MAD PEOPLE AND ANOTHER NUMBER

Stanford 2022-03-20 09:01:34

A few years ago, I liked post-rock, and I listened to many bands intensively, including maybeshewill. They really like a few songs, " Not for Want of Trying" is one of them. As a post-rock, this song is really heavy. When I first listened to it, my scalp was numb, and I was so amazed that it exploded in place. Later, it was my friends who put me together piece by piece, thank them, otherwise I would not have sat in front of the computer and typed this text on the keyboard.

There is a vocal sample in "Not for want of trying" (long live the vocal sample!), which is from this movie. I knew earlier that when I was looking for a movie to watch today, I thought of this. It's amazing. Everything related will come together in a short time, as if some kind of arrangement in the dark.

Recently, some insights or learnings can be brought together under one theme, that is, "Knowing yourself". In several aspects, the first is to begin to accept the identity of oneself as a human being (it does not mean that one will go all the way down the road, but to try, explore, and experience). Temporarily identify more as a human being and less as a device/machine/carrier/observed object. The second is to start lowering the requirements of yourself, accepting that you are an ordinary person, without a smart brain, a handsome face, or any talent, ordinary and ordinary (self-deprecating, don’t take it seriously :D) , is one of the more than 7 billion parasites on this planet. As a result, I am more accepting of my current situation, all kinds of failures, frustrations compared with others, whatever, as described in a novel, I was knocked to the ground, and the ground of the competition platform supported my back. , I feel a kind of truth and calmness (long live the capitulationism!!) Third, I need to know my own thoughts more clearly. After I tried it, my original thoughts were pierced and the truth was exposed. At the current stage, in about two or three years, there is no professionalism, and I don’t want to become a professional manager in the business elite (unfortunately, sometimes it is easier to do what I don’t want), just like in this movie of many people. What I pursue more now is peace and happiness, and I want to waste my youth.

In the movie, Hackett represents this kind of people who pursue power and money, I feel a little difficult to understand now, because the needs are different, my needs and their needs are two needs, so we have to go There should be two paths.

Many things in the movie are very reasonable, especially in a commercial society. Really, everything serves "business", which is bustling and profitable, but those values ​​that better reflect the meaning and value of human life. , the way of existence, in the second place. Too many people become affiliates of the organization, struggling for the benefit of the company and their own food, becoming a part of the machine, being numbered, analyzed and selected by various evaluation tools, quantitatively evaluated, and specified what to do. To what extent should you not do things, you are provided with a model of life, a model of entertainment, countless rules, and in the end, it all seems normal, too normal.

Perhaps, this is a kind of evolution of humanity as a whole, from a Dionysian man to an Apollo man?

I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't seem to have said what I want to say. I can't figure out what I want to say.

happy ending

7.13

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Extended Reading
  • Kadin 2022-03-27 09:01:04

    Going from 2 to 4 in the middle of the night forced me to think about the meaning of the medium now. It used to be "Entertainment To Die", now it is "Black Mirror", will we end up being played to death by the things we like. The advent of the Internet era is an extension or an end to this proposition. Allow me to think again.

  • Kristian 2021-11-13 08:01:24

    When you meet a media person who can only reach a climax by thinking about the ratings, you should immediately knock her down

Network quotes

  • [Jensen leads Beale into the conference room]

    Arthur Jensen: Valhalla, Mr. Beale. Please, sit down.

  • Max Schumacher: Howard, I'm taking you off the air. I think you're having a breakdown, require treatment.

    Howard Beale: This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity. I'm imbued, Max. I'm imbued with some special spirit. It's not a religious feeling at all. It's a shocking eruption of great electrical energy. I feel vivid and flashing, as if suddenly I'd been plugged into some great electromagnetic field. I feel connected to all living things. To flowers, birds, all the animals of the world. And even to some great, unseen, living force. What I think the Hindus call prana. But it's not a breakdown. I've never felt more orderly in my life. It is a shattering and beautiful sensation. It is the exalted flow of the space-time continuum, save that it is spaceless and timeless and... of such loveliness. I feel on the verge of some great, ultimate truth. And you will not take me off the air for now or for any other spaceless time!