Story 1: There is a well-known series called "Time Still" in Japanese A-films. This series is divided into many episodes, including the company chapter and the The hospital chapter and the supermarket chapter are all about the same story: one day, the hero accidentally picked up a timer that could stop time on the road. At the beginning, he didn’t believe the powerful function of the timer. , but after several attempts proved effective, he boldly took this time still device and went to a coveted "place of desire" to experiment, and then came the climax of the film, the actor pressed the time After the stopper, he can stop the time in the real world, so that the original moving characters are still in motion and consciousness, and the male protagonist himself is of course beyond this stillness, and then he can face those The "moving" beauties attacked, teased, or insulted, and did all kinds of uncivilized behaviors... Finally, after humiliating these still beauties in every possible way, the male protagonist quietly left, then turned off the time stopper, and let the beauties return. into the real life of changing activities. When these beauties returned to reality, they found that they had either been raped for no reason, or that their clothes had been stripped off and their panties had slipped to their ankles, so they all blushed with shame, picked up their clothes and ran away in a hurry.
Story 2: I just watched an American movie "Sleepless in the Supermarket" a few days ago, and then I realized that it's not just Japanese who are perverted. The male protagonist in the movie is a boy who studied painting in the art department. He just broke up with his girlfriend. He couldn't sleep at night due to extreme depression, so he applied for a night shift job in a supermarket, but he worked night shift in the supermarket. It's a very boring thing, especially when there are not many guests and there are not many goods to sort out, so how to pass these boring hours without leaving work has become a real art of living.
The male protagonist loves to draw, and he has a special ability to grasp the lines of the human body. He can escape into another space of life for no reason. In that space, he can quietly observe everything in the world; in that space , everything in the world is still, and the moving person becomes a static sculpture for him to feel and imitate slowly. To be precise, the male protagonist has a special ability to slow down or even stop time, and it is this special function that enables him to create countless beautiful body sketches, and finally through these beautiful body sketches Make his fame and fortune, and hold the beauty back.
These two stories, one negative and one positive, are about the subject matter that makes time stand still. The perverted little Japan uses stillness as a weapon to forcibly pull the beauties who cannot be desired in real life into another static space to do whatever they want, while the kind-hearted American boy also uses stillness as a weapon to capture the wonderful moments in the changing life world. and describe and display them one by one. Both have the ability to make the world stand still, but create very different social impacts. Of course, the above stories are just metaphors. If there were truly wonderful devices in life that could make the world stand still, I am afraid that more heinous crimes would be committed, and fewer beautiful works of art would be produced.
(This article is very long and will not end here. Let’s continue to dig deeper.) Story 1 and Story 2, although one is positive and the other negative, actually tell a kind of “moment is eternal” A metaphor, a story that forcibly cuts a profile from the changing space-time relationship by an external force, in which eternal change is absent, but momentary stillness is present. Are these stories scary? Of course it is terrifying, but if the "time stopper" fails or escapes the protagonist's subjective consciousness, the external world can return to its original state, and it can change and move forward as always. Therefore, the enemy in such a situation is those who try to change from eternity. Among them, people who are still in a moment of silence try to obliterate the will of others with their own will, try to fix the behavior and thinking of others at the moment when they cannot move, and try to let others accept him without resistance in a transparent situation. of violence or staring blankly.
Is there anything worse than this? I believe that there is, worse and more terrifying than "the moment is eternity" is the "eternity is the moment", that is, a power relationship that "makes stillness normal and change becomes abnormal", that is, the relationship between "absolute motion and relative stillness" ” was changed to a power relationship of “relative motion and absolute stillness”. In this situation of “eternity is instant”, not only is the individual’s way of existence fully controlled by the power owner, fixedly arranged, and forced to freeze. and shape, and will be constantly monitored, which are the same as those mentioned above, but unlike "instant is eternity", every momentary movement of such individuals (as objects of power) is Claimed to be the same, and precisely because every moment of action should be the same, the existence of these individuals is indistinguishable from stillness. When every movement in the changing time is the same, time seems to have stopped, this is "eternity is instant".
Does this happen in reality? Yes, this is my third story. There are many small stories in this third story:
Story 3 ①: On May 17, "Sanxiang Metropolis Daily" reported that Lu Xin, a Foxconn employee who jumped to his death in the early morning of May 6, went to work before his death. Stand in front of the machine, check the main box of the computer for flaws, see one for a second or two, and repeat it simply and mechanically.” In other words, in addition to eating and sleeping, I watch 10 hours a day like this. Once the product defect rate exceeds the regulations, the entire department will be implicated and punished. They don't have any social life or friendship every day except to go to work.
