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[Culture] Text is sediment, video is merely entertainment.Author: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU Time: 2025-7-19 Saturday, 9:58 AM ········································ [Culture] Text is sediment, video is merely entertainment. One day, I was practicing by the sea, and the cold wind hit my face. I was only wearing summer clothes, yet my whole body felt warm. This was not a special ability, but rather a testament to the smooth flow of energy in my body. At that moment, I suddenly realized something: among the traces I have left over the past few decades, what can truly transcend time, be retrieved by the future, and be understood structurally, are not those fleeting and shocking videos, but those quietly existing words, each backed by evidence. I have made videos before. Over the past two years, I have uploaded more than five hundred original works on my video account, documenting Tai Chi, Xing Yi Quan, standing meditation, Qigong practices, the growth process of my black hair, late-night writing states, morning exercise sessions, photography records, as well as fingerstyle pieces I played, original songs, and thousands of photos. All of these are incredibly real, but I never expect the videos to become records of future civilization. They are like waves, crashing and dispersing upon the shore; whereas every article I write is like rock layers, gradually accumulating to form a structure. The video can present phenomena, but it cannot explain structure. You can see me standing on one leg in the cold wind, but you cannot deduce my energy flow route, structural force logic, or levels of intention from the image. The core of video is "seeing," while the core of text is "understanding." Any cognitive logic that can be reproduced must be clearly expressed through language in order to leap from individual experience to systematic pathways. Moreover, the most ironic fact in today's era is that I am the one who has made over 500 videos, yet I stand here to tell you: my videos are merely ripples, while articles are the bedrock. This is not "opposition," but "awareness." Just like the McDonald's owner admitting that hamburgers are junk food, or the Tesla founder questioning the environmental friendliness of electric vehicles—only those who delve into the structure have the right to analyze the underlying logic of the system. The more critical point is: all the systems in this world that truly possess the power of construction—operating systems, legal texts, software protocols, artificial intelligence language models, database structures, academic papers, scientific formulas—are all written in text, not in video. Even if you capture images with a camera, AI must first "textualize" them in order to understand and then train. Video is the shell; text is the source code of civilization. Many people have yet to realize: today's artificial intelligence is not trained by watching "The Avengers," but rather by reading "The Analects," "Code Standards," "Wikipedia," and "Court Cases" step by step. Autonomous driving will not learn traffic regulations by scrolling through short videos, but relies on countless written logical rules behind it. The entire training capability of AI depends on "linguistic hegemony." I can even say directly: short videos are electronic anesthetics. They excite you but drain structure; they create attention but devour thinking ability; they immerse people but fail to leave a "memorable" work. The essence of short videos is that they are slaves to electric civilization—without electricity, devices, or platforms, they immediately crash. In contrast, the barbaric survival power of text is beyond ordinary imagination: carved in stone, written on bamboo slips, printed on paper, stored in databases— as long as humanity has eyes, text can survive. Today, we can still read Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" in its entirety, and we can decipher the records of the Shang kings from oracle bone inscriptions, but can you still open RMVB format videos from ten years ago? Can you find the original video of a TikTok influencer from three years ago? You will find that: traffic is fleeting, while text is enduring; likes are forgettable, but structure is what gets passed down. So I insist on writing, not for nostalgia, nor to criticize technological progress, but because I am very clear: if the future is to preserve anyone's way of thinking, it must be those that are "written" down. Writing is a civilized act, an active inheritance, rather than a passive scrolling. Every word you write is a "seed of civilization" cast into the future. Today, the world is obsessed with the torrent of short videos—15 seconds of climax, endless scrolling, and infinite visual stimulation have caused most people to lose the ability for systematic thinking and deep understanding. But the question is, what do you really want to be remembered for? • Do you want to be cited by future civilizations in archaeology, or do you want to be pushed to the front page by current algorithms? • Do you want to keep the structure or keep the flow? • Do you want to be remembered by the future, or liked by the present? • This is a simple question, but it is enough to silence the entire short video era for three minutes. I write this article solely to clarify the essential power of a sentence: words are sediment, while videos are merely entertainment. Because from the earliest human oracle bone inscriptions, carvings, bamboo slips, and paper and ink, to today's operating systems, legal texts, and artificial intelligence commands—every civilization with true systematic construction power is built upon the structure of written language. And regardless of time and place, even as technology advances rapidly, we must acknowledge an undeniable fact: Recording history must be in writing! Source: http://www.australianwinner.com/AuWinner/viewtopic.php?t=696950 |
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