A person will spend more time on various “games”, then he will “live in the moment” willingly or reluctantly.
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After more than a decade ago, I went to a province in the northwestern province to see a ridiculous scam in the “Coke Cans Award” on a long-distance bus. In addition to me, passengers are identifiable from the local customs. It has been more than a year since the release of the hot film “Crazy Stone”. In reality, it is especially absurd to see that six or seven people have almost re-enacted the scenes in the movie with different roles.
At the time, they thought that their script was from “Crazy Stone” or was blocked until they didn’t know that there was a movie. Their performance was only from the same source as the scene in the movie. In addition to the few people who made the game, the car was an indifferent villager and me. Obviously their goal was me. I didn’t say a word and looked at the whole “small product” with gusto. When they saw that I was not hooked, I took the initiative to greet me and friendlyly shook hands with me and got off the train in advance.
In the same year, I also took a bus trip. The “semi-瘫” old man sitting in my front row “捡” went to a bag of dollars. The kraft paper bag was full of hundred dollar bills. He said in a vague way to go to Datong three. Treat the hospital and ask about the value of these green banknotes. Several passengers around the party discussed the exchange rate between the renminbi and the US dollar, and they made money to exchange money with the old man. Although their performances were very realistic, no one was fooled, so they soon got off the bus together.
Crazy Stone Stills
Two scenes of country sketches, even though people can’t help but leave a question mark, that is, these people’s performances are really good, they have such wisdom and input spirit If you have a small success, why bother to deceive yourself on the bus? Are they smart or stupid?
What to do if there is more money
This year’s new Konobel Prize in Economics, Abigail Banaji and Esther Devero, published in 2011, The Essence of PovertyIn one book, a phenomenon has been mentioned: “Overall, the primary choice of the poor is obviously to make their lives less boring. This can be a TV set or a special food, such as a cup. Sugared tea.”
Time passes, and eating too much is often no longer a label for the poor. What are the differences in life besides not having much money in their hands? Writer George Orwell describes the lives of the poor in The Road to Wigan Pier: “Their foods are mainly white bread, margarine, canned beef, sugared tea and potatoes – these foods are terrible. … The special regret is that the less money you have, the less you are willing to buy healthy food.
One millionaire may like orange juice and crackers for breakfast, but an unemployed person doesn’t like it… When you are unemployed, you don’t want to eat boring health food, but want to eat some flavor Good things, there will always be some cheap and delicious food that is tempting you.
Abigit Banaji and Esther Devero said in The Essence of Poverty: “In a remote mountain village in Morocco, we met a man named Ocha Mbak. We asked him if he had more money, what he would use to do, and he said that he would use it to buy more food. We then asked him if he would buy more if he had more money, he said Buy more delicious food.
So, we started to feel sorry for him and his family, because in the room we were sitting in, we noticed a TV set, a parabolic antenna and a DVD player. We asked him again, if he felt that the family could not eat enough, why should he buy these things? He smiled and replied: ‘Oh, the TV is more important than food! ’”
So I began to suspect that the inferior deceptions of the very few rural rogues were a kind of entertainment for them, and that they were self-entertainment. More common in reality is gambling. This kind of social psoriasis has been repeatedly banned in grassroots societies, and even moved places to online social tools.
If you don’t want to go out to work, a few rural rogues will pass the crime “game”, so that the leisure time is not so boring. If there is a prey, it is like a lottery. More serious crimes than this are the problems of old China. For example, in the Xiangxi area a few decades ago, the poor farmers who were “honest and honest” did not regard the murder of passing merchants as a nuisance, but more like “doing together” The game” is even a customary social ritual.
On the surface, these behaviors have the economic “rational” self-interested purpose, and in fact there are deeper psychological demands beyond rationality. This psychological appeal is mutually causal and intertwined with poverty. The book “The Essence of Poverty” also states that “a large number of records show that poor people in developing countries spend a lot of money on weddings, dowries, baptisms, etc., which may be the result of fear of losing face.”
Abigit Banaki and Esther Devero said: “IndiaThe cost of the wedding is well known. In South Africa, during the period when a large number of old people and babies died, people set the social norms for how much funeral should cost.
According to tradition, people simply bury the dead baby, but hold a grand funeral for the dead old man. The cost of the funeral is the life of the deceased. Due to the spread of HIV, many young people have not had time to save their own funeral expenses, so they will be embarrassed, and their families are still forced to do much.
For families who have just lost a future workforce, they may need to spend 3,400 rand for the funeral (purchasing power parity of about $825), or 40% of the family’s annual income. After holding such a funeral, the family obviously has little more savings available, and more family members complain about ‘no food.’ Even if the deceased did not earn money during his lifetime, the situation is the same. This shows that the cost of funeral is the main cause of poverty.
The more money a funeral spends, the more frustrated people become in the coming year, and the more likely their children are forced to drop out of school.
In the rural areas of many places in China, there are also bad habits of making funerals into village festivals, such as swinging water seats, and asking the troupe to sing three days of drama. Children who are less filial in the life of the elderly are also very generous in the expenses of organizing the funeral of the elderly. These phenomena point to a question, why do people want to do this?
The game is difficult to explain with rationality
The famous Dutch linguist and historian John Hejzinha pointed out in his masterpiece “The Game Man – The Game Element of Culture” that most human behaviors have a relationship with the game. .
In his view, “the important original activities of human society have infiltrated the game from the very beginning. Take the language, language is the most important tool that human beings first formed to communicate, educate, and dictate… In the process of speech and language formation, the spirit continues to ‘discharge’ between matter and mind, and seems to be playing this magical naming skill game.
Behind each abstract expression is the metaphor of the richest imagination, and each metaphor is a word game. In this way, through the expression of life, mankind has created another poetic world that coexists with nature. He even believes that the important primary forces of civilized life—law and order, business and profit, craft and literature, poetry, wisdom and Science comes from myths and rituals, rooted in the original soil of the game.
The game itself cannot be explained by human reason, because kittens and puppies also play games together. Hejzinha also refutes various speculations about the game. The starting point of these conjectures assumes that the game must be serving something that is not a game, although many scholars have emphasized that the game does not involve utilitarianism.
The game is not a “normal” life, it is inserted as a temporary activity, this activity can achieve self