The arrogance of order

Leopold 2022-09-15 19:49:39

"Deep Mystery" doesn't really have much depth, except when you sink yourself into that deep cover. Humanity has always tried to create an order in the world. We have laws, institutions, charters, and rules, and we occasionally complement them with dignified acts of moral kindness, in order to resist the arrogance and arrogance that is deeply feared in our nature. Any number can find a sequence in which it can reasonably appear, but the difficulty and speed of the rules are different. Existence is a reasonable implication that magic is a science that humans cannot understand and so are often guiltily dismissed. Philosophy is an excuse for the clumsiness that science cannot answer, and to say that philosophy generously shares a part of it with science to study, and keeps another part that science can never touch, is itself a self-consoling delusion. I think philosophy is not everything, but there is a grander existence in the sky. Such existence forces people to live in a humble attitude all the time, and the uncontrolled omnipotence and omniscience are not worthy of being possessed by a backward group like human beings. Order is a disguise of unwillingness. The more complete the state apparatus is, the more vulnerable the national character will be. The external executive power that can be relied on will cover up the desolation of the individual's heart. The polite upbringing and civilization under such a system is nothing but a deeper hypocrisy and indifference. Children's books like to describe animals as people, while adults' books like to describe people as animals. Or people are originally like animals, but they don't realize it when they are children, but they are less harmful. Adults, who are already powerful and aggressive, educate children under the guise of animals. It has never been the perfect human nature that has been educated.


Similar to constructing a series of suitable numbers, the series of "Deep Mystery Cases" is actually just to find a reasonable murder series for the first real murder with real intention to kill, which is a series of constructed murders. In order to enhance the legitimacy of the subsequent killings and reduce the guilt, the later deceased are all people who seem to deserve death, such as patients who are dying, who have just undergone lung surgery and will die because of a few seconds of shortness of breath. people. Murder becomes the building material of plausibility, built to protect Selton's loved ones and to redeem himself for surviving a car accident twenty years earlier. What's more, in Origin's Murder, Beth kills her mother in pursuit of the freedom her beloved Martin asked her to find. It was for love. The sacrifice of all is to build a rationale for the first murder, because people tend to believe the rationale, and even such a bizarre rationale can be found and established to be convincing. Murder can be justified because people think they have the truth. People admit that there is something they don't know, but what they know for sure is the truth. In fact, "Deep Enigma" does not need the philosophical cloak of Wittgenstein to touch the sad process of the truth being falsified, because philosophy itself is a constructed transcendental structure.


However, I don't think we need to get into the dilemma of construction, because each of us is also a number like this? Since life has given me a chance to wander in this world, I can also find a suitable number sequence for myself. It's just that sometimes it feels very hard, sometimes it's desperate, sometimes it's brilliant, some people are a few steps slower, some people are very fast, the tree of life keeps reaching out to test, and the leaves grow again. Wither until the most suitable flowers bloom.


Finally, there is a superfluous addition to the title: today is the 21st year since Sanmao left, I will be 20 years old this year, an integer I cherish very much. In fact, it should not be particularly cherished, because there is no difference between good and bad every day, it is my baby. If you have to unify with the previous article, then just pick a sentence: "If there is an afterlife, I will be a tree, standing in a position of eternity, without joys and sorrows. Half of it is peaceful in the soil, and half of it is flying in the wind. , half in the shade, half in the sun, very silent, very proud, never relying on never seeking."

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  • [last lines]

    Arthur Seldom: "The butterfly that flutters it's wings and causes a hurricane on the other side of the world." Sound familiar? Are you that butterfly, Martin?

  • Martin: I believe in the number pi.

    Arthur Seldom: I'm sorry, I didn't understand you. Uh, what was it you said you believed in?

    Martin: In the number pi, in the golden section, the Fibonacci series. The essence of nature is mathematical. There is a hidden meaning beneath reality. Things are organized following a model, a scheme, a logical series. Even the tiny snowflake includes a numerical basis in its structure, therefore, if we manage to discover the secret meaning of numbers, we will know the secret meaning of reality.