This article is from WeChat official account:Vista sees the world (ID: vistaweek) , author: Feng Meili, head Figure from: vision China
One of the signs that men are getting older is the fading of passion.
An irreversible trend is that the boy next to you who walks on the road and can’t help but practises his back jumper, will one day become a middle-aged man walking on the road and teasing birds.
And their circle of friends will gradually transition from games and sneakers to “pointing up to Trump, and lowering your head to write limericks”.
However, there is a kind of love that is as unbreakable as it is engraved in the genes of men all over the world-When you go up to ninety-nine times to just walk, no man can resist the temptation of excavators.
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“I have a dream. When I grow up, I will drive an excavator, cross the construction site, and enjoy the envy of the same sex.” This is the most wonderful vision ever made by countless men for the future.
However, reality is often cruel. On the day that this dream was uttered, it was buried in the flying dust of the construction site along with the loud raps of parents.
Maybe since that day, the souls of men who love excavators have been sealed on that piece of land. This is why, as long as they and this steel behemoth get close to each other, they can immediately open the seal.
Excavators are never alone, and wherever they go, there is never a shortage of believers who stop and watch. At this moment, men are no longer their fathers, and they have forgotten their husbands.
Even if they are still holding the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar that their wife needs for cooking, it can’t stop them from relived their childhood dreams surrounded by their peers.
The blogger @小奶球 once summarizedtwo things that men love the most-watching the fun and driving the excavator.
There is a long-standing stereotype in the market that “gossip is a woman’s nature.” As everyone knows, men are more than anything in this matter.
It may not be difficult to understand why the roar of roadside excavators always arouses their interest in the first place.
The blood boiled from the excavator when I was young has never cooled down. As long as the old man in his seventies or eighties, and the children down to a few years old, as long as he hears the sound that resonates with the soul, he is bound to be driven by instinct.
They overcome all difficulties, just to get a glimpse of the lingering steel body.
Faced with the call of the excavator, their long-sleeping soul finally awakened. As a result, the pleasure brought by the onlookers is no longer just spiritual pleasure, but has risen to the level of some supernatural power.
Even, homeopathy created a medical miracle.
The picture shows a crane, the same is true for an excavator
This emotional instinct, which is rooted in their genes, has become a primitive impulse, so that when facing the next generation, “children’s will of the father” has become a customary intergenerational tradition.
Some netizens once met a father and son who were passing on the will of the family on a misty morning.
Although the boy at this time still seems to understand the situation in front of him, he must have understood the profound meaning of this “children’s gift” by seeing him intently.
Children who have undergone systematic training seem to have opened the door to a new world. From then on, going out to see excavators has become a rigid need for their growth.
When a child grows up normally, he can’t avoid babbling and toddling, but only when he truly takes over the handover of “mechanical worship” from an adult can they truly begin to perceive the world seriously.
We have to admit that the noise made by machine engines represents the source of power in the human world. The desire for power is a wild impulse that has flowed in the blood of all animals since primitive society.
Even dogs are not spared
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If men’s desire for excavators has reached an instinctive level, it’s hard to believe that in the face of this huge temptation, all they want to do is to watch.
In fact, no matter how old men are, they have never stopped longing for owning an excavator of their own.
Just like middle-aged young people like to hurt the spring and sad autumn on social platforms, and middle-aged men like to fly themselves in fish ponds, For men of all ages, excavators are their soul dwellings. Ground.
Boys’ understanding of the world often begins with the taming of wild excavator toys.
Imagine having a bunker in a community whereHow many children with a small shovel can attract the attention of a high-level weapon that can mechanize soil and dig?
The toy excavator brings them both mental and physical happiness, so they naturally become the “soul mate” they want to eat and sleep together in their daily lives.
This childhood memory is so powerful that after adulthood, the urge to relive this joy will still appear in their minds from time to time.
It’s hard to imagine why they, who have been clearly arranged by the burden of the adult world, would spend their few happy hours on seemingly naive entertainment activities like “digging with remote control cars”.
But in fact, when adult men stand in the sand with a remote control in their hands, they enjoy not only the ease of forgetting the burden of life, but also the joy of manipulating the overall situation and suppressing the same sex.
According to knowledgeable netizens, the price of this toy construction vehicle can be as high as hundreds of thousands of units
Therefore, for them, excavators have become another language of self-expression. Real machos are never satisfied with just getting happiness from manipulating toys. Their journey is to turn a real excavator into a toy in their hands.
thanSuch as turning manual labor into mental labor, making the excavator a fish-finding companion for countless outstanding students from Lan Xiang during the work space——
Or it can turn a clumsy robotic arm into the hardest straight male confession tool.
Even if the other person has been turned away from anger, he still has to finish writing a song “Will you still love me if I drive an excavator?” “Mourning for Love——
Faced with the temptation of an excavator in hand, even a low-key two-dimensional creature like an otaku could not restrain his impulse to show off his skills, just to leave a perfect photo of himself and his wives in the snow.
Some young people’s first impression of excavators is often the deafening noise and dusty sky. It can be said that there is no romance or beauty at all.
However, in the hands of high-level players, they are indeed a kind of tame beast that can be played at will.
Just like men in ancient times had to subdue beasts to survive, modern men’s desire to conquer digging machines is also an instinct to swear strength and wisdom.
On various short video platforms, the various difficult operations of the excavator have become the earth-flavored version of “challenge impossible”-threading needles, opening wine bottles, cutting watermelon, frying crayfish…
It seems that only by using the excavator for things other than digging, can the human body feel the sense of accomplishment of trying to do useless things.
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To say that men’s love for excavators is all because of fun, that may really underestimate the importance of this hobby in their hearts. After all, just using sensory pleasure cannot explain the obsessive state of many onlookers who appreciate excavator operations.
Whether it is a diehard fan of excavators or to passers-by, the absolute power of excavators is beyond doubt. In the long years of evolution, human beings have long accepted the fact that their power is limited, so they have turned to seek power from something more powerful.
The combination of track and robotic arm is exactly the super robot element that is common in countless film and television works and animation works. The power they represent naturally fascinates mankind.
For ordinary people who worship power, whether they are manipulating toys or driving real machines, as long as they have an excavator, they seem to have the possibility of saving the world.
Excavators extend the power of humans and experience a sense of control that has never been felt before. This happiness is like Iron Man puts on the latest equipment and can easily defeat any provocative opponents.
But after satisfying the desire for power, another desire will follow-the desire for destruction.
Psychological research has shown that human “desire to destroy” is a kind of nature, especially after many desires are satisfied, the desire to destroy is more difficult to suppress.
Therefore, in an orderly society, it is necessary to provide people with a reasonable outlet, such as confrontational sports and decompression exercises. But how can venting methods like wrestling and boxing be more simple and crude?What about the joy of knocking down a building?
There was once a little brother who drove an excavator was selected to dismantle his alma mater. The pleasure of destruction combined with the joy of fulfilling his childhood dreams made him completely unable to restrain his mouth from rising.
Of course, this kind of “retribution” experience may not be enjoyed by everyone. Although the ultimate dream of most men is to sit in the cab, feel the sense of power brought about by the integration of man and machine, and satisfy their own evil tastes in the process of breaking it down.
But the reality is that “supervisor” is the true role of most excavator enthusiasts.
Some netizens once described their mental activities when watching the excavator work on the side of the road–
“Sometimes it’s like a guessing. Guess where the next claw is to dig. If you guess wrong, you will think about why the driver should dig like this. If you guess it right, it’s like winning a lottery.”<