Chapter 74 The helplessness of beauty

I really can't help it, I want to write about the cars here. At the beginning, when I entered the border and saw the cars here, I was shocked.Whether it is a truck or a passenger car, a large-scale modification has been carried out before it is put into use.Let the three outer edges of the cab extend upwards, and then tilt forward when extended to a certain height, which forms a round, flat, protruding high roof with a height of about six meters; high-top connections.Almost all foreigners who have just arrived will blurt out: ah, the coffin! The body height of more than six meters is definitely the highest in the world in terms of collective height.This is not to expand the carrying capacity, but to pursue good looks and style.All the cars are covered with various graphics in gaudy colors, and there is not an inch of spare space.There are flowers, birds, human eyes, and lions in the drawn figures, all of which are emerald green, deep red, and burnt yellow, dazzling, and gold and silver lines are drawn.There are two big ducks painted on the glass window of the cab, and there are red flowers and green grass beside the ducks. The driver looks for the road ahead from the gap under the duck's feet, like peeking through the crack of the door.

The glass of the cab also has its own color, half of which is red glass and half of which is green glass.There are a few balls of hair hanging from the reflector, which can float to the middle of the car body when the car is driving.Dozens of thin yellow-plated metal sticks were inserted around the front of the car, each about two meters long, and the ends of the sticks were tied with a ball of black gauze. When the car was driven, it vibrated violently, much like incense offered in front of a coffin. Many car doors were converted into carved wooden doors, like the poor window frames in old Chinese furniture.The place where the body connects to the wheels is covered with tinkling metal pieces, some are triangular, some are oval, dragging straight to the ground, too gaudy to bear the sight of.

These cars have been exposed to the wind and rain all day long, and all the beauty is already dirty, as if they have just struggled out of a garbage dump, and the things covered all over their bodies have not had time to shake off. Even more terrifying things are still at night.Since the car body is covered with reflective paper of various colors, when the headlights of the oncoming car are on, it will reflect light all over.This kind of thing often happens in barren mountains and wild mountains. Just as you turn a corner on the dark mountain road, you suddenly see two or three gleaming coffins rushing towards you, which will really make the most daring driver in the world shudder.

When our convoy encountered this situation for the first time, everyone was dumbfounded in panic. They didn't know what was coming. They didn't look like gangsters or robbers, but they were even more dazed than gangsters and robbers.There are more and more gleaming coffins, and our convoy is squeezed in the middle, like being in a hell. From this, I suddenly realized: the extreme contrast between beauty and ugliness is the difference between the world and hell. We started to look for special exceptions without modification on the road. It was very difficult. After a few days of searching, we only found one kind, which was a police car.Everything except the police cars has been modified, what a lot of industry is involved here.In such an industry, there must be tens of thousands of art craftsmen busy, because all the colorful colors on the car body must be hand-painted one by one.Some of the cars modified in this way are world famous brands. There are many Japanese Hinos and Nissans. After buying them, they disassembled them all and then fiddled with them randomly. I really don’t know that the designers of these famous brands saw their products completely turned into this way here. Flying, what do you think.

I spend so much space talking about this matter because this example is both extreme and popular, and it is of great academic anatomical value. What academic?Roughly aesthetic sociology.For example, most of us advocate aesthetic diversity, especially respect the collective aesthetic choices of a certain region, and affirm its natural rationality, but the scene in front of us raises doubts about this. This kind of car is extremely ugly, and there is probably no objection to this conclusion in the high-level cultural circles, but what is the basis for the division of beauty and ugliness in society?What is the practical effect of this division?How to deal with violations of this division?

You can see some obvious trouble here: 1. The popularity of this ugliness is not due to some administrative order (as we have seen in Babylon and Baghdad), but a kind of popular admiration; 2. Except for certain technical indicators that may be restricted by traffic regulations in the future, this kind of ugliness is basically not illegal, so it cannot be stopped by simple means; 3. If there is a discussion about the beauty and ugliness of this issue, then, since the matter has already been socialized, the discussion must also be socialized, and in the socialized discussion, the winner must be the one who is fashionable;

Fourth, we can only place our hopes on the personal aesthetic level of a certain powerful person, but no matter whether it is a slippery powerful person or a wise powerful person, they will not take such things too seriously in the complicated political competition; Fifth, it seems that we should wait for the improvement of the cultural education level of the whole people, but when and what month will we have to wait?And this aesthetic reality itself is countless schools, which are constructing the aesthetic adaptation of future generations to it. From this, I thought that seeing a little more comfortable objects in daily life is really the light in the gaps, which should be cherished.

Ugliness spreads easily like an infectious disease, but beauty is not easy to keep clean from the plague.Generally speaking, the probability of ugliness swallowing beauty is much higher than beauty defeating ugliness. From this, I also thought that the decline of civilization in the world is not necessarily due to earthquakes or wars. In my opinion, there is no need for other examples. Just these flowery coffins running for the road constitute the cruelest denial of the Indus civilization.These cars will also gallop to the location of the Gandhara ruins not far away, right?They will definitely despise Gandhara, and Gandhara has already been dumb and will not argue with them.

I believe that among the countless idlers standing on the street, there must be a few elementary school teachers or wandering doctors shaking their heads and sighing, but this is too fragile, and it is no match for the endless waves of vicious aesthetics.You can hear the coffins roaring proudly all over the street, and it is said that some neighboring countries also have them. Beauty, turned out to be so lonely and helpless. On December 4, 1999, from Multan to Chokzam Town, staying overnight in the dormitory of China Hydropower Corporation