Herzog's documentary says: That's Antarctica.
What’s interesting is that the earth is round, and it doesn’t matter what the end is. This end is human’s own understanding, or, it can even be said that Herzog’s own understanding has received a lot of echoes. The common ancestors of mankind came out of the luxuriant African continent and walked for tens of thousands of years. Some of them went further and further north, and they were unable to move forward because of the cold Arctic Ocean. They lived, multiplied, lived, and had families. , with tribes, with war, with civilization, with history, with more and more tools; then, riding horses, rocking sculls, riding ships, driving cars, firing cannons, driving Going south by plane, holding the banner of civilization, stepping on the ruins of history, crossing greedy rivers, crossing friendly mountains, more and more invasion of Vietnam, south to a continent where no birds fly and no people walk, looking at this piece of land. The white world, they thought, how pure.
So Antarctica became the end of the world.
It's really hard to write here. I originally wanted to express my praise for the scientists and travelers in the Antarctic continent, but now it seems like a pen against the invaders. Naturally, the greedy invaders are not those who are now working for the sustainable development of all human beings on a land that can be praised as beautiful or poor Even all the curious and industrious people of the universe. I do have a lot of respect for the people who leave the comfort of their office, forgo delicious food, and come to this desolate place to carry out complex, even dangerous jobs. However, looking at the TV screen, the endless white is the master of everything. The most interesting thing is always the seals, penguins, and even hundreds of millions of unknown beautiful and strange underwater creatures, not human scientific behavior. . Antarctica and the original owners of Antarctica drag their long, white skirts and dance in a world without night, while the human elites look up with longing from a corner of the stage. In Antarctica, there is no philosophy and no art. This huge and eternal existence is the dancer of philosophy and art. So philosophers can only be coach drivers, linguists can only be gardeners, and true travelers who have fooled death and escaped the darkness can only be entertainers. The real philosopher is the penguin who has escaped the laws of nature and runs inland to the end of his life, the real musician is the seal who wanders between the ice bottom and the sea bottom and sings an electronic voice from the sky, the real language Scientists are silently talking about the hot active volcano at the center of the earth. Here, human beings have a primitive and high-tech dialogue with nature through the medium of natural scientists. We can only be like our ancestors who walked out of Africa more than a million years ago, with curiosity and feet, with eyes and courage to dialogue with nature. Aggressive domineering is something this continent dismisses, and only humble curiosity and the experience of fusion can be accepted with a smile.
After watching this one-and-a-half hour documentary, I suddenly want to believe that Antarctica is indeed an end, and after we have walked for so long, so long, give us a chance to look back...
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