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preface of the inscription : The flower in the elephant's hand, the dust on the flower, the universe above the dust,
an elephant named Horton, occasionally heard a few small calls. When it went through some twists and turns, it was discovered that these sounds actually came from a floating dust. There is a world inhabited above, with the mayor and his beautiful wife, as well as 96 daughters and a boy. The elephants became friends with them. In order to help them escape the catastrophe caused by the wandering of the councilors and their homes, Horton and the mayor launched their own rushes and struggles.
The inspiration for this movie may come from Blake's famous poem. But to me, its meaning goes far beyond fairy tales and animation, and has a metaphysical and religious meaning. Just imagine, don’t we live on the motes under the shelter of Horton? The more profound and human animations I've seen, except for Hayao Miyazaki in Japan, are "Monster Company", "Ice Age", "Finding Nemo", "Zombie Bride". Among them, "Ice Age" can be said to be a very great animation film. What's interesting is that, like "Holden and Anonymous", the protagonists of the two films are elephants hunted and killed, and the theme is the elephant's care and care for human life. Such a situation makes us, who are constantly hunting animals in reality, unavoidably ashamed and uneasy.
Two elephants, one cute and naughty, one mature and honest, but they are all the same persistence, the same simplicity and greatness, they all have a compassionate heart that grows like a flower, a kind of divine light. This kind of compassion is precisely the beautiful quality of abandonment and loss that we humans disdain for a long time. When we create countless theories and cultures, we just quibble to satisfy our desire for survival and the pleasure of slaughter, in order to make our slaughter and existence more legitimized and have a sense of lofty and superiority above all things. In the process of deliberately suppressing all things and treating them as inferior and inferior, it did not make human beings sublimate to gods. On the contrary, we are becoming more and more lost in who we are, and detesting ourselves more and more. Perhaps what we lack is this kind of compassion like "all things".
My interpretation below will definitely make people who see it unhappy. Readers will complain that I am too complicated or too pretentious. Of course, the interpretation of a purely lovely fairy tale into the following is not what I want to see. In fact, many beautiful and innocent things have been interpreted as completely different monsters by human beings (like me) or ignorance, or ulterior motives, or extremes, or self-righteousness. But I do this not because I agree with what Derrida said. All interpretations are based on the misunderstanding of personal interests, but because I did feel a sense of anxiety when watching this movie. And the necessity of narration. The mere pleasure of the game of narration cannot satisfy an injustice and depression. I believe that only when the narration itself becomes a kind of comfort and questioning, sublimated into a kind of compassion and care, can the narration overflow with meaning. The brilliance of happiness.
1. Elephant and Dust: An Open Concept of the Universe
This juxtaposition has the beauty of the tiger sniffing the rose. In literature, it can be called empathy or synesthesia. Baudelaire’s "symbol forest" theory of induction can be used to explain this, and it could not be better. Combining with every discovery of physics, it advances people’s understanding once, revolutionizing the transformation of familiar images of the universe, creating an endless new historical memory. The metaphor of elephants and dust can also be used. Seen as a new, poetic and imaginative concept of thinking through the universe. Physics always seems to follow science fiction literature when it comes to changing the picture of the world. Many of Verne's classic descriptions have long since become reality, and the worries and longings expressed in modern science fiction movies will hardly be shocking in the future.
The first revelation is that in the face of the universe, rationality and theoretical assumptions are sometimes far less profound and effective than poetic imagination. The perspective of literature and fairy tales abandon materiality and objectivity, and abandon the blind belief in the ultimate truth and certainty of uniqueness, so as to carry forward the tradition of the sixth sense through the interaction of mind and material, and the internality penetrates the boundless unknown and darkness. . Imagination develops human's primitive potential to the extreme, and the way of fantasy experience is exactly the way in which the object and the self enter the interior of things and enter the core of the essence. Only when the body and mind are truly integrated can we effectively perceive the real time and the real world, and see the things that others can't see, the kind that Kafka calls "something a few miles away." Imagination is not only a deadly weapon for subverting and reconstructing history and tradition, but also a powerful medium for predicting the future and seeing through the truth. Psychological hypnosis and Buddhist sitting meditation can effectively heal wounds and calm the soul, precisely because of this internality and indiscriminateness. All imagination and words, to the blooming place, always return to the same romantic and unhindered as Zhuang Zhou's Mengdie. I have always believed that the quality of the best literature is always close to enlightened koan, close to the nature of Zen enlightenment. Don't believe in your head and your theories, believe in chance and intuition, feelings and dreams.
