Ordinary people’s reading generally has three characteristics: one is shallow, for example, they like soul chicken soup, lacking systemicity and depth; the second is the pursuit of sensory stimulation, for example, they like to read pornographic and recreational texts, and the third is fragmented reading, namely What to read, lack of selectivity. Many people in life read through Weibo, WeChat, newspapers, the Internet, and street newspapers. Therefore, they like the jokes, humor, jokes, essays, and thousand-character essays very much. On the contrary, they don't like the classic readings and large-scale literary journals. There are four main reasons why ordinary people don't like deep reading:
One is to stay calm. Ordinary people are trapped in the survival predicament, are struggling to survive, are unsure, and lack a quiet reading mentality. In a highly competitive society, everyone at the bottom strives for their own survival. For example, where to earn money? What do you do to earn money? How to earn money? How to ask for salary? How to support the family? It is the most concerned issue. Housing, schooling, employment, medical treatment, retirement, environment, food, etc. are the most urgent problems that people need to solve, not mental problems. Therefore, they lack a good mood for reading.
The second is that the meaning of reading cannot be found. First of all, there is no real meaning of reading. Many people's reading is to solve practical problems. However, what problems can reading solve? What benefits can it bring to people? The problem of salary arrears, judicial injustice, and conflict of interests? None of them can be effectively solved by reading. Secondly, the spiritual meaning of reading cannot be found. Because of the narrow and random reading of ordinary people, the contradiction between books and reality, it is difficult to find convincing answers to questions such as belief, morality, and profit distribution in reading.
The third is no interest in reading. Reading is no better than promotion, wealth, and mistress, it has an immediate effect. Reading is a pure spiritual enjoyment, therefore, reading interest is very important. If there is no reading interest, there is no reading impulse and further reading practice. Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, real life is 10,000 times more exciting than novels, and news reports are more interesting than legends. Traditional writing and reading cannot bring people greater interest and enjoyment. On the contrary, those small movies, pornographic videos, and adult books can arouse the interest of many people. A video of Lei Zhengfu, an Yiyouku incident, and the marriage entanglement of celebrities will attract everyone's attention.
The fourth is the lack of reading atmosphere. What a society pursues, promotes, and advocates will eventually form an aura and an environment. If others are running officialdom, earning money, cultivating relationships, opportunistically, and you are immersed in reading, or even turning a blind eye to things outside the window, you will not only be divorced from reality, you will be ridiculed by the people around you, and even be attacked by your family and friends. Oppose and condemn. See you, those writers, novelists, literary and artisans, professors, scholars, literati and mosques, and other professional literati have also gone to sea to do business. They gave up their many years of pursuit, put aside their lofty, pen and paper, started a company, set up a business, engaged in development, and even bought tea eggs. Because they live in a society where money is used to measure the value of life and the success or failure of their careers, and they cannot help themselves. Then, ordinary people will not bother to read deeply.