A phrase I often hear is "Women are men's schools", which means that boys learn about the world and people through their relationship with women.
After reading "Women of the Twentieth Century", the question that comes to mind is: Who will educate women about the world and people? There doesn't seem to be a ready-made answer to this question. Can women be self-taught? Because of their connection to the earth? Because of their instincts and intuitions that nurture life?
Will this innate ability keep it alive as humanity enters the twentieth and future centuries of alienation?
"Twentieth Century Woman" pushes this question to the center of the story. Although three different women have their own views on the world and people, it is obvious that they do not live independently and confidently. None of the three had an answer to the fundamental question of life—what a right and worthwhile life looks like.
This question may seem abstract and indirect, but answering it is the key to living a powerful and autonomous life. Its importance is not only for women, but for men as well.
Men can learn to live the right life through the school of women, but what about women? How do they get the answer to this question? Especially in this day and age when IVF, egg freezing, single motherhood, feminism are making headlines?
Without an answer to this question, women's lives may be lost, and their offspring may lose their autonomy and self-confidence, including, of course, countless sons. When these people grow up, they will pass on this confusion and self-confidence to future generations until these people find the answer.
What makes the answer to this question incomprehensible is this ever-alienating world. The human mind is constantly inventing so-called innovative ideas, striving to satisfy its desires. On the one hand, the boundlessness of desire and the unknown how to control it make human beings confused and confused; on the other hand, technological progress and its short-term success have made human beings have the illusion that they can transcend the laws of life.
But the fact that human beings are subject to the natural laws of life cannot be changed by technological innovation. Only by knowing this law and following its value is it possible to live a right and worthwhile life.
It sounds as though humans have no free will to decide their own lives. But this understanding is the result of being blinded by thought. The laws of nature are rational and support the liberty of life. Any freedom contains the law of restraint against inflated ego desires. The function of inhibition is not to limit the development of life, but to protect the freedom and symbiosis of life.
The core of religion is to reveal the laws of life, and its function is thus to give freedom to human beings. Understanding this law is especially difficult for thinking animals like humans. Thought often prevents us from directly perceiving the right way of life and its ultimate meaning.
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