Chapter 1599 The Profound Meaning of the Thesis

When Yu Fei first heard the news, he was happy, but soon, a worried expression appeared on his face.

"That's not right, is it? This thesis may not necessarily change public opinion, and it might even backfire."

"Handong University's intentions are definitely good, but this might be exploited by the anti-Tengda alliance."

Cui Geng was puzzled and asked, "Why do you say that?"

Yu Fei explained, "Undergraduate graduation theses aren't held to very high standards. No matter how advanced it is, can an excellent thesis really be that amazing?"

"Don't even mention undergraduate theses. If you give a doctoral or even postdoctoral thesis to ordinary people, what can they understand? They'll still find faults."

"At this time, the anti-Tengda alliance only needs to find a few experts and scholars to carefully pick at President Pei's thesis, using a magnifying glass to find problems. They'll always find some breakthroughs."

"Then, they can use these flaws to logically continue attacking President Pei's academic level, and even attack Handong University's fairness and rationality in selecting excellent graduation theses."

"In other words, it's not enough for President Pei's thesis to only be at the level of an excellent undergraduate."

"Before, the anti-Tengda alliance attacked President Pei on the grounds that he barely passed most of his exams. Although this had some impact, it wasn't a big deal. After all, everyone knows that President Pei is busy, and getting a passing grade on unimportant exams won't damage his image."

"But a thesis is different. A graduation thesis is a concentrated reflection of a graduate's thoughts. If some handle is exposed in this area and is seized by the other party, then it will be difficult to deal with!"

Hearing this, Cui Geng smiled. "So you're worried about this?"

"Your concerns are indeed reasonable, but don't worry. After reading this thesis, you'll know that your worries are unnecessary!"

"Those with ulterior motives will definitely find it difficult to find fault with this thesis."

"Don't underestimate the professors at Handong University. Old Kong is a giant in the academic world! Would a thesis that he approves be mediocre?"

Now Yu Fei was even more curious. What kind of thesis would it be that would make it difficult for even the haters to find fault?

In Yu Fei's view, to achieve this, three conditions had to be met.

First, the thesis cannot be too profound or difficult to understand. It must be understandable to ordinary people, otherwise it will naturally fall into the situation of being too highbrow and isolated, and it will also fall into the predicament of arguing about complex theories with some scholars with ulterior motives.

Only by making it understandable to ordinary people can there be a broad mass base.

Second, it must have strong constructiveness and a certain depth. It must put forward concepts that others have not put forward, so that everyone feels a sense of enlightenment.

Otherwise, someone will definitely say that this thesis is rehashing old ideas and copying the experiences of predecessors. More seriously, some people may directly accuse it of imitation and plagiarism.

Third, this thesis must also have a large amount of empirical evidence, using facts to shut the mouths of those who want to find fault.

Theories without empirical evidence are just castles in the air. Many liberal arts theories are such that what you say makes sense, and what I say makes sense, and no one can convince anyone else. Once you enter this situation, you will not gain any advantage.

But if one party has very successful examples to support their point of view, the situation will be completely different.

However, Yu Fei also knew that this requirement was too high and could not be achieved by an ordinary undergraduate.

The first two points are inherently contradictory. How can a thesis be both understandable to ordinary people and have constructiveness and depth? Achieving both elegance and popularity is not that easy.

The third point is even more difficult. Combining theoretical research with practical results means reaching the state of unifying knowledge and action.

For ordinary undergraduates, this is simply an impossible task! But if that person is President Pei, maybe there is really hope.

Yu Fei couldn't help but look forward to it even more, and immediately clicked on President Pei's thesis to view it.

The title of this article is "The Creation and Dissemination Theory of Popular Literary and Artistic Works in the Internet Age."

Seeing this title, Yu Fei couldn't help but gasp.

The topic is too big.

President Pei is indeed President Pei, commanding the heights. He wrote such a big title right from the start. A strong sense of confidence is simply overwhelming.

The structure of the article is very clear. Without too much preamble, it directly cuts to the topic after the abstract and keywords.

The first part of the article analyzes the difficulties currently faced by popular literary and artistic works in the Internet age.

There are three main difficulties: the separation of traditional literary and artistic works from the general public, the invasion of Western cultural works, and the impact of fast-food culture and placebo entertainment models.

The so-called popular literary and artistic works must face the general public. It must meet the demands of the general public, express the aspirations of the general public, and at least should be works that are loved by the general public and that convey simple and excellent values to the people at the bottom.

However, many authors of traditional literary and artistic works have been separated from social trends for a long time and find it difficult to understand the true cultural demands of ordinary people, especially young people. Their content is still stuck in the past, and to some extent, there is even a tendency to detach from the people.

