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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Extended Reading
  • John 2022-03-21 09:01:38

    Embrace the forest, embrace the sun, embrace the naked, and embrace me. I do anything out of the ordinary. I'm a utopia anyway.

  • Hassie 2021-11-22 18:54:15

    The most meticulous film I have seen so far this year is full of romanticism and no lack of rational reflection. Everyone yearns for a simple and free utopia, but human beings have already pushed themselves on a complex and institutionalized road without turning back. The person with the most story is the mother who has not played alive, and the director must be the same person who wanders between the two worlds like her.

Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Ben: [to passers-by as he stands naked in the doorway of his bus] It's just a penis. Every man has one. We're all animals of the earth.

    Nai: [waiting at the picnic table] Clothes when we eat!

  • Ben: [commandeering the eulogy from the minister] First of all, Leslie practiced Buddhism, which to her was a philosophy and not an organized religion. In fact, Leslie abhorred all organized religions. To her, they were the most dangerous fairy tales ever invented, designed to elicit blind obedience, and strike fear into the hearts of the innocent and the uninformed. To her, the only thing worse than death would have been the knowledge that her rotting flesh was to be trapped for all eternity inside a big box, and buried in the middle of a fucking golf course. Although the absurdity of being eulogized by someone that didn't even know her has exactly the kind of comedic flourish that Leslie would have cherished. If nothing else, she had a sense of humor. I want to read something to all of you, so you'll know what I mean.

    [pulling out a piece of paper]

    Ben: Leslie's last will and testament. And I quote, "in the event of my death, I, Leslie Abigail Cash, as a Buddhist, wish to be cremated. My funeral, such as it is, shall be a celebration of the life cycle, with music and dancing. After, it is my expressed desire that my ashes shall be taken to a nondescript location, preferably public and heavily populated. At which point my ashes, promptly and unceremoniously, are to be flushed down the nearest toilet." End quote. Now that's comedy.