Inner scroll, the open sunflower manual

Involution (third tone), it became popular in 2020. It was first proposed by the American anthropologist Geertz and is closely related to everyone

All without substantial meaning All consumption can become involution, that is, "inward evolution."

Involution is often used to describe some "involuntary" competition. For example, the current cram school, the 996 phenomenon in the company, etc.

This word became popular because of a picture from a top student in a prestigious school. Some people are reading books while riding bicycles, and some people are even more exaggerated, writing papers on their computers while riding bicycles.

This concept is quite complicated if we delve deeper into it. Based on our principle, if we cannot introduce complicated things, we will simply talk about it and let everyone know that this thing exists.

Some characteristics of involution:

1. Meaningless pursuit of excellence

2. Complicating simple problems

3. In order to Exempt from responsibility and deal with work passively

4. Work that seriously deviates from expected goals

5. Low-level imitation and copying are typical

6. Restrict creation Internal competition among forces is institutional

7. Endlessly dig and research on the same issue.

It is undeniable that involution happens to each of us, and everyone may have been involved in it several times in some aspects.

This is an era where everything can be tested. Middle-aged people can be tested for their struggles in the workplace, young people can be tested for working overtime, and even children can be tested for extracurricular classes.

The essence of involution is that a group of people compete for limited resources. The resources remain unchanged. When everyone pays more costs to compete for resources, the phenomenon of involution will only become more and more serious.

Finally, I will share two interesting examples about involution to deepen everyone’s understanding:

1. It is said that there is a martial arts secret book in Jianghu, "Sunflower Book", and everyone wants to get it , because once you get it, you will be invincible.

But if one day, this martial arts secret book is made public and everyone can practice it, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

When only one person owns the "Sunflower Collection", it is his or her own business to practice it or not. But when everyone owns the "Sunflower Collection", it's not their own business whether they practice it or not.

Who doesn’t have a few enemies in the world? The enemies all practiced the "Sunflower Collection", and if you didn't practice it, wouldn't it be a sign of self-destruction? So, everyone started practicing it.

However, the essence of the "Sunflower Collection" is that if you want to practice this skill, you must first retreat from the palace.

As a result, all the people in the world who practiced the "Sunflower Book" became eunuchs, and the martial arts masters became extinct from then on.

Similarly, today’s training institutions are public sunflower manuals. If you don’t learn, other children will get better grades than you if they learn.

If you want to learn, you may have to throw away your childhood.

If everyone learns, but the number of places in college remains unchanged. No one benefits from it except the training institution, but everyone involved loses their childhood.

2. Everyone was watching a movie in the cinema, but someone stood up first to get a better view. The people behind him stood up because the person in front blocked them. When I got up, only the people in the first row were sitting.

The audience in the first row will tell you that it is not because you are lucky that you bought the first row, but because I work hard and you are not as hard as me, so you have to stand up.

But as time goes by, everyone has forgotten a truth. If those in the first row do not stand up and do not break the original rules, then the place to watch the movie is actually in the middle, and the middle position is It is the result of everyone’s hard work.