The second hypothesis is that the human earth is exactly that dust. Of course, there are still countless dust universes on countless nano-level fine dust. On top of every self-sufficient life, there are countless lives and existences parasitizing countless other existences. In fact, I think the most important thing is: First, any life, whether it is dung, the earth, mayfly or human, is not completely self-sufficient, nor is it completely parasitic. Any being is a unity of parasitism and self-sufficiency. It is not either one or the other, but also one and the other. This is a bit like Einstein's wave-particle duality. As a result, the notion of thinking that oneself exists independently and the self-righteousness of "the primate of all things" that has been inherited since the birth of human beings is unavoidably a bit fallacious and self-righteous. From the perspective of a more ambitious existence, our earth may not be as good as a grain of dust. The duality of parasitism and self-sufficiency shows that everything in the universe is connected and synesthesizing, sharing prosperity with each other, destroying and destroying each other, and co-existing in a subsystem of a huge system that we cannot exhaust.
Second, all thoughts and cognitions are just close to the truth. With the past as a scale, the current understanding is correct, and the past is a fallacy; with the future as a scale, the present understanding is also fallacy, and the future is correct. As long as time stretches, there is no truth. No knowledge or concept is absolute. It is the product of a certain point in time. When this point is moved to another position, even if it is displaced by one billionth of a nanometer, truth and certainty cease to exist. People cannot grasp the truth because the truth itself is also a product of philosophical presupposition. Taking the future as the latitude and close to the future time image, we call it the truth. These nouns only have the authenticity of theory, are the technical needs of speaking and reasoning, and do not have the authenticity of ontology. The one-off and finiteness of human existence, as well as the uninterrupted timeliness of the universe, preemptively determine this lack of knowledge. All cultural images and traditions, science and theory, are based either on the summary of the past memory, or on the presupposition and imagination of the future. What we imagine may become part of the current tradition of linking, or it may be the beginning of some kind of rupture. Memory, existence and imagination are the three essential elements for us as a complete human being. Without memory, one would not know where it came from; without imagination, there would be no hope and comfort to overcome the suffering of reality. The above statement can provide a fundamental cosmological basis for the diversification of human choice, that is, the multiple symbiosis of culture, belief, and politics, as well as the legalization and rationality of issues.
2. Kangaroo and Councillors: The closed self-
imagination can penetrate the cold rocks of the world, but the self-closing self-imagination is either a fascination with self-love, or a powerful barrier to reject new knowledge and certain truth. . This kind of imagination blocked its own existence, thinking that this is the universe, the only center, outside of which there is no world or landscape. The restriction of sitting on the well and watching the sky makes the kangaroo mother and the councillors only believe in their own world, and don't think there is any other world of life.
However, this phenomenon is extremely complex. They use a long-standing tradition as their internal support to oppose new things. Since they themselves are part of this tradition and are supporting and maintaining its operation, they cannot lose this belief, this worldview capital that settles down. The terrible part of the truth: not only the destruction of the entire history and knowledge concepts, traditions and lifestyles, but also the destruction of one's own existence and dreams. If you believe Horton's remarks, it is tantamount to admitting the decline of tradition. The birth of truth will always shake the foundation of the existence of some people, making their clear reasons for survival and the setting of the meaning system all turned into falsehood and nothingness. As a result, the entire life is in danger of bankruptcy. In order to continue the glory and glory of the old days, they must find ways to repel and kill heretical thinkers. The actions of the Kangaroo mother and the councilors are the epitome of all the orthodox power holders and the defenders of cultural order. And Horton was the first enlightened person who dared to eat eggs. Naturally, the killing and siege of the orthodox people stems from their beliefs and worldview on the one hand, and on the other hand, they stem from the power and long-term interests of their special interest groups. This kind of deliberate blindness, because of the power, interest, and monopoly, is easier to block a world that is about to be born, just as the world in the dust is almost thrown into the pan.
