It's scary to have culture

Shirley 2022-02-07 14:59:43

The first half of the play is really a black performance, whether it is expression, expression, and reaction speed to stabilize the feeling of white people, and I think the most wonderful line is "If your thoughts don't let you get on the "Sunset" train with What's the point of standing on the platform instead of jumping when you're coming at 80 mph?", This line directly wants me to applaud and applaud, and it is indeed worthy of a competent pastor or missionary.

But the second half This is a response from the white people, wrong, it should not be called a response, but the ultimate expression of being forced to helplessness, so I have only one sentence to say "It's terrible to be literate"!

The reason why the white people seek death: what they once believed has fallen, "I I can no longer be hypocritical, and I have gradually gained enlightenment on the nature of truth and the nature of the world. This is the reason for the world class." That is, the reason for this well-read scholar is the world and the nature of truth he discovered, or Said that the essence of the meaning of life is meaninglessness, and everything is meaningless. For him, it is hypocrisy to choose to believe that everything has meaning, and it is better to die.

"Belief exists only for survival, for delusions, for hallucinations, and for lies. ","Evolution is inevitable, which makes extremely intelligent lifeforms finally realize one thing, this thing transcends all, that everything is nothingness" Such language finally shakes the faith of black priests And collapse, eventually questioning God "If you want me to help him, why didn't you give me the language to convince him?"

Language, once used well, is absolutely earth-shattering, think about Hitler, think about Churchill, think about Mao Zedong ,Which is not a master of language expression? And behind the language is a profound cultural heritage, the white man's "4000" book, the pursuit of his life makes him have such a language that makes black people desperate, his height is not ordinary you and I can reach , so I dare not say that he is wrong, because I can't find the language to prove that he is wrong.

His language broke the faith of black pastors, and also conveyed to you and me a possibility: "life may really be meaningless". What is the belief, what is the meaning of life, the more you see, the more knowledge you gain, sometimes it will be Become more confused, this is a discussion between believers and non-believers about the meaning of life and faith. The firm belief of black people is defeated by the knowledge and language expression of white people. Who dares to pursue the true meaning of life and the world to a poor man Some scholars say you are wrong, black pastors dare not, neither do I, so what the white people say may be the truth.

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The Sunset Limited quotes

  • White: The things I love are very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that, I thought they were indestructible. They weren't...

    Black: And that's what sent you off the edge of the platform, it wasn't nothin' personal?

    White: Oh, it's personal, that's what an education does, it makes makes the world personal?

  • Black: The sun don't shine up the same dog's ass every day, you understand what I'm saying?

    White: If what you're saying is that I'm simply having a bad day, that's ridiculous.

    Black: I ain't saying you're having a bad day, Professor, I'm saying you're having a bad life.