Rick and Morty | We are all outsiders

Eino 2022-09-03 05:06:20

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When people think, God laughs.

The basic meaning of a thing must be explained by a higher mind. For example, the purpose of raising a dog is to make you more superior, and the purpose of making vinegar is to eat hot and sour potato shreds. We will exist in ourselves. The meaning of is pinned on the embodiment of the higher-level entity will.

Such as God.

But Nietzsche said that God is dead .

So the task of people pursuing value is also dead. We have discovered all the absurdities that exist, staying up late and working overtime is absurd, birth, old age, sickness and death is absurd, and I am also absurd when writing this article. Because we are all outsiders, and because the universe itself has no meaning, everything we do is also absurd.

"Rick and Morty" is an anime that runs through the absurdity. The protagonist Rick in the play is the smartest person in the universe, but he also hates everything in the universe the most. He is one of the few people who can see the absurd nature of the universe.

There are too many wonderful parts of this drama. In addition to making your mind open, many plots actually have deep meaning behind them.

In the context of the horrible parallel universe, the independence of individual will is mentioned, the question of the ultimate meaning of existence is sublimated in the planetary battle, the marriage and family education are reflected in the relationship entanglement of the Morty family, in various parallel spaces In the collection of, the transformation of anti-persecution groups to dictatorship is presented. On a planet where there is an annual "fuck festival", it shows how people are killing each other without the elites to establish an order...

In addition to the three main labels of adventure, comedy and science fiction, this drama also bears the imprint of the screenwriter's personal opinions-through the protagonist Rick, to express absurdism and nihilism .

As the smartest person in the universe, Rick is arrogant and arrogant. He has a fantasy experience of traveling the universe. He lives by invention, transformation, creation and destruction. But in the end, he understood the meaninglessness of life, the meaninglessness of this universe and other parallel universes. At the same time, he accepted the absurd facts, so he used absurd behavior to cover up the absurd life. He rejected unnecessary feelings and despised. The rules of the universe are trying to get rid of all the constraints in the universe.

He wants to be an outsider in the universe.

Life is long, of course, but procrastinated, day after day, year after year, and finally become confused. Lost his name every day.

Work, rest, socialize, and run around. In this absurd universe, most people are unaware, unconscious, immersed in it, living in their own woven meanings, repeating the absurdities and contradictions day after day, falling into endless The fence.

When we finally realize the indifference of this world, we will seek solace in our memories and finally live in the cage we created; or express our resistance to this indifferent world, but because we cannot change this absurd universe, we move towards The end of self.

Rick is different. The cynicist took Morty to continue his adventures in the universe. He acted according to his preferences and had no conscience. After he obtained something that satisfies himself, he would fully enjoy himself. He put aside the meaning of existence and set aside the universe. Throw the absurdity aside, live in the moment.

If you want to eat ice cream, you can travel through the three-layer universe to fix the battery; if you want to eat McDonald’s Sichuan hot sauce, you will shuttle in the memory; if you want Morty to play truant and take risks with yourself, you will run into Morty’s math teacher’s dream and make Rick good. The concept of "is implanted in the teacher's subconscious mind."

What does it matter if you sell anti-material weapons to a killer? Anyway, if you sell him or not, you will kill them all;

The creatures in the micro-universe don’t know what the true meaning of the vertical middle finger is. Anyway, they are just slaves that create power for their aircraft;

What does it matter if you hand it over to a girlfriend who brainwashes people on the entire planet and seeks harmony in the world? Anyway, not everyone has a free soul. It doesn’t matter. Race wars will occur. It doesn’t matter if humans are assimilated. People turn into monsters as a spectacle. It's also worth dancing.

There is no ultimate existence at the highest level in this universe that has the "final power of interpretation", so shall we abandon our meaningless lives?

When life has no ultimate meaning, perhaps we should pursue the meaning in life. Interesting things are not necessarily meaningful, but they can make you feel even a momentary fulfillment. If you have been looking for the meaning of life, you will never live.

After wandering alone in the universe for many years, Rick appeared in his daughter’s garage and returned to his family. In fact, this is the embodiment of his desire to finally regain the meaning of life by searching for an interesting life. In self-destruction and enjoyment, he finally I chose the latter.

Nietzsche said that God is dead, but at the same time he also said that we must become our own God.

*Let me out, as you see*

*Just a fake body*

*My life is a lie*

*I am not the one you are looking at*

*Let me out, give me freedom, I am old*

*This is not the real me*

*My body is gradually dying in the big tank*

*Does anyone hear me cry? Does anyone understand me*

*Stop staring at me any more, please help me*

*Save me, save me, I'm dying*

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Rick and Morty quotes

  • Summer Smith: I don't ever want to be high again, I got scared straight.

  • Jerry Smith: I guess sometimes teenagers do know what they're talking about, even if it's mean.