Introduction to "Climb, Dig, Build"
This is a modern fable full of symbolic meaning. It uses a "mountain" with three levels: bottom, middle and top as the core image to construct an absurd world where "climbing is the law of survival". The people at the bottom are driven away by the fear of "if you don't climb, you will be eaten." The people in the middle class are inflamed by the false stability of "settling down" and the anxiety of "falling down". The people at the top bite each other in the name of "limited position", exposing the bloody nature of "people superior to people".
The story unfolds in three acts: in "Climb", the protagonist climbs all the way from the bottom, but when he is near the top, he is pushed down by the top due to "insufficient position". Before his death, he is shocked to realize that he has always been the "eat"; in "Digging", the truth about "mountains eat people's social system" is revealed through the mouth of a crazy old man. The new generation of awakened people refuse to climb and choose to "dig." "Mountain" - resisting systemic oppression by destroying the old order; "Building" ** speculates on the meaning of "reconstruction" on the ruins after the mountain collapse, and puts forward the eternal proposition of "building while digging, digging while building": a truly fair world needs to continue to fight against "cannibalism" and approach the ideal in the cycle of destruction and construction.
The novel uses "crawl" as a metaphor for competition and alienation, "dig" as a symbol of awakening and resistance, and "build" as a question about the direction of civilization. It uses dense symbols and crazy monologues to tear apart the pretense of hierarchical society and point directly to the systematic absurdity of "eating people and being eaten". With the unique sharpness of a 16-year-old boy, he integrates individual destiny into a meta-reflection on human civilization. In the absurd texture of the fable, there is a tragic pursuit of a world that "does not crawl, does not eat, has light and is flat".
Purpose: Deconstruction and reconstruction of hierarchical society