Utopian paranoia

Colten 2022-10-02 00:24:12

The protagonist, Allie Fox, despises Japan as a great American on the one hand, and the world together with the United States on the other. A world that has the mind of a scientist but wants to abandon this science and live in groups. He ridiculed Robinson for spending a lot of effort to return to the city from the deserted island, but he did not know that he returned from heaven to hell. Go to the most primitive and ancient starting point of the earth, use his superhuman scientific mind to build a practical and comfortable home, and satisfy his selfish desire to become the smartest leader. The pitiful thing is that his family, wife and 4 children have to face the endless hardships with him or the joy of leaving and abandoning the family to reunite. No matter how remote the world is, there are bad people who make a living by oppression. A utopia without protection does not exist.

Doubt:

1. Christianity and the pastor did not provoke him, but he was paranoid to provoke Christianity. In fact, as long as he doesn't listen and doesn't join in, it's fine.

2. He was so smart that he carried such a big block of ice over the mountains and didn't think of being a personal wheelbarrow?

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The Mosquito Coast quotes

  • Allie: Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as invention, you know. It's only magnifying what already exists.

  • Charlie: My father often talked of things being revealed - that was true invention, he said. Revealing something's use, and magnifying it; discovering its imperfections, improving it, and putting it to work for you. God had left the world incomplete, he said, and it was man's job to understand how it worked, to tinker with it, and to finish it. I think that was why he hated missionaries so much - because they taught people to put up with their earthly burdens. For father, there were no burdens that couldn't be fitted with a set of wheels, or rudders, or a system of pulleys.