The progress of technology leads to the retrogression of human skills-the decline of literature and art.

This is not a new problem. But it is especially obvious in today's era of rapid technological progress.

Zi Gong went south to conquer Chu, rebelled against Jin, crossed Hanyin, and saw a lady digging a tunnel for a nursery and pouring it out with an urn. However, he made great efforts, but didn't see any results. Zi Gong said, "With the equipment here, you can make 100 beds a day, but you can see more achievements, as easy as blowing off dust. What does the master want? " Looking up at the gardener, he said, "What can I do?" He said: "chopping wood is a machine, with heavy back and light front." Pumping is counted as soup, hence the name. " Smiled and said to the nursery: "I heard that my teacher, if there is machinery, does things organically, and if there is organic things, there is an organic heart." The heart is pure white when it is in the chest. Pure white is unprepared, and god is uncertain. Those who are uncertain are not in the Tao. I don't know. I'm ashamed. "Zi Gong ashamed, commanding. Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi thought long ago that machinery would lead to the loss of Tao's mind. This idea is similar in Confucianism. Technology is called "strange skill and cunning" and is listed as something that people who are not doing their jobs do. This also led to the neglect of ancient science and technology in China. Of course, China's ancient technology is still very good. The so-called four great inventions are all technological inventions, not theoretical inventions. However, because there is no systematic theoretical guidance, technology has not formed a science. Technology and science are two different things. Although these two things seem to be closely combined in modern times, they were not the same thing in ancient times. You can carve very fine handicrafts, which is a skill and has little to do with whether you are illiterate or not. In ancient western countries, science was generally regarded as a part of philosophy. Newton's groundbreaking work "On the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" still calls science natural philosophy. Descartes has always considered himself a philosopher, and there are many such examples.

Now it seems that technological progress has indeed led to the loss of "Tao's heart", but this is only the ancient "Tao" and the metaphysical "Tao". Now it is replaced by "science", which has a great influence on all aspects of society. But strangely, the more advanced technology, the more backward human skills. It used to take more than ten years to train a senior technician. Now, with advanced CNC machine tools, we can make it as good as senior technicians. Archery used to require a lot of training, but now it takes only a few weeks to train with a gun, which is better than those who have practiced archery for many years. Farmland that used to be carefully maintained by farmers can now be treated with chemical fertilizers and pesticides, plus various machinery. Although the taste may not be as good as in the past, the cost advantage has forced those farmers to switch to new methods.

This influence is expanding to the art field. It used to take a master to draw cartoons for several years. Now set up a company and find several technicians and interns through division of labor and assembly line. After computer processing, it takes more than ten days to make it. Capital also plays a big role in the middle. In the past, the fashion industry used to use master designers and the most expensive models. Now they just need to control the trend. He said in magazines and online that a design is fashionable, and this design becomes fashionable. Any designer is no longer important, and supermodels are becoming less and less. As far as photography is concerned, an ordinary person can take good photos as long as he has advanced equipment. Anyway, there is no need to use expensive professional photographers now. Capital plays a great role in this. Because capital tends to reduce costs, there is no reason to hire senior designers if the cheapest people can make products recognized by the market. When art is created for the market, all this is inevitable.

Art is becoming an industrialized thing more and more. Various crash courses will teach you to write according to certain routines. Given a title, you can collect some qualified works from the internet in a very cheap way. Although there is still a certain gap between these works and those written by prestigious professional authors, their advantages lie in their large quantity and low price. If you promote them online, you can also get good opinions. So is it necessary for professional writers to spend a lot of money? In terms of music, Europe and America have basically formed industrialized production, and a series of division of labor and cooperation can make music in batches. It doesn't matter who created it. It doesn't matter who sings in the future. In fact, the overall income of those stars who look beautiful is declining. Stars who sold tens of millions of records and earned hundreds of millions in the last century, how much can stars earn now? Since a person can be famous through all kinds of hype, why pay a lot of money to invite an old star? This is also the reason why star updates are getting faster and faster now. Before you become popular, I can sign an inexpensive contract with you and use it after you become popular. After the contract expires, you can get a new face.

Capital is so cruel, and technology is an effective way to reduce costs. Therefore, capital pursues technology more than people. How many people can sit down and read an article slowly in today's fast-paced art?