a farewell2022,2023Will it be all right?

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abstract: Xu Jin: The New Year's dedication was originally a topic maker's field of expertise. Why did it encounter group ridicule? Loss is the key word, and the biggest sequela of COVID-19 may be lack of money. Where is the road? Live first, compress the lever and wait for warming. to flash back2022It is not easy. A sentence“2022"See you later" can tell the public ...
Xu Jin: The New Year's dedication was originally a topic maker's field of expertise. Why did it encounter group ridicule? Loss is the key word, and the biggest sequela of COVID-19 may be lack of money. Where is the road? Live first, compress the lever and wait for warming.

a farewell2022,2023Will it be all right?191 / author:Xu Jin / source:FTChinese Website

to flash back2022It is not easy. A sentence“2022"Good bye, no goodbye" can be said to express the public's aspiration. For such an absurd day, we should give a shout with all kinds of kitsch offerings“2022Go away "is more suitable.

Bankruptcy of New Year's dedication

The New Year's dedication by the Chinese media used to be an important article to summarize the old year and look forward to the new year. It also inspired many readers - this article can also be seen as an attempt to bridge the elite's thinking and the public's feelings. As Lu Xun said in his article, this is a good omen, just like the Chinese people are used to making a full moon speech.

This kind of dedication was originally an area where the problem maker was good at. However, storytelling, rhetoric and wit all have boundaries. If this convention deviates from the public perception too much2023It is not surprising that the situation like New Year's Day, when encountering rollover, ushered in group ridicule. After all, the era of "there is always a power that makes us cry" has passed.

This year, it is hard to say. The biggest situation is naturally the epidemic situation, but this is the most difficult to say. In the joke, if the first industry to be recovered is the funeral industry, then the first industry to go bankrupt is the New Year's dedication of all kinds of bureaucratic articles——2022After that, New Year's dedication was shameful. Cities that have experienced long-term closure and control, the elderly with various basic diseases, and those who cannot see2023People who are sunny in the New Year do not mention them. Such New Year's dedication has lost its foothold in integrity.


2022The year of is indeed a year that has happened a lot and is beyond description. At the end of the year, it is more like a weird dream. Hundreds of millions of people have collective infection, collective lack of sleep and collective cough. I finally got to see you2023People who have been exposed to sunshine in may have hidden traumatic sequelae: their hearts and minds, under the surface of calm and numbness, fall into loss and hesitation.

Loss of sequela

Loss is2022A keyword. This year, some important figures died, such as novelist Ni Kuang, scholar Lin Yusheng, entrepreneur Kazuo Inamori, politician Gorbachev, Queen of England, Chinese elder, and ball king Pele. There are also news of friends leaving around me. Some have nothing to do with the epidemic, some do, some are not young, and some are still young.

The attitude towards death depends not only on our relationship with the dead, but also on our distance from the god of death.

When we were in our early twenties, there were also cases of violent death of acquaintances around us, such as accidents, but at that time, we often felt only horrified, but actually we didn't feel much; here we are30After the age of, the cases of people leaving around become mediocre, such as cancer, depression or chronic diseases, but the impact is stronger than before. 


More or less, when Death catches up with his companions, he also catches up with us. After middle age, at an inadvertent turning point, we felt that life had reached a turning point - time was like the tide. In the past, it was rising, drowning and nourishing us. At a certain time point, the tide began to ebb slowly, starting from the top of the head to the ankle.

The sense of loss is reflected not only in the dead, but also in the living. Through this year, we also know that the bottom line can actually continue to go down. It is probably only the case that three bodies invade the earth that makes people feel incredible.

This feeling, like a frozen fish, may revive under appropriate circumstances, but its vitality is not as good as before. More and more studies show that trauma not only affects one generation, but also may be inherited. Our parents have experienced an era of scarcity, and they often have a deep fear of loss. Some people like to pile up, snap up and queue blindly. In the past, I didn't understand this, but after the closure of Shanghai, I felt that it might be difficult to get rid of a preference for hoarding, because it might be difficult to get rid of the tendency of separation in China in the short term.

In such an era, living is the bottom line and has become the highest program. Many times we can only pray that misfortune is far away from us. We comfort ourselves that the worst never happens to us. This desperate state of survival is neither moral nor immoral. It feels like a friend said that it is an immoral state.

2023What will happen?

After the release, everyone became positive, and the symptoms were different.

People's physiques are different, so are their feedback. A variety of "I'm Yang" essays are overwhelming. Apart from those with major basic diseases, most people have a high fever and feel nothing. As for dry throat, sore throat, headache, muscle aches, runny nose, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., and even all kinds of hidden diseases in the legend, there are various.

However, according to my observation, in these COVID-19 literatures, their symptoms also have some features that are easy to ignore in the past. In the past, I thought it was the most important thing to protect my life. I wanted everything to be disinfection and sterilization three times with disinfectant, and I wanted to set up a square warehouse at home; Now, many people find that the year-end bonus they used to get is gone, and even the layoff is coming. Only then do they realize that it is the biggest sorrow for people to lose their living money.

It can be said that lack of money may be the biggest recessive sequela of COVID-19. After liberalization, we can no longer use the epidemic as a reason to avoid bigger problems. My view has always been that the epidemic has not changed the trend, but has accelerated the trend.

What is the trend? The era of the soft class, in which money is harder to earn, work is more voluminous, and rise is more remote. stay2017In, I put forward that it was vain that the class that was generally anxious in the middle class could not move up, and what would be more worrying for the middle class in the future was how to defend the class, which was what I called the soft class era. stay2019I also stressed that "this is the best year in the next decade".

Now it seems that I do not feel that what I said unfortunately is more a sense of powerlessness to watch slow scenes of disaster films. All the same, the former assistants with a monthly salary of 50000 yuan, Zhihu users with an annual salary of million yuan, and entrepreneurial elites with casual valuation goals at the tuyere may become a thing of the past, and we may return to the era when 10000 yuan households were very valuable -- after all, there are still 600 million people with insufficient per capita income1000。

In a sense, being aware of the urgency of remaining time is a major feature of middle age for life; The sense of powerlessness is a major feature of the middle-aged society. This sense of urgency itself should serve us, so that we can choose a more quality life, rather than the opposite. The rapid growth of China's economy in the past is actually an economic legend, but today, this legend may enter a realistic stage.

Many people used to think that the macro was not important, because the macro environment was good and did not become the straw that killed enterprises or individuals. Nowadays, the weakening of the macro-economy has actually made many people's so-called abilities manifest - the prosperity of most people is actually more important than luck, which is just a gift of the times.

I went to the street on New Year's Day. There are few cars on the road, but it is found that in the cold wind, many real estate agents at the entrance of the community have been standing on the street, and naturally no one cares. After all, many bankrupt bosses are running special cars that earn thousands of yuan a month. For example, I know an investor whose institution invests in more than one unicorn enterprise. Shortly after the closure, Didi registered with his luxury car, and the high-end apartment also opened rental shooting service - he explained with a grin, "Do you have to earn some cash flow?"

Where is the road? What to do? Live first, compress the lever and wait for everything to warm up. So is the soft class, so is the economy. It is said that wisdom is to accept what cannot be changed and change what can be changed. If we are no longer young, expect2023In, we can have more wisdom, follow the economic law, and return to normal society. Let's take a breather.

Note: This article only represents the author's own opinion. Xu Jin is the author of the currency trilogy and official accounteconhomoOwner-Principal
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