Recently, a university professor gave a Thanksgiving keynote speech in a middle school. His remarks such as "studying abroad is to make money abroad, find foreigners to marry and have children, and improve genes" caused a classmate to refute. The classmate said, "We study for the rise of China!" The incident detonated the whole network. Although some critics criticized the professor for misleading students by conveying wrong values, many people thought that the student was "too young to understand society".

In fact, there are many such "famous teachers" in universities, but others are more exquisite. They have no pursuit except empty success.

Probably because the mixed circle is monotonous, I have rarely contacted the student union, Communist Youth League cadres and various business reserve elites in recent years. I saw Nozick's words yesterday-Nozick's mouth is too poisonous!

He said that humanistic intellectuals are the most anti-capitalist group in the whole society because their sense of superiority formed in the school system has not been recognized by the market after graduation, and it is the school system that has created anti-capitalist emotions among humanistic intellectuals. Children who are gifted in mathematics will be favored by the market, but they will not be valued by teachers because of slurred speech. This reminds me suddenly of a senior student union cadre who is full of positive energy in such a broken class as labor practice.

At that time, the student union cadres took the initiative to talk to me about a famous professor in our school who was good at grandstanding in the media, probably because he thought I was more literate, and this famous professor was what he thought was more literate. I should have disdained the famous professor's tricks, and then the student union cadre said, "This is also an ability!" " "

This sentence of student union cadres probably has several meanings:

1. admit that what I said is not unreasonable;

2. But I think the value coordinates I criticized are of little significance;

3. What value coordinates are really valuable coordinates? It is likely to be an empty success.

Only by recognizing empty success can neutral ability be considered positive.

The so-called empty success is not necessarily a pure economic/power achievement after stripping off ethical and aesthetic standards, but the most ambiguous mainstream social identity: no substantive content, passively accepting the specific provisions of the current society.

If Nozick were a student union cadre, he would probably say that college students despise this academic hooligan who swindles money in society, just because his superior position in academia cannot be realized in society, so he invented a discrimination chain to seek comfort.

In short, as a brother summed up, Nozick's point of view is that grapes are always sweet, and doubters have ulterior motives.

I never liked Nozick very much. I think there are a lot of cleverness, but I lack real seriousness. Nozick's famous saying in front of him is probably another example of his frivolity.

Understanding everyone's choice as a hidden success-oriented behavior and understanding each theoretical gesture as a strategy to gain recognition is quite profound and sharp on the surface, full of intellectual self-criticism spirit, but in fact it is just another kitsch.

Always need to be wary of self-emotion, but embrace the standards of mainstream society because of some kind of identity anxiety. Then looking back, all criticisms are pretending to be X, which actually does not require any insight and courage, but is more like a distorted expression of identity anxiety, which caters to the expectations of a democratic society by the way.