Why are some people who seem stupid and have desire written on their faces not annoying?

When I was bored during the Spring Festival, I refreshed the cartoon "Spicy Teacher" again.

The protagonist in the group is called Yingji, who used to be the head of the beastly clan. Inexperienced. In the cartoon, he is also presented as a stupid, lecherous, and outspoken person, and is regarded as a scum who is not suitable for being a teacher by the dean of education in the play.

Although he has the above qualities that would be very disgusting in ordinary life, in this show, many people will find it difficult to hate him.

Why is this?

I thought about it and came to one conclusion: because he is extremely real and extremely sincere. And this sincerity is displayed in a form that looks stupid to outsiders.

Why do outsiders seem stupid? It is because of his ignorance of the concepts of sociality, or superego, and morality, that he did not reflect deeply on himself at this level, or think or reflect on himself at most levels. 所以才能够在剧里面以各种形式不去掩饰自己的欲望，比如希望和一个16岁的女孩子谈恋爱，不去掩饰自己想要做的事情，比如把看不爽的人猛揍一顿。

And it is this sincerity that is the source of his charisma. Because people yearn for what they can't show in reality or what they can't do.

From another perspective, this animation as a work of art beautifies human nature. When a normal person shows all his desires, it will definitely not be as simple as we see in the animation. Of course, it may also be because of his stupidity that he is so simple. He is a stupidity beyond ordinary people, so his desires are particularly simple and direct.

Note that the stupidity here is not an attack on his personality, but rather his lack of deep thinking.

When people are not as stupid as he is, you will find that people tend to fall into the misunderstanding of overthinking.

In daily life, people are actually exposed to various information without choice, and will passively capture and think about this information, such as various crime scenes. This is actually why many TV and movie works are graded. For children who do not have a lot of discernment, it is not suitable for them to see too many crime scenes.

In this play, the obvious representative is Kanzaki Remi, who has the highest IQ. She has high IQ and thinking ability to recognize all kinds of things that may exist in the world, and when she realizes these things and shows her as When it is human nature, these things have to exist in her thinking choices.

That is to say, when people have this choice, when people realize that I can still do it, he can never forget the choice, the choice will always be there, even if the choice is evil .

This choice then becomes an ever-present temptation to sin.

Remi is the same as the protagonist. He is also a person who does not restrain himself too much. But the difference is that many of the things the protagonist does are small things, and there are certain moral norms in it, although he himself does not have a strong moral ritual. What Limei can do will include many very outrageous things, such as letting a criminal group kidnap her classmates.

Because when we have the ability to be aware of the good and the bad, we have the possibility of being attracted to the relevant behavior by the good or the bad.

This is also why I think this film chooses a character who is very unlike a normal person's mental level as the protagonist, because when a normal person's mental level is the protagonist, there will be no such stupid behavior or beautiful behavior.

In many cases, the truth, the good and the beautiful are actually a very simple thing, something that can be identified without a very high mental level. An overly complex mental level will mask the essence of truth, goodness and beauty.

And if that's the case, the masterpiece becomes an even darker one.

Based on the above analysis, one thing we can learn is that the protagonist's stupidity and disregard for his face seem to bring him a lot of pain, but at the same time bring him a lot of simple joy. And this is a state that many smart people cannot achieve.

When you think too much, you will slowly lose the rather primitive feeling of enjoying life, the pleasure of being a living creature. We may sometimes pay too much attention to very advanced and complex pleasures, and forget that the most primitive and obvious things, such as the sound of the beating of the heart, are the rhythms of life that we can feel most obviously as living beings. thing.

To a simple-minded person, a good meal may be everything in the world. When we were kids, a good meal really bought us off. A lollipop can send a little girl home with a bad guy.

We always advertise ourselves as wise or wise, thinking that this is good, that this is excellent, but this tendency gradually cuts away from our relationship with the most primitive pleasures and goodwill.

Sometimes it is these most basic things that can give people the most powerful moving and joy, happiness, and even a sense of fulfillment, existence, and meaning.

So when I say I've learned and learned a lot from these people, I'm not saying that because they are so noble. But I think they are beautiful this way. And the reason for this beauty is that they remind me that there is such a simple or somewhat primitive undisguised pleasure or enjoyment in life.

Simple or simple visions are also worth cherishing and living. Life may not need to pursue any special lofty meaning, or something that is far away and incomprehensible, and does not need a lot of so-called meditation, or a lot of wisdom to be life.

Whether it's the original yoga teachings or the Zen philosophy, they all point to one thing: the joy of life, sense of meaning, purpose, etc. all exist in this most basic and common thing, such as a good meal, a good night's sleep, etc. If you have a good night's sleep, or your body is a little tired today, go out for a run, exercise your body, play a ball with your friends, have some fun, and have a good time. . .

This kind of very simple and even very low-level behavior is the cornerstone of life.

This is also why I think a lot of people today generally feel that their lives are taken out of time and boring, because we are so far away from feeling like this.

Some people spend too much time in contact with abstract concepts or spiritual escape, and human beings are probably unfamiliar with abstract concepts and the state of being completely spiritual.

Human beings are still a living being in essence, a down-to-earth material existence. We are nothing but a mass of meat. Having the desires that a physical construct should have, we then program ourselves with various spiritual pursuits.

However, if we observe carefully, many of the spiritual pursuits we want are either non-existent in fantasy or difficult to verify in reality, or an inference that cannot be made after the extremeization of material desires.

We have built a huge theoretical building on top of speculation, but if we lose the most primitive foundation, the taste of eating rice in our mouth, and the most primitive bricks like a smile, then the above All things may be unstable, a castle in the sand.

Frankly speaking, what we want most as creatures may be those things: have fun when you have nothing to do, take a break when you are busy, have something to do when you are free, want to drink water when you eat salty, want to eat something salty when you eat too little , that's all.

Many people will say that this kind of life may be too ambitious, but what is the last thing you want to achieve? I think it's the accumulation of unambitious happiness. For example, when I make money, I can smile normally, and when I eat an expensive meal, I can have a good time. If I don't have money, it will take a long, long time before I can eat a good meal. When I have money, I can eat a good meal every day. That means I have ambition. Then people add some moral requirements or growth goals to it.

But at the same time, we need to realize that our happiness has a marginal effect. When we can eat good food every day, good food is no longer valuable. There is a limit to being happy every day. Human happiness can only be happy to a certain extent, but human suffering can be infinitely deepened and fatal. However, it does not need so much to support people's desire to continue to live. It may be because human beings as a creature need more. The vigilance mechanism comes and goes to prevent its own death, which is functionally designed here.

Based on such functional design and the misunderstanding of overthinking discussed earlier, one conclusion I can draw is: cherish these most basic, primitive, and simple little things that we can usually come into contact with.

This is similar to the concept of living in the moment taught by many religions and teachers. It's about feeling the most basic things in life.

There are not so many things that people need. The things that can make us happy and make us feel happy and meaningful and exist are in the things we do one by one every day.

Those who can face their most basic desires calmly. Even if they don't have too much deep thinking, they can't make him we hate them.

After all, what they have is part of our human nature.