We are living without knowing

Etha 2022-04-19 09:02:38

The wheel of history has never stopped since it was loaded with steel, motors and guns. Occasionally some people want to pull it to make it slower, but it's just not in the sea. Contaminated land, dead fish and shrimp, carcinogens that have been deposited in children, dead plants. No one can undo all these faults, not even fines and life sentences.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, human beings can no longer predict the future. Electric lights, high-speed rail, plastics, chemical fibers, paints, additives...

No one knows what the next decade will bring. After all, we are used to creating, and there are so-called miracles.

We don't know what we did, but one day we were suddenly given a critical illness notice.

Going back 40 years, it is the clear stream in the forest that my fathers once tasted; 90 years ago, we can see the high and blue sky in Peiping that Yu Dafu has seen, and sitting at the entrance of the alley, you can always hear pigeons flying. Voice. If you want to count further, the steaming clouds and dream lakes hundreds of years ago, with sparse shadows and sloping clear and shallow, mountains and rivers, large mountains, white water, clear springs in the desert, and even the wolves, tigers and leopards that can be seen everywhere have become lovely.

Now there is no landscape in my eyes, please don't talk to me about poetry.

Who doesn't love sunshine, air and water. But we are about to lose them.

Who doesn't love their hometown, there is a home there.

The sound of frogs and crickets on a summer night, the small streets, the gentle sunshine, the tadpoles in the pond, the sleepy anglers by the river, the vibrant dialects in the wet market. These are my treasures.

All problems have a reason, all disasters were once inconspicuous.

The lips are dead and the teeth are cold.

Our planet has become what it is now, and no one can be spared.

In places where the news has not been reported, in places we have not been to, many people have endured silently, or left their homes.

As in the film, the hometown of the tanukis is about to become flat. All newborn children will die, and all the stories of the past will be reduced to ashes.

They terrorized humans with magic, but the hill was leveled and the forest was gone. Even in the end, humans gave them a place to live, which, in my opinion, is a tragedy.

There is nothing like living in the homeland.

"I use the electrical appliances with peace of mind, unpack a package of snacks with peace of mind, wrap my coat with peace of mind, and get into the car with peace of mind, and then other people's life or death doesn't matter to me anymore. Because I can't hear, I can't see, I Know nothing about grief."

Hope the earth will be a better place, not just for us, but for our children, children of children, for the entire blue planet. Stop living in ignorance.

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Extended Reading
  • Johnnie 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Compared with the nail households in space, the guarding on the timeline is more important, and the raccoon is not a raccoon without a childlike innocence. It's too heavy to be transformed.

  • Andreanne 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    The united civet cats, the human beings who should reflect, at the end, the civet cats are extremely helpless to adapt to human life. The Hundred Ghosts Night Walk is really imaginative.

Pom Poko quotes

  • Seizaemon: All pray!

    [the tanuki put their hands together and bow]

    Osho: I'd like to say a prayer for the victims of this operation.

    [At this point, some of the tanuki start to snigger]

    Osho: We wish that we could save our forest without harming any humans. That was never our intention, but our forest is near and dear to us, and we...

    [the tanuki all burst into raucous laughter and head for the exit]

  • TamasaburôBuntaTanuki: [singing] Let's turn into every sacred icon we can think of. Some are this and some are that...

    [They do backflips into the air and turn into various items; stone Buddhas, lucky cats, painted eggs, kitsune sculptures, gold carp sculptures, monkey sculptures and Tanuki sculptures. Ponkichi rushes to join in and tries copying them. He does various poses but is unable to transform]

    Shokichi: [narrating] Back then, all I thought about was transforming. I never dreamed that my friend Ponkichi might just want to be a normal raccoon.