bookcurios After Chapter 184, a group of people across the ages
After Chapter 184, a group of people across the ages
[The post-00s, an epoch-making generation, are both the last train of the old era and the experimental products of the new era]
[When they were young, they went from squatting near other people’s homes to connecting to wifi to installing wifi at home]
[Witnessed the transition from flip phones to full-screen phones]
【Witnessed the era from blackboard to projection screen】
[From staying up late to watch TV to never leaving the phone to the TV at home gathering dust, from bicycles to cars in busy traffic, from being beaten with bamboo sticks to being beaten with seven wolves]
[We often hear the older generation say: Your generation is the happiest, and conditions have improved.]
[But no one knows that in this era of rapid development, what it brings is the most intense competition among the new generation of young people]
[It seems like we were born to study. They tell us that we just need to get into a good high school. They tell us that we just need to persevere through three years of high school and wait for college. After college, we just need to find a good job.]
[But no one tells us that not everyone can go to high school, not everyone can go to college. They also don’t tell you that there are 13 million college graduates this year, not everyone can find a job, not everyone has rich parents who can afford a house.]
[Whenever you make a mistake, they blame it on all the years of studying that were wasted]
[Thanks to certain material foundations and technological development, we have more channels for obtaining information than before, but at the same time, some information is more closed. ]
[It seems that I know too much, but also too little; it seems that I have too much, but also too little; it seems that I have too many choices, but also no choices; I think too much, but can do too little. 】
[The future choices wander in contradiction and confusion, which in turn produces a suffocating sense of powerlessness. ]
[For us, this is the best era and the worst era. We will continue to live in the new era with things from the old era.]
"The post-00s generation witnessed the upgrading of schools every time they graduated, and also witnessed more than three years of the pandemic during their four years of college. What the hell is wrong with me?"
"In 02, the city I grew up in was small and poor, and I lived in a town. When I broke my arm, my parents had to pull a cart in the heavy snow to take me to the hospital.
When I was in Xiaogang, the teaching building was a rural mud house. The windows without glass were covered with thick plastic sheets. The benches, tables and chairs were made of a few red bricks and two long wooden boards polished to a shine by seniors.
Later, my family had tricycles, motorcycles, electric cars, and cars, and we moved from a small tiled house in the countryside to a residential house in the city. But I had never really understood the changes in time, until I went to a museum with my classmates in college and saw some of them guessing the uses of the carts and rakes in the museum. I realized that my childhood had grown to the point where I could enter a museum [laughing and crying]
(It feels even more outrageous when I write it down, I’m only 02 years old)”
"01 means that I encounter this every time there is an exam reform, such as the physical education exam for the junior high school entrance exam, the Jiangsu exam for the college entrance exam, the junior college to undergraduate transfer exam, etc. The high school can install air conditioners in the last year of senior high school. I feel numb and like a guinea pig [covering my face]"
"We have not benefited from the dividends of the times, the adjustments and reforms are just experiments, and the welfare benefits cannot keep up. We are stuck in the middle."
"01 I passed by with no idea of my future. It was hard to find a job, it was hard to pass the postgraduate entrance exam, I had nothing. My parents' ideas were still stuck in the last century [laughing and crying]"
"From the era of preventing addiction from minors to the era of preventing addiction from college students [speechless]"
"I'm 04 and will be entering society next year. My ability to express myself is so poor that I can't do anything at work or study. My thinking is still like that of a child. I feel it will be difficult to cope with the future [sinister]"
"I haven't graduated from college in 03, but I'm living a fulfilling life. Although I haven't learned anything useful for work, I have learned a lot of ways to adjust myself. At least I can be in a good mood every day. As long as I don't fall in love or get married, I'm happy."
"I was born in the 00s. When I was young, I watched old Hong Kong movies, and when I grew up, I watched new movies. I went from watching the Subor game console to computer games, from old music to current music, from domestic and Japanese animations at that time to new animations that I haven't seen yet, from landline phones like those in telephone booths to elderly phones and then to smartphones, from no Internet to Internet. This is the experience of the early generation of post-00s. There is a past worth remembering, but also a cruel reality that we are experiencing now."
Our ancestors were also moved after seeing this: the world is changing and developing all the time, just like future generations and like us.
Since the sky dome appeared, subtle and novel changes have occurred in our lives.
Some bold people forge ahead bravely and innovate actively in the midst of change and development; some stubborn people stand still, shouting "Everything is inferior, only reading is superior", and they are neither successful in literature nor in martial arts.
And these changes, big or small, are always beneficial to ordinary people like us.
Take potato paper for example. The harvest this year was good. We paid grain to the government, and the potatoes we produced were not only enough to fill our stomachs, but we also had some left over that we could sell in town and exchange for money to buy the cheapest straw paper and charcoal pencils to write letters to our distant relatives at home.
Thanks to the appearance of the sky curtain, we farmers can finally read. Although the characters are not the same as those written by educated people, they are still characters after all!