An 800-word essay on the topic of vulgar culture

Culture is the most attractive thing in a national spirit and the core element that determines the character of a country and nation. The final contest concerning the survival of a nation is often a contest of cultures, which is rooted in the marrow of the nation. Therefore, a leader who leads a nation toward a bright and powerful place must always pay attention to the development of culture. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Program Management of Star Comprehensive TV Channels", proposing that starting from January 1, 2012, the broadcasting of some types of programs on the 34 comprehensive TV star channels will be regulated to prevent TV programs from Excessive entertainment and vulgarity. It can be seen that the "three customs" trend has attracted great attention from the central government.

Despite this, vulgar culture still abounds in today's society. TV dating programs were stopped, "Sister Feng" and "Pseudo Girl" became popular one after another, Japanese actress Sora Aoi was popular when she visited Shanghai, etc. These are all the vulgar cultures reflected in today's society.

The popularity of low-brow culture has to make us think about why low-brow culture is so popular.

First, the audience chooses vulgarity in order to seek their own sensory stimulation. Eric Sevaride said, "Anyone with low tastes will not have high tastes, but everyone who claims to have high tastes has a considerable amount of low tastes." Either for a relaxed smile, or to feel the feeling of collective lust, or just an unconscious choice. Vulgar content is an innate and real reflection of human nature, but many content should have its own established scope of dissemination. For example, although we don’t need to talk about sexual perversion as we did in the past, I am afraid that discussing it in great detail can only be limited to couples or professional classes, and it is vulgar to use it as a social topic, such as "Nun jokes"; all kinds of " "Adult products" are only well-known in the adult circle, and advertising them regardless of age is almost vulgar. In short, vulgarity has occupied a certain living space in the hearts of the audience from the beginning. Once topics such as personal privacy, privacy of bed, violence, and pursuit of money, which are different from cultural traditions and cannot be spoken publicly, are openly publicized, the evil elements in human nature will expand. If there is demand, there will be a market. This is the internal reason. Second, an individual’s improper pursuit of fame and fortune creates vulgarity. To become famous by any means, even at the expense of notoriety, is the choice of many people who are eager to pursue fame and fortune. They use some gimmicks and abnormal remarks to win social attention. "Sister Feng" is an example.

Third, the abundant material conditions of society provide the survival soil for vulgarity. Full, warm and lustful. When people's material conditions are satisfied, their spirit will have the need to expand outward. When high culture fails to occupy the ideological high ground, low culture will take advantage of it. The era of shackles of ideas, backward communication methods, and worrying about food and clothing can only be the era of "manuscripts".

Fourth, the media creates vulgar taste for its own economic interests. Publications such as the Internet, books and audiovisuals, films, televisions, games, etc. are all dedicated to creating products that can attract attention and bring greater economic benefits. If the media, as a public instrument of society, abandons its own responsibilities and ethics and becomes a broker of vulgar culture, it will promote vulgarity.

So how to look at this problem using materialist dialectics?

Materialist dialectics provides fundamental perspectives and methods for people to understand and transform the world. Whether it is a macroscopic grasp of the laws of contradictory movement in the three major fields of nature, society, and thinking, or a detailed analysis of intricate contradictions in practical work, materialist dialectics has universal methodological significance. "Acting in accordance with dialectics" can achieve changes in response to circumstances, follow the trend, and achieve strategizing and foresight. The significance of dialectical materialism is quite important.

Materialist dialectics is "Marxist dialectics". Take the most general laws of nature, human society and the development of thinking as the research objects. It is an advanced form of the development of dialectical thinking. An important part of Marxist philosophy. It is believed that the material world is a unified whole with universal connections and constant movement and change; dialectical laws are the laws of the material world's own movement; subjective dialectics or dialectical thinking is the reflection of objective dialectics in human thinking

It is the most comprehensive, rich and profound theory of development.

It includes three basic laws (the law of the unity of opposites, the law of mutual transformation of quality and the law of negation of negation) as well as phenomenon and essence, cause and result, necessity and contingency, possibility and reality, form and content, etc. A series of basic categories, with the law of unity of opposites as the core. It is a cosmology, epistemology and methodology.

The dialectics founded by Marx and Engels is based on thorough materialism. Materialist dialectics believes that the material world itself has its own laws of dialectical movement, and everything is in universal connection and interaction.

Internet culture undoubtedly plays an irreplaceable role in promoting modern civilization and is increasingly playing an important role in our lives. With the current wave of informatization, industrialization, and internationalization sweeping the world, the overall development of Internet culture The direction is bright and the mainstream of development is benign. Materialist dialectics tells us that everything has its own process of emergence, development and destruction; the fundamental reason for the development of things lies in the internal contradictions of things. The contradictory opposites unite and struggle, which promotes the movement and change of things. Contradiction manifests itself in two aspects, which are divided into main aspects and secondary aspects. The main aspect of the contradiction is in a dominant position and plays a leading role. The secondary aspect of the contradiction is in a dominated position. The main aspect of the contradiction dominates the secondary aspects. Things The nature of is mainly determined by the main aspects of the contradiction. At present, the main role of Internet culture is good. If it is well utilized and guided, it can become the main front for disseminating advanced socialist culture, a large platform for providing public cultural services, a large classroom for improving the comprehensive quality of the people, and improving society. It is a mobile carrier of socialist democracy and a new space for people’s healthy spiritual and cultural life. Generally speaking, the role of Internet culture is to do more good than harm. How can we give up eating because of choking, and give up the principle of whole jade because of a small jade.

In this regard, we can use materialist dialectics to look at these issues from the following aspects.

1. The problem must be divided into two, and popular culture must be objectively and comprehensively analyzed. Popular culture has its essence and its dregs. You cannot only look at one aspect.

2. It is necessary to use the method of concrete analysis of specific issues. There are many factors in popular culture that are worthy of promotion and persistence. They cannot be simply denied or affirmed. It is wrong to affirm or deny them all.

3. We must adhere to the principle of moderation when it comes to popular culture and cannot be obsessed with it, otherwise it will be easy to be affected by unhealthy factors in popular culture.

In short, people’s normal needs for culture cannot be met with balanced and effective guidance, people’s cognitive concepts about the legitimacy and sublimity of mainstream and orthodox high culture have changed, and The lack and deficiencies of the production of high-brow culture itself, and the secret replacement of culture by entertainment, have made people's demand for culture helplessly fall into and choose vulgarity, not to mention that vulgar culture itself is in line with the natural and instinctive needs and needs of human nature. desire. This is the psychological reason why people love and criticize vulgarity, and are tired of and reluctant to part with TV party programs.

The reason why Chinese culture is broad and profound, has a long history and is everlasting, is that Chinese culture is well versed in the essence of materialist dialectics, and is able to eliminate the false and retain the true, remove the dross and retain the essence; At present, my country's economic development has entered a stage of transformation and development. The 17th National Congress clearly stated that we must build a cultural power, promote the prosperity and development of socialist culture, and create a new upsurge in the construction of socialist culture. To achieve a moderately prosperous society in all respects and to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must improve our country's cultural soft power and enhance our country's cultural core competitiveness. In the current era of accelerating informatization, we must give full play to the irreplaceable advantages of network culture and the "over-entertainment" phenomenon fostered by the screen. Although the reasons are complicated, if we look deeply at the level of creative thinking, the root cause is something philosophical. Therefore, eradicating "excessive entertainment" from a philosophical perspective is the root cause.