“躺平”语系让一部当代社会心态史和青年文化发展史映射出复杂多变的意义，表达出另类的抵御姿势。“躺平”是加速社会和时间体制不断驱赶个体、削弱生命自主性，造成生命与世界断裂从而深度自我异化的结果。“躺平”作为文化症候，具体表现为社会加速带来源源不断的焦虑、恐惧、抑郁、自我怀疑等诸多现代疾病；时间体制被设计进社会发展的各个环节，新兴科技公司为利益驱动利用技术与人性弱点，将生命数据化，使人异化为机器；人的消费欲望被无限制地激发，但真正的消费快乐被购物所营造的虚假快乐替代，人与物的异化加速；社会很多方面不再同步，“躺平”族在认知和事实上产生强烈的被剥夺感。“躺平”即减速，“躺平”的不同姿势展现出不同群体应对加速的差异化策略。

“Lying flat”is a result of accelerating society and time system to constantly drive out individuals, also it has woken life experience and autonomy, and led to the rupture between life and the world, which causing deep self-alienation. As a symptom of culture,“lying flat”manifests itself in the modern diseases such as anxiety, fear, depression, and self-doubt that brought by the acceleration of society. The time system is designed into every link of social development. The emerging technology companies make use of technology and human weakness for profit, who digitize life and alienate people into machines. Meanwhile, though human’s consumption desire is being stimulated unlimitedly, the real happiness of consumption is being replaced by the false happiness that created by shopping, thus accelerating the alienation between people and things. Moreover, this acceleration puts many aspects of society out of sync, and couch potatoes experience a strong sense of deprivation in cognition and truth.“Lying flat”means deceleration of society, and the different postures of“lying flat”show differentiated strategies of diverse groups to deal with acceleration of society.