Eric Hobsbaum said in "The Age of Extremes" that after the end of the First World War, all Europeans fell into extreme fear of war, and everyone desperately wanted to go back in time. The past should be like the Victorian era (not including the Victorian underground novels), stable, quiet, and prosperous, everything is in order, everyone is polite, everyone happily sings songs together, holding hands, and going to heaven.
Of course, this is not what he said, anyway, it probably means that.
But the big hand of fate is impermanent, and we are often slapped in the face by him. People desperately added concrete and steel to the dangerous wall, but the next day they woke up and collapsed in a "boom". Although leaders from all over Europe racked their brains and the terms of the contracts signed were as high as the Empire State Building, World War II broke out, the old order was swept away, and everyone joined hands and went to hell.
The house in my hometown is very dilapidated. I use my fingers to count the days and wait for the demolition, so that I don’t have to work hard to write reports and engage in mass line education and practice activities. The government introduced the Great Leap Forward housing plan, the anti-rightist plan to build new socialist houses, the plan to criticize Lin and Confucius’ new building plans, the plan to build apartments with scientific development concepts, the plan to live in new socialist rural areas, etc., but because of this There are a large number of reactionaries hidden behind the old houses, such as Kong Lao Er, Liu Deng’s capitalist roaders, Lin Biao’s power seizures, the hot money of capitalist countries headed by the United States, a small group of unruly nail households, etc., so the new building has never been Cover it up. The government cannot be blamed for not getting rich, but for the impermanence of fate.
I think Mr. Gustav’s mood should be similar to mine. I am a small citizen who hopes to make a fortune by demolition every day. He is a Victorian gentleman who wants to keep the old world in the Budapest Hotel every day. He knows books and courtesy, is personable, compassionate, and dares to resist violence and injustice. He even likes old women-I can think of this as an exaggeration, an exaggeration of his retro feelings.
But unlike me, I am an opportunist, or to put it nicely, a futurist. I always wait for the demolition of the house to make a fortune. I am full of hope because it may be demolished. All houses in this country are May be demolished-I'm looking forward to the demolition team, just like the serfs are looking forward to the Communist Party; but Mr. Gustav is different. He is a retroist, or a bit ugly, a conservative, a nail-biter, and he stands in his own favor. At the entrance of the Budapest Grand Hotel, like a lonely hero, he wanted to stop the mighty demolition team in one fell swoop. What he wants to keep is not only the big hotel, but also the old social etiquette, attitude, justice and axioms, oh, and delicacy. He has proved this with his actions. He is still enthusiastic in the prison, facing the arrogant guards. When embarrassed by Zelo, he dared to jump up and slap others in the face. The first time he was lucky and met someone in the demolition team and let him go; the second time he was not lucky and no one, and he paid the price of his life. This tells us that it is important to have someone above.
As mentioned earlier-all houses in this country may be demolished. Many people will feel sad about this, take photos, shed a few tears, send a few complaints, and then count the demolition expenses with enthusiasm. Would there be someone like Mr. Gustav, not because the organization gave insufficient money, but just because of the maintenance of the past, and anxiously stopped in front of the bulldozer? It is said that Lin Huiyin once did it. She cried with the bricks of the old city wall in Beijing, saying that you will regret it. I don’t know if this is true, but she is so hypocritical, and she should do it; now I don’t know if anyone regrets it. After all, I’m not Professor X and can’t read brain waves, but I look at the people around me. Very happy.
Eric Hobsbaum also said in "The Age of Extremes" that the reason why Europeans wanted to go back to the past after World War I was because the 40 years before World War I was the golden age of Europe, and life began Prosperity, material abundance, politics began to be enlightened, and the concept of a welfare state emerged. Europeans would have more face when they went to any place on the earth. European maids were better than the queen of China-and the First World War ruined all this and died. Tens of millions of people, material and spiritual civilizations collapsed, the rise of the United States and the Soviet Union made everyone uneasy, and then came a more terrible Nazi-this is not the worst era, this is the worst era. This demolition team has V2 missiles, torpedoes, aircraft carriers, zero fighters on hand - and even later they tossed out atomic bombs. I think any nail users will lose their helmets, unarm and piss at the first time. Anyway, I'm sure meeting.
Will there really be a gentleman like Mr. Gustav? I find it difficult, if there are, there will not be many; just like the old society before World War I was not as beautiful as Wes Anderson wrote in the movies. But why should it be so harsh? Although we have done a lot of bad things, we still yearn for beauty. Beauty is pure and will not be contaminated by the bad things we have done. After World War I, everyone wanted to restore the old order, but it failed. After World War II, we built a new world. Although we have experienced many twists and turns, the world we created will inevitably be unsatisfactory, but at least it is not too bad; although not A mental giant like Mr. Gustav, but Bruno who was burned to death, Lavoisier who was beheaded, Zweig who was poisoned, Laoshe who was thrown into the lake, who would say that they were not gentlemen? Or be more violent, learn from Einstein, go to the United States, and build an atomic bomb.
See who would dare to underestimate the gentleman in the future.
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