This article comes from public micro-channel number: see over (ID: ikanlixiang) , author: Xu Ben, original title:” SHL triggered “farce “: Stupid, but also a public hazard”
Last night, a news about “Shuanghuanglian can inhibit a new coronavirus” quickly hit the top search.
Unsurprisingly, as soon as the news came out, Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid was soon out of stock on major e-commerce platforms. Many citizens even lined up at the entrance of drug stores late at night to buy.
Source @ 梨 视频 微 博
On the social network, there is a “Shuanghuanglian boom”. According to many widely circulated network screenshots, not only the veterinary Shuanghuanglian sold out, but also the Shuanghuanglianrong mooncakes were sold out.
However, for the new coronavirus, whether Shuanghuanglian oral solution is really effective is still widely questioned and discussed.
According to the special report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, “From the evening of January 29th to the early morning of the 30th, the Institute of Chinese Virus Wuhan Institute of Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid carried out the antiviral activity test at the cell level. Function of new coronaviruses. ”
Many and many netizens have pointed out that the speed of the experiment is too “amazing”.
“I’m really afraid that tomorrow’s experts say that eating feces can cure coronavirus”, source: whisper than public account
In addition, not to mention the information in the special report, it has been reviewed by the expert ethics review committee before the experiment is completed, and the clinical trial has been started. There is not enough public data to prove that it “inhibits new coronaviruses” in humans.
You can also refer to the interview with the Shanghai Medical Institute by a reporter from China News Agency: “China is a through train”:
Source: Country is a through train (ID: WednesdayNews)
It can be said that there is no certainty as to whether Shuanghuanglian can really “inhibit new coronavirus”, but the practice of drug abuse is endless.
In today’s tumult, we are more aware of many of its manifestations of absurdity, absurdity, and even ignorance.
Why some common sense and very ridiculous speeches and behaviors often appear more frequently in the face of many public crises? Are stupidity and ignorance the same thing? Why do many educated people with better social identities and statuses behave very stupidly?
And stupid, why is it a public hazard?
For any society that needs enlightenment, resisting and eliminating ignorance is higher priority and more effective than enhancing and creating wisdom.
“Knowing fools and knowing wisdom” means to know what is foolish first, and then to recognize what is wisdom.
Stupidity is the opposite of wisdom, but this is not the same as not being stupid is wisdom. There is a large gray area between stupidity and wisdom. It is neither completely stupid, nor can it be said to be wisdom. So how to divide the middle boundary?
01. The difference between stupidity and ignorance
In my opinion, knowledge can be a turning point between stupidity and wisdom. “Learning” is thinking, and knowledge is knowledge that is verified and determined through thinking. Learning, learning, is not a result, but a process. It uses specific methods to (such as critical thinking, rational skepticism, independent thinking and judgment) to determine what is learned as truth or truth.
Knowledge is only understanding, knowledge is further understanding, and wisdom is poor reasoning. Poor ethics is the basic principle of pursuing things and phenomena on this basis, simplifying complexity and understanding.
For social enlightenment, its basic goal is not actually to make as many people as possible wise, but to get as many people out of stupidity or ignorance as possible.
So what is stupid? Stupidity is not simply a lack of knowledge. People who lack knowledge can gain knowledge through learning and become ignorant. But stupidity is not the same. As we saw in The Ode to Fools, many knowledgeable people are still stupid.
Philosopher and educator Russell once said that human beings are born of ignorance rather than stupidity. Stupidity is the result of education. The stupidity of the knowledgeable proves that stupidity is indeed the result of acquired education.
We often see this stupidity of knowledgeable people in our own living world. When it comes to this stupidity, because of its absurdity and contrary to common sense, our instinct is to laugh.
Smile is a human response to ridiculous behavior.
But whether you laugh or not, and in what way you laugh, as long as you notice something ridiculous, it means that you already have some negative perceptions and evaluations of it.
02. How to understand the absurdity around us
Today, we call ridiculous or ridiculous words “Thunder Ray Thunder”, and most people spread the Thunder Ray as a joke.
Especially the celebrities of the celebrities, the reason why people use them as jokes is that, in accordance with common sense and common sense, an educated and identified person like them should not say so strange, Here comes the ridiculous words.
But these intellectuals and status figures are all serious about expressing opinions on some important public issues, not jokes.
“We don’t want to go too far in scientific matters” —— An answer from a reporter from the China News Agency when interviewing a person from the Shanghai Institute of Drug Research | Source: Guoshitong Car (ID: WednesdayNews)
However, remarks like them have been circulated on the Internet as false, wrong, perverse, and unreasonable jokes. Is it that the average netizen is too stupid to understand the wisdom of these expert speeches? Or are these remarks too outrageous to get the approval of ordinary people?
Even if people think of such kind of remarks as jokes, they should not forget that they are not ordinary jokes or silly jokes, but “smart words” generated in a special situation.
It’s not enough to look at such phenomena with the mentality of looking at jokes and telling jokes. It is important to know why such jokes appear in a society? When people laugh at these ridiculous words, what ridiculous and absurd things do they notice?
Although there is nothing you can do but smile bitterly, at least it shows that people are not completely numb and can think with common sense. This common sense is common sense.
A clear-headed and sane ordinary person, although he has no advanced knowledge, can discern basic right and wrong, good and evil, and have a heart for good.
They have an instinctual perception of anomalies and absurdities, and laughter is the automatic physiological response to this perception.
As long as the vast majority of ordinary people can resist ignorance and refuse to be fooled, the whole society still has hope, and can change in the direction of goodness and wisdom.
This is the hope that the joke brings to society, and it is also an important social function of the joke.
03. Why is stupid a public hazard
“The Fool’s Ode” uses the fool’s (the folly) to satire and expose the stupidity of self-righteousness and self-righteousness. . This sarcastic revelation, like any other satire, is destructive, not constructive.
So, in order to better recognize the stupidity in reality and strengthen the ability to resist stupidity, in addition to this irony, we need to further understand stupidity, know what it is all about, and why it is so serious A public hazard.
Stupid English stupid comes fromThe Latin stupere, which means numbness or dizziness, plays the role of a fool. (the stupidus of the mimes, similar to clowns and harlequins) For fool, the word “fool” in Ode to the Fool is the word.
Eco, a well-known Italian writer and semiotician (Umberto Eco) (This Is Not The End of the Book) has a conversation about “stupid” issues in this book. They believe that three different situations need to be distinguished: mentally retarded (imbecile) , dementia (Cretin) and stupid (stupide) .
The demented man raises the spoon to his forehead without sending it to his mouth. He doesn’t understand what you say to him. A bit like mental retardation caused by illness or birth defects.
In contrast, “mentally handicapped” in foreign language refers more to a social trait, and there are other names, such as “stupid”, “stupid”, “two hundred and five”. In the eyes of many people, “stupidity” and “mentally handicapped” are the same thing, such as laughing and joking at a funeral with a little emotional intelligence.
But in fact, what we said here, or the stupidity and the mentally retarded in Ode to Fools, is not logical. It is logical