"And we, it seems, are there to win this survival game?"

"When Alpha Dog is smart enough, will he be confused, and all I mean is a goddamn chess game?"

"Are we confused? Is it all about living and reproducing?"

"Yes, I have long been confused, on the one hand, I have to obey the instinct of birth, old age, sickness and death, obey the desire for delicious food and sex, and be savage when it should be savage. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info, on the other hand, is not willing to be trapped here, and wants to try to get out of this damn mission. ”

"To this day, a few of us are standing here, to break down such a question, in addition to the appearance fee and popularity, is there a little bit, what other purpose, nothing to do with interests? Just like Wu Ming, do you make movies for profit? Please answer me, the answer is fundamental, don't be perfunctory, you crave a deeper point of view, right?"

Wu Ming sighed slightly: "Whether I make a movie or participate in this show, it's more to show what I think is beautiful." Maybe not so many people agree, but I firmly believe that it is beautiful, which has nothing to do with the interests of survival and reproduction, but just a person's soul's thirst for beauty, and people are not just a survival machine. ”

Li Yan squinted his eyes, and unconsciously made a gesture of gently pushing forward in his hand.

"Then may I ask, beauty, beauty itself, does it need to survive and reproduce?"

Literally, it's a very simple question.

But just like the wings of the butterfly effect, enough thinking may bring turbulent waves.

Wu Ming was silent.

Li Yan continued: "We thought that we had gotten rid of barbarism to a considerable extent, sublimated to a new height, no longer cared so much about survival and reproduction, and had become civilized and noble. In fact, this has been the case for a long time, this is not a modern thing, but anyone who is rich, who is free from the pressure of survival, will have this feeling, just like Wu Ming said. ”

Li Yan learned from Wu Ming and raised his hand high: "When the energy no longer has to be invested in the survival game, then what should be done? It seems that there is no choice - culture and art, this is a new world that the ancestors have excavated tens of thousands of years ago, the true gentleman must know how to play the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, hops and tea, the great gentleman must know how to dance in concerts, and we have entered a new dimension after breaking through the survival dilemma -- at the same time, we have also started the next game. ”

"The art we have created and believed in has become a cultural gene and has become the protagonist of this game. These cultural genes are no longer competing for food, but for the audience, and reproduction has been replaced by propagation, and even if the survival game of this dimension seems unrecognizable, its root meaning is surprisingly consistent with the one-dimensional version. ”

"Live, spread. ”

"Every player who enters the market has a unique cultural gene in their minds, and believes that their sequence is beautiful, correct, to live, and to spread. ”

"Of course, there is no reason for ordinary people to conduct this level of self-analysis, and in the face of all kinds of culture and art, all actions need a very simple motivation-"

"I like it, I hate it. That's enough. ”

"We will consciously spread the culture we like, abandon the culture we hate, and each cultural gene, as long as there are enough people who like it, it can be spread in a big way, and as long as no one remembers it, it will disappear silently. ”

"Normally, when some cultures are about to disappear, we don't feel pain, we don't feel like we're hungry. ”

"Because we are not usually the owners of those cultural genes. ”

"For example, opera, we feel that it is far away, and most people don't feel pain, because they don't like it at all. ”

"But people who really love it will be painful, and they will try to support opera artists and promote the beauty of opera, they don't want to see the opera culture disappear and hope to survive. ”

"Then how is the opera culture depressed?"

The answer blurted out, not so many people liked it anymore. ”

"It's not because the opera artists are not good enough, it's just because there are too many art forms, too many cultures have impacted this era, and on the battlefield of culture, movies, novels, pop music, etc., which are simple and easy to understand, and go straight to the theme are more attractive to most people, and these things squeeze and seize the living space of opera. ”

"Opera artists and lovers want to turn the tide and are not willing to leave the game. ”

"They're changing the shape of this cultural gene, they want to make it more popular, it's more understandable, it's simpler, they're trying to spread it, they're trying to promote themselves, they're trying to survive. Cross talk is a good success story, almost all of them rely on one person to improve the genes of cross talk, making it more popular and interesting, thus turning the tide and defending the territory of the entire cross talk culture. ”

"Compared with the traditional one-dimensional 'natural selection' game, in the two-dimensional 'cultural selection', people's autonomous consciousness has more room for agency, and they can freely change their own shape, and they can also freely choose their genetic sequences, which is why two-dimensional games are more fun than one-dimensional games, because we can freely change and even create our own genes, I can like Monkey King or Captain America, or both. ”

Wu Ming raised his hand for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore at this moment, and now his eyes were already revealing hostility.

"I can't stand it, I have to interrupt, you are too extreme to use me as an example, the vast majority of creators are motivated to make money, not to survive in the 'cultural game' as you say. ”

Li Yan immediately said: "Teacher Dagang pursued his wife because he wanted to have a child with her?"

"Of course not, love is love!"

"But the end is that he and she have a baby. ”

“……”

Hu Dagang was very depressed, why is TMD me again, my wife and I recruited you!

"I eat because I think I have too little sugar in my blood, do I need to replenish it?" Li Yan shook his head and said, "Of course not, because I'm hungry." ”

"Do creators create works to spread cultural genes? Of course not, they do it to make money. ”

"You just named the most interesting thing about the survival game. Li Xuan enjoyed explaining, "In the survival game, our motivations are simple, and it should be taken for granted, and we have to see the results to suddenly discover the mystery of the survival machine, just like every breath we take, we don't need to know that this is to replenish oxygen to our blood and maintain carbohydrate energy metabolism." ”

"The rules in the culture game are also so ingenious that creators don't need to think so much, just want to make money, or more fundamentally, and the desire to be recognized is as powerful and essential as the instinct to breathe. ”

"Followers in the cultural game don't have to think so much, they just like it, and they don't have to think about the complex principles and meanings behind each cultural gene. ”