If people live in a kind of pain that they can't change, they will turn to love this pain and regard it as a kind of happiness in order to make themselves feel better.

This reminds me of the "Ah Q spirit". This famous spirit advocates happiness, and it is better to live simply. Life is inherently painful, and it is better to find ways to make yourself happy. However, the pursuit of "happiness" is actually not facing the reality, not respecting the reality, and finally leading a "muddled life". This is the same as the sentence quoted in the reversal of human nature. "Poverty is a way of life."

Coconut Tree and Equality

The author talks about equality by unofficial history's story about why there are no coconut trees in Yunnan, and mentions that the way of equality is to give a blow to the smart people and make them stupid, and so on. The author uses the technique of black humor to give readers deep thinking.