Many intellectuals consider themselves superior and believe that ordinary people are ignorant and difficult to educate, and that art is elegant and high above.

As a result, these traditional works are increasingly separated from the demands of the general public.

At the same time, the invasion of Western cultural works has made ordinary people increasingly influenced by Western values, gradually deviating from traditional Chinese culture.

The Western world, with its strong cultural industry production capacity, has produced many works that appear to be very good. But are the values ​​contained in these excellent works necessarily correct? Are they necessarily perfect? Not necessarily.

In recent years, more and more people have realized that the values ​​contained in so-called Western blockbusters are becoming more and more distorted, more and more deviating from simple and true human emotions, especially incompatible with the traditional cultural heritage that has been passed down from generation to generation by Chinese people.

And the transmission of this kind of values ​​often has some ulterior motives.

In addition, the impact of fast-food culture and placebo entertainment models also poses a huge obstacle to the development and dissemination of popular literary and artistic works in the Internet age.

The so-called fast-food culture was originally a neutral word. People need to take in nutrition, but fast food can also provide people with convenience and cheap satisfaction. It is originally a very normal cultural phenomenon.

But when fast-food culture is overdeveloped, it becomes an unhealthy state.

Just like people get tired of home-cooked dishes and occasionally eat a fast food meal, it's harmless. But if it completely replaces daily food and every meal is fast food, then all kinds of diseases will come sooner or later.

The cultural industry is also like this. It is of course no problem to occasionally watch fast-food culture and get some simple pastime. But if a person's spiritual life only has fast-food culture without in-depth thinking, then his spiritual world must be barren, and over time his thinking will definitely have problems.

What's even more terrifying is that the continuous development of fast-food culture has become a placebo model!

These manufacturers and producers of placebo culture fill people's lives with products that provide entertainment and sensory stimulation, using direct, fast, and cheap entertainment models to divert their attention and dissatisfaction, allowing them to indulge in low-level happiness and be unable to extricate themselves, and gradually lose the ability to think about real-world problems, and even completely lose the ability to learn and plan for the long term!

And these three situations are obviously what must be avoided and resisted in the creation of popular literary and artistic works in the Internet age.

If this series of problems is not solved, then there will inevitably be an increasing separation in the cultural field.

Literary and artistic creators begin to detach themselves from the masses, and the content they create only plays a role in a small range of spiritual life, and cannot have a positive impact on the world and society.

With the continuous invasion of Western values, traditional values ​​are subverted, and people who defend traditional values ​​and people who accept Western values ​​begin to become increasingly incompatible.

Even in many fields, fierce friction will break out, and ideological conflicts will evolve into real-world conflicts.

And those low-level entertainment and placebo-model entertainment will gradually sweep the entire bottom-level cultural and entertainment market, causing the bottom-level people to lose the motivation to think and move upwards.

In this way, different groups of people will become increasingly separated due to factors such as class, environment, and values, becoming groups that cannot understand each other, thereby further strengthening the information cocoon effect.

This will obviously induce very serious and terrible consequences.

Therefore, based on this predicament, the paper then puts forward the necessary factors for the creation and dissemination of popular literary and artistic works in the Internet age.

The first is the connotation rooted in the foundation of traditional culture and the cultural demands of the general public.

In the Internet age, popular literary and artistic works cannot be completely separated from the foundation of traditional culture, nor can they deviate from the cultural demands of the people. It must always create from the perspective of the general public. It cannot fall into the predicament of being too highbrow and blindly self-indulgent, nor can it become an accomplice in the invasion of Western values ​​and the severing of the inheritance of traditional culture.

Only by meeting the requirements of the times and meeting the demands of the general public can we complete the mission given by the times.

Secondly, the work itself must have a certain degree of timeliness, trendiness, and even foresight.

It is not enough to simply reflect the times. Excellent literary and artistic works must also have a certain degree of trendiness and even foresight. They must foresee the problems that may occur in the future and give warnings.

This is not unfounded worry, but being prepared for a rainy day!

Finally, in terms of presentation, these works must be compact and eye-catching enough.

The reason why many literary and artistic works with profound connotations are difficult to have a widespread impact is because the expression of emotions is lengthy and obscure, making it difficult to arouse the reading interest of ordinary people, and it is even difficult to get attention.

If a work cannot attract the attention of as many people as possible, then how can its impact be improved?

For serious works, this is certainly not a problem. Because serious works are naturally highbrow and require a high level of literary accomplishment to understand.

But for popular literary and artistic works in the Internet age, if this cannot be achieved, then it cannot be called an excellent work.

Because the mission of popular literary and artistic works in the Internet age is to spread positive values ​​to ordinary people. If others block their ears and don't want to listen, how can you complete such a mission?