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Talking about the disadvantages of chicken soup for the soul

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By DerasomPublished 2 years ago 11 min read
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1 Introduction

With the development of the Internet, the circle of friends is more and more popular among people. According to psychology, most people are more willing to show a better self in the circle of friends, and reprinting some good articles has become a good tool to improve their taste. Because chicken soup for the soul is short and fast-food, in addition, chicken soup for the soul is usually accompanied by exquisite pictures and moving music, which is very ornamental. A few short sentences directly hit the heart and appear very connotative, so it is easy to become a The first choice for everyone to reproduce. However, chicken soup for the soul does have many disadvantages that are not easy to find, and we need to pay attention.

2 Classification of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Chicken soup for the soul can be roughly divided into two categories according to different ideas:

(1) Philosophical chicken soup for the soul: This kind of chicken soup for the soul is mainly to share the necessary qualities leading to success, such as courage, ambition, diligence, etc.; or different definitions of success, such as success, family happiness, marriage happiness, etc.

(2) Chicken soup for the soul: This kind of chicken soup for the soul mainly shares the emotions between people or between people and things, such as family affection, friendship, love, nostalgia, etc.

3 Disadvantages of Chicken Soup for the Soul

3.1 Logic loopholes

This shortcoming generally exists in the philosophical chicken soup for the soul, because this type of chicken soup for the soul generally justifies you through some events, and the chicken soup for the soul is compiled by many different editors, and there is no common success system. There is no communication between them, so there are often conflicts between philosophies.

For example, the following chicken soup for the soul:

Chicken Soup 1: The tortoise and the hare race, illustrating the importance of hard work.

Chicken Soup 2: Frogs can never learn to fly, which shows the importance of talent, and people should do what is suitable for them.

Chicken Soup 3: Boil the frog in warm water to show rejection of temptation (it has been proven wrong, the frog will jump out).

Chicken Soup 4: The contrast between more money and busyness and less money and leisure, shows that different people have different success standards.

Let's set a scenario where the child's poor test scores are criticized by the mother, so the above chicken soup for the soul can be used as an argument for the child and the mother to convince each other. First of all, the mother can use Chicken Soup 1 to reprimand the child for not being diligent enough, and the child can use Chicken Soup 2 to fight back to show that he is not suitable for study, and then the mother can use Chicken Soup 3 to reprimand the child for only playing games and having poor self-restraint ability, which will lead to poor learning. If you can't become a master in the future, then the child can use chicken soup 4 to show that different people have different success standards, and they can succeed by playing games. In fact, eSports has become a recognized sport, which means that there is no difference between the champions of computer games and the Golden State Warriors.

3.2 Misquote

Misquote is also a drawback of philosophical chicken soup for the soul. It often causes readers to have a relatively wrong understanding by incompletely telling an event or quoting a famous quote.

For example, Edison said: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. So many of us regard it as a diligent and wise saying, but Edison's sentence is complete: Genius is one-half inspiration and ninety-nine-half sweat, but inspiration is more important than sweat. However, the latter half of the sentence was castrated by the editors of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

In addition, such as the theory of the uselessness of reading, this is a very popular view, but most of the people who support this view are people who can't read well. Those who support this point of view most often use the example of Bill Gates, who said that Bill Gates did not go to college, and later founded Microsoft and became the richest man in the world. However, in fact, Bill Gates did not go to university, but he took half of the university study, but his grades in the university were among the best. According to the GPA, he could basically be recommended for Oxford. Therefore, the theory that reading is useless does not emphasize whether or not to read, but whether to have the ability to read and learn. To put it loosely, Gates succeeded because of his strong learning ability, not directly to start a business without going to university. Of course, he also caught Live opportunities, etc., which is more important will not be discussed here. Speaking of a radical point of view, some people say that if the college entrance examination takes the League of Legends test, the top students in the college entrance examination will not be able to get into college. The learning ability is not as good as those of the top students. It doesn't matter what they study. Isn't the excellent team of college students in e-sports still in Harvard and Stanford University, and they play games in their spare time after studying. They are better than us. In addition, I really want to prove the issue of earning money for people with higher education but not lower education in the previous talk, because the bases of the two are different, so I won't talk about it any more.

3.3 Subjective Orientation

This is generally more common in the emotional chicken soup for the soul. It looks at the problem from the perspective of one character, from a completely subjective perspective. Sometimes it sometimes strengthens the suffering of such characters, and adds some difficult words to increase the appeal of the article. It resonates powerfully with this group of people. The audience for this kind of chicken soup is often a specific group of people, so it will be strongly advocated by such groups. Due to the strong subjective orientation, this kind of chicken soup for the soul will create a sense of self-superiority, misery or nostalgia for the audience. For example, some chicken soup for the soul widely rumored on the Internet: the difficulty of marrying a wife; the difficulty of a woman's light, etc.

