The debate between the new leftists in mainland China and the liberals after 1989 was rooted in whether to be wary of power or wary of capital. The left demon is scary, and the right demon is scary. Conventionally, it should be the direction of the European political spectrum, but when China is "left" and "right", it will be confused. In fact, there are only "Mao Left" and "Mao Right". Since the mid-1990s, the "farewell to the revolution" proposed by Liu Zaifu and Li Zehou has gradually become a trend of thought, and the reformists led by "healthy forces within the system" have been entrusted with the important task of peaceful transition by the people. Twenty-five years have passed, and reality has severely beaten the mouths of these sub-healthy people, and people have begun to return to the fierce ideological struggle between the left and the right.
"Even the Rain", there is also a Chinese translation called "Rain Crisis". But "Apocalypse America" would be better, as if giving the audience a "final" verdict. The young Hegel realized the moment he saw Napoleon mount a war horse in Jena, that human history has come to an end, and since then we are all "the last man". its reprint. Fukuyama's The End of History is the pinnacle of this prophecy, the consolidation of Western democratic parliamentary systems and capitalist globalization, marking the end of human history. When the human beings living in the postmodern become the parts and screws of the global capital assembly line, all lofty values and great ideals become a cloud. "Apocalypse in America" is not about post-colonialism, but post-colonialism is just a proxy for the globalization of capital. Globalization had already begun when Columbus and the Jesuits landed on the American continent to bring the Indigenous peoples the sword of the king and the Bible of God.
Commodity fetishism is the religion that truly unifies the world today, and the secularization of religion is inevitable. So it is said that there is a conflict between Confucianism and Yemen in China, and the US war on terror is a showdown between Christian civilization and Islamic civilization—all bull shit. Contemporary left-wing communist thinker Zizek exposed this lie in "Welcome to the Great Desert of Reality": In essence, the rise of fundamentalism was caused by the destruction of the secular left by capital. Whether you are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism or the Communist Party, you are all grasshoppers on a thread - because "history is over". Where it ends, it ends when Napoleon mounts his horse, or when the Jesuits preach the Gospel to the Native Americans.
The aboriginal actor that Sebastian looked for was originally for Money, and only for Money. The female assistant's attempt to set him up with a grand narrative of "reflecting on the impact of postcolonialism on Latin America" is ineffective. Where capital is rampant, human beings are pure and lovely, and it is best to reduce it to a thousand-person symbol like Money, which can criticize production and consumption. But people are not inanimate things, and when Costa gleefully reports to investors that they have found cheap labor for these "Fucking Grey Man", they will still be furious. The arrival of the crew is a moral colonization. You think that you speak for the heaven and the people, but in the end, you are still high in your deeds. You sit at the head and let the poor be the footstools. "The noble are the stupidest, and the humble are the wisest" ("Quotations of Mao Zedong").
Protests against the privatization of tap water are happening everywhere in the world today, all the time. A few years ago, China's large state-owned enterprises turned the public into privatized state, and millions of workers were laid off, worse than those of the indigenous people of Bolivia. Post-colonialism is first and foremost economic colonization, and Christianity in it has also been reduced to an ineffective spray in the flood of capital. "Give me the food I need today", people are iron and rice is steel; the economic base determines the superstructure. Sending Bibles and sympathy to the orphan, the old, and the weak alone is the greatest immorality. Jesus Christ himself had to eat.
"Go in peace! May you be clothed and fed!" (James 2:15-17)
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