Humanities, alienation, enlightenment

Makenzie 2022-03-26 09:01:02

Many classmates have watched this film, and the ones posted in the circle of friends are all "boring", "I can't watch it halfway through."

Discussing ideology is a shame, and this is especially true for the science fiction of overhead reality.

Beginning with labor alienation, the world has become something that can be quantified. If it cannot, then it is substituted into the Bayesian formula and quantified with a priori probability.

The model of dystopia is the mechanized life like a honeycomb ant nest.

The sages told us that human beings are not original sin, but are gifted with human rights.

Politically correct, compared to a mechanized worldview, is a dawn, as if an ancient Roman sculpture unearthed during the Renaissance was shining under theocratic power. As a person, even if you don’t know what is right, you can at least feel it, He is good.

Rules, power, prices, work.

In the post-God era, things are not much better. People are not alienated by the will of the church, but are imprisoned by everything that is materialized, so that nihilists frequently ask: Everything is meaningless, why bother?

The theory of labor surplus value pointed out the core: if the class is not awakened, the alienation must be deepened day by day.

Power is a kind of alienation, even more so than the condemnation of power, and politically correct, isn't it another kind of alienation that is even more excessive?

People fear power, death, and nothingness.

What is a person? Music! Beauty! Life!

As a human being, without these, there is nothingness.

Politically correct, the logic of the PC itself is an absolutely static reference system. Once exchanged with other ideas, it is the most normal thing that the system cannot be self-consistent.

The word “correct” is very clear: I don’t know why this is the case, but I think it’s right. But I am going to talk about the fundamentals: political correctness itself is an unkind division. He looked at the alienation one by one in isolation. As a result, the crack widened, and the people criticized it, so that he forgot that there was common interest under this crack, which was the possibility of contradictory transformation.

"There are no contradictions in socialist countries" so there was a great purge and the Cultural Revolution. "There is no discrimination or inequality above the Freedom Beacon."

The classes can no longer be united. At least this is a good thing, right?

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The Shape of Water quotes

  • Hoffstetler: He's bleeding. What happened?

    Strickland: It's an animal, Hoffstetler. Just keepin' it tame.

  • Strickland: [to Zelda and Elisa] Let me say this up front: You clean that lab, you get out. The thing we keep in there is an affront. Do you know what an affront is, Zelda?

    Zelda: Something offensive?

    Strickland: That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. You may think, "That thing looks human." Stands on two legs, right? But - we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's what the Lord looks like, do you?