History is not a mirror, but a mark on a blackboard that can be erased and filled at any time. What is even more frightening is that once it has been altered, you cannot find evidence to prove that it is an act of tampering with history.
In addition to being alive, the other thing that persists the longest is watching "One Piece". I've been chasing it for 13 years, and I almost forgot why I liked it in the first place.
In fact, in addition to liking itself, the reasons for liking have been changing. At first it was because of direct joy and emotion, then it was blood and adventure, dream and perseverance. Now, more because of its history and reality.
This may be the true meaning of liking. Not obsessed. Don't rely on ghosts. No one will hold the original "like" unchanged for thousands of years. If a "like" lasts, it must be because it accommodates the possibility and possible growth of our growth. Clothes that I wore when I was a child can't be worn when I grow up. Toys in childhood are no longer fascinated when they grow up.
The same is true for the love between people. No one will always like you standing at the origin. If Luffy stayed on an island during his voyage and lived happily ever after, the story would probably end.
"One Piece" brought me a lot of pure happiness, and even resolved the sadness of my lovelorn, and I also contributed a lot of tears to it.
I still remember those emotional moments: in Alabasta, parting with Vivi; in the capital of seven waters, the departure of the Golden Merry; in Judiciary Island, Robin shouted that I want to live; in the Navy Headquarters, Ace died without hesitation...
As for those happiness, they are all lost in the long growth. Dissolved by time, submerged by events. It is not very clear.
Have not grown into a profound person, but it is difficult to hold shallow happiness.
Not only happiness, it seems that even sadness is not so easy.
Li Shutong wrote "Sorrows and Joys", but he didn't expect that there was still a period of "sorrows and joys" in his life.
As the Spring Festival is approaching, I saw Mr. Zhao Yingjun's splendid writing without a full stop on the Internet. Somewhat stunned. A person just left this world - with so much love and remorse. Also a little surprised. In that nostalgic list, there is "One Piece".
On a lively day, I was briefly sad for a person I didn't know. When I thought that someone would read "One Piece" when they left this world, I was inexplicably happy.
The world is still lively, and his life and death are too far away from me. If I hadn't wanted to write something about "One Piece", I'd probably have forgotten about this person.
The connection between people is also amazing. You never know why you think of someone. Or remembered by others for what.
Because of this, the process of being alive is more interesting. We are planting the seeds of "missing" at any time, but we are not sure which one will grow quietly and bear flowers in which person's heart.
Every time I think about it, it is accompanied by flowers blooming and falling.
Think of Zhang Zao's poem: As long as you think of the regrets in your life, plum blossoms will fall on Nanshan.
Perhaps, as long as he thinks of a person who has left this world, he will pin a small red flower on his chest.
Flowers blooming in front of the court and flowers falling on Nanshan Mountain are all "reminiscent".
"Death is not the end of life, forgetting is."
Borrowing the topic to play a bunch of some and not. Back to topic. I actually want to talk more about the reality and history seen in "One Piece" - the real reality and the unreal history.
Almost all the characters, cities and islands that appear in One Piece can be found in the real world, even prototypes.
For example, the character prototype of the four emperors BIG MOM comes from the ghost mother in Grimm's fairy tale "Candy House".
Blackbeard Marshall D. Teich was named after Edward Teich, a pirate active in the 18th century Caribbean Sea.
Trafalgar Law is based on the 18th century English pirate Edward Law. Edward Lowe (1690–1724), born in London, was one of the most notorious pirates of the Caribbean.
Don Quixote Doflamingo is derived from the anti-knight novel "Don Quixote" by Spanish writer Cervantes, and Flamingo means flamingo in English. As for his code name "JOKER" in the dark world, it was taken from the ghost card in the playing cards.
If you are interested, everyone with a name and a surname can find clues in reality. And this connection is not just the borrowing of names, many characters are also quite similar to the prototype in appearance, personality, and behavior. (The picture below is the clearest character comparison picture I can find, but only part of it. Make up your own brain.)
The same goes for the cities and islands you pass by.
The prototype of Roger Town, the hometown of Roger the Pirate King, is the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy.
The prototype of the sea restaurant Balati is a fish-shaped cruise restaurant on the Saigon River in Vietnam, called Saigon Cruise Restaurant.
The horn village of the drum country comes from the city of Tehuli in Alberobello, Italy, and the castle of Kureha (formerly Wapol Castle) on the top of the snow mountain is taken from the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany.
The City of Seven Waters comes from Venice, Italy, just by looking at its name.
The recently updated Wano Kingdom and many of its elements and associated history are taken directly from Japan.
