Cover Review | "One-Variable Equations Are Too Expensive," How Much We Wish It Were a Joke
Li Xiaoliang
Turning life into a comedy. It's a relaxed attitude towards life. Wang Xiao-rou wrote a book with this title. Life is full of misfortunes, and those who speak of it have no two or three. Life is a test, 'turning life into a comedy. At least you can become relaxed and entertain the past.'
Facing the past, you need to laugh at it. Self-mockery and self-deprecation can also relieve pressure and detoxify, and adjust your mood. However, this 'comedy psychology' is mainly a post-event remedy. Once the ship has sailed, it's impossible to change it, so it's a psychological comfort, not a pre-emptive reckless abandonment, nor has it made any effort before breaking the pot.
The difference is that comedy is about creation. It comes from life and is above life. Black humor has optimism and irony. When life really becomes 'comedy,' there's a chilling and absurd background. Being in it, there's a bone-chilling coldness, not as 'heartwarming' as fabricating a comedy.
For example, today's news is exactly like a comedy, but it's a real case: 'Teacher explained one-variable equations online, parents: one-variable is too expensive.' 'One-variable equation is too expensive' was a hot topic this morning.
Everyone might be confused at first. If you've been to school, the sentence structure should be 'equation is expensive' and 'equation' and 'expensive' don't match. When you click on the topic and see the screenshot, combined with the context, you realize that it's actually a misunderstanding by parents.
During the epidemic, the teacher's next day's course preview was 'one-variable equation,' and three parents in the group, either spontaneously created a comedy or truly misunderstood, turned a primary school knowledge point into 'tomorrow teach equation, one money per time.' So, three people said it was expensive, and one complained. It wasn't until the fourth person spoke that they returned to the topic, which looked even less like a comedy.
Netizens followed one of the mentions and thought about 'three-variable equation,' saying 'if you confiscate three-variable equation, you'll be cheaper.' This looks exactly like a comedy, but it also has something to think about.
Some netizens combined the current hot topics to think further. Even if it's their own ignorance, they don't feel ashamed, and even more chilling is that in the parents' group, facing the teaching blind spots, the first reaction is not to seek knowledge and progress, but to report and complain. This deeply ingrained, instinctive 'reporting' mindset is scarier than ignorance.
Some people mentioned that the Hubei medical team returned after the epidemic, and everyone thanked them. But the best gift for medical staff is not a timely expression of gratitude, but compared to the previous widespread medical abuse and doctors harming doctors, in the future, the whole society should truly have respect for doctors. The same applies to teachers. A 'one-variable' comedy has a disturbing background.
Education is not just the responsibility of the school. Parents may not all be highly educated, but primary and secondary school knowledge and corresponding tutoring cannot be missing. If you even forget basic primary school knowledge and don't reflect on it, you still want to report, and you go home to just play mahjong, play games, and watch dramas, and expect your children to be self-disciplined and study diligently from a young age and then get into key universities – that sounds like a comedy, doesn't it?
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