Intro
People continued to go crazy, talking about nonsense things, hiding
their inner madness under the surface of calm. We have been repressed
for too long, and we are leaving our own traces in this era in our own
way. In many years to come, will we look back on this period and laugh
because we were mad, or feel helpless because of the reasons for our
madness? I try to propose a fictional and amusement park like contextual
approach to resist the ongoing discomfort. Take the initiative to find
some opportunities to make the world soft. I've put together an
unorganized collection of crazy words and pictures, and you can join in
the madness! You can say whatever you want, by downloading the last
person's crazy comments. (ps. I'm obviously a bit delirious for creating
this project when I've just had covid-19 and recovered, so who's to say
what I'm doing isn't insane?)
This is an ongoing, open-ended
project.
Research
#mental state #amusement park #dissociate #in-between
1 #The spirit of contemporary youth be like
As long as you say this phrase and send out this emoji on
the Internet, whether you are rushing the delivery before the Double 11,
eating strawberries to remove seeds or preparing to de-core dragon
fruit, or even ordering fish balls with thick noodles and telling the
boss that you don't want fish balls, you can get the approval and
encouragement of young people all over the Internet in a second.
Open the social media platforms and search for
#MentalStatus, you will see all kinds of expressions from young people.
The first thing you'll see is the phrase "I'm fine, thank you, and you?"
The phrase "bad morning" on Monday morning, in just three words,
condenses the infinite nostalgia for the past Friday, the regret and
remorse for not enjoying the weekend, and a distinct attitude of "I
didn't go to this class/school by choice".
The collapse of a college student may be the result of a
lifetime of good deeds; the collapse of a worker may be the result of
the last colleague who poured out the hot water and did not reheat it.
We all seem to grow up more fragile, and at this moment, on the Internet
"crazy" seems to have become the most simple and efficient emotional
outlet for young people today. The so-called "emotional management"
"emotional stability" requires us to maintain systematic and rational in
our daily lives, like a machine to organize life and work in a circle
with the established success and interests of society. But after all,
people are not machines, once the parts are broken, not a repair can
return to factory settings so simple, so it becomes particularly
important to find an outlet. Whether it is the popular "shameful but
useful escape" or the pursuit and promotion of the public's sense of
relaxation some time ago, or the nonsensical "crazy behavior" that is
now popular, it is essentially a means of self-help.
'Crazy literature' can be generated by AI with
one click. "The exaggeration and disorder that emerges at this point,
like the emotionally charged crazy literature and emo packs in Qiong
Yao's drama, becomes a ploy for young people to risk hedging with
overloaded information, defeating meaninglessness with meaninglessness
and ironically not speaking properly with gloom and doom." One media
outlet specifically pointed out that "unlike the personal emotion, who
regurgitates emotions alone, this process leaps personal troubles and
bitterness into a group expression through public shouting." After the
emotions that originally belonged only to us as individuals are diluted
and generalized into the emotions of the whole group, each person can
get support from it and use it to complete the comfort of self and the
leveling of the bitterness.