P2. 沉默的智慧 & 智慧的沉默 

The silent wisdom & Silence of the wisdom

针对上一部分对信息过载的负面评价，有人会说信息大爆炸是一种社会发展的红利，替我们开放了更多的选择空间；会说这是事物发展的必然规律，我们得随着变化而变化；还会说这是个体的“进化”，阶段性的“成长”定然会伴随着对应的挣脱需求。也许以上解释都正确，又或者它们只对了一部分，此处无意争辩，但它们都无助于解决问题的本身，除非你想在这里套用“发展的问题只能通过发展来解决”这种回应腔调，反正我不吃这一套。那现在就让我们把“信息大爆炸”切换回来那个没中性的字眼 —— “信息过载”，相信我们应该都不反对在这个信息过载的时代，只要有流量的加持，人人都可以是“KOL”的这种论调。但与此同时，这些KOL反过来也成了更显眼的靶子，这个道理相信是很好理解的，但我还是把它引出的原因是，对于那些存在争议的话题、那些容易引起错误解读的内容，以及发布者自己也并不全然了解的谈资，他们是否还应该发起或参与这类讨论？说了会被喷、错了会被黑、模棱两可的言论可能还会被酸。难道这就是群众力量的体现吗？一种垂直向下的非物理作用力，主流价值观的舆论压力。进一步说，同类型的泛化现象在信息过载的催谷之下已经变得随处可见，各种围绕不同价值认知而被挑起来的骂战，我在这里并不想说什么“噢像XXX那样终究被推翻了的主流价值观也不见得就代表永恒的真理”这种话，但起码我们要有一种和而不同的共识与包容才能避免价值趋同化，假如反对声音总是一股脑儿就变得尖酸刻薄起来，这就相当令人难受了【#世界奇妙物语1997管理员】。于是在这种条件设定下，不做就不错，顺理成章把个体的沉默倒逼成了某种常态智慧的表现，讽刺味十足。絮絮叨叨，我就想说信息过载就像一块烧红了的铁，激化了网络舆论的空间，这样的社会更应该要予以包容，鼓励犯错，但是像失败乃成功之母的这种已经是老翻了篇的说法，倒不如，鼓励失败才能鼓励成功，这才应该是写给当下弄潮儿们的新译本。

In response to the negative comments on information overload in the previous section, some would say that the Big Bang for information is a dividend of social development, opening up more options for us; that it is an inevitable law of things, and that we have to adapt as it goes; and that it is an individual evolution, and that the corresponding "growth" will inevitably accompany the corresponding need to break free. Perhaps all of these explanations are correct, or perhaps they are only partially correct. There is no point for argue here, but they do not help solve the problem itself, unless you use the "development problem can only be fixed via development" response here, which I don't buy anyway. Let's switch "the big bang" back to a less neutral word "information overload", and we probably wouldn't object to the idea that anyone can be a "KOL" in this age of information overload, as long as there's user attention. But at the same time, these KOLs have become more visible targets, which I believe is easy to understand, but the reason I captured the obvious is that should they be initiating or participating in conversations on topics that are controversial, that are prone to misinterpretation, and that publishers don't fully understand by any sense. Statements will be sprayed, wrongdoings will be hated, ambiguous remarks may also be quoted in sarcastic ways. Is this the embodiment of the mass crowd? A downward facing non-physical force, the mainstream values of public opinion, pure pressure. Furthermore, the same kinds of generalizations have become ubiquitous in the context of information overload, for which I don' t want to speak like "Oh please, the overthrown mainstream values like XXX don't necessarily represent eternal truth either." The least we can do is a consensus and tolerance that is different from each other to avoid value convergence. It would have been rather painful were the opposition had become vitriolic all the time. So under condition settings like this, not doing anything means not making any misbehave, it become only logical to be silent so as to act like an ordinary wise person, which is fairly ironic. Society should be more tolerant and encouraging for mistake-making acts. But as the old saying that "failure is the mother of success" has already been outdated, we might just say some like "the encouraging for failure equals to encouraging for success". This should be a better interpretation for the upcoming generations.

