The already long "notes" are a touch of excitement after seeing the movie, and the official review will be written after the second viewing tonight.
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Not long ago I I just had a discussion with my parents about human nature. I have a point of view: Thousands of years of Chinese history have proved that human nature cannot have any evolution over time like technology. The differences between the three of us at different levels gradually understood and converged during the three-hour discussion: human nature is self-interested, and the pursuit of maximizing individual interests is the basic driving force of all human behaviors, and it is also the source of all the ugliness and beauty of this group . I said that I didn’t believe that “human beings are inherently good at the beginning” from a very young age means that “people are born with kindness”. Compared with this hypocritical and Taoist explanation, I am more inclined to “people are born with relatively perfect characters”. Even just a child.
That's why Colonel Harrison Ford, the commander of the combat school, said to a counselor (Viola Davis): "I've been helping my father train ponies since he was five years old, and I can pick out the strong ones at a glance." Even just a horse can show its distinctive character at a young age, and was selected from the herd by Colonel Graff, who was already Seon at the age of five, then human beings who have evolved to the top of the primate , is there any reason not to have character traits that are not inferior to ponies at an early age? This level of "possession" is not a manifestation of "perfection".
Based on my insistence on the self-interested view of human nature, on the surface, I saw this film today, which seems to be helping me to argue that "the 'good' in 'human nature is inherently good' may be more biased. to be interpreted as 'perfect'", thus further denying "here 'good' can be interpreted as 'good'". But the truth is more like a critical joke: after the movie, standing in front of the seat of the movie theater, I thought: Since human beings are born with relatively perfect characters, "self-interest" is destined to be the driving force for all human behavior. The basic power, then what is the power that will make someone hesitate at certain moments of life, and will make someone deviate from the direction that the basic power is pointing, so that in a certain line with the "self-interest" Stay down on the angular position?
If Ender had known from the start that he was facing a real fight, would he have chosen the riskiest tactic? Will you choose to sacrifice your teammates? Will you choose to go straight to the enemy's nest? Will genocide opponents be chosen? Just watching the movie, I don't think the possibility is high, just like Ender, who had just destroyed the enemy nation and became a hero of the earth, said to Colonel Graff with tears: "The most important thing is not to win, but the way to win."
Why would a commander question the quickest and most self-serving method of "completely destroying the enemy" in the face of a glorious victory? What kind of force can check and balance with "self-interest", the basic driving force of human behavior? If one of the two forces that can counterbalance each other exists in human nature, is the other also in it?
If so, then what I have always believed in "people are born with a relatively perfect character" really covers, in addition to "self-interest", there is also "altruism".
Once I discussed history with Mr. Sun, I said that in my eyes, the history of human beings is like the DNA of human beings, and it continues to extend along the time axis: along the time axis, technology is developing, systems are innovating, life expectancy and GDP. They are constantly growing; but if viewed from the perspective of the cross-section of the time axis, history is as regular as a circle, the Qin Dynasty, the bright moon and the Han Dynasty, and what happened in the Tang Dynasty will definitely continue to be staged in the Celestial Dynasty. This metaphor used to make me feel smart and reinforces the idea once again that human nature cannot evolve. But tonight I suddenly realized: what history is, history is people, history is human nature, why is human DNA double-stranded, because human nature has two sides: self-interest and altruism, violence and compassion, confrontation and acceptance, occupation and integration, These seemingly relative terms belong to human nature—two forces that have different interpretations on different occasions together drive human behavior, and together achieve all the ugliness and beauty that can be seen in the human community. The reason why humans have been able to evolve to the top of primates is because of having such a human nature: it does not need to evolve at all, it is perfect enough, even in the "beginning of man".
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