Wine and song, life geometry

Noemie 2022-03-14 14:12:23

Zhuangzi sang with drums, and his reason was that it was a happy thing to go from nothing to nothing, from nothing to nothing.

Each of us will have a moment when we yearn for nature, pursue the return to the original, how to implement it, and what conflicts will be encountered, which is what the movie tells us.

There are generally two types of recluses, one is the failure of the official career or the setback in the workplace, and the other is the persistent pursuit of faith. The film gave two motivations to leave, one was Plato's pursuit of the ideal country, and the other was the husband's love for his wife.

Since the establishment of the state system, the negative harm to people is everywhere. The state has strengthened the gap between the rich and the poor and social inequality. The system has made workers have no leisure time, and their physical quality is weaker than that of the primitive society. The total alienation under capitalist society is even more unparalleled.

So what are the antisocial thoughts? There are so many ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries, such as Lao Zhuang, Zhongnan Mountain, Tao Yuanming, etc. in China, Pythagoras, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Thoreau in the West. So what to do in practice?

There are a few in the video:

1. The father's rite of passage training for the eldest son comes from the tribal culture of the primitive society.

2. Train children to fight and steal from ancient Sparta.

3. Cremation, drum pot and song, Zhuangzi.

4. Self-reliance, self-reliance, agricultural life.

The basic mission is to use the way of life before industrial civilization to realize their dream of Zhongnan Mountain! Different from the hippie culture, although there are cars, music, and wine, but because of the husband's love for his wife, because of the father's love for the child, because of the child's love for the parents, the pursuit of a strong body and a tenacious soul. This is the difference between the film and Into the wild and On the road. The children are not mentally confused. It is not that young people take drugs and have sex when they meet each other, but they have strict moral self-discipline and far-reaching value pursuit.

There is the courage of Confucianism, the love of the Bible, the ascension of the Buddha, and the self-revolution and self-development of Marx. In short, it is healthy.

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Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Ben: It's a beautiful mistake. But a mistake.

  • [first lines]

    Ben: [family gathers around the slain deer] Today, the boy is dead. And in his place... is a man.

    Bo: [rips off a bloody bite of the offered morsel]