When I was a child, I learned Tao Yuanming's "Gui Xi Ci" and listened to the teacher. This is the time when Mr. Wuliu was lofty all his life, frustrated in officialdom, unwilling to bow down for Wudoumi and chose seclusion. From then on, he let his nature pursue the life he wanted.
There is nothing wrong with what the teacher said, but today I reread the pastoral poet's article, but I have a different feeling-Mr. Wang is old and laments that he "has a trip in life". The years of life struggle have passed and time is running out. Why can't you look down on life and death? "Ask for love words from relatives, play the piano to eliminate worries", listen to what you want to hear and see, and be happy from now on.
Time flies, thousands of years have passed in an instant. However, today, many middle-aged and elderly people still maintain this concept. The so-called "knowing destiny at fifty", especially the elderly, have struggled all their lives and "returned to the fields", overworked in the first half of their lives and longed for a free life. At the same time, most people of this age have read "thousands of books" and taken the "Wan Li Road", thinking that they have read countless people and their past experience is enough to cope with the storms of the rest of their lives. So I don't want to be confused by the disturbance of the world, and I don't want to get in touch with the ever-changing society, which leads to only what I want to hear in my ears and only what I want to see in my eyes. For others, turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear-it's hard to be confused.
So we will see that most of the online rumors are forwarded by middle-aged and elderly people. In naked scams such as "pay ten dollars, the bird's nest pays 50 thousand" and "unfreezing national assets requires capital turnover", the deceived people are basically middle-aged and elderly people. At present, the victims of illegal fund-raising and third-party financing are mainly the elderly.
Many people say that middle-aged and elderly people believe rumors because of loneliness. They left the original unit, and the original circle became unrestrained, but their children were too busy to make a living, and in addition to the stranger society, their neighbors were useless, so they searched for spiritual sustenance on the Internet alone, thus believing rumors. In fact, this is biased. Because compared with middle-aged and elderly people, young people face the same Internet world, even more complicated. In fact, the internet is not the chief culprit for middle-aged and elderly people to be deceived. Putting aside the deceiver's despicable tricks, the fundamental reason is that middle-aged and elderly people refuse to have correct cognition and lose the spirit of doubt.
There is a saying in The Analects of Confucius that "sixty is obedient", which means that when people reach sixty, they can understand right and wrong and distinguish good from bad. What do you depend on? Relying on the experience of the first half of my life. But Confucius lived in the era before 2000, when the social form was relatively simple and many things remained unchanged for thousands of years. Therefore, a person who has spent half his life can almost see through the world of mortals. However, since the New Culture Movement, China society has undergone earth-shaking changes. Now, after entering the Internet era, the information explosion is even worse.
If you don't hold the attitude of lifelong learning, if you don't update your cognition in time, if you don't hold the minimum criticism of the world, then you may step into the abyss. A hundred years ago, Mr. Hu Shi once said that I have a thousand words here, just to teach people a way not to be confused. It can be seen that the more important this is.
To sum up, the deep-seated reason why middle-aged and elderly people are deceived blindly is not their inner needs and social needs, and no one is deceived by inner needs and social needs. On the contrary, they refused to admit and doubt. Therefore, to minimize the harm of online rumors, we middle-aged and elderly people need to bravely step out of our cognitive comfort zone, look at the world with suspicion again and question the world. Although it is a very painful thing to study all your life and keep updating your cognition, you were born in sorrow and died in happiness.