Ordinary people are so easy to get into the pit, they are all designed with these sickles

Hi, I'm chubby.

"Mastering the art of influencing the imagination of the crowd is equivalent to mastering the art of controlling and manipulating the crowd."

This is a sentence in "The Rabble", Yesterday, Chubby wrote "The sickle that has been sharpened for so long, they can finally complete the harvest during the holiday", which talks about the phenomenon of some merchants harvesting tourists during the holiday, every time the "leek" is cut, the message area will always see that everyone will always come up with a "leek guilt theory" point of view.

But in fact, have you ever thought that people are products of the environment.

In this sense, "everyone is a leek".

Some leeks grow fast and are cut a lot;

Some grow slowly, although they have not been cut for the time being, but if you cut more and cut less, you will not be able to escape the fate of being harvested after all.

It is not a question of individual ability, but of the shaping of the group by the entire social environment.

In fact, everyone is in the same field, but the time and method of cutting are different.

So are we to blame leeks? We're all leeks.

The core of the problem is not leeks, but these erroneous narratives that are coerced by mainstream public opinion.

It's these narratives that allow the Reaper to stealthily take your money away in a stealthy way, while also making you feel like you're making an active choice.

You have been fooled, but you don't know it.

The question is, who is to blame?

Nature is the reaper.

Right? We may be able to accept a slower growth and a little loss, but if we don't even know how we are harvested, we will only be cut in the future.

But can you figure it out, who is the Reaper?

And how did they cut your money?

If you can't figure out all this, it will be difficult to get rid of this "fate of being cut too much".

The scythe was swung down again and again, cutting one stubble, and another stubble.

You can only continue to make "leeks".

The harvest of ideas

Chubby thinks that the real harvest is actually more of a harvest of thoughts.

What is the harvest of ideas?

Just like the sentence of "The Rabble" quoted at the beginning, it is very similar, and it is necessary to master the art of influencing the imagination of the group.

If I want to harvest you, I'll first have to make up a story for you to believe.

For example, all kinds of myths of "buying is earning" make you think that you can make a fortune by entering the market now.

For example, if a merchant wants to sell you a piece of clothing, they will definitely convince you that you can become very beautiful and different by wearing it.

Or sell a diamond ring and they will tell you that this ring represents "only one person for your life", and you can only order one in your life, symbolizing your partner's unique affection for you.

You will find that the essence of all this harvesting is harvesting your imagination.

They take advantage of your psyche and make you fall into fantasies.

You think, "Everyone else has this ring that symbolizes eternal love, and I have to have it too, which means that he only loves me." ”

Once this imagination is implanted, you willingly take the bait, even willing to be harvested.

Harvesting in any form, to put it bluntly, is a kind of "scythe art", which relies on the precise manipulation of your imagination.

The Reaper weaves a story that controls your perceptions and desires, and you are in this story, guided to the goals they set.

Especially in today's mainstream values, the definition of success has long been predetermined.

Aren't the media and self-media you brush up repeating the same script?

Success is equivalent to having a house, a car, savings, a wedding bride price, getting married and having children, and completing a set of "standard life" processes - this is the so-called successful life.

However, the problem is:

When you tick off this list of "successes" one by one and really feel that you are successful, have you ever stopped to think - who gave this definition of success?

The definition of success is shaped by the sickle

Is it possible that this reaper is capital?

In order to get you into the game willingly, they have carefully designed a set of cage dilemmas.

The genius of the Reaper lies in the fact that they weave a story through various public opinion and momentum, and shape a mainstream value that is universally recognized by the group.

For example, a diamond ring represents love, diamonds are eternal, and only one is ordered in a lifetime;

The bigger the house, the more successful, and the better the car, the more decent.

Slowly, what you didn't care about was redefined as aesthetic standards, and even tied to love and status.

When you logically pursue these things, their true purpose is revealed, which is nothing more than to cut you.

The chubby looked at many young people in reality and felt hopeless, in fact, when he was a few years younger, he also fell into this standard defined by others, and his life was particularly painful.

Chubby wants to say the same sentence:

Blindly accepting the world shaped by others is actually a perfunctory to one's own life.

You have to remember that the more hyped things are, the grander the narrative, the more well-known things are, there are often problems behind them.

Because what really keeps you from being harvested is often in the hands of a few.

When something is widely circulated and becomes a consensus, there are likely to be three words behind it: IQ tax.

A reaper who is more than just a diamond merchant

It's not just the kind of harvesters who sell diamonds.

If you sell diamond rings, you will be cut at most once, and the money will be over after the transaction.

You may have really only ordered a ring once in your life, and getting cut once is not too bad.

After all, you believe their story and buy a ring, you won't easily sell it with such a "noble" symbol, right?

Even if a few people regret buying it, tens of thousands of diamond rings can only be sold for a few thousand in second-hand stores, and if you are deceived, your heart will pass, and you will not be easily fooled next time.

The most terrible harvest is by no means this one-time transaction, but a continuous harvest of energy.

This bottomless harvest doesn't just cost you a fortune, but ties you into a mire of debt that they've carefully woven for decades to come, leaving you powerless.

Those who finally make some money, like the recent exaggeration of "where to make money fast" by various self-media, all use group psychology to lure you into the trap they have set.

They have raised the scythe above your head, just waiting for you to take the bait.

In fact, the harvest has already begun, but you don't know it yet.

Back to the concept of "harvesting" that Chubby has been talking about.

Don't you like someone in your circle of friends who often posts all kinds of money recently?

Everyone understands it, and I don't want to mention those two words anymore, and I don't dare to mention them anymore.

They believe in the "myth of wealth" told by the reapers, but they have no idea what the motives behind it are.

The story they believe may be the prelude to another scythe.

Sometimes, Chubby thinks that our leeks are really miserable.

Why miserable?

Because if we can't see through the situation, if we are not careful, the more we try, the deeper we may become, and we will end up working for debts all our lives, and even the whole family will have to pay off debts for decades.

It's like being a hungry and thirsty person in this monetary system - being called like a cow and a horse, like a donkey.

The reaper is like a donkey driver holding a bamboo pole and hanging a cabbage in front of you, giving you two bites and then telling you that with a little more effort, you can eat the whole cabbage.

You believe it, go faster, and the result? He lifted it lightly, and the cabbage was a little farther away.

You rush forward desperately, but you will never be able to eat this cabbage.

The reapers, with no effort, just carry the bamboo poles from time to time, but you carry them all the way.

When they reach their destination, they will "unload the mill and kill the donkey".

You think you feel that you are getting closer and closer to success, but in fact you are working hard for the "destination" of the donkey driver, and you will never be able to eat the cabbage hanging in front of you, and you may also be "unloaded and killed by the donkey".

This is the truth of the harvest.

The most tragic thing about our leeks is that the "success" and "failure" of a lifetime are defined by the harvesters.

They have designed a set of invisible traps for you to believe in the truth:

With this mask, you will be young, you will be able to gain the recognition of others by wearing this brand of shoes, you will be "successful" when you buy a house and a car, and your love will be eternal if you buy a diamond ring.

Once you get caught up in the stories and grand narratives they weave, blindly accepting these definitions, there is only one end in life – being harvested.

To get rid of this fate and be less harvested, Chubby feels that the only way is to learn to think independently.

See the real motives behind these stories, and stop believing the fantasies in the advertisements, but judge the value of the product by the actual effect.

Only when we are soberly aware of what the so-called "cabbage" really means and what is the intention of the "donkey driver" can you and me, the "donkey", have the opportunity to jump out of this endless harvest game.