Black and white pictures always make us feel like a long history. Thinking about it carefully, in fact, when this film was filmed, it was the year when our grandparents were born, in 1935.
I looked at the young people who were about the same age as us and a hundred years ago. They were happy on the screen - living in a uniform camp where the head of worship was worshipped, bathing and eating together every day, the kind of vibrant joy and enthusiasm Through a hundred years of time, even if these smiles are destined to disappear in the shadow of death, they cannot hide the youthful and youthful atmosphere.
In the 1939 German census, there were 12 million men aged 20 to 40, and the number of deaths in Germany after the war was as high as 5 million. That is to say, more than half of the young people seen in the film failed to meet their 40s. birthday.
In the history books of the pre-Qin period, we often see descriptions such as "beheading 200,000". The historians have only four words. I don't know how many families and happiness were destroyed, but my reason also clearly told me that taking modern morality and humanities To look at the ancient people two thousand years ago is difficult for a strong man. In the era of underdeveloped technology and productivity, asking Bai Qi and Meng Ao not to kill and take away the population as an enemy's national strength is actually just like the future human beings may condemn us for killing animals. But as said at the beginning, in the era when this film was born, we have begun to wear the same uniforms of various fabrics as today, and the Mercedes-Benz that we are familiar with carrying Hitler in the crowd is also familiar to us. The most important thing is that we have released Nearly two hundred years after the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of Human Rights, "We hold the following truths to be self-evident: All men are created equal and have the inalienable rights endowed by their Creator, including life, liberty and pursuit. The Right to Happiness (We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.) "Life, The right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness, a deafening definition of human rights, spread across continents with printing presses no different from today's.
Of course, there are also cameras and phonographs that helped make the film.
The technology of spreading ideas has been so successful that it was Hitler, who preached Aryan ethnism, and his propaganda minister, Goebbels, who really took advantage of them.
All of Hitler's magic is revealed in this sentence.
When faced with an uncertain future, everyone is confused. Most people's confusion is combined with laziness and cowardice, and they are cause and effect. Therefore, most people long for someone to give them a definite answer. This answer even It doesn't matter what is right, as long as it can help them get real positive feedback from the reality in front of them, and at the same time have enough theories to be complete and convincing, they can be satisfied, even if the end of the answer is to completely inflict pain on another group of people, They are also willing.
I am glad that common sense is important, and think the importance of this common sense is greatly underestimated in China today. There is no position on the political spectrum that can be chosen to stand firm, and any position requires careful deliberation to gain firmness. If we don’t want to repeat the similar tragedies they and another country in East Asia 30 years later, our only way is to learn common sense. Within the scope of common sense, we are all the same human community, and the genetic differences between each other are less than 10,000. one part. On the one hand, modern military technology has made us no longer have the basis for repeated wars. Once some wars start, it will be the last time for all mankind; on the other hand, our pursuit of a better life can only be achieved through the advancement of science and technology. The progress of the People's Republic of China is first of all about human liberation and care, and comes from the protection of the right of every minority group in society to be "free from the threat of death and fear", which are all common sense we should have.
Assuming that people in a country don’t have this common sense, then all the technologies they have are like a sheathless blade that can be freely wielded without restrictions, and in the end it can only hurt it and everyone around it. . In the face of people who do not have this common sense, religion and extremism have enough gravitational pull. They are like two valleys on the left and right on the political spectrum, attracting us to slide towards them. Therefore, whether it is for your own thinking, or for a group, a party, or a country, the ideological and philosophical struggles require you to have enough of your own thinking and study to be able to fight in this struggle. In, really control your own destiny and choices, otherwise you won't even be able to decide what you're thinking.
The power of thought has been fully demonstrated and proved in this film. This is only the era of the printing press, telegraph and FM radio. Today, we have more diverse means of communication and richer media forms. Pictures, mobile phones that can be viewed anytime, anywhere, and colorful big screens flashing everywhere, I can't imagine what kind of frenzy we will be taught if the world turns to the right today.
What amazes me the most is the women in this film. Women are known to be the least politically concerned. In any cultural context, women are symbolic of moderation, peace, and pragmatism. They always play the role of bringing family life to life. The character on a normal, realistic rhythm. If women in a country inevitably think that their country must fight other countries to live, and that their men should kill men of other nations and other countries in order to obtain the materials they need for life, only It shows that the original life that women face is no longer attractive, and there is no way out, then the original direction is not the road, but also becomes the road.
Finally, from Hitler's speech, talk about the mistakes of nationalism and its manifestations.
The politics we are talking about has nothing to do with the issue of distribution. The growth of science and technology and the development of the market always infiltrate the convenience and wealth of life from top to bottom from the power and the technological class of society like water. A class, naturally, the upper class always gets more than the lower class, no matter what generation it is, the political mean position is often based on the steady development of the economy, and everyone has achievable pursuits in life and wealth. In the era of 2008, the division and division of the left and right forces is precisely because the growth of wealth has stagnated, so the bottom layer who feels the pressure first always has to put forward their own demands.
This is the starting point of most peasant uprisings throughout the ages. Against the background of huge racial differences in the West, they interpreted it as ethnic conflict. We have never had such a useful explanation in the East, so the political struggle in the East has always been based on Confucianism. It is precisely because of this that we have never tasted the viciousness of nationalism, an imaginary community of the Chinese nation, which we only used during the Anti-Japanese War in the early 20th century.
Fascist nationalism and communism are natural enemies, because they are two sides of the same coin, but this is not to say that there is no difference between them, on the contrary, their difference is a sign that validates the correctness of communism.
Faced with the same bottom-level demands, fascism advocates that class contradictions do not exist and advocates taking resources from outside, while communism advocates achieving class equality, sharing property, and solving wealth imbalance by leveling inward classes. In a sense, fascism is the last ideological weapon for capitalists to seek self-preservation in the face of the communist-armed proletariat. After all, public ownership of property is something they cannot accept anyway, but the propaganda of nationalism can survive for a while. After all, they are not the first to go to the battlefield.
Therefore, we can basically confirm a sign of nationalist propaganda, that is, to keep silent about the distribution of power and wealth, and only blindly advocate national unity and unity. Hitler said that he yearned for a Germany without classes, and I also yearn for a world without classes, but an important mark that distinguishes utopians from realists is whether to pursue reality with ideals or to pursue ideals based on reality. In Germany in 1930, class contradictions really existed. This kind of contradiction was like a boiling kettle. As long as the proletariat who fell into unemployment and bankruptcy was not liberated and did not get what they deserve, then This kind of force exists like water that is always boiling in a kettle. Sooner or later, it will burst through everything. Even if Germany has gained jobs and natural resources from all over the world, it cannot be relieved. In the words of the Communist Manifesto, it is :
"What method does the bourgeoisie use to overcome this crisis? On the one hand, it has to eliminate a large number of productive forces, and on the other hand, it has to seize new markets and make more thorough use of the old ones. What kind of method is this? The way the bourgeoisie prepares for a more comprehensive and violent crisis is only a way of making the means of preventing it less and less.”
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