What hinders people from knowing the truth is not only the power of special interests and the underlying factors of personal identity, but also the deep-rooted prejudices formed by the limitation of thought, the bad habits, customs and culture accumulated by the narrowing of knowledge and vision. The concept of defense (any kind of culture and ideology, when destroying the old order and establishing its own rationality, in order to prevent being subverted by the subsequent order, it has pre-built a deep defense and self-protection mechanism, which is based on Self-defense of the future state. This mechanism goes deep into the abyss of thought, while vigilantly looking at the changes in the outside world, on the one hand, it makes self-adjustment to adapt to the new reality under the premise of the ontological stability. On the other hand, it is a kind of system and order. The success of its subversion comes from the concentration of major forces to dismantle its deep defense mechanism and push its legalized defense into desperation). Of course, there are also historical time, the uncertainty and contingency of the universe. In the movie, the resistance of lawmakers and kangaroos to the truth is mainly due to the rule of power and traditional care, although a small dust does not threaten the jungle of kangaroos, and an elephant does not threaten the unnamed town. However, the mayor and elephant who discovered the truth were able to dispel the wisdom, dignity and privilege of the councillors and kangaroos, proving that they were short-sighted and ignorant conservative stubborns who were not worthy of rule. The people always like heroes and heretics who lead the trend, even in most cases, they are indeed abandoned and killed by the people. In the movie, the kangaroo and the elephant, the councillors and the mayor make a reconciliation, which is just a light-hearted trick. History has proven how cruel and bloody the past struggles between old and new ideas are. Destroying by violence and maintaining by violence are the bridges for the establishment of ideas and the advancement of revolution.
Closed thoughts have the most powerful self-protection mechanism. This mechanism presupposes a legalized premise that does not require self-defense (it can be the basis of all reasoning without proof): something that thought cannot penetrate temporarily , It is tantamount to non-existence; due to various restrictions that cannot be exhausted for the time being, it is tantamount to non-existence. Specifically, the kangaroo's philosophy is that what you can't hear, see, and feel doesn't exist. Since it does not exist, it is natural to instigate rebellion and confuse the public by toiling and bewitching it, so it is naturally legal to impose violent sanctions on it. The world inaccessible to sight, hearing and feeling is boundless, and the unknown cannot be equated with nothingness. This is tantamount to saying that the future does not exist. The word unknown in itself indicates the legitimacy of its imagination. When a thing has a corresponding word or sentence, in a sense, it is equivalent to announcing its reasonable existence. Discourse is by no means fabricating facts out of thin air, but an imagination rooted in the external historical reasoning and internal experience of mankind. Don't forget that language is the image of the world view, the image of the world itself.
3. Voices and shouts: the way to confirm self-existence
Wuming Town, in order to avoid extinction, convinced the kangaroos and apes (they are the symbols of the mob) that they exist, not fiction and nothing, and came up with a wonderful way : Let the whole town make a variety of sounds, and then let this sound be transmitted to the jungle. In the end, these creative voices were heard by the elephant’s jungle neighbors as they wished. The prejudice of thinking and the care of interests) made them believe that they existed, thus saving Wumingzhen.
Looking at these sounds from a symbolic perspective is very beautiful and interesting. The weight of sound is the weight of existence. Only by making a sound can we prove our own legalized existence, obtain the right and dignity of existence, and the necessary way of existence, social status, and so on. Here, the voice of Wuming Town is the expression of its right to speak. If they want to survive, they have to do everything possible to fight for the right to speak, and through it to express their needs, thoughts and natural rights of existence. The right to speak is an effective means to establish a new order and tradition, and it is also a procedure that must be completed before violence and order construction. All spiritual existence and material carriers are the evidence of this kind of speech and this kind of voice. To survive in the world, you have to find a way to make your own voice, otherwise, the collective and power will think that you do not exist at all. Although speaking out does not mean being recognized and protected, it is the first step to win recognition and protection.
