"God or Horse" is a humorous philosophical group chat set in the workplace.
The story begins in a late-night group chat - someone throws out an ancient philosophical proposition: "What is the difference between a divine horse and an ox horse?" It was originally just an Internet slang and a self-deprecating joke among migrant workers, but under the layers of deduction of the group friends, it evolved into an absurd debate about existence, alienation and self-identity.
When the "horses" (ideals, illusions, existences in the clouds) encountered the "horses" (reality, labor, and daily life on the millstone), a group of ordinary workers were surprised to find that the gorgeous "empowerment closed loop" mentioned by the boss was just gospel for the horses and cows; those inspiring "declarations of strivers" were just rhetoric to make grinding decent. They tried to find a third way between the "God Horse" and the "Ox Horse" - the "Tianma", a compromise posture that can both grind and look at the sky.
However, this philosophical carnival was interrupted by a cruel fact: the boss has been lurking in the group.
From "Magic Horse or Cow Horse" to "Struggler Alliance", from "Heaven Horse Unconstrained" to "Centaur", the name of the group has changed several times, and the fate of the group members has also fluctuated. Some people resigned and became "wild horses", some stayed behind and became "Pegasus", some realized the "totem philosophy" from the green plants, and some completed the transformation from watering staff to philosophers in three months. And when workplace philosophers from around the world gathered for an online summit, a green plant called "Lao Wang" became the most silent and profound witness to this absurd epic.
The story uses humor to deconstruct the language bubbles and identity anxiety in the contemporary workplace, asking an ancient yet fresh proposition: Who are we in our alienated daily life? And when a green plant starts to think about whether it is being watered or loved, it is no longer a green plant - so, what about us?
This is a philosophical fairy tale about workers.
Use the most absurd group chat to talk about the most real daily life.
Dedicated to all the centaurs who occasionally look up at the sky on the millstone.
Intention: cow and horse