Story 3 (2): There is a translated article on Yiyan.com (the original English title is: The Shocking Conditions Inside China's Brutal Foxconn Factory), which mentions that a worker inside (Foxconn) said that he often deliberately put things Drop it to the ground so you can take a break while picking up things. Due to long standing (8 hours), if he has the opportunity to lie down or squat on the ground, it is a happy moment at work.
Story 3 ③: The Hong Kong Ming Pao reported that Foxconn's successive jumping incidents aroused the attention of the central government. The authorities recently organized a group of psychiatrists to go south to Shenzhen to gather at the Corning Hospital, which treats mental illnesses, to study the relationship between Foxconn's jumping off the building and employees' stress and emotions. Experts found that Foxconn's internal management was "semi-militarized", and there were thousands of people in the dining hall when the audience was almost "silent", showing the strict management of the company.
Story 3 ④: The working hours of Foxconn grassroots employees: day shift is from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm; evening shift is from 7:30 pm to 7:30 am, two shifts a day, half an hour for lunch during the day shift, 1 hour for dinner, half an hour for dinner at night shift, and the rest of the time for overtime. Overtime pay on Saturdays and Sundays is doubled. Usually only one day off a month, and no one day off when busy.
The reality of female workers at Foxconn: Overtime is the only way to increase their income: Since the monthly salary is only 400 yuan, these overtime pay constitute the main income of female workers. Overtime pay is 5 yuan per hour on weekdays and 6 yuan per hour on weekends. In this way, a month Overtime pay is 680 yuan, plus a 50 yuan attendance bonus, and a performance award of about 100 yuan, which can generally exceed 1,000 yuan a month. There are no stools on the production line, except for a few employees, the general operators have to stand and work for 12 consecutive hours. After work, the operators also need to stay for night meetings. When they work shifts at night, some little girls can only sit on the stairs after a good meal, and then enter the production workshop until the next morning. If anyone slept on the stairs, they would be penalized by the management.
Through the above four short stories, we can realistically draw a picture called "eternity is a moment". In this picture, the actions of every Foxconn grassroots employee are repeated in the same way. It has continued uninterruptedly. This situation occurs not only during extremely long working hours, but also during extremely short breaks and meals.
Abstractly speaking, every day, a Foxconn grass-roots employee only needs to repeat the "momentary one or two actions" indefinitely in time during the working hours of about 10 hours or more. The action of this second is the same as the action of the previous second, and will be repeated in the next second. Every attempt to break this monotonous repetitive action will be stopped and punished. Any attempt to fight against this "eternal is instant" "The behavior of the production mode will be regarded as destroying the production efficiency, and the production efficiency is closely related to the salary of each employee. Therefore, in the single pursuit of production efficiency, in the situation that labor technology only requires constant repetition, Only by permanently maintaining this state of "eternal stillness" and perfecting this state of "eternal stillness" will workers' income be maximized. But sadly, the end of the "income maximization" rope is forever held by the boss of the enterprise. At the same time, the maximization of the income of the grass-roots employees just happens to achieve the maximization of the income of the enterprise. As a result, the hidden power relationship between "eternal stillness of action" - "maximization of income" - "production efficiency and corporate profitability" has forever imprisoned Foxconn's grass-roots employees in the need to repeat the same actions. On the assembly line, accept the labor brought by the employment relationship forever.
After telling these three stories, we should be able to understand that "stillness" is a power relationship, a power relationship that plays a shaping and fixed role, a unilaterally implemented or explicit or implicit power relationship; After these three stories, we should also be able to understand that "eternity is an instant" is more terrifying than "an instant is eternity", the latter is just a moment of trauma, although it may be embarrassing and shameful in a short time, but After all, it will return to normal after that moment, but the former is only normal at a certain moment, and only at a certain moment can one get rid of the shameful state and the state of being enslaved by those in power.
And that moment of trying to get back to normal may happen at the moment when I secretly take a photo with an Iphone, at the moment when a small part of the Ipad falls to the ground, more likely at the moment when a young life falls to the ground... The first two moments They are all just having fun in the midst of suffering, but the next moment is to replace the "eternity is an instant" in real work with "an instant is an eternity".
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