Reading the Dante Code story the day before yesterday reminded me of the ultra-patriotic Guy Blosser in Operation Swordfish. The so-called extreme is reflected in putting "love" above the individual, which is also said in "The Dante Code": "The most brutal killings of human beings are carried out in the name of 'love'."
The extremist Zobrist in this film is not patriotic, but humanistic. What he brought up was a population crisis. It took thousands of years for the Earth's population to reach 1 billion, a figure that was until the 19th century. In just one hundred years, the population reached 2 billion in the 20th century, and it took another 50 years to reach 4 billion in the 1920s. As you can imagine, we can break through 8 billion. The current rate of population growth is 250,000 people per day, which is equivalent to the population of one Germany every year.
His purpose is clear, that is, to reduce the population. The support of the theory comes from two aspects. One is the crisis of human living space that will be brought about by the explosive growth just mentioned. Second, he mentioned the "positive effects" that the Black Death brought to Europe. This is what caught my interest. In the past, I only knew about the great harm to human beings from the Black Death, but I never thought of anything else. On the one hand, it took some time to search for relevant information and get some interesting perspectives.
The Black Death appeared in 1340 and took between 75 and 200 million lives. Nearly 25 million people in Europe were persecuted, nearly 1/3 of the European population. It occurred at the end of the Middle Ages and was also an important period in the history of European civilization - the Renaissance. The emergence of the Black Death can be said to be the propeller of the Renaissance, which accelerated the transformation of the entire social structure; more straightforwardly, if there was no Black Death Sick, I really don’t know how long it will take for the Renaissance to complete, and maybe even our current life is still in the feudal period.
The Middle Ages was a period when religion was king, and its caste was divided into three tiers: priests who prayed, jazz and warriors who fought, and coolies who were oppressed. During the Black Death, a large number of farmers died and the crops failed. Farmers take advantage of the scarcity of labor resources to demand high wages in exchange for fair treatment of labor control.
From birth to death, Christian beliefs ruled all aspects of people in the Middle Ages. The Black Death broke the constraints of thinking, people began to question religion, and began to think for themselves, and their thoughts were enlightened.
Petrarch took this opportunity to announce a new anthropology that saw humans as rational beings, inherently good and capable of thinking. For the role of human beings in the universe, it is no longer ascetic practice but recovery of lost spirit and wisdom, rational logic is more important than belief. These new generations began to look back on ancient Greek and Roman ways of thinking and working, and an interest in literature and antiquities followed.
The prelude to the Renaissance was unveiled.
In addition to this, there are some additional benefits:
Hospital in English is Hospital, and Hospitality in English is the same root. In fact, I have always questioned this. It turned out that the hospital in the Middle Ages was a place to entertain people. In the Middle Ages before the Black Death, the hospital was a place full of religious atmosphere. At that time, people believed that disease was the punishment of sin, and the common scene in the hospital was to go to the high for the sick, or to mass for the dead. This is exactly where Hospital came from.
A large number of people died also promoted the development of medicine and science, because more people were separated from the religious beliefs, and a large number of failed traditional formulas were analyzed and discussed, and new ideas were proposed. Drugs are no longer theoretically bound texts, but more substantial and practical, with anatomy and surgery known as part of the university medical profession.
The Black Death improved the overall hygiene habits in Europe. Before that, the streets of Paris, Rome, and Florence were full of sewage and garbage. People did not bathe all year round. To cover up body odor, the French also invented perfume. After the emergence of the Black Death, European countries actively strengthened the construction of basic sanitation facilities, including changing the pattern of houses from gregarious to divided. There is also the excavation of wide sewers, and a renewed emphasis on waste disposal, enhanced general pest control and disinfection. Therefore, the prevention of the Black Death is called "the first health revolution" internationally.
Summarize:
As such, Zobrist's analogy is inadequate. Without the emergence of the Black Death, the way of human intelligence would not have moved towards philosophical thinking, and the population growth rate would not have been the current state. Exactly the opposite of his theory.
The original name of "Dante Code" was inferno (purgatory), which may have been changed to let the audience who originally liked "The Da Vinci Code" know that this is a sequel. The name is really rough.
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