Have we really entered the "low desire" stage? Buddhism advocates having no desires and no pursuits. Nowadays, we often hear the words " inwardly " and "lying flat".
Various symptoms are: not getting married and having children, not buying a house or a car, just making enough money to eat and drink, not caring about the outside world and just wanting to die alone.
Is this really a minimalist life of "low desire"?
This statement comes from "Low Desire Society: The Economic Crisis of an Aging Population and How to Solve it" by the famous Japanese scholar Kenichi Ohmae. There is a premise that cannot be ignored. The Japanese economy has continued to be sluggish in the past 25 years.
On the other hand, my country has gone through a period of excessive consumption of and in the past few years, coupled with the impact of the epidemic. Young consumers have accumulated layers of anxiety and panic. A group of consumerist retrogrades who advocate "minimalist living" and "low consumption" stand out from the crowd and organize their lives through "cutting off".
Therefore, we cannot just look at individual phenomena. A poem can be used to describe that negative emotions will be abandoned by the times, while positive emotions will emerge in endlessly. "Thousands of sails pass by the side of the sunken boat, and thousands of trees spring in front of the diseased trees."
