We gloated outside the window

Ethel 2022-01-23 08:04:53

When watching this movie, the dialogue between Goethe and Hemingway in Milan Kundera's "Immortal" recurred in my mind.


"You know, John." Hemingway said, "They [also] keep attacking me. They don’t read my book, but write about me. They say I don’t love my wives, and they say I don’t. Caring about my son, saying that I knocked a certain critic's nose with one punch, saying that I was lying, saying that I was insincere, saying that I was arrogant, saying that I was yang, saying that I claimed to have lost two hundred and thirty places on the battlefield In fact, there are only two hundred and eleven places, saying that I masturbate and that I do not listen to my mother."

"This is immortality." Goethe said: "Immortality is eternal judgment."

"If it is eternal judgment, so too. There should be a decent judge, not a narrow-minded teacher with a moss whip in his hand."

" A narrow-minded teacher with a moss whip in his hand , that's what eternal trials are all about. You still think.

What do you want , Ernest?" "I didn't want anything. I had hoped that I would be safe after death."

"But you did everything possible to become immortal."

"Nonsense. I just write a book, nothing more."

[ ......] "I am not opposed to my book becoming immortal. When I write a book, I must not delete a word. I must withstand any adversity. And myself, as a person, as Ernest Hemingway, I don't care about immortality!"

"I understand very well, Ernest. But you should be more careful while you are alive, it is too late now."

"Be more careful? You mean I like to speak big words? I admit that when I was young, I really liked to sing high-profile. I like to show off in front of others. I am happy to hear those anecdotes about me. But please believe that I am not doing this for immortality. Yes. When I realized this problem, I really shuddered. Since then, I have told you thousands of times to let me stay alone. But the more I begged for things, the worse. I went to Cuba to avoid people's eyes. I won the Nobel Prize, but I refused to go to Stockholm. Believe me, I don’t care about immortality. Now, I tell you another thing: that day I realized that I was under the control of immortality, and I was scared to death. People can Taking control of his own life, he cannot control the immortality behind him. Once you are dragged aboard by the immortality, you don’t want to go any further. Even if you shoot yourself, you have to stay on the deck after you die. This is terrible, John , It’s terrible. After I died, lying on the deck, I saw my four wives squatting around, writing everything they knew. Behind them was my son, who was writing there, and the old lady Ge Trud Stein, who writes constantly there, and all my friends who are disclosing what they have heard about my indiscreet past or slander me; behind them, hundreds of hand-held The reporter of the microphone is there you push me, and the professors of universities all over the United States are busy sorting, analyzing, and stuffing the bits and pieces into their articles and monographs. "


Whether Assange wants immortality, we can’t decide . Know. But WikiLeaks has long been like a blockbuster, causing an uproar all over the world. Everyone rushed up in a noisy manner, "Finally there is a well-documented conspiracy theory! See how this world differs from George Orwell's "1984"?!" Yes, Big Brother is always looking at you. This has always been an unbalanced world where the weak eat the strong, and the Western powers have always invaded other countries under the banner of humanitarianism. As if we never knew? It is Demoncracy that has long created a huge bubble for Western countries. People living in it condescend and see the world as if they have passed through a beautified filter.

In terms of information disclosure and transparency, WikiLeaks and Assange are more like heroes than heroes.

However, the audience looking at the window, you and me, we are not satisfied with the information leaked by WikiLeaks, we turned our attention to Assange himself with curious eyes. Milan Kundera’s Hemingway said that he could control his life before death, but the media in contemporary society makes it impossible to control himself before death. Everything about Assange was zoomed in and examined under the camera. We have lost our original interest in his works. Instead, he started out as a human being: what kind of person is he? Why did he create WikiLeaks? Is he a personality invader like Woody Allen? Why didn't he wear a condom when he had sex with the two Swedish women?

Who says Big Brother is the government? Big Brother is clearly the media holding the microphone and recording the camera.

News reporters began to shift the direction of the wind. Holding microphones and questioning everywhere, they have the right to "force others to answer", speak upright and selfless. Today, I'm still shaking up government secrets with Assange, and I'll start to reveal his secrets tomorrow. The wall shook his head.

So Assange also changed: Since you use my personal question to question me, then I use this personal question to question you! What sex scandal? ! This is undoubtedly a set of conspiracy theories played by your US government, using this to attack me!

Rashomon's drama was once again brought to the stage of history. You come and I go, babble, everyone sings happily. And we had a lot of fun watching outside the window.

The leaked Collateral Murder about the U.S. government ended sadly amidst a noisy quarrel like an old mother.
Who is wiping tears for those who die for no reason?

Big brother is watching you.
Big Brother has always been you, me and him, gleefully looking at us outside the window.

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Extended Reading
  • Ludwig 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    Fair enough. It seems that Julian is an extreme, stubborn, persecuted and fascinating monster, but there is always such an idealist to stand up for the world to be more transparent.

  • Russ 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    A movie about WikiLeaks that Assange rarely talks about; a movie that neither side pleases, it is difficult to score!

We Steal Secrets quotes

  • Michael Hayden: We steal secrets; we steal other nations' secrets.

  • Julian Assange: You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war.