Most people just don’t have their own views on the world.
Modern people pursue superficial uniqueness, but cannot tolerate spiritual alienations. To be cool, you have to buy niche brands for clothes. No matter how good the NetEase Cloud Zhihu Douban experience is after becoming popular, people are still disliked by all kinds of people. However, people who are fetishists or not so politically correct are always attacked, even if they have not harmed anyone. .
All of Xu Zhiyuan’s interviews carry a consistent bias and a deep anxiety about the world and today’s young people. “Why do people no longer yearn for the sublime and refined, but prefer vulgarity and simplicity?” "Why do the masses no longer worship the elites, but instead become elites who want to please the masses?", "Why have young people become so superficial and empty now? What is Buddhism?", "Where will this era of entertainment to death go? How to reverse it? What is the responsibility of intellectuals? "Every interview he gave emphasized these views and confusions, but no one really gave the answer.
Luo Zhenyu loves this problematic era, which makes his value manifest; Feng Xiaogang and Ma Dong are the compromisers; Cai Lam and Zhang Chu choose to escape and hide in their own world to enjoy themselves; Nolan and Ang Lee seem to They don't care about these problems at all. Maybe they don't understand the current ideological situation of the Chinese people. As for Yao Chen and Li Dan, they are the problem itself. Only Jia Zhangke is a man who can bridge the gap between ideals and reality, who can navigate between secularity and art with ease, who can face the cruelty and beauty of the world and find his own place.
"If you have no bias, it means you have no opinion at all." This sentence makes sense if you think about it carefully.
Xu Zhiyuan's program itself is looking for knowledge. He believes that this is a vulgar and vulgar era, and he hopes that the intellectual elites can realize this, that's all. After the program was completed, many people agreed with him, but not many supported him. Many gentle viewers also thought that this was a Don Quixote show. "Knowledge is the responsibility of education, not the responsibility of artists." Jia Zhangke hit the nail on the head. Whether he calls it ruthless or dictatorial, it is all based on the independence of personality. Searching for self-consciousness is essentially self-confirmation over and over again, which is a kind of internal friction for artists and will eventually become a meaningless debate that only contributes traffic to the media. The creation and influence of real values ??depends on education. But this is not a denial of this program. Awareness may not be achieved, but the argumentation process can trigger thinking. I think this is the meaning of the program.
About the sense of mission. Xu Zhiyuan is considered a relatively Confucian intellectual. He takes it as his mission to transform society and awaken people's wisdom. At the same time, he is eager to achieve commercial success in a secular sense. Jia Zhangke is cute. On the one hand, he does not pursue commercial success. On the other hand, he just makes art for the sake of art. Just like Ma Dong's attitude, at first glance at home and abroad, thoughts and art have always belonged to a specific class, and this situation will not change because of Facebook and WeChat.
This proposition of the times has always been a dialectical contradiction.