What do you mean by involution?

Involution originally refers to a cultural pattern, which cannot be stabilized or transformed into a new form after reaching a certain final form, and can only become more complicated internally.

Through the internet, many college students use it to refer to irrational internal competition or voluntary competition. Now it refers to the phenomenon that peers compete for limited resources and make more efforts, resulting in a decline in personal income-effort ratio, which can be regarded as hard inflation. According to Baidu index analysis platform on August 25th, 20021,the daily average search index value of inner volume is 16999, and that of moving volume is 14886, with the highest peak value of 88726.

Economist Wei Sen believes that the concept of involution was first used by the German philosopher Kant in Critique of Judgment. Two anthropologists developed the concept of involution. One is Alexander Alexandrovich Gordon weiser, who called it involution when a cultural model reached a certain final form and there was no way to stabilize it or change it into a new form.

social influence

When using the concept of involution, its original meaning will change. We can see that the communicators of popular words have the concept of sharing, thus perceiving the consistency of their internal state. The reason for this result is that one of the ways to realize shared reality is to adjust one's own point of view to make it close to others'. Everyone has a gregarious motivation. The stronger this motivation is, the more they will adjust their views according to others' views in order to gain a shared sense of reality.

Many times, people don't delve into the truth of this shared reality, but in fact, it is difficult to make an objective judgment based on personal subjective feelings. Therefore, the stronger the sense of shared reality, the more likely it is to promote and enhance people's common feelings. The more individuals agree with the existence and unsurpassability of involution, the more they will enter the state of involution, thus objectively strengthening the reality.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Inner Volume