今天晚上在听播客，第一人称复数，周轶君与王佩瑜的这一期。
里面讨论到一个话题，就是很多人在年轻的时候并不喜欢戏曲，但是年纪大了之后渐渐地就开始喜欢了。这确实是一个挺有意思的现象，据我观察身边的人也确实是这样的。为什么呢，访谈的嘉宾提到了也许是上了年纪需要一些仪式感，尤其是在你年轻的时候非常讨厌的那种刻板的仪式感。
我大致认为，人，从某个年龄他某个阶段开始，就不太能接受新事物了。他们希望自己的生活能够简单重复每一天，最好不要引入任何新的变量。戏剧刚刚好是这样一种娱乐方式，只有重复，不断重复，一百次一千次一万次。虽然你也可以说今天这一场和昨天那一场有些微小的不同，但从整场演出来看，大概98%或99%都是和昨天或者上周一模一样的。
对于这些人来说，他们的大脑不再能够处理突然出现的变化或者说变故。有些人的表现是系统性崩坏，一个变故可能会让他们暴怒，情绪崩溃，甚至引起一些精神性疾病。有些人的表现是拒绝接收变化，当你跟他们提一些新鲜的人和事或者这个社会上发生的客观变化时，他们往往是拒绝的姿态，有些人拒绝承认这种变化是客观存在的，有些人则声称所有的变化都是不好的是糟糕的以及原来的世界有多么的美好等等等等。
能理解，大多数人都想维护自己心中那个有序的世界，哪怕这种秩序在其他人眼中看来也许可笑也许不合常理，但那是他们每天日常运转的内核。
但这个世界是很残酷的。
你越想维护心中的秩序，你越能看见世事无常。
Tonight I was listening to a podcast, the [first-person plural], featuring Zhou Yijun and Wang Peiyu.
One topic discussed was that many people didn’t like traditional opera when they were young, but gradually developed a liking for it as they got older. This is indeed a very interesting phenomenon, and I’ve observed this in people around me. Why? The guests mentioned that perhaps as people age, they need a sense of ritual, especially the kind of rigid rituals they disliked when they were younger.
I generally believe that people, from a certain age and stage, become less receptive to new things. They prefer their lives to be simple and repetitive, ideally without introducing any new variables. Theater happens to be such a form of entertainment, only repetition, endless repetition, a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times. Although you could say that today’s performance is slightly different from yesterday’s, from the perspective of the entire performance, it’s probably 98% or 99% identical to yesterday’s or last week’s.
For these people, their brains might be no longer able to process sudden changes or upheavals. Some people exhibit systemic breakdown; a single change can trigger rage, emotional collapse, and even mental illness. Others resist change altogether. When you mention new people or events, or objective changes in society, they often react with rejection. Some refuse to acknowledge the objective existence of these changes, while others claim that all changes are bad and terrible, and how wonderful the old world was, and so on.
It’s understandable; most people want to maintain their own internalized sense of order, even if that order seems ridiculous or illogical to others—it’s the core of their daily lives.
But the world is cruel.
The more you try to maintain your internal order, the more you see the impermanence of life.