Outstanding work, most of the works I read this year are non-fiction writing. This is one of the best, one of the best works of the year.
The writing topic is clear, focused, compact, complete and clear. Such literary works are the treasures of contemporary literature. Among them, the structure of the plot is even more beautiful. For example, in the episode about the epidemic blockade, one side is television, the intangible death on the Internet, the population scheduling of political economy, and the lockdown described by Foucault for the population; and the other side is personal , The birth of life on the ground, there is no mosaic, no complex lens language processing, simply write a childbirth scene. This is one of the wonderful writings about childbirth in literature, which is enough to be called together with the childbirth writings of "Roma" and "Anna Karenina". This is its narrative, or the metaphysical level of the work.
And the value background hidden under the works is also commendable.
Some people in the comment area called Clarkson "the British version of Li Ziqi". Really interesting if you compare them carefully. There are many voices questioning whether Li Ziqi is farming in person. I believe that Li Ziqi is farming personally and has mastered many skills - just look at the calluses on his hands. But Li Ziqi's video is more of a Chinese-style aesthetic (no derogatory meaning) - striving to show your best self in front of the camera; is the result more important or the process important? take them all. Clarkson's farming process, however, is a journey of struggle with constant mistakes, constant demons, and constant misfortune. The result is not very good either. The gorilla after the harvest is calculated is probably the exact opposite of the Li Ziqi when the hot dish is out of the pot. But such a work is equally wonderful, isn't it? In addition to the philosophy of showing beauty and harvest, we also need another philosophy.
So some people compared him with Tao Yuanming. Tao Qian, who "plants beans at the bottom of the mountain, the grass is full of bean sprouts", seems to be somewhat similar to an old British man who can't grow anything after Dai Jianye's humorous description. In fact, it is not. In the land under our feet (using the Chinese word is completely inaccurate, but I can't think of a more appropriate way to describe it, let's call it that), even if he is engaged in farming, he is only temporarily committed to this. If it is not for the pursuit of a career, there is a clear distinction between priority and priority, and the difference between the importance and the importance of it, how can you say it? Many people will say that this is the fate of the traditional scholar-officials, but are we really different today? Isn't our value judgment standard still relatively single and stable? Just think about the image of successful people in the world in the minds of the public.
In this sense, Caleb is a relatively scarce role in mainstream content creation in China. Those content that sings praises to daily life under the name of gourmet shops are especially represented by a head video that pursues secular life. In the end, it often ends with praising the old people who have contributed to the motherland (mostly science and engineering, or the military), or with a sympathetic vision to righteousness in daily life, "Every ordinary worker is the most glorious!" Such praise , very indecent - we are all the same people, what qualifications do you have to call me an "ordinary worker", and what qualifications do you have to give me a "certificate of award"? And the ideological concept behind it is really frightening.
And when Caleb talked to the gorilla about reading, he said that he had never read a book, and this book was nothing, Caleb didn't care at all, and he didn't need any "laborers who haven't read books are also very honorable. "Such a seemingly greasy and cramped "compliment". What does he want to do? Try a few more hairstyles before going bald as a British man. And how does he confront an ideology? When the gorilla opened a sink, he called himself "Moses." Caleb asked him "Who is that?", the gorilla repeated Moses' story, and Caleb responded, "bullshit".
Those content creators in the name of daily life are shaping the Chinese people's imagination of daily life in their form. It sucks. I don't know if they really don't understand what normal daily life looks like, or if they don't understand how to treat people just as human beings. I just want to say "bullshit" to these clichés.
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