helpless helplessness

Weston 2022-04-20 09:01:45

"We once wanted to change the world, but later, we realized that it was impossible"

Watching the protagonist get lost in the never-ending redemption, I can't help but feel the same way. I once wanted to be a teacher, but I watched the students humiliate their youth in ignorance and confusion, and watched them go into the abyss with great pain. , but helpless, so sad. I used to be full of longing and naive to think that I could change the world, only to find out that the world is much more complicated than we thought. So I felt like a martyr in the Middle Ages, and the pain in my heart probably surpassed the pain in my body as I watched the person whom I had so hard to save crucify me with their own hands. However, we are not martyrs after all, and my name will not be passed down to future generations. Suddenly, I felt that with the size of the world, there was nothing to block this biting cold wind. As a result, our hearts are very heavy and detached. After all, we cannot escape, we cannot save the others we want to save, and we cannot even save ourselves.

So I gave up the dream of being a teacher, just because I didn't want to see my powerlessness, I didn't want to see the children slip into hell in my own hands, and I was afraid that I would be left alone like the protagonist. Unsalvageable sin goes beyond even leading a person astray.

I once wanted to pull you out of the quagmire of pain, but now I find that I can't even reach out my hand.

So be it.

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Detachment quotes

  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?