Recently, a farm boy in Qujing, Yunnan received an admission notice from Peking University on a construction site, which aroused social concern. While many netizens "liked" the boy who changed his fate through hard work, another voice appeared on the Internet-"The college entrance examination is not as good as being an online celebrity, and reading is not as good as plastic surgery", "Reading has no future".
Previously, there have also been farce such as the post-90 s online celebrities tearing up live books and middle school students dropping out of school when they saw that online celebrities had money to earn. The unhealthy trend of advocating "reading is useless" has resurfaced in cyberspace.
In recent years, self-media and webcasting platforms have provided new cultural choices for the public, and teenagers are especially influenced by online culture. The data shows that at present, about 24% teenagers in China spend 2 ~ 4 hours surfing the Internet every day. After earning a lot of money by "drying their faces" and "dancing" on the Internet, some post-90s people frequently show off their wealth on the Internet, and threaten that "it doesn't matter if they haven't been to college, webcasting can still make money, which is higher than the income of college graduates". Especially in some rural areas, this argument is quite marketable.
The fallacies of these so-called network celebrities, such as lifestyle, money worship, hedonism and "the futility of reading", have poisoned the values of many teenagers. Some teenagers not only like watching short videos spread by online celebrities, but also are keen to shoot and upload short videos themselves. Some students even said that they would drop out of school and become "internet celebrities".
The unhealthy trend of advocating "reading is useless" has contributed to the unhealthy trend of getting something for nothing. Media reports are keen to exaggerate the "brilliant achievements" of online celebrities: a live broadcast of online celebrities earns hundreds of thousands of yuan a night; The merchant invited an online celebrity to settle in the live broadcast platform, and the appearance fee was millions of yuan ... "I studied hard in the cold window 12 years and lost to my sworn enemy!" Many netizens lamented after learning about the "fame history" of online celebrities.
The unhealthy trend of advocating "reading is useless" has affected and even impacted the normal moral ethics and social order. Under the influence of this argument, some people relax their vigilance, degenerate into slaves of material desires, constantly break through the moral bottom line, do things that violate the law and discipline, and finally harm others and themselves and go to jail.
"Everything is inferior, only reading is high." China has always been a country that respects knowledge and advocates reading. Facing the unhealthy trend of "reading is useless", it is necessary to further strengthen the supervision of Internet content and purify the network environment. More importantly, families, schools and society need to act together to strengthen education and guidance for children, so that those who spread wrong words and deeds will be punished and the belief that "knowledge changes fate" will be strengthened.