The cruelty of being canceled

Erich 2022-04-19 09:03:16

Never, rarely, sometimes, always This movie is as standard as a composition model, neat and excellent. In Europe and the United States, such excellent works as model essays have also been emerging. The expression of the whole film is clean and emotional, the theme is clear, and the pen is rare. It is a model of excellent mass cultural products. While making the audience feel the same, it also attracts everyone's attention and reflection on this issue, but it hardly brings the slightest discomfort. The only pain point in the whole film is that after the girl was confirmed to be pregnant, she stuck her nose stud with a pin at home. When I was young, I did a lot of stupid things. Pain, only deep pain can bring deep memory.

It is almost the epitome of contemporary urban life, experiencing pain from time to time in general comfort, and then correcting and adjusting. Indeed, the prosperity and convenience of the city promises happiness and comfort, and the civilization of the city brings security, the savagery, fear, and existential threats of the wild no longer exist. But at the moment we are in, the macroscopic pattern of the world is in a time of turbulent undercurrents, whether it is a trade war, a raging epidemic, or a confrontation between China and the United States. However, life is eternal, and life must continue. Large-scale bloody wars are unlikely to break out in contemporary society, not in China, the United States, or Western Europe. Our quiet years are the little blessings of peaceful times.

It's just that the war with gunpowder has turned into silent squeezing and killing between people. Pain and death are overshadowed by peace without gunpowder.

But can people really change their ways? Can conscience really be scrubbed clean by suffering? Can a society after so much suffering really move in a better direction? Looking at history can give a very pessimistic or more realistic answer.

This time the epidemic is in Europe, the French government's step-by-step measures are very clear. The people follow the government's pace, and the government will do whatever the government asks. There is almost no pain. Although the policy is always changing according to the situation, there is a feeling of changing the order. . In the early stage of the epidemic, there were also cases where the hospital's reception capacity was saturated, the medical resources were tight, and many people died. In the past week, the number of newly confirmed cases in a single day was two to three thousand, three to four thousand, but it seemed to the people on the street. Just a number. And Chinese society really experienced huge pain in the early stage of the epidemic. The entire Internet was shrouded in monstrous suffering, and tears were overflowing. The welfare system and rich medical resources of European society have comforted people very well. As soon as the quarantine was lifted, the bars and restaurants were full the next day. The whole society, except for the trouble of having an extra mask for everyone, switches to the new normal mode with just one click. Of course, young people drink and dance in bars by the Seine every day, and middle-aged people also meet and chat in cafes and restaurants. While the Chinese people are carefully returning to life, the European people resumed their lively social life the day after the quarantine was lifted. Various government subsidies have also helped people return to the embrace of the consumer society more smoothly.

What about the elderly? At home or alone in a nursing home, what about the elderly who carefully wear masks when they go out to buy food? How do they feel, how do they feel? And what about the sick and the sick? There are special reports, but in short, not a lot of talk.

European society takes on the relaxed attitude of a wealthy society. The Chinese society has experienced huge trauma, because too much information is not transparent, because of the shortage of medical resources, the defects of the medical system, and social and cultural reasons. Soon after this, people gradually lost their words, fell into a deeper silence? Or even more crazy selfish? Or have a large number of people experienced baptism and began to silently work hard in the subtleties of life?

People in Lebanon, Thailand, Nigeria, Belarus, etc. have all launched campaigns after the epidemic to demand change and no longer tolerate corruption, authoritarianism, inequality, and the gap between the rich and the poor. Well, I hope the silence here is still water running deep.

I hope that people here can go further and further, form an excellent cultural and ideological system, and bring meaningful and humanitarian power to the world.

Don't be ensnared and paralyzed by commodity culture and consumerism, and don't be enslaved and controlled by technological cyber totalitarianism.

The world is changing, and many people are sleeping quietly. The dormant bugs must be awake, feel their heartbeat, feel alive, and have their eyes wide open.

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  • Amy 2022-04-14 09:01:06

    I don't like it because I don't support the theme, I don't support the women's misery and the anti-abortion bill, it's just too deliberate and clumsy. Each of the original dilemmas is set too extreme. Is the layered tragedy really universal and authentic? Let alone trying to make real comparisons with Lady Bird, I'm all the more grateful for those small and specific resonances.

  • Weston 2022-04-14 09:01:06

    Very Sundance, but not as expected.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always quotes

  • Skylar: What did the Doctor say?

    Autumn: They couldn't really help me

    Skylar: Why not?

    Autumn: I took a test.

    Skylar: What kind of test?

    [Autumn then retches and throws up]

  • Skylar: Don't you ever just wish you were a dude?

    Autumn: All the time.