Why can't young people suffer in the eyes of the older generation?

It has always been customary to compare modern young people with the previous generation, especially in the eyes of the older generation, young people can't bear hardships. In their eyes, we belong to the spoiled generation. Due to the development of the times, the change of social contradictions and some backward concepts of the older generation, the prejudice of the older generation against young people has deepened, and they have formed the stereotype that young people can't bear hardships. As a member of contemporary young people, I don't agree with this view of the older generation.

First, the development of the times should have made each generation suffer less than the next generation.

The long-term development of China itself is developing in a better and better direction. If every generation is suffering, even more than every generation, where is the development of the country? Where does the development of the country play a role? The progress of science and technology is to improve human life, not to let people continue to suffer. With a refrigerator, you can eat fresh fruits and vegetables, with air conditioning, you can reduce the pain of heat, and with a washing machine, you can save time for washing clothes and working. So why ignore the dividends brought by development and blindly pursue hardships? China's reform and opening up, predecessors' efforts to develop the economy, itself is for the sake of better and better society, and the progress of the times itself is to make China people more and more happy. The result of hard work, sacrifice and dedication from generation to generation is to get better and better, and also to get better and better for future generations. We must admit the contribution of the older generation to today's better life, but the sufferings that the older generation has already suffered can be avoided by the young themselves, and there is no need to continue eating.

Second, the main contradiction in contemporary society determines that the young people and the older generation have different experiences.

Each era has its own characteristics, and the main contradictions in different stages determine that the sufferings experienced by young people and the older generation are different. The main contradiction in contemporary society is the class contradiction caused by resource distribution gap, urban-rural gap and income gap. It is the contradiction between the Lord and the rising king in the privileged class system; It is the contradiction between the capitalist owner who shouted that 996 is a blessing and the social animals in 996; It is the contradiction that high housing prices and high prices require the whole family to empty six wallets before they can afford a pigeon house. In the eyes of the older generation, it is really rare to have enough to eat and do dirty work every day in contemporary society.

In their eyes, people who work in offices are relaxed and don't have to work hard. In addition, young people usually report good news instead of bad news, so they can't see the efforts and efforts of young people. Working style and social development have long been out of the same level, and there are things to do in every era. Young people are under both physical and mental pressure, and the older generation should recognize the main contradiction, instead of blindly accusing young people of not suffering.

Third, the concept of suffering of the older generation is deeply rooted.

Many people in the older generation think that today's young people can't suffer, and to a great extent, they link their achievements with how much suffering they have suffered, that is, the more bitter they are, the easier they are to mix. If they refuse to suffer, they can't mix well. Relatively speaking, the older generation also takes it for granted that people who mix well are people who can bear hardships. Many young people try to let their parents know that they have suffered a lot. But this is almost useless, because most of the older generation will think that since you have suffered, you must have achieved a lot. If you don't mix, you must be lazy. Take work as an example. In the eyes of many older generations, in order to get wages, it is necessary to endure hard conditions, insults and supercilious looks from others, which is called hardship. But in fact, this is a completely changeable state, which is an unnecessary suffering for contemporary young people.

"Being able to endure hardships" in the new era can be interpreted to some extent as pursuing more freedom and a more serious attitude towards life when realizing one's greatest value. It's not that you can't bear hardships, but that you should eat valuable hardships, and that you should regret for life and benefit in the future. Indeed, many contemporary young people have clothes to make ends meet, and some give up when they encounter some setbacks. In fact, it is not only the contemporary young people, but also many generations, but the vast majority of young people have never forgotten our responsibility and mission. We must become the mainstay of socialist construction through hard study and tenacious struggle.

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Wang Xiaobo said in The Return of Human Nature: "Man is an animal that deceives himself. We have suffered a lot of useless sufferings and wasted many years, so some people want to say that this experience is noble. This idea can make him feel better, so it has some good effects. Unfortunately, it still has some bad effects: some people think that people must bear some useless sufferings and waste some years in order to achieve loftiness in this way. This kind of thinking is not only harmful, but also sick. "

Being proud of suffering is morbid and distorted, and human nature yearns for beauty. I hope that the older generation will see the efforts made by young people and not blindly kidnap young people with "hardship". At the same time, I also hope that more young people will strive hard in life with the goal of embracing a better life, and don't give up easily, proving to the older generation that we can do it.