What do you mean by involution?

Internal volume, also known as internal volume, translated from English exclusion, is a sociological term, which refers to the phenomenon that a social or cultural model stagnates after a certain stage of development, or cannot be transformed into a more advanced model.

The word "involution" is popular recently. This word was first put forward by anthropologist Gilte. Its original meaning refers to the phenomenon that human society stagnates or cannot be transformed into another advanced model after reaching a certain form at a certain stage of development. Recently, however, the word "involution" has been widely circulated among college students, causing waves of hot discussions, and the word "involution" has long deviated from its original intention.

It is said that the earliest "source" of the "inner volume" is a few pictures of famous schools: some students are immersed in their studies in Tsinghua Library, where the lights are not turned off at night; There is a side riding a bicycle and writing a paper with a laptop that has not been turned off; There are pictures with high attention piled up on the desks with study materials on their heads, which are widely circulated on the internet and have caused discussions among many netizens.

In my opinion, the word "involution" itself should not be derogatory, but a description and summary of the phenomenon. However, at present, there are many phenomena among college students, such as great competition pressure and hard competition. In order to obtain various certificates, weight is not important to quality, which makes the word slowly derogatory, but it is essentially selling anxiety and meaningless to improve college students' ability.

As a college student, the most important thing is to plan your career path. I can't test anything for others, in order to surpass the potential "competitors" around me and compare with each other. What you get in this way is often not too much effective promotion. We should pay attention to the efficiency and quality of learning, not the time and quantity.

At the same time, social and workplace atmosphere is also thought-provoking. Learning involution, academic involution, what else can't involution? When we keep running forward and run hard, we have long forgotten the true colors of life. The headline was discussed: Why do you want to immigrate? I think there is a particularly good answer: people living abroad do not necessarily value the environment and education, nor do they necessarily want to earn money abroad, but pursue peace of life and peace of mind. This should be the greatest happiness in life.