In people's inherent impression, desire has always been synonymous with greed, and it is the embodiment of evil, which often causes people's disgust, but unexpectedly, a society with low desire also has its own terrible things.
Japan is a typical example. The virgin rate of contemporary Japanese is as high as 40%, and the desire of young people to get married and have children in the new era is getting lower and lower.
Historical mourning
The word "Buddhism", which has been popular on the Internet for a long time, actually originated in Japan. It first appeared in a magazine in Japan. The "Buddhist man" mentioned in it is actually what we call a "man with low desires". They like quiet and boring, prefer to be alone, and don't want to talk about troublesome love. Although they are young, they are like an old monk who wants nothing.
However, Japanese society has not always been in this state of low desire, and the root cause has to start from history.
Although Japan's current economic development ranks among the top in the world, after World War II, Japan surrendered unconditionally as a defeated country, and at the same time they had to re-develop the weakened national economy.
For them, this is a black memory. Not to mention, some women even sell their bodies to support their families.
In just 20 years, Japan has caught up with the world and become the second largest economic power in the world.
What you get is bound to be lost. People's pent-up consumption desire broke out after the economic recovery, which can also be said to be a kind of retaliatory compensation consumption. When they have money, they will empty their long-accumulated shopping cart.
The most representative thing is that in the early 1980s, there was a general atmosphere of "shopping frenzy" in society. The rich spend money on buildings and minerals, and ordinary people are not willing to lag behind. They would rather borrow money than buy luxury goods. On the street, brand-name bags have become daily life, and they seem to represent the prosperity of Japanese economy.
But "all charm can't compete with time". An economic crisis in the capitalist world caught people off guard. Japanese stocks plummeted, house prices fell to a low point, and only high loans remained unchanged. From heaven to hell, it only takes a moment.
The Japanese woke up from the glitz they created and returned to the original simplicity.
It is what we call "low-desire people", who have witnessed the tragic experience of this generation, and the influence of childhood will continue into later life.
I don't want to get married, raise children, and deal with complicated interpersonal relationships. This is a typical performance of people with low desires. On the surface, they seem easy to satisfy, but in fact they are another gesture of despair.
Cultural expression
Take culture as an example, culture comes from life, which also gives birth to some "popular" funeral cultures. The film "The Life of Abandoned Pine Nuts" was very popular a few years ago, and many people felt after watching it, "Born to be human. Sorry. "
One of the reasons why this film has revived after being staged for many years is that it caters to the current social atmosphere of low desire. The whole movie is almost hopeless, but as a saying goes, "Without hope, there will be no disappointment", which is in line with the thinking of people with low desires. In the game field, the Buddhist game represented by the traveling frog is also an instant hit, where people don't need to communicate, let alone compete, and it is a game suitable for people with low desires.
hidden trouble
They are no longer bewitched by "consumerism", but converge to the heart of human comparison, get rid of worldly glitz and pursue a "simple life isolated from the world"
This was originally a good thing, but everything goes too far, and excessive "low desire" also has great hidden dangers and harms.
People don't want to get married and have children, which makes Japan, which has a serious aging population, under greater pressure, less labor force, insufficient social productivity and restrained its development.
At the same time, the decline in the number of consumers leads to insufficient consumption motivation and is prone to the embarrassing situation of overproduction. In addition, the increase in the number of elderly people in society has brought great pressure to the young people who are responsible for providing for the elderly, and it is even more difficult to add a few brothers and sisters.
But raising children is expensive and troublesome, so most people are still unwilling to give a lot of money, energy and time to more children. In this way, a society with low desire can easily fall into an infinite cycle.
cause
According to the latest census data of the Japanese government, a quarter of Japanese women have never been married, and the virgin rate in Japan is as high as 40%. This data is shocking and puzzling. What makes Japanese people less and less willing to get married and have children? As a Japanese woman, the benefits brought by marriage are minimal, while the responsibilities and burdens brought by marriage are greatly deepened. They not only have to tutor children, do laundry and cook, but also take care of the elderly and children.
On the one hand, "marriage is the grave of love". In a love, people's feelings will slowly deteriorate over time. After living together, you will find all kinds of small problems of each other. Long-term * * * will also make people feel bored, and of course friction is inevitable.
In addition, the marital status is not as stable as before. The most important thing in modern society is temptation. No one can guarantee that his other half is disloyal, and the growing "insecurity" makes people afraid to spend the rest of their lives easily.
If you just want to experience the sweetness of love, just falling in love can satisfy your emotional needs. Why marry one person, and then two people share huge house debt and car debt?
On the other hand, most Japanese women will become full-time wives after marriage, and their previous education and jobs will become bubbles. No one will care about their personal ability and social status. What people care about is what housework to do and what lunch to cook for their husbands.
Personal ideals and ambitions will be shelved after marriage, which is unacceptable to women in the new era.
Of course, the most important thing is probably economic reasons. It costs a lot of money to get married and have children, and it is not as simple as before to form and maintain a harmonious and warm family.
Raising a child alone can squeeze a couple dry. For people with low desires, a child is a burden. How can it be easy for a person to get married with their children?
arouse
Krishnamurti, a great Indian philosopher, once said, "If you don't understand desire, you will never be free from shackles and fears. If you destroy your desires, you may also destroy your life. If you distort it and suppress it, you may destroy extraordinary beauty. "
In fact, there is no distinction between good and evil in desire. Is the most primitive instinct of human beings. Without desire, there is no hope. We should not deliberately suppress it, but learn how to use our desire correctly and reasonably, so that it will become the driving force for our continuous development, rather than a stumbling block to society.
Of course, excessive desire is not desirable, which will make people lose themselves. Moderate desire is the best state needed by social development.
In fact, the low-desire society is not limited to Japan, but has a global trend, which needs to attract the attention of all countries in the world. On the surface, "not competing with the world" avoids competition, but it also loses opportunities and development.
When people's inner desires turn into a pool of stagnant water, the whole society is bound to be dead. Never give up hope and always keep a positive and enterprising attitude is the long-term way for human development.