A new term of network: involution

? I watched a video in Tik Tok today: the network has two new names: "lying flat" and "involution".

? Lying flat is easy to explain. Literally, you live a normal life even after hard work. Then I have a lower desire and life is not so hard. It is also equivalent to a word of negative attitude.

? And "involution" is really incomprehensible in the literal sense, so I went to Baidu.

Involution: refers to the phenomenon that a social or cultural model reaches a certain form at a certain stage of development and then stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model.

Also checked in Tik Tok, there is a story that explains:

? There is a book on sunflower in the Jianghu, and everyone wants it. Because it can be invincible after getting it, but if one day, the sunflower collection is made public, everyone will have a chance to practice. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? This will be a disaster. Because a person has it, it is a person's business to practice or not. Everyone has it. It's up to you to practice or not. For example, if you have an enemy and you don't practice, the enemy will kill you after practicing, so you should practice. Finally, everyone in the Jianghu will practice the sunflower collection. Practicing classics can be invincible, but because everyone practices and everyone is invincible, there is no invincible, and if you want to practice magic, you must first enter the palace. So Jianghu people became eunuchs. This is a lose-lose result, and no one benefits from their extra efforts. Similarly, the current training institution is an open sunflower collection. If anyone doesn't study, other children will get better grades. If you learn, you may lose your childhood in the palace. If everyone is studying, but the number of places to go to college has not changed, no one will benefit from it, and all participants will lose their childhood. This is the involution.

Is this also a "theater effect"?

You saw the play in the theater, and it was really good.

The person sitting in the first row couldn't help but stand up to see more clearly.

Once they stood up, the people in the second row were blocked, so the people in the second row also stood up.

But the third row was out of sight and stood up. The audience at the back had to stand up one by one. In this way, at last the whole theater stood and watched the play. As a result, everyone found that after the whole theater stood up, everyone looked at the line of sight from the same angle as before.

All those sitting and all those standing are watching the play. But obviously it's more comfortable to sit and watch.

? And the starting point of all this is because the people in the first row stand up. As long as they don't come forward, the matter will be solved.

It seems that everyone is pushed to the point of "involution" by form and "involution".