那接下来，聊完了严肃的就来聊些沉重的，信息过载下的沉默既然能够转化成了某种智慧，那真正的智慧为什么也会陷入了沉默呢？首先这里可以切入的跑题角度就非常多了，比如说：#大师时代的消散、#古典情怀（譬如说士文化）的陨落，甚至是#社会环境的固化，都能展开对应的讨论。但就信息过载的角度来看，人心的浮躁、言行的功利、风气的俗化等都是可以解释社会公知陷入沉默的现象，其他切题但敏感的角度只许罢作提及。当然并不是所有的社会公知都吃了哑，当前他们仍有不少人在活跃地为社会带来正面影响，有文化界的、媒体圈的、艺术圈的，甚至还有金融（#公益）领域的，姑且一概称之为实干主义派；而与之相对应，我刚才也仅仅是说，有相当部分的理想主义派都被前述这些因素带来的冲击而感到无力，所以确实不应该以偏概全。尽管如此，或许两派的社会公知在价值取向上多少存在一些差别，但整体理念的偏差想必也不会太大，而我则是愿意相信一个光彩（此处用耀眼会更合适？）的时代定然是两者缺一不可的，一派需要得到支持，一派需要得到启蒙。长期以来，社会公知即使不是一个受争议的群体，也至少是个备受关注的高光话题对象，他/她们说了什么，做了什么，都能引来不少关于是非对错的舆论，彷佛这个群体天生就不被允许存在任何的瑕疵，但讨好多数人总是困难的，讨好所有人更是不可能；一方面，完美无缺的人设只能存在于幻想之中，这里没什么好补充的；另一方面，时代背景与社会思潮是人物非议的上下文，特定的时代与特定的人群总是存在互相选择的关系，不同语境下的英雄往往都象征着不同的品质，不变的只有动机的真切以及行为的影响，对社会公知的道德绑架无疑也是在企图为自己塑造一个不存在的瞻仰对象，当信仰崩塌的时候就能把对一切的不满都成倍发泄出来，或调侃一番，但要知道人与人之间的区别并不在于能力、经历或所谓的天纵才华，能成就对方的先天条件与后天境遇同样能在另一套组合下成就你，但鹤立鸡群的完美人设永远是个玄幻的命题。这里我就不再呼应这番话到底跟信息过载有什么关系了，因为这一切都不是发展所带来的问题，而是发展所必须面对的问题。或者有人会觉得，或者仍然觉得我就是在给某些社会公知洗白，但相信我，我是真的不需要为这个群体里的任何人去进行诡辩，他们也更不需要。但我是真的适应不了这种“强买强卖”的舆论跟风，要知道没有人可以凌驾上帝视角去俯视一切，何况是戴了有色眼镜之后，所以我们不要把一切都说得理所当然，也不要把一切都看得理所当然。最后，我不太相信被误解是表达者的宿命，因为这本该就是表达者的自我修养，但不假思索的表达迟早会成为或者带来真正的危害。

Heavy topics coming after the serious ones, considering the silence under information over transformed into a bizarre kind of wisdom, why does the real wisdom on the other hand fall into silence then? First off, there are a lot of digression angles we can run into, such as #the disappearance of master-age, #the fallen of classical qualities (e.g. the literati culture), and even #the solidification of social environment. But from the information overload point of views, people's impetuousness, utility of words and deeds, vulgarization of social atmosphere and so on can explain the phenomenon of social public intellectuals falling into silence; with other pertinent but sensitive aspects aside. Of course, not all public intellectuals is hoarse. Many of them are still actively exerting their positive influence within society. There are those in the fields of culture, media, arts, and even finance (#public welfare) are simply called doers. But it's vital to mention here, I was only saying that quite a number of idealists feel powerless responding to the impact of these factors, so we really shouldn't generalise anything here indeed (i.e. don't quoted me on that, LOL). Still, perhaps there are some differences in values between the two types of public intellectuals, but the overall deviation is probably not too great, and I am willing to believe a bright era is bound to be a combination of both parties, with support and enlightenment for one another. For a long time, the public intellectuals even is not known as a controversial group, it's at least subject to great concerns. What he/she says and does attracts a lot of public attentions regarding right and wrong, as if this group is inherently not allowed to have any sort of flaw, but it is always difficult to please the majority, it is even impossible to please them all; on one hand, perfect figures can only exist in fantasy, and there is no comment for a top-up on that; on other hand, the background of the times and social conceptions is the context of character criticism, a particular era and a particular group of people always have a mutual relationship on choices, under different contexts, heroes often represent symbols for different qualities, nothing changes but the true motivation and the impact from behaviors, there is no doubt that the moral kidnapping to the public intellectuals of society is an attempt to create a non-existent object of worship to, once the faith is collapsed, all the dissatisfaction can be doubled out and released, or joking around; but knowing that the difference between people does not lie in their abilities, experience, or so-called gifted talent, the precondition of accomplishment of the other, can make the same version of you, but there is no rational need to picture them as symbol of perfection. Here I prefer saving my time echoing what these have anything to do with information overload, considering all these are not the problems brought by development, but the problems that development will find themselves facing. And of course, some may think I'm just whitewashing for the public intellectuals, but I really don't need to sophistry anyone in this group, and frankly they also don't need it. I merely cannot adapt to this kind of "strong buy hard sell" logics; cus you know, no one can glance above all, let alone wearing a biasd pair of glasses, so we should not take everything for granted. Summing up, I do not believe that being misunderstood is the fate of the expressers, because it should rather be the self-cultivation for them, but the expression without cares will become or bring real harms eventually.