This voice must also be unique, loud and determined. If you are not loud, people can't hear and don't care; if you don't be resolute, no one will take it seriously; if you're not unique, you can't be respected, remembered, and creative. In order to ensure the right to speak and the safety of one's own existence, it is necessary to transcend these three and turn the voice into a rational order. This is extremely necessary, and history and time flow from this. Turning voice into culture, religion, and ideology will provide support and comfort to the human spirit; into science, technology, and procedures, the human body will have protection and warmth; it will become a moral, ethical, legal, and political system, and people will be in harmony with each other. The relationship between people, the relationship between people and society, and the universe will be legally managed and disciplined, and the system will continue to be stable. Turning into art, music and literature, people will have the pleasure of the game and the ultimate sustenance of transcendence. All these things together constitute a huge and tight voice order, encumbering and ensnaring, enslaving and comforting countless individuals under it. Sound gives birth to order, and order strengthens sound. Even at the level of personal realization, there must be a voice of the self. Otherwise, how can one confirm the existence of the self and the achievement of the self?
The problem is that the world is not composed of only one sound. There should be chorus and solo; there should be sonatas and symphony; there should be classical ones, but also popular and popular ones. The rise and fall of these voices, the ups and downs of fate, and the change of power are just a living history of people. Sadly, solo singers do not always make their own voices, either being overwhelmed by the chorus, or being forced into the chorus by them. In the face of the absoluteness of a unified chorus, solo singers have only three destinies: one is consciously joining the chorus and happy; the other is being outside and being bullied, deprived of the right to sing, or even secretly killed ; One is to be forced to participate in a chorus and produce unwilling syllables. If a certain kind of chorus is in the age of rising and has many benefits, most of the soloists are blind streamers who try to refill their numbers.
4. Life, death and existence: All lives are equal and beautiful,
no matter how big or small, life is life. This is a sentence that the elephant Horton often hangs on his mouth, and it seems to be suggesting something to us. Existence means existence. It has its own structure. It is a holistic system and has nothing to do with size. This simple concept of equality of all things is a revolutionary creation, a long-lasting homesickness, and a great idealism. In reality, it may only be a phantom of literature, a trick of political democracy. All kinds of conflicts and violations have long turned the human world into a battlefield of intolerance and fraternity. There are billions of people with different nationalities, countries, history, beliefs, cultures, customs, etc. However, the center of gravity and the holders of power have always been judged based on their own interests. How can there be any equality? There are different standards inside and outside. White skin, black skin and yellow skin are distinguished by high and low. Men and women have always been different. Animals and plants have different classes, rich and poor. Even death is unequal. A tombstone of the rich can provide food and clothing for the poor for a lifetime.
Holden's ideals and practices make us feel insignificant and pathetic. This approach to the world, transcending humanity and humanitarianism, regards itself as the same quality and quantity as dust, the same existence and destination. Discrimination of humanity, humanity, and humanitarianism: They still start from the pre-existing and pre-determined subjectivity of man, object the world, and highlight the image of man and the supreme uniqueness superiority, but they are not The traditional words of aggression are nothing more than. These concepts of human pride are still based on the subject's objectified use of objects. Its utility is like a coin for a billionaire to show his sympathy to the beggar. The popular concept of harmony is not for harmony. Harmony is just a means, just like democracy is a guise for autocracy. Its theoretical premise is that things are for my use, and harmony is for lasting development and utilization. What is highlighted is still the dominant position and the right to speak.
Schopenhauer said that to live, we must let others live. Only when people regard themselves as being no different from dust, and family members of the same universe system, all basic particles, with the same life and death sorrows and joys, people may arouse true compassion. This kind of compassion is not the indifference of onlookers, nor the teachings from above, but it is inspired by the realization of one's own finitude and the realization that everything is as limited and short as I am. Therefore, when I feel compassion for the world, I actually feel compassion for myself; when I am tolerant of dissidents, I am also tolerant of myself; when I shed tears at a drop of dust, I also feel sorry for my life that will die like a string.
No matter how big or small, life is life. Let us remember these words piously, the warmth and the brilliance of Buddhahood in the words. Life is beautiful and equal without any conditions. Regardless of..., everything is born and equal, and dead and equal.
5. Transcendence and Return:
The care for life of the three conditions is the care for self. Qiwu’s thoughts and care are derived from the following realizations:
1. All beings are equal. There is life and death, and death from life is a part of this universe.
2. All existence, whether it is dust or ourselves, is destined to die. On the way to the same destiny, our encounters are the same as sorrows and joys. Because they are all finite, they need comfort and support.
3. Being aware of the limitations of thinking and reflection, of human prejudice and the endless openness of the world, and of contingency and uncertainty, we should read a gesture of tolerance for any kind of existence.
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