The cruel thing about this question is that life is a one-way street, and there is no possibility of starting from scratch. If you choose, you have to bear the consequences, endure the pain of loss, and wait for uncertain gains.
Generally speaking, when faced with such a choice, we will gradually experience pressure and advice from all directions: family, relatives, friends, and society. Although we vacillate and hesitate between mainstream values and inner passions, we often end up with abandoning our ideals.
Because we are afraid of a sentence: "You know how to cherish when you lose."
This seemingly correct sentence concealed the fact that "there is no costless choice." It makes people think that choosing an ideal will lead to loss, and nostalgia for the present. There will only be gains. Because dreams are nothing compared to current possessions, it is much easier and easier to give up her, but this does not mean that nothing has been lost.
There are many aspects to ideals, such as winning the lottery, traveling around the world, living in a dream, or living in seclusion in the mountains and forests. These ideals may never be realized, they may be grossly wrong, they may be painful, or they may be found to be extremely boring when they are realized, and it may be better to give up them.
But there is only one time in life, so what we give up is not just a vague dream, but the possibility of life. Just like facing a blank paper and a painting, we gave up the blank paper and chose the painting. If we can ask ourselves, maybe we will find that the reason why we give up the white paper is how much we like the pattern, but because we don’t know what to do when facing the white paper. So, why not choose the easy road, where there are ready-made trajectories, there are countless colleagues in the same industry, there are ready-made answers for what we should do and what we should do, day after day, year after year, like sun rising and sunset There is no risk in following the rules. This is the power of mainstream values.
The strength of the mainstream value is that if you eventually violate it, you will have to face its indifference, sarcasm, and defense. When you realize your ideals and enjoy it, it does not deny your achievements, but denies your role model, telling people that you are just a fluke; when you experience ups and downs and encounter misfortunes, it even hurts others. Will tell you with no sympathy: "It's all your fault!" Unless you can submit to it again.
In this sense, mainstream values are a kind of extremely exclusive religious doctrines, such as monotheistic Christianity, and what is hidden under the veil of tenderness is a kind of cold violence.
Western values deeply influenced by Christianity are fully revealed in this Shrek 4 animated film. It is true that this is just a summer popcorn movie. It is too demanding to require it from an ideological height. But as an animated film with many children's audiences, what kind of theme does it express?
"If you choose your ideal, you will be the enemy of the whole world and let the whole world fall into your mistakes! Only when you repent and rehabilitate, the good life will come back to you."
For children, even For adults, is there a more terrifying metaphor than this?
In fact, there is no right or wrong between the so-called mainstream values and radical idealists. For personal choices, they are equal and waiting for your choice. What we need to understand is that [whatever you choose Either one will be lost. 】
After watching the movie, what always came to my mind was the scene from "Journey to the West" Daughter’s Middle School. The daughter of the country’s master and Tang Seng sent Wukong, Bajie, and Drifting to the intersection, and Tang Seng suddenly wanted to say goodbye to the country’s master. , The daughter of the lord was shocked, holding Tang Seng, and couldn’t help asking: "Brother Yu, I would like to make a country rich and recruit you as my husband. Tomorrow will rise to the throne, and ascend the throne to be called the king. After I become the king, I will be happy to feast. They all ate them, but how
did they change their minds?" Before Tang Monk could answer, he was taken abducted by the goblin.
I don't know what Tang Seng thought at the time, but the monk was not an eunuch, and he should have a sense of dust. He may not be indifferent. It is just that compared to the ideal of living in a comfortable life and the ideal of learning from the West, he chose the latter.
Perhaps what Tang Seng wanted to say at the time was this sentence, "The world will have two peaces, and it will live up to the Tathagata and the Qing."
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