Inspur Film Criticism: On the Trend of the Times and Brainwashing

Amelie 2021-12-16 08:01:05

The world is only five days away from dictatorship. Let's go back to the experiment at Kerberley High School in April 1967.
----------------Xiong Peiyun is

a group of college students with fashionable clothes and modern thinking. The teacher asked them: Do you think that dictatorship cannot be repeated in Germany, right?
The student said with certainty: absolutely impossible, lack of popular foundation.
Regarding the issue of dictatorship, every young man, like us, has a boring, indifferent, and contemptuous look. Yes, we have learned so much, how can we get into this historical trap.
The teacher smiled: Let's experience a week of dictatorship.
A week later, these students who had studied independence, democracy and self-improvement were brainwashed.

This process is even transparent, and it is useless even if Amway Dafa is good.

At the beginning, we just unified the clothes, and then we need a sign, then we have to abide by the same principle-advance and retreat together, and then we exclude all individuals outside the collective, and finally collectivism is overwhelming-at any cost to punish All opponents.

The collective will finally surpassed the common sense of society and trampled on the moral bottom line.
What's more frightening is that this is not a fabricated story, it is based on social events.
It only takes five days to brainwash a group of college students who have received higher education and advocate equality and freedom into fascist fanatics.

This is reminiscent of 10 years of retrogression in Chinese culture.
In fact, most young people cannot understand the mistakes of the times. People of that era were not actually more stupid than us. The ethos of the times is not immune to everyone. We are just a wave in the torrent. How many people can resist all difficulties and make a retrograde attitude in the face of the tide of the times?

We live in the advanced 21st century, thinking that we have sufficient judgment, but we still cannot avoid being brainwashed. We always feel that we are smart enough and experienced enough. However, when tyranny and coercion changed a coat, most people would not recognize it.
Under the guidance of the deep-rooted idea that collectivism is more than everything and that the minority obey the majority. We will often give up being ourselves, be a silent majority against our intentions, or be part of a powerful collective with high interest.
Because our understanding of errors has never been deep enough, history always repeats itself.

Is freedom valuable?
Those young people who supported Hitler said: "Thank you for freedom from freedom."
Freedom comes at a price, and some people will feel at ease by giving their brains to the collective.

Is freedom valuable?
When our self-esteem and self-confidence fall to the bottom, when a certain part of our heart collapses, when we lose a sense of security, we cannot feel the value of our existence. What's the use of this freedom like a bereaved dog?

Is freedom valuable?
But I want to be great. We must pursue the most correct and ambitious values. The "big" of collectivism forcibly crushes the "small" of an independent individual.

When we pursue too much of a certain kind of social identity, we will easily give up freedom and discard our dignity as an individual, we will make absurd decisions, and we will do our best for the collective benefit. Even if this group can give us, except for the sense of security and identity that we desperately need, everything else is shit.

Inspur is a collective brainwashing. A class collectively compares the concept of the whole society, it is still an island. If we are drifting in the sea of ​​information in the age, it may be even more difficult to identify which is right and wrong.

The network makes the transmission of information rapid and singular. We read the same news, saw the same opinions, and finally made the same remarks. In the end, everyone is chasing an ultimate unity, replacing individual thinking with group thinking, replacing individual courage with group will, and replacing individual principles with group ideas. In the Internet age, we are not alone at all. Knock on the keyboard, you can make a wave of justice. There was Zhang San who waved the flag in front, and Li Si Wang, Wu Zhaoliu who succeeded in the back. Maybe one day, when we meet together, it will become the wave that devours humanity.




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We must treat ourselves and everything we have superstitions in a critical manner. Oh, this is not the emancipation of the mind and seeking truth from facts.



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Read about Mizuki Teacher Ding's interpretation of the tide, her article focuses on the deep despair of young people. They submit to Nazism in order to be free from freedom. People who have nothing think of nothing, those who have some want to have more. So they found a strong sense of belonging in this group. The despair after sinking into the quagmire will be attracted by all the bright exits, even if this is a huge trap. I don't know what I want, and I can't have what I want. This kind of powerless freedom is not what young people want. Young people need real hope.

Teacher Wu Zhihong's interpretation of Inspur, his focus is on communication, as well as the role of the bond of emotional relationships, and venting. The true selfishness in the depths of human nature makes it difficult for people to speak out in intimate relationships. But with the collective will, everything that is not great becomes great, and everything that is not noble becomes noble. Our accusations against each other can be grafted onto the collective will to reasonably attack each other. Our ambiguous emotions can be grafted onto the collective will to find an outlet. We deny the truth and believe in the sublime. However, even if it is to achieve great goals, as long as we treat others as tools and objects for achieving our goals, then danger has already arisen, no matter how beautiful the goal looks.

So I sum up the meaning of the wave is to tell us: We need to face ourselves, even if we are ugly ourselves, and we cannot give up our true hope. Give truth, give hope. Add to my male god: give wisdom.

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