Hippie worldview, libertarian practice

Chris 2022-03-24 09:01:34

A libertarian would advocate a fully individualized homeschooling, emphasizing the failure of the public education system, the erosion of youth by popular culture, but the whole family lives in the jungle, completely isolated, completely anti-material, anti-capitalist ideas, and From the reverie of a thoroughly liberal hippie.
Of course, we can see that in the process of delineating characters and plots, the director is deliberately trying to avoid stereotypes, not only trying to avoid people's stereotypes or over-romanticization of escapists and hippies, but also trying to avoid freedom The excessive ridicule and demonization of the traditional life model and family by the ideological concept holders. However, he did not achieve this effect as expected, and the tendency is still very obvious - he shows his respect for the latter through the role of the protagonist's wife's father, and other characters also in the latter's spectrum are still pale. To the extent that it does not exist like a piece of paper, and even still uses games-addicted, lack of knowledge, pale, unhealthy, unhappy children, parents who use words to disguise the truth, and all other outsiders The obesity and weakness are used to reinforce the contrast.
Speaking of which, six or seven years ago, I myself envisioned such an isolated throwback life. However, just as the film attempts to cast aside and dismantle the stereotype of the hippie by some and the romanticized assumption by others of it, it is irresponsible for the mere utopian, romantic, inactive, or action. The rambunctious hippies are contemptuous. Therefore, it sets the main person in charge of this family education system as a self-disciplined, rigorous, honest parent who can thoroughly practice egalitarianism in behavior, although he holds anti-materialism, anti-capitalism, anti-social The system is still the value of the hippies - of course, the fact that such hippies with libertarian strong practical ability can exist in reality is questionable. Strength, self-discipline, and natural pride are certainly laudable, but it is questionable whether such an approach can really achieve such results, and learning is never only about the accumulation and growth of knowledge and insights, but also about connecting with the world. life itself.

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Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Ben: It's a beautiful mistake. But a mistake.

  • [first lines]

    Ben: [family gathers around the slain deer] Today, the boy is dead. And in his place... is a man.

    Bo: [rips off a bloody bite of the offered morsel]