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introduction
We all know what they are staring at, but the question is: where are they staring?
video
criticism
A few days ago, a video on Biz Station that used petty-bourgeois sentiment to cheer for the neoliberal ideology “Three days back to the village, my second uncle cured my mental internal friction” suddenly exploded, and the video up host “Yigo Conjecture” The funny entertainment scene of using firecrackers to scare wild boars hides the specific living conditions of the left-behind children and the elderly, burying the real trauma of the death of the workers and husbands with the aesthetic taste of the petty bourgeoisie, and facing life with the optimism he imposed on his second uncle. The quiet and peaceful words of the years cover the causes of disability and the reality of the suffering that cannot be obtained. On the other hand, Mrs. Xianglin and Xiangzi Luotuo also love life, but for them, suffering is just suffering itself, but for some people, The very nature of suffering must be obliterated so that they can happily accept (sometimes other people’s) suffering (sometimes the suffering of others) as some great good, and then By entertaining, aestheticizing, and sublimating this suffering, it can be said that the content of this video is full of this Stockholm-style perverted unconscious desire structure and the petty bourgeoisie chewing on the suffering of others after a meal.
Secondly, in terms of form, “Second Uncle” is telling the story of the proletariat in the narrative of the petty bourgeoisie. If the second uncle cannot use his own words as an intermediary to make his own existence manifest, then the voice of the proletariat in the video must be Encountered with all-round obliteration and exclusion, the aesthetic sentiment of the quiet and peaceful years of the petty bourgeoisie can be reconstructed in an all-round way. The left-behind old people and children have no words, the dead workers and couples have no words, and even the “protagonist” who is from the beginning to the end has no words. In the end, the second uncle, who has not even been allowed to have his own voice, is purely regarded as an exhibit by the petty bourgeoisie narrative. A pair of mute faces that have been plucked out of words, and their existence in the real world outside the video is also a pure object who has been otherized and objectified. Here, the proletariat inside and outside the video is deprived of its subjectivity The survival situation of the power to interpret his own life is paradoxically combined – the second uncle’s suffering is obviously not his own wealth, but the petty bourgeoisie narrative praises the suffering for him but can create wealth, such as creating an up master. The wealth of Yi Ge’s conjecture, or to create the wealth of bosses who have more residual value of young lives that have been beaten by “Second Uncle”.
Finally, “Second Uncle” is essentially a book-preparation video for the neoliberal ideology. Just as its title “spiritual internal friction” expresses the meaning, this statement does not recognize the external order of reality. And the existence of systemic oppression, and the youth’s spiritual predicament is described as a purely personal issue of unwillingness to work hard, which has nothing to do with the outside world. This of course reflects the logical basis of neoliberalism to the greatest extent. Looking at the content of the video again, if “Second Uncle” can be regarded as a “stupid” work of petty bourgeois beautifying and tasting suffering, then at the end, it invites its audience to roll with it. The “bad” is really. It can be said that the truth is revealed – “I have healthy limbs, went to college, and was born in an era full of opportunities. I should live a fuller life than my second uncle.”
Neoliberalism, which preaches individual struggle to change destiny, can only rely on staring/watching the suffering of others to disprove his own happiness, which is understandable, but the real contradiction here is that a struggler should expect more people around him to He will completely withdraw from this tumultuous competition system, so that he himself will have more opportunities for promotion and salary increase, so why does New Freedom need works like “Second Uncle” spiritually to transform himself? Are more of the same kind summoned together to roll out? It turns out that the desire of neoliberals is only a tributary of the desire of the big other, and the thinking of neoliberals is only the simplest single-threaded thinking node copied and pasted by the big other in the cheapest and least energy-consuming form , what they are most worried about is not that they are defeated in the competition, but that this kind of power competition that they have been madly pursuing for decades and their entire existence is maintained is simply a meaningless absurdity fabricated by the Big Other. Lies, therefore, it is necessary to assimilate all others to conceal the appearance of truth. Although the “Second Uncle” produced by their desires does not conform to their logic, it is very consistent with their logic, because the more the new freedom advocates individual struggle, the more It is to fight against “spiritual internal friction”, and the more one affirms the rationality of one’s own ideology by denying external unreasonableness, the less can he find any legitimacy basis for the recognition of the value of his actions in others, so he can only continue to learn from it. The meaning of one’s own struggle is witnessed in the suffering of others, and this is the real reason why “Second Uncle” can become popular in our era today.
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