Chaos Daily Essay | Be a Fool

There is a classic question in philosophy: "Would you rather be an unhappy person or a happy dog?" For me, the answer to this question was the latter for a while, but most of the time I did Still agree that being a "person" is a better choice.

Perhaps the pressure of modern life is already so heavy that people have to be humble and begging for happiness, otherwise they can't believe that they can continue to persevere - to live in this world. People are smarter than dogs, they choose to become dogs, and they no longer insist that abstract thinking is an important ability in life.

Anyway, being a human is so hard, or you can live a happy life as a dog.

The biggest difference between humans and dogs is the presence or absence of highly abstract thinking. If a person lives in the world, he does not see that he can use this ability skillfully, and he does not even realize the need to operate life rationally, barking like a puppy. , controlled by the environment and emotional impulses.

Applying this human-dog comparison, it is obvious that he lives like a dog as a human. When encountering something that does not agree with him, he will yell a few times in response. The next second, I gave it meat to eat, and then it pricked up its ears, stuck out its tongue, and wagged its tail happily.

It is better to be a fool than to be a wise man, because being a fool makes life happy.

When a fool seems to be compared to a wise person, the so-called pursuit of higher and more excellent spiritual pursuits has a higher chance of achieving an admirable life. Because they live at ease as "dogs among men", they can't find out that there is only a fine line between this habit and irresponsibility, and the days are over.

The wise man is still worried about how to be a little better every day than yesterday, and the fool is still looking for his favorite dog bones to live. When they encounter difficulties together, people have long expected smart people to come up with solutions, and fools do not have to respond to any expectations, let alone take any responsibility.

They are consistent, and their consistent personality has become a gold medal for avoiding death. They don't have to seriously and hard work to temper themselves and forge ahead to become a better person. Sometimes they look at smart people in bewilderment, puzzled by these hard-working people: so hard, so serious? Just be happy.

Indeed, they will never understand what the day-to-day troubles of smart people are. You and I, who live in postmodernity and deconstruction, are always bound by modernity and structure. Their special role in these absurd times is to live a life that no longer seeks uniqueness, and seems to be smarter than smart people.