Willing to be a "spiritual servant" in front of wealth is not so much a lack of material as a barrenness of spirit

  Recently, on a short video platform, a middle school student released a video of dribbling under the crotch, positioning it as Beijing Wanliu Academy.

Later, marketing accounts and netizens in the comment area claimed that the average price of the community was more than 300,000 per square meter, and the hanging paintings were authentic works of Qi Baishi, worth 420 million... In essence, this is just a "ordinary" life sharing video, but As those images that symbolized wealth were captured by netizens, the comment style of the video changed suddenly: the blogger was called "Young Master", and he was called "Old Slave" and "Slave", and he was willing to "accompany" the Young Master. Rich information is about to overflow the screen.

  After Wanliu Academy became popular on the Internet, the account also quickly became popular, gaining more than 1.45 million followers in a week, with a follower increase rate of 1106.1%. This teenager was also called "Yu Shao" by netizens.

Keywords such as "Wanliu Academy" and "Young Master" seem to have become traffic passwords. Many Internet bloggers have gone to this high-end community to find out and interact with the residents inside.

Of course, it is no surprise that in the comment area of ​​these videos, there are also nasty flattery, envy and exaggerated "self-willing to be a slave".

  The authenticity of this popular video, or whether it was a premeditated "traffic capture", is actually impossible to get to the bottom of it.

Netizens' flattery doesn't seem to have much sincerity, I'm afraid no one would really want to be an old slave.

But these online phenomena reflect the collective unconsciousness deeply buried in many people: the flattery of wealth has become an instinct.

  This is not uncommon.

Local tyrants and wealthy young people always appear on the Internet from time to time, and they can attract countless fans with every gesture.

The "Young Master" of Wanliu Academy is of course more dramatic - not even consciously showing off his wealth, just adding an address in the video has made him an Internet celebrity who eats all wealth and traffic.

  Of course, there are those who love the rich and those who hate the rich. There are many people on the Internet who launched human flesh and cyber violence against this blogger. Some people claim that this is a hype. The blogger is not a real wealthy class, so he must be pulled down altar.

  In fact, all these disturbances are meaningless. Even if this blogger is not rich, there must be real rich people; the gap in wealth must exist in society.

The key is what attitude people should use to face this gap, how to treat others, and how to know themselves.

  In "The Analects of Confucius", Confucius has a particularly interesting discussion on the "gap between rich and poor".

Zigong asked: "How about being poor without flattery, or being rich without arrogance?" Confucius replied: "Yes. It is not like being poor but happy, rich and polite."

  What Zi Gong said about "being poor without flattery" is actually a very high standard for today's netizens, but Confucius thinks it is not enough, it is better to be "poor and happy".

Of course, the "poverty" here is not necessarily real poverty, it might as well be understood as ordinary.

The so-called "poor and happy", Confucius did not mean "poor and happy", but that people have their own independent personality, have their own goals in life, and naturally have the joy of life.

Just like Yan Hui, whom Confucius praised, although he was not rich and "people can't bear to worry about it", but "Hui didn't change his joy".

  This is actually a compulsory philosophy of life, an attitude that we should and can only choose in the real world.

There will always be a gap, and "Wanliu Academy" will also encounter more luxurious mansions.

If people can’t rationally look at the gap, and can’t understand that there are their own coordinates in the world, then life must be extraordinarily exhausting: constantly distorting the body in front of wealth, or being willing to be a cow or a horse, or getting carried away, and the spiritual world is symbolized by a series of symbols. Surrounded by the numbers of wealth, is this kind of life not another kind of nothingness?

  Therefore, those who are willing to be "spiritual servants" in front of wealth are not so much lack of material as spiritual poverty.

With a self-reliant personality and an evaluation standard beyond material wealth, naturally, he will not be in a mess in front of the short video of "one square meter x ten thousand".

In this turmoil, the important thing for people is not to see the life of the rich, but to find their own world.

  Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News special commentator Qing Bo