Being invaded is like walking through Handan

Crystel 2022-03-19 09:01:04

In the case of the disparity in economic strength between the two sides, the strong side completely ignores the relationship between the strong and the weak, and exaggerates the difference in the nature of the two sides, thinking that everything about the weak side is not worth considering, and forcibly instills its own culture, production, lifestyle, etc. To vulnerable parties, causing intrusion. The weak side superstitiously believes in the "great difference" between the strong and the weak, and castrates its original form, leading to deformities until it disappears and the offspring are assimilated.

Tyler Sheridan 's three border films "Border Killer", "Through Water and Fire" and "Hunting the Valley of the Wind", after watching, choose the favorite "Through Water and Fire" as the core, and write down your thoughts.

Being at the border, the ideology of the central government could not arrive in time when the central government was established, so it was fortunate that it temporarily retained its relatively primitive form. When the tentacles in the center begin to stretch to the border, conflicts arise in the process of invasion, resistance, compromise, and assimilation, and the local people are constantly confused and struggling. The new ideology believes that primitive farming life is unhappy, primitive nomadic life is extremely unstable and miserable, and only great material abundance and growing wealth can give people a sense of happiness. Under the impact of this new ideology, the people on the frontier lost their original production and way of life, and farmers changed from growing food to growing poppies; the former cowboys turned to robbery, or degenerated themselves into homeless people; they were sent from the central land to The employees at the frontier are alienated into incomplete individuals due to the division of labor. Only bullying and catharsis can alleviate the loneliness and emptiness in their hearts, and thus crime occurs frequently. The new ideology and economic system stipulates that the price of poppies is many times that of food; the profits and wealth of financial games and oil are countless times that of farmers and herdsmen; planes, cannons, and cars are the standard of happiness, and is the only standard.

From frugality to luxury, there is no turning back, even if you find yourself alienated from a refined division of labor into an incomplete individual. Brothers who used to play in the sunset are like two legs on a person, one has learned a new step, the other has not, and can only reluctantly cut it off.

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Hell or High Water quotes

  • Marcus Hamilton: Howdy ma'am. How are you doing today?

    T-Bone Waitress: Hot . And I don't mean the good kind. So, what don't you want?

    Marcus Hamilton: Pardon?

    T-Bone Waitress: What don't you want?

    Marcus Hamilton: Oh, well, uh. I think I'll just, uh...

    T-Bone Waitress: You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one asshole from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?

    Marcus Hamilton: I don't want green beans.

    Alberto Parker: I don't want green beans either.

    T-Bone Waitress: Steaks cooked medium rare.

    Alberto Parker: Can I get my steak cooked just a...

    T-Bone Waitress: That weren't no question.

    Alberto Parker: All right.

    T-Bone Waitress: Iced tea for you boys.

    Alberto Parker: Iced tea'd be great.

    Marcus Hamilton: Iced tea, yep. Thank you ma'am.

    T-Bone Waitress: Uh-huh.

    Marcus Hamilton: Well I'll tell you one thing. Nobody's gonna rob this son of bitch.

    Alberto Parker: My word.

  • Toby Howard: I need you sober.

    Tanner Howard: Who the hell gets drunk off a beer?