Symbiosis

Monique 2022-06-15 16:14:16

An old dying man, an intellectual who was once romantic, faced death in the most intellectual way in the last days of his life. This is a better ending. When my father, a history professor, was sitting outside the house with his old friends, he chatted about various doctrines, concepts, viewpoints, and even his judgment on the Great Revolution. He enjoys the joy that knowledge brings to his life, and even though he can only sit in a wheelchair, he can use his head to travel around and create intracranial orgasms. This is the best state of an intellectual before his death, and the realization of all this comes from the rich son he has always despised. His son, who had come from afar, called a group of old friends for him, bought him heroin instead of coffee, and moved him from a small hospital ward to a big comfortable house. . Even though there is a huge gap in values ​​between the father and the son, the father scoffs at the son's way of life that he does not study but only makes money. This is a common lofty attitude of an intellectual and cultural person, but the last comfort of his life is also exchanged by his son with money. Otherwise, he can only mutter to himself in the small ward, unhappy. In his eyes, this is an era of barbaric invasion, an era that devours civilization and erodes the spirit. But this kind of invasion also allowed him to relieve his pain through heroin, to make himself feel better through money, and to face death calmly. The 911 pictures on TV, the foreign drug gangs on the streets, the coexistence of wives and lovers at the end of life, the savage invasion brought estrangement and fusion, brought depravity and brought new life. You despise all this, you are also affected by it, and you even enjoy it without knowing it. The father finally held his son's hand and died, which is also the reconciliation of civilization and barbarism, so he could end his life so peacefully and peacefully.

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  • Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.

  • Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...

    Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.

    Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.

    Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.

    Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.

    Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.

    Alessandro: Trotskyists.

    Diane: Maoists.

    Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.

    Pierre: Situationists.

    Dominique: Feminists.

    Claude: Deconstructionists.

    Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?

    Claude: Cretinism.