I found a little peace in Gandhi when many young people were reading Guevara and walking the streets in his fighter's clothes.
Einstein said that people in future generations will not be able to believe that such a person really existed in the world. The little man, in his own woven hanging fir, walked and spoke with a stick. The female reporter for Life magazine said to Gandhi, "You are the only man I've ever seen who makes his own clothes." Throughout the film, a large number of shots are used to reproduce the scene of Gandhi weaving clothes. In Indian philosophy, in order to approach God, one must give up all wealth and love.
Gandhi himself said, I am a Muslim, a Hindu, and a Christian. When he was shot, he said "MY GOD." Gandhi died of faith, and the world will not identify with a person who believes in everything. Even God, Jehovah, is against such people. After Gandhi made India independent, which split into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, he died at the hands of those who joined him in the "non-violent non-cooperation" movement. The British Empire could not kill Gandhi, but the conflict of beliefs ended Gandhi. His imitator Martin Luther King Jr. died in the same way. When Gandhi died, he was a commoner without any title or wealth. He was close to God. He didn't have to try to give up love for the fifth time. The partner who married him at the age of 13 has already died.
The huge state apparatus cannot resolve the conflict of beliefs, which is also the suspense of what Huntington called the "clash of civilizations". When Rice said that the United States will promote liberal democracy all over the world, I have deep doubts. I am reminded of Fukuyama's "The End of History" and the later interpretation of "911". The conflict of beliefs is scattered in every corner of the world.
"Non-violence and non-cooperation" is a belief that Gandhi believed in throughout his life. But what a tragedy that he died violently? When asked if such a belief could withstand Hitler, Gandhi said that in history, only truth and love last, and even if some tyrants gain something for a certain period of time, they will eventually lose.
Foucault, who studies discourse, said that language and academia, these ideological things can be gradually transformed into secular power, can also be transformed into academic research institutions such as the British Museum and Oxford University, and can also be transformed into the US Navy fleet and air force, Westerners use this to establish cultural hegemony. In fact, it can be understood that any party can use these to a great extent. When 350 million people participate in "non-violence and non-cooperation" together, the British Empire can only withdraw from this country.
How arrogant the British seem to be when they ask that India can govern itself. Gandhi said that the people of a country would rather face a bad own government than a good outsider's government. At this point, there is Said's "Orientalism" complex as evidence, and perhaps a very robbery quote from Marx, "They cannot reproduce themselves, they must be reproduced by others." The logic of the whole West is like this, Replacing the UK is the US, as Americans have done for decades. Said believes that when Eastern culture is incorporated into the network of Western cultural empires, the West always establishes itself in opposition to Eastern culture. Therefore, without Eastern culture, there is no sense of Western superiority. Western culture obtains itself by reproducing the East. Just like an adult can show great strength in front of a child. At this time, no one paid attention to Huntington's warning. Perhaps Huntington was wrong. The so-called external worries are actually far less than the internal chaos.
History is not the history of prophecy. The struggle throughout history is a struggle of ideas. Even Mahatma Gandhi could not settle the conflict between his own beliefs and beliefs. It is so pessimistic that I found that the world will never be at peace, and that any belief or belief has its limitations and cannot be surpassed. Otherwise, the tragedy of history will repeat itself.
I am particularly interested in how he has transformed, how he has dealt with his love and conflict with his beliefs. At the beginning, Gandhi, a first-class lawyer in a suit, rushed to South Africa from the UK to accept a lawsuit. Being thrown off a train because people of colour don't have the right to be first class in South Africa. In the director's view, this directly led to the career that Gandhi later engaged in and fought for his whole life, in order to eliminate discrimination against people of color. Looking at Gandhi's heart, discrimination against women and beliefs should also be added.
Ideas are a comedy. Lux sneered like this in "The Wanderings of the Enlightened Professor." Utilitarianism, communitarianism, libertarianism, socialism and contemporary liberalism, which is the realm of the highest good? How is the destiny of mankind to be constructed?
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