That year, I finished my exploration of major human civilization sites with Hong Kong's Phoenix SATELLITE TV and decided to end my journey in the Arctic. It was a 17-hour drive from Helsinki, but Mr. Liu Changle came from Hong Kong and insisted on driving for me himself. In the heavy snow, there is no other scenery, no direction and distance. Everything seems to stop, disappear, abstract.
With only two people in such a small space, it was boring enough. I told Changle that the expedition team and I had been away from the familiar world for a long time, traveling and running every day. We had not watched TV or read newspapers for several months. Fortunately, he is now sitting next to me, such an international media magnate, to spend so much time with me. Therefore, I would like to ask him to make up for my lessons and introduce what has happened internationally and in China in the past six months.
When Changle heard this, he promised. "I'm in the news every day," he said. "As long as it's important, I can't lose anything."
Ok, international first, then domestic.
He began to remember. I noticed that his expression had gradually shifted from excitement to bewilderment.
After a while, he began to tell me about international. But everything was so simple that it lasted ten minutes and then it was over.
"What, gone? I was surprised.
"No. A lot of international news, when it's over, there's no incentive to say it again. Because it doesn't matter anymore." He said.
It sounds to me like the ones he picked aren't that important.
Back home. And that was even stranger. After five minutes he laughed and said, "That's all. Nothing else is worth mentioning."
A total of 15 minutes, told the international and domestic important news for half a year.
None of the news stimulated me, but the fact of the matter, it had a powerful effect on me.
I did a reverse comparison. In the past half year, my old friends have been chasing news every day, which makes them very busy, tired and confused. But I can fix it all in 15 minutes. Half a year how many minutes, not to fine calculation, but the comparison has been established. It proved that all the old friends' half-year effort to keep up with the news was largely wasted.
What was I doing while they were chasing the news for six months? I'm studying. I'm writing. Readers and viewers in the Chinese language world read me every day. And I, indeed, have done a rather important work. Compared with my old friend who wasted half a year, I made a big profit.
From this, I understand better that the news congestion and Internet blowout enjoyed by contemporary people are actually a kind of "reverse capture". In other words, a lot of worthless news has taken the precious lives of the people.
Life is too short to return. No one can recapture this day of the season, let alone half a year. Information, by contrast, pours in all the time, without control, mostly of poor quality and mostly irrelevant to the recipient. Therefore, it is a kind of unfair mutual appropriation.
With this example, I can exhort students: don't get too close to information, don't use the computer too much, don't get too absorbed in it, don't let it eat you up too much. Away from them, we have our own land. Look at me, even mobile phones, computers have not touched, but it seems not so stupid, so wood, so stupid.
Ah, the revelation of the Arctic, pure and clear, cold and penetrating.
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