The film tells that in the future, humans can manipulate time as they please. In human society, no matter how long this person lives, his age is always fixed at 25. Because there is no natural death, in order to avoid population expansion, human society has abandoned the previous currency and used time as currency circulation. After a person's time runs out, that person will die. But this kind of social system is only implemented in the lower class, and the corresponding upper class can survive forever because of the inexhaustible time. All time is controlled and coordinated by the Time Administration. The society seems orderly, but the deprived lower classes are facing high pressure, especially when they learn that they are just a victim of a social system, resistance will naturally occur. . As a result, the pioneers of reform of the lower classes launched an uprising, demanding change, regaining autonomy, and establishing a new system.
This is the story told by the film "Time Planning Bureau" about the social system with profound modern meaning. It not only reminds me of "The Value of Fifteen Millions" in the "Black Mirror" series, if you say "Five Hundreds "The Value of Ten Thousand" only reveals the kidnapping of the social people by the consumerist system, and the "Time Planning Bureau" more directly opened the door for audiences to think about the social system. Our society is always divided into classes due to different possessions of resources. Class conflicts caused by unfair distribution and system exploitation will always intensify. The subsequent changes will break the old system. The pioneers of reforms are always heroic. People think that they have saved everyone. In fact, they destroyed the system and brought chaos, but they did not change the system, because the temporary chaos will eventually disappear under the establishment of a new system, and the brand-new physique will eventually disappear. It will be a new round of competition, possession and unfair distribution of resources. When the senior management of the Time Administration in the film warned the change makers that "you can only cause temporary chaos, but don't change your physique like this", I was shocked to understand that the system is the hand of control that nature gives to human society. The progress of social civilization requires an orderly and stable environment, and this hotbed must be maintained by the system. The social system, which is the rule of nature, is the truth in time, mournful and unfailing.
We always perceive this society with self-righteousness, but we never thought that the world has always been presented objectively in this way. The difference we see is only because of the many changes brought about by our subjective consciousness. If you want to have a deeper understanding of the truth of this world, you should never be swayed by the public's thoughts, because the public's thoughts are always wrong. I remember that a professor of journalism at NTU who I respect very much once said to me: "Teach you the tools to understand the world, hoping that you can see more truth about the objective world. People come here for a lifetime. If we just live a whole life in a muddle-headed manner, wouldn't it be in vain?" The dark night gave us black eyes and let us search for light. In his work "The World Is So Dirty, You Need To Be Strong Inside", Mr. Shi Yong pointed out that only after you have a true and correct understanding of society, can you break all the lies and traps in this society, and then can you recognize and abandon it. Various institutional traps imposed on you by society.
I have always felt that when we are alive, we should keep our eyes open to see the world clearly. We can choose a life that is still complacent and plain, but not ignorant and ignorant. Perhaps some people are afraid of losing confidence in living in the face of a too real society, but perhaps from another perspective, if we can use the calmer and more efficient rationality gained based on seeing the nature of the world to participate in the competition for social resources In the game, get more social resources and use these social resources to do something valuable or interesting to you. Isn't it a more pleasant and meaningful thing to live?
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