Here is a detailed analysis of a chicken soup for the soul that is not easy for women:

The sentence of the article is very simple and contagious. It writes about several difficulties in a woman's life. It is divided into short paragraphs. Each paragraph is very poetic, with accompanying pictures and beautiful music. The whole is refreshing, but objective. There is a strong subjective orientation.

First, it is said that every girl is born with a pot of rare and famous flowers, and her parents take good care of them, but when they are raised, they are directly taken away by a guy named son-in-law. There are two neglects in this paragraph. First of all, it ignores the price that the so-called guy pays in order to take away the flowers, mainly in money. I always feel that getting married is similar to doing business. A son-in-law must have enough money, ability and social status. Only then can I decide whether I can move the flowers home, but there are profits and losses in the business, and the process of this transaction ignored by the chicken soup, the default is that the son-in-law moved the flowers in vain at no cost, so it caused the girls a sense of misery. In fact, there is indeed a situation in which flowers are moved away in vain. That one is called a marriage, but that one did not move the flowers, but went to the flower house to grow flowers. In addition, this ignores the difference with the facts. In the example, marriage is only described as a gift, but in fact it is not a simple gift, but a way to connect people more closely, because This is not just involving two people, it is very likely that two families are involved.

Second, talk about the pain of a woman in childbirth. First of all, this is a necessary process for the reproduction of mammals, it is inevitable, but as a human being, I have to admit that from this point of view, women are really great, and they have paid too much for the next generation, but not because of this. It is not easy to over-exaggerate women. In the final analysis, this is just a difference in biological division of labor. Are seahorses or males pregnant, do we all say that male seahorses are not easy to have children?

Third, it is said that women have to take care of children, do housework and work, and live a busy life. I don’t think I can generalize personally. After all, there is still the main man in the family, and life after marriage is very complicated. How can there be such absoluteness? What about the children’s mother-in-law who often travels with the couple, and the left-behind children? I don't even look at the face of such a good girl, I just went after her.

In short, although the picture is beautiful and the language is moving, this article is full of a lot of generalizations and false comparisons in logic. It is completely from the perspective of women, and it is indeed full of many loopholes.

I guess I should be scolded if I don’t say anything. I really don’t mean to disrespect women. I’m just talking about the characteristics of this chicken soup. I just happened to read such an article recently and did some analysis. There is disrespect here. Sincere apologies.

3.4 Short duration

This is a common feature of all chicken soups. The perception of a chicken soup will not last for too long. Many people resonate when they watch it and forget it after reading it. The main reason is that the chicken soup for the soul is not very organized. It is just a list of philosophies or events, without reasoning from the shallower to the deeper, it just illustrates the importance of a certain factor or expresses a certain emotion that resonates with the reader, and the reader's perception is not easy to sustain in the reader's heart.

3.5 Too shallow, not deep enough

A common shortcoming of Chicken Soup for the Soul is that the things revealed are too superficial, which may be due to the author's level. Based on various citation errors and logical loopholes, it cannot reveal a certain philosophy profoundly, but can only say that a certain factor is very important. , As for how to do it, there is absolutely no ability to explain. For example, it is necessary to combine work and rest without playing with things. As for the boundaries between the two, there is no clear statement, but two extreme situations are used to illustrate the difference between the two.

4 The dangers of chicken soup for the soul

After all, Chicken Soup for the Soul is a kind of simple reading. I think it can only be read as an entertainment reading, without thinking that it can absorb too much nutrients. First of all, logical loopholes will make readers lack the comprehensiveness of thinking, and will also reduce the readers' reasoning ability. Misquotes will make readers draw conclusions that are not consistent with the facts. I think chicken soup for the soul is just a kind of popcorn movie, like eating a big bag of potato chips, it tastes good when you eat it, but there is no nutrition after eating it.

5 Conclusion

Because I reject chicken soup for the soul, I feel that chicken soup for the soul can't explain anything at all, I never read the philosophical chicken soup for the soul, and uphold the view that success cannot be replicated. Personally, I don’t like it very much. Some people turn a chicken soup for the soul to brainwash at every turn. Regarding the remarks against this chicken soup, the people who turn the chicken soup tend to make nonsense. Therefore, there are often novel scenes of reposting the chicken soup for brainwashing above and cursing people in the comment area below.

This article only treats Chicken Soup for the Soul in isolation and analyzes its several drawbacks. I really don’t have the ability to analyze the impact of Chicken Soup for the Soul on the crowd after its dissemination. Those who are interested can look at Le Pen’s rabble for further analysis. I believe that is more exciting. In addition, due to different majors, I only expressed some extremely subjective opinions, only some superficial opinions, and everyone is welcome to comment.

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