Be wary of a world where everything is uniform and there is no heterogeneity

Enola 2022-04-23 07:01:39

Captain Fantastic

Not only is the physical wildness and the feeling of returning to nature, but also the spiritual knowledge of various philosophies and politics at your fingertips. Undoubtedly, this kind of education achieves extraordinary physical and mental strength, which is amazing, but I always seem a little strange.

Where is the strangeness?

First, why should we abandon the material achievements of human beings in modern civilization and impose a Platonic ideal state? Why not combine the two? Extremes turn into opposites. The disrespect, disdain or lack of understanding of the opposite in the film are all mutual. Why should you stand on the side of the protagonist?

Second, educating 6 children of different ages by oneself, it is hard to believe that everything is so smooth, and there will be no children who are rebellious and disobedient? Is there no child who is dumber than other children, or has some conflicts? Only one of the children had doubts once, but only for the death of their mother, and then forgot about it. 100% support, all together, and there is no so-called "heterogeneous" between them, which looks terrible. Isn't that the same with religious or brainwashed agreement? For people in society they are independent minds because they are different from most people, but what about among them? Everyone seems to be carved out of a mold, right? Just another control.

Suddenly I became very interested in Taoist thought and wanted to study it.

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Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Ben: It's a beautiful mistake. But a mistake.

  • [first lines]

    Ben: [family gathers around the slain deer] Today, the boy is dead. And in his place... is a man.

    Bo: [rips off a bloody bite of the offered morsel]