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The contradiction between garbage and modern humans

It is in the industrial society that created one

A new era of speed, production and consumption focusing on

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I saw a Cuban picture from the TV: the old town, the construction of the slender shadow in the sunset, the stone carriage slowly came to a carriage, the driver shook the copper bell, and the residents on both sides heard the garbage. Pick it out and throw it into the carriage. If I were not sitting in front of the TV, I almost thought I had traveled back to the past -my childhood life scene was exactly the same as one. Not to mention that between different cultures, garbage can build a spiritual channel for the audience to resonate.

From the perspective of anthropology and sociology, garbage is the most authentic sample to show the content of life, and huge amounts of information can be obtained from it. In the past, the material was scarce and fewer garbage. The rotten vegetable leaves discarded every day, and the leftovers leftovers were recycled. Pigs will put a few tile altars in several neighborhoods around them, as a bucket, and use the collected kitchen waste as a feed. Children with orange peel, chicken and duck hair, and chicken inside sell money, which is an important way for them to get pocket money. Zhou Xingchi's movie "Domestic Ling Ling Paint" has a line: "Even a piece of toilet paper and a pair of underwear have its own use." Those who can create this script must have experienced the use of things in the past. Life.

The garbage can also reflect the material and cultural story of human beings. Archaeologists found in the excavation work that the Troy people in ancient Greece handled garbage, not concentrated in a place, but they were buried in the soil on the spot. In 1973, American civil engineers calculated that Troy City would increase by 1.43 meters every hundred years due to garbage. There are also archaeologists found from many human sites on Greenland that more than 5,000 Viking people lived on the island hundreds of years ago, but these people finally disappeared mysteriously.

Archaeologists dug out the garbage dumps of various sites, picked up layer by layer, analyzed the food composition of these early residents, and eventually cracked this doubt. The soil layer of Greenland is formed by the volcanic ash covered on the rock. It is very thin and the fertility is insufficient. In addition, it is located in the Arctic circle. It is very long in winter, and it is difficult to form a cycle cycle. The Vikings established a settlement in the early days, mainly relying on belligence and sheep and hunting. In winter, they lack sufficient pastoral grass to raise livestock.

The garbage left by the ruins silently tells the tragic stories silently. The lowest garbage is the bones of small wild birds and rabbits. Viking people usually rarely hunt such small animals, but they are on the edge of starving and start to eat. The middle layer is the bone of calves and lambs, indicating that the livestock has been eaten regardless of the size. The top layer is the bone of large hunting dogs. Some of them also have knife marks on the bones of the dogs, indicating that it has reached the situation of bouncing food, and even the hunting dogs have been killed and eaten. Fewer Greenland is the result of natural adjustment, and its ecosystem can only support limited people to live on it.

In addition to archeology, from domestic garbage, it can also analyze the behavior of modern people. During the Great Depression in the United States, a newspaper in Philadelphia took the initiative to find a company that produced canned soup in order to develop business, and wanted them to advertise in newspapers. The enterprise disdains it, thinking that its own products are for the rich people to consume. Ordinary people do not have this consumption power, and advertising is a waste of money. The newspaper sent reporters to the rich area and middle -class community in Philadelphia to sampling them separately, and to understand the choice of each family by picking up garbage, and found that canned soups consumed by the middle -class group far exceeded the rich. Because there are servants to cook at the rich family, most of them use fresh ingredients. The middle -class people are busy with work and do not want to spend more time on cooking, so there are more canned soups. The newspaper finally persuaded food companies to invest a lot of funds for advertising.

The contradiction between garbage and modern humans is that industrial society has created a new era of speed, production and consumption. People have lived a comfortable life that people have dreamed of, but the garbage generated by this has also increased. Modern people no longer use all available resources in the past, throw up only once or twice in clothes, change the electronic products when they are outdated, the furniture is updated, and even the building is often exploded and rebuilt. It is no longer regarded as a virtue, but it is easy to be regarded by others as the loser. A large number of garbage has become an important indicator of economic ability and social vitality. Sometimes I think that if people have tapped the garbage of our time after thousands of years, they find that there are huge cement bricks everywhere. Without human value, will humans laugh and laugh at this era too cheap?

Send 2022.9.5 Total Issue 1059 "China News Weekly" magazine

Magazine title: chopping garbage

Author: green silk

Edit: Wang Xiaoxia

Operation editor: Wang Lin

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