Young people in the new era should stay away from "lying flat"

In the face of the menacing new crown pneumonia epidemic, all kinds of words advocating "lying flat" in the society are endless; in the face of how to work hard and cannot catch up with the soaring rise in housing prices in first-tier cities, many "Generation Z" have invariably chosen to "lie flat"; with the "80" entering the bottleneck period of workplace promotion, tired but unprovoked, busy and goalless tiredness makes many frustrated people have a "lying flat" mentality... Born out of the "lying flat" of cyberspace, borrowing the meaning and decoding of rhetorical techniques, it constantly renders negative emotions to real life space, which has aroused widespread concern from all walks of life.

The so-called "lying flat" is not really stagnant, sitting and eating and waiting for death, but describes the negative attitude of some young people to life when they face challenges, pressures and failures: there is no wave in the heart, take the initiative to give up, and do not make any resistance. Obviously, "lying flat" is nothing more than a self-deprecation and resentment and helplessness to change the mentality if you can't change the environment, more like a way for young people to decompress and adjust, behind which the absurdity and nothingness of hard work are directly expressed, and it is the "gentle resistance" of young people to "diligent values" in the new era.

To put it simply, this kind of "positive response" with considerable initiative subtly and eloquently reflects the current situation and life situation of young people in the new era, and vividly outlines everyone's calmness and tolerance for difficulties. However, "lying flat" is not a default failure, admitting that you can't do it, admitting that you are vulnerable and incompetent, this "positive response" is more with some sad questioning: "a kind of exhaustion but nothing helplessness, but at the same time playfully ridiculing this inaction." ”

Different from "Di Si", "Mourning" and "Buddhism", although "Lying Flat" also has a distinct network subcultural color, it does not have a strong "Di Si" self-contempt, "mourning" decadence, "Buddhist" avoidance, more full of anxiety and unknown development dilemma. To some extent, "lying flat" is a submissive compromise and pejorative identification that cannot break through the actual socio-economic structure and cross the "class divide". The essence is that after fierce competition and washing, young people gradually recognize the "sense of meaninglessness and absurdity of struggle", that is, "even if you don't lie flat, you may not get anything!" "There's nothing wrong with making a salty (idle) fish!"

In the face of cruel and fierce competition, choosing to "lie flat" and bid farewell to a positive attitude towards life seems very wise, but in fact it is indulgence, which is by no means the way young people in the new era should live; in the face of the menacing new crown pneumonia epidemic, it is not a "lying flat" that ignores life and blasphemes health? "Lying flat" is not a clever move, let alone a pragmatic strategy. For young people in the new era, the vague dreams and moral confusion caused by the pluralism of social values are the twists and turns that individuals must suffer in their struggles, and they are not major problems. However, blindly immersing in it and using it to adjust to the self and even passive patience is tantamount to the subjectivity of the exile of the self, and it deviates from the responsibility entrusted to young people by the times, and to some extent, it also dissolves the life consciousness of young people.

On April 30, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement that "young people are the most active and dynamic force in the whole social force, the hope of the country is in the youth, and the future of the nation is in the youth." "As long as young people have the courage to shoulder heavy burdens, overcome difficulties and brave risks, the country will always be full of vitality, full of stamina and full of hope." Therefore, young people in the new era need to always calibrate the direction of the beacon of life with faith, dreams, struggles, and dedication, tighten the general switch of value, face the real problems of society, and reject irrationality. In this sense, the youth culture represented by "lying flat" is nothing less than an emotional "self-abandonment declaration", and that kind of artificial confession seems to have won the "winner of life", but it is actually the stubborn resistance of young people in the face of embarrassment, and the heart is not willing to be with it.

Taking the global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic as an example, the so-called "lying flat" words in some countries and regions are just helpless moves after the epidemic is out of control. If we use it to look at the Chinese youth in the new era, it seems that we can also glimpse from it the resistance, dissipation and re-righteousness of some young people to "lie flat". However, this mentality of resistance is only to achieve "the use of active self-deprecation, response to the squeeze of social reality, and the completion of self-reconciliation and acceptance of reality", which is naked self-deception, and the spiritual liberation achieved is nothing more than imaginary self-amusement.

It can be said that this kind of "lying flat" that relies on "taking the initiative to surrender to complete self-confirmation" is obviously incompatible with the endeavor of "the family of youth, the country of youth, the nation of youth, and the human race of youth." If young people in the new era always think about personal gains and losses, then their horizons are too limited. As the American psychologist Eriksen put it: "In any period, adolescence means, first and foremost, the noisier and more striking part of the peoples." In other words, young people are the cutting-edge representatives of the whole society before the opening up of the atmosphere, and they can best reflect the essential characteristics of social change. If the young people in the new era "hide in small buildings to become unified" when they encounter setbacks, then who should bear the responsibility of the times for national rejuvenation? To whom will the future and destiny of the country rest? Paying attention to "lying flat young people" is actually paying attention to the question of "for whom to cultivate young people, what young people to cultivate, and how to cultivate young people" in the new era.

"Every generation of young people has their own opportunities and opportunities, and they must plan their lives and create history under the conditions of their own times." Youth has achieved nothing, and the white head is sad. Striving to be a new person of the times who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation, the young people of the new era should undoubtedly stay away from "lying flat". If every young person can remember his or her own identity attributes, strive to highlight a more recognizable spiritual outlook and deeply embed it in the running track of youth, then why can't young people in the new era run the best results? Why worry about failing Shaohua, failing the times, and failing the people?

The new era is the era of strivers, blindly "lying flat", in fact, is cynically drawn a clear line with the real world, is the forced separation of subject consciousness and the main responsibility of the willful act, is destined to imperceptibly produce an illusory pleasure and satisfaction, is not conducive to the promotion of mainstream culture and the achievement of young people's value consensus. (Text/Yang Liang)

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