War, fanatical nationalism, let young people carry glorious dreams, and succeed in succession. The film discusses the meaning and awakening of war, especially the First World War, the shameless struggle between nation-states, killing each other in the name of honor and lofty, but the outbreak of the First World War is almost a hundred years old, populism, nationalism, this fanaticism has not disappeared.
The growth of mankind is inseparable from collectives and unions, from tribes to tribal alliances to city-states, and then to a unified feudal empire. However, when people’s organizational forms reach the stage of nation-states, we find that this close and powerful organization is destructive. The power of sex. It can defeat all reason and sobriety, and swallow up all intelligent opposition voices; it may enable a nation to complete its independence and form a nation-state, or it may plunge two nations into an endless battle.
Every nation, whether weak or strong, when they have disputes with other nations, any compromise becomes retreat, radical forces rise, and the unanimous external slogans shook the sky, and there is no horizontal order that can be arbitrated, only violence , So the soldiers met on the battlefield, winning and losing is the iron rule, "The German sword must fight for the German plow!"-Said the iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck.
Going back to our example in China, when we mentioned that a certain country was our territory before, but now it is not and resentful, have you ever wondered how that nation views this issue? Nation-states do not exist by nature. The power of the state propaganda machine gives you a sense of honor and belonging, so you wield a butcher knife and smash into the enemy's line...
As for the two countries to cause diplomatic disputes and even small-scale armed conflicts for a small place, It is even more numerous. In addition to greedy humans, what other creature arrogantly claims to be the owner of a certain piece of land? That piece of land has never belonged to anyone, any immigrants are invaders, don’t make excuses, let’s see, what have you done in the name of God!
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