The causes of the pursuit of postmodernism

1. Confusion of thoughts

These so-called "new new humans" are actually a confused type. They can also be called alternative groups because they are learning personality and other aspects. Their congenital deficiencies led to their lack of confidence in the future, and they were at a loss at the intersection of life. They were ultimately defeated and chose a "floating life", which coincides with postmodernism.

2. The pursuit of pleasure

Because postmodernism is a derivative of affluent soil, it does not consider history and only values ??reality. There is no past and no future. This trend of thought is reflected in people's behavior, which always puts indulgence and enjoyment first. Half a century has passed since the postmodern trend of thought. China has begun to show its affluent sky on the fertile soil of market economy. People have moved from a single pursuit of material desires at the beginning to a paradise of pleasure. Money, houses, and cars have a magical influence on everyone. One person, every generation. In the heavy materialistic reality, it will inevitably lead to schizophrenia. Therefore, in economically developed areas, kindergarten children begin to calculate the profits of products, primary school students begin to play mahjong in a decent manner, junior high school students have been smoking for four or five years, and high school students are enjoying a passionate love. Postmodernism has found the soil for survival.

3. Environmental pressure

Modern teenagers have an only-child family structure. From childhood to adulthood, their living environment in the narrow sense is small, solitary, and monotonous. , closed. In this way, during the growth stage of their lives, their personalities changed when they were seeking to be stereotyped. When they were seeking to reduce environmental pressure, they chose irregular behaviors to relieve themselves.

4. Changes in the family

Many teenagers are almost unable to control their own lives. The main reasons are changes in the family, their parents’ marathon personality debates or lightning divorces. These children become anxious and mentally deprived of oxygen. When they long for parental care, they receive an indifferent response, thus planting the seeds of abandonment in their young minds. As a result, they were disappointed, tired of studying, lonely and depressed, their grades plummeted, and they were under new pressure. When they were seeking relief and lacked guidance from others, they naturally chose to indulge themselves.

5. The influence of black comedy

With a kind of dumbfounding humor, a mixture of tragic content and comedy form, it expresses the absurdity of the world, society's alienation of people, and the destruction of rational principles. The confusion at the end and the futility of self-struggle are its central content. In the face of all this, people laughed cynically and used a humorous attitude towards life to distance themselves from reality in order to maintain the dignity of the devastated people. A type of movie that presents humor and interest from a world view of pessimism, horror, disappointment and pain. Such as "Dr. Strangelove" (1963), "Twenty-Two" (1970), "The Lady Meets a Ghost" (1981) and "The Ada Family" are a kind of humor in adversity or very bad circumstances.

Black comedy is particularly prominent in its ridicule and criticism of traditional culture. It should belong to the line of postmodern culture and is a kind of postmodern text, which naturally contains the characteristics of postmodern ideological trends. Postmodernism's hidden pessimism and misanthropy, instant gratification, lack of depth of expression, wanton carnival, destruction of order, separation of orthodoxy, etc., can all be seen in nonsensical movies. Teenagers often talk about it. Then imitate them, and your words and deeds will be strongly infected. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have become a bridge for postmodernism from the West to China. Black comedy has become the most effective carrier and disseminator of postmodernism.

6. Dislike of education

Some teenagers, due to their inherent mentality and personality, have always had a rebellious mood against traditional education. They are opposed to the preaching of parents and teachers. , opposes routine education, hates boring book knowledge, likes animation, violence, pornography, cartoons, and likes to live in exciting situations. As a result, they speak recklessly in class, contradict teachers, disrupt teaching order, behave laxly, indulge in cartoons, martial arts, games, online chats, or "act chivalrously" and get together to fight. Just go with your feelings. constitutes a rebellion against education.

4. How to view the influence of postmodernism

Postmodernism specializes in "destruction" and "denial". Its function is to dispel ready-made theories and destroy the shackles of modern civilization on people. In life, they oppose male chauvinism, racism, anthropocentrism, patriarchy, and economism and other "cancers" of modern civilization; in theory, they belittle capitalist industrial civilization and attempt to eliminate people's expectations of modern civilization. reliance on theory. From this point of view, there is a positive side.

The emergence of postmodernism in China has caused a fission in China’s tradition on issues of inheritance and development. As far as these negative factors are concerned, it has a direct impact on China’s contemporary social education, school education and family. educate. Directly affects the healthy growth of education objects. Its influence is bound to spread to every economically developed place, and its stubbornness will surely affect generations of young people. Therefore, school education cannot take it lightly, otherwise it will change the quality and character of the entire nation. We must have a clear understanding, attach great importance to it, and make the best use of the situation.