If it were me, what would happen to me

Bryce 2022-01-25 08:08:00

When I saw this movie, the first thing that reminded me was the Book of Eli, which is also a world like this, where people eat people, the dark sky seems to never clear the clouds, and there is no hope for mankind. But the difference is that the movie seems to be spreading the gospel symbolically, and finally human beings have seen hope. Although the ending of this movie seems to be very satisfactory, it still makes people worry about the ending of human beings.
After watching this movie, I naturally have a lot of thoughts. It seems that the initial and the final should be a pair of relative propositions. The two are relative, and it seems that one can understand the other and draw conclusions accordingly.
I still remember that the first constitution class in the university taught a case like this. Several people who died at sea were crowded on a sampan, and the food was gradually exhausted. Several people decided to draw lots to decide their life and death, and those who were selected would be killed. eaten by others. It's an old-fashioned case, but at the time when we didn't have any legal basis, most people agreed with this approach, and the reasons also mentioned something like freedom of contract, sacrificing the minority for the benefit of the majority. At the time, I didn't know what the final answer was, but I vaguely felt that this seemed wrong, but there seemed to be no reason to object to it except that it seemed to be contrary to human nature.
It seems that after modern positivism, people are more and more disgusted with transcendental things, especially in our socialist society, law and morality have been stripped of layers of skin and flesh, let us see the so-called skeleton, and speak loudly to us Say, look, before the propaganda of capitalism, religion, and propaganda were all hypocritical, and only socialism can only touch the essence. I was terrified to think that people seem to be just a bunch of cells, and the spirit is just brain electricity. The purpose of life seems to be only to build a communist society, people's material life and spiritual life are satisfied, but after this? I can't imagine.
I also don’t understand why the so-called eye-for-an-eye-for-a-tat is wrong to understand rationally, but it seems that there is a voice inside that is saying forgiveness, tolerance and so on. Some people may say that this is a kind of instinct that human life likes to accumulate and inherit, or that it is in the interest of more people and cannot take revenge, or that it is a kind of friendship and so on. I don't understand.
A few days ago, I read Zhou Guoping’s book about Nietzsche. The book said that things like religion are hypocritical, because people can’t formalize the meaninglessness of life. In the end, Nietzsche’s theory of the will to life does not seem to get rid of the constant suffering of life. Cyclic cycle.
Some things seem to be insoluble according to my current intelligence and knowledge, such as love for others, and sacrificing myself for others, etc. It is always very utilitarian to think about it, although I know that there may be more explain.
In short, maybe it's just to be lazy now, anyway, if I encounter a problem in the movie, I'm thinking, why not sacrifice myself.








After reading it in the middle of the night, my brain fainted, but I wanted to write something. . . . A mess. Or you should read books on philosophy in their entirety to systematize your thoughts. . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The Road quotes

  • Wife: [she throws two pistol cartridges on the table] That's all we have left. I should have done it a long time ago. I should've done it when we had more bullets. I don't know why I listened to you. They're gonna catch up with us and they're going to kill us. They're gonna rape me, and then they're gonna rape your son and they're gonna kill us and eat us.

    The Man: Whatever it takes...

    Wife: Stop it.

    The Man: I told you...

    Wife: Stop it!

    The Man: I will do anything. Anything.

    Wife: Like what? Hmmm? I don't even know why I ask you. I should just go ahead and empty every goddamn bullet into my brain and leave you with nothing. That's what I should do.

    The Man: Please don't talk like that.

    [both turn and look at the boy who's playing in the next room]

    Wife: You're right. There's nothing left to talk about. My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born.

    The Man: We have to. We will survive this. We are not gonna quit. We're not gonna quit.

    Wife: I don't want to just survive. Don't you get it? I don't wanna. Why won't you let me take him with me?

    [Man reaches for the pistol, but she grabs it]

    Wife: Don't touch it. I would take him with me if it weren't for you. You know that.

    The Man: Listen to yourself. You sound... crazy.

    Wife: [Wife pushes the pistol back across table to him] Other families are doing it.

  • The Man: Listen, we have to talk. That man back there... There's not many good guys left, that's all. We have to watch out for the bad guys. We have to just... keep carrying the fire.

    The Boy: What fire?

    The Man: The fire inside you.

    The Boy: Are we still the good guys?

    The Man: Yes, we're still the good guys. Of course we are.

    The Boy: And we always will be? No matter what happens?

    The Man: Always will.