Are you willing to sacrifice yourself for the good of this world?

Joyce 2022-09-11 19:53:49

Growing up knowing that we live in a world of rules and systems built by one person: people around me keep commenting on how poor and corrupt the government is, and I always feel like they've done the best they can. to the best. If you're not the person in the position and you can't do better than them, then don't complain about the incompetence of others. Even if it's an imperfect system, it's still not so bad that I can't live. As a good person, it is good to adapt to the rules of the game to win, so why waste time modifying the rules of the game? Different rules won't necessarily get you what you want faster, like winning a game. Also, I'm not so selfless enough to go against him and waste my precious life.

Aaron pointed out the huge loopholes and rotten places in this social rule system. These are all things I haven't thought about. This film reminds me to pay close attention to these rules and have my own thoughts about them: rather than treating them as objective existences like grass and trees. Just as you don't have any political views on the existence of grass and trees and then try to change them, that's how I feel about the rules. It is also a drawback that the system is too perfect, that is, it is impossible to cut off the system that has been out of date. Compared with the Chinese system, it seems to be more flexible in some respects.

My attitude towards the current world is still the same. I will quietly be a contributor, but I will not use my life to change quickly, and use the length of my life as a catalyst for this change. I'll never be as great as Aaron. But Aaron told us that as a part of this society, you can always make our society better through your little efforts and innovations. These are my life values. I will change bit by bit through creation.

Maybe the prolongation of life is not the most important thing. If everyone is just a walking corpse, the human mind is the one who needs healing the most, rather than the healing of the human body. I may one day give up medical research to try to change this numb society in the first place.

Perhaps the deaths of these elites are just the higher creatures telling them: congratulations on being selected into our world, and bid farewell to this world in a way that conceals the truth.

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  • First Title Cards: Unjust Laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we edeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have suceeded, or shall we transgress them at once?- Henry David Thoreau