W12 : What is "quality" for our societies? LiuXinlei

 In terms of cultural content, it is difficult for us to define the quality of this thing from the perspective of time and the background of the times. In my previous understanding of linguistics, the meaning of discourse itself is not determined, and its meaning depends on the language environment when speaking. Over time, the language environment will be lost. Then the original meaning at that time is difficult to be restored. Moreover, in different times, people are limited in the dissemination of information, the scale of speech, the way of expression, and the technologies that can be used. In the law, there is a concept called "prosecution period", not to mention the ever-changing state of information culture and other content. When the Internet was just emerging in the world, the spread was very small, and everyone did not have the awareness of public space on the Internet, as if it was just a technical extension of personal social interaction. Moreover, there was a lack of awareness of related copyrights and a series of laws and regulations at that time. One's thoughts will change, and the me who was yesterday is no longer who I am today. The trend of the times is constantly changing. If you use a person's previous ideas to deny today's ideas, it is like using the previous age to deny the next age, and the previous era to deny the next era. We all know that at the cultural level, all ages have their characteristics and their significance in the long history of history. I think that to evaluate the quality of a thing, we need to look at it from the time and background at that time, and at the same time we should put it in history to wait for its meaning to settle. This is not a period of time that can be determined in one's own words.


So let's try to recall that among the current popular elements, we think that many things are mainstream and high-quality. If you push it back 10 years, and push it 10 years forward, does it still have the same meaning as it is today? Such a simple imagination, on the contrary, can find what people really yearn for in the impetuous pop culture.

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