Hypatia was one of many scientists killed in the process, as progress in the natural sciences was accompanied by enlightenment and transformation in theology and philosophy. Not only do we need to know why the world is the way it is, but we also want to know why we live so badly. The former is easy to solve, the latter we never attribute to ourselves, so we cleverly invented religion.
When there are people outside people and there are no people outside people, there must be gods. Your god is only good to you, so I will also create my god. My god is responsible for punishing all the wrongs you have done to me, so we wisely deified class struggle. Our ancestors created religion according to the needs of the society at that time, and they were very clever to let everyone forget about it in a short time. So God appeared. Hypatia is just an intellectual at that time, but the supremacy of science cannot be higher than human nature. Why are you a female scientist and I a male slave; if I believe in Christianity, I can be a city governor; if I can't be a military leader, I must be a religious leader. . . The ugliness of human nature lies not in the manifestation of naked evil, but in our ability to rationalize our own evil, put on the golden coat of morality, and imply to ourselves: I am doing the right thing.
Watching this film reminded me of Huang Renyu's view of history. There have been so many similar events in the development of human history, what does it mean? The development of science and technology is always placed second, and we think the most important thing is the struggle between people. If Hypatia hadn't died, we would have discovered elliptical orbits 1200 years earlier, which means that we are now transporting an electronic chip back to before the Industrial Revolution through time and space. According to the butterfly effect, we are now living in the era of star trek, right? And it turns out that, subject to our own control, human beings are not worthy of such advanced development, but the speed of self-destruction is getting faster and faster.
At a time when Hypatia’s story is being made into a movie, we are still waging war for religion, distorting facts to exclude others, destroying the environment for profit, and sacrificing others for our own sake. . .
After doing all this, we wash off the smell of blood, neatly record our great achievements, and call it religious thought, waiting for future generations to worship.
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