Just like the tears of the doctor who first met the elephant in the movie, why did they shed it?
What is the essence of man? Is it the insistence on "non-me races, their hearts must be different", or the "brotherhood" deep in the heart, unable to bear to see the pain of others? After all, people exist for their own lives. In this case, how to explain the sacrifice of mothers to save offspring? Can people’s vision really cross the generations?
How much difference is there between the doctor and the two guys who made their fortune from elephants, is it as big as we see it, or is it as much as the doctor said "I'm really different from them"? What separates people's behavior gaps? Is it human civilization? What is the ultimate goal that people are going to go to? Or are you born human, destined to encounter the conflict between the human and the beast in your heart? Is civilization just whitewashing, or is it the mechanism of what Freud called "sublimation"? When a person begins to walk independently, she faces the cage of freedom. Fromm's Escaping Freedom may be the initial answer to these questions.
In any case, one thing is certain, the doctor gave the elephant the possibility of being human. So what caused the initial misery of the elephant man? Humans are so sensitive to differences. In social life, we are so quick to look for the same kind, appearance, clothing, interests, character, experience, economy, social class, etc., we are so eager to find the same kind and exclude the dissidents, like people is an extreme example, and the prejudice in life And stereotypes abound. Why are we so superficial and extreme, once the difference appears, it immediately blocks the possibility of entering the world of others. Different, what does it mean? If you try to analyze it from a biological point of view, perhaps because humans are social animals, different means unpredictability, and unpredictability means danger. Our evolution has made us more and more obsessed with finding differences in the subtleties. The relationship between people has become so sensitive. What is the source of the deep-rooted insecurity? Perhaps it is still from the conflict between man and beast, between freedom and fear of freedom.
The differences between people are so complicated and yet so shallow. In the relationship between people, there should be a baseline, that is, respect for individual life, respect for oneself first, and then respect for others. On top of respect, slowly dismantle the cage, and slowly try to enjoy the diversity of people. The road to human evolution is so long. If we give up the human nature of people who seek up and down, then we may eventually be destroyed. Zhang twisted evolved face, returning to nothingness.
Also, to David Lynch.
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