tolerance is not morality, but awareness. Only by deeply understanding things can we understand and understand the complexity of people and the world, and have the habit of thinking that does not easily blame and praise.
04
At the end of the experiment, Hong Huangxiang asked people who did not change their positions from beginning to end to raise their hands, and the result was that this part of the population accounted for about 1/4.
Many netizens feel that Hong Huangxiang is praising them and praising them for their firm stance.
Not really. Hong Huangxiang actually wants to tell everyone:
Although we must learn to think independently and not be easily manipulated by the media by the big V and experts, we must learn to know and correct mistakes.
"There is no shame in changing one's position after gaining new knowledge and information.
Because they have taken a stand at the beginning, and they are afraid of losing face and are unwilling to change, and find various reasons to deny more truths, they are actually more humiliated people. ”
Therefore, in the face of hot events, we should do the following:
● After knowing that your cognition has made mistakes, do not continue to choose to be stubborn and even forcibly whitewash in order to maintain your own authority and face.
● We must dare to admit mistakes, we must have the courage to apologize, no one can be omniscient and all-powerful, and it is shameful to make mistakes, and it is shameful not to dare to face them.
People are not ashamed to change their positions because they acquire new knowledge and information, so there is no need to be ashamed to change their positions.
05
Having said all this, I actually mean to say:
Truth is always relative, not absolute.
Truth is always partial, not global.
There is no complete truth, and all truth is partial truth.
So we should not force others to accept our own truth, nor should we measure everything by our own truth.
The world is too complicated, everyone's cognition is limited, and whoever wants to dominate the truth will laugh at whom.
The social network I wished for was something like this:
Although we do not agree with each other's views and positions, we can still tolerate each other's existence and even cooperate on the consensus that can be reached.
Harmony is not that a hundred people make the same voice at the same time, but when a hundred people make different voices at the same time, they can also respect each other.
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