watched the German movie "The Wave" yesterday and told a story related to the above thoughts. An experiment by a disgruntled political science teacher turned children who didn't believe the Nazis would resurface into "neo-Nazis" in about five days -- and the film recreated it in a stunningly realistic way The causes, manifestations and consequences of dictatorships.
How did dictatorship come about? The answer of Yang Weili's father in "Yin Ying" is: "Because the people prefer leisure and dislike labor", what he means is that it is difficult for the public to truly achieve the so-called "self-determination" and "self-realization" of Habermas, and more often they are happy to Expressive, but afraid to take responsibility...so once the rash choices of expressionism have come to fruition, they prefer a fatherly figure to pick up the slack. The answer given by The Tide seems to be more complicated: society lacks a sense of purpose and mission, people are corrupted by consumerism and small wealth, spiritual emptiness, economic downturn, high unemployment, isolation and loneliness caused by individualism... But no matter what, dictatorship will not simply come from external imposition, but more from one's own choice.
What is the manifestation of dictatorship? Yes, we look at the German Third Reich, and we know the "grand scene" of dictatorship from the time of Stalin, but the real manifestation of dictatorship lies in its pervasive penetration of daily life, uniform dress, uniform pace, phalanx. , listening to lectures with their hands behind their backs, the micro-power behind symbols, the division between enemy and self, absolutist either-or, refusal to discuss... These subtle elements have shaped the terrible authoritarian character, and this is the soil on which dictatorship lives.
The consequences of a dictatorship are dire, even if the process is beautiful and exciting. Because no matter how beautiful a lie is, it is a lie after all. "The Tide" believes that dictatorship itself is a kind of mental control, but who controls who? This is a puzzling question, Mr Menger started the "wave", but the "wave" broke out of his control and in turn controlled Mr Menger - the dictator himself is also controlled by the dictatorship ! Is the "invisible hand" running the dictatorship?
What is the weakness of a dictatorship? At the end of the film, a classmate was dragged to the podium as a "traitor", and the moment Mr. Menger suggested to kill him, everyone showed hesitation; when a classmate was shot and killed, everyone suddenly woke up ……why is that? Because no big lie should come at the cost of life. Life itself constitutes the ultimate bottom line of all moral rhetoric and political preaching: don't kill! Life itself is the reason, and life itself has intrinsic value. From life comes self-determination and self-realization, and from life comes mutual recognition! And isn't the so-called democracy, freedom and human rights the recognition and respect of life-every life?
Dictatorships often claim to be the coming of a great era, and the hypocritical promises of the great era inspire a sense of excellence, participation, and integration among the "little people", so the "little people" can tolerate deprivation, deception, and sin. But isn't there a great deceit hidden in the great era at the same time?
Even the tide has its turbidity.
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