The prototype of the legendary figure of the Wano country, Kozuki Oden, is the "Sixth Demon King" Oda Nobunaga. The death of the Kozuki family in the fire corresponds to the well-known historical event in Japan "The Incident of Honnoji Temple". The person who started this rebellion and killed Nobunaga was Akechi Mitsuhide, who should be the prototype of the black charcoal twilight cicada.
The other is Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the actual successor of the Oda family. The appearance of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in history is ugly and wretched, and it can be said to be a perfect fit with the image of the black charcoal snake. In addition to his appearance, the black charcoal orochi's lecherous character and poor and humble background are also the same as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and it can even be said that The black charcoal snake is completely the projection of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in "One Piece".
But these are only superficial realities. In "One Piece", many deep realities are often hidden in seemingly unrealistic plots.
In episode 152 of the animated version, the Straw Hats came to an empty island 10,000 meters above the ground by riding the huge current that spewed out of the sea. This air island is also called Paradise Island. It's like a distant and illusory utopia where almost no one believes in the existence of empty islands. But this "utopia" does exist, and the aborigines on the island also have angel-like wings.
The ruler of the empty island is called Anilu, who is called "God", and his subordinates are called priests.
In the empty island, Anilu really exists like a god. He is a natural-type "Thundering Fruit" ability, and has an ability called "Heart Net". This ability allows him to sense what everyone on the island is thinking, anytime, anywhere. He had a panoramic view of everything that happened on the island.
If he wanted to punish someone, he would activate the Thunder Fruit, and a bolt of lightning fell from the air, hitting directly without any deviation.
It is not difficult to see that the sky island is completely a replica of Oceania in George Orwell's novel "1984". Ai Nilu is the big brother in 1984, the thought police and the electronic screen, "watching you" all the time.
Putting aside totalitarianism and politics, the empty island chapters in "1984" and "One Piece" are almost a prediction of today's online world. The Internet has long become a necessary reality in life.
Perhaps, it was not the degeneration of humanity that contributed to 1984, but the advancement of technology. The more technologically advanced it is, the more likely our world will be closer to that of 1984. Who would have thought that the electronic screen in "1984" is the mobile phone in our hands today.
When you search for a product in one APP, switch to another APP, and an advertisement for the same product appears instantly. Do you feel thoughtful and surprised? Still feeling stalked?
We have moved from an era of big data to an era of "small data". If a statistic says that 1% of the people in the country are fools, even if the statistic is accurate to single digits, probably not many people will care. But if there is data that tells you that you have a 1% chance of being a fool, even if this probability is small, you will feel that the whole person is not good.
Big data helps us observe world trends, industry trends, and audience composition. And "small data" has been extended to individual life preferences, political leanings and sexual orientation. "1984" is an experiment with small data on individuals.
A mobile phone can almost sum up a person's entire life or even a lifetime: where does your time go. Where did your money go. where have you been. Where did your girlfriend and your dog go.
And you don't necessarily know all of this. But there is always someone looking at you. It may not be Big Brother, it may not be God, it may be an advertiser.
Tmall knew before me that I was going to have a cat.
Of course, we only have the possibility of certain technologies. Compared with risks, the mobile Internet has provided great convenience for modern people. We are more like active sacrifice than passive captivity in 1984. Sacrifice part of our secrecy and fulfill our natural laziness.
I've often wondered if trends were inevitable, if individual data would always be visible, if mobile phones knew better than we do. So, can there be an APP that can integrate this information, let us know what is seen, and let us see the real self in the mobile phone. Let us know how to finish this summer and how to finish this life.
I often click on the WeChat or Weibo of a deceased person. People are gone, the record is still there. Fragments of life are scattered all over the internet.
Those information, like a plastic part accidentally left in the memory soil, will be forgotten sooner or later, but it is difficult to degrade.
I also have a bunch of miscellaneous apps on my phone, and every time I use one, I leave a bunch of information. Like a dog that urinates everywhere and can't find its way home.
There are so many apps that help us live well, and I hope there is also an app that tells us how to live.
This requires strong integration and computing power. Maybe the green one below will be available in the future. Then it needs to kill all the other things called apps, and platforms called iOS and Android. We'll just have it in our phones from now on (and almost there). Only it is looking at you.
It's your "big brother".
There is a very strong setting in the whole "One Piece", which is the blank 100 years - the missing 100 years in the history of the world.
"The world government was born after this blank period. It has ruled the world for 800 years since then. The world government strictly forbids to unravel the truth of the blank 100 years. What happened in the 100 years can only be understood by reading the historical text.
Once in Robin's hometown, O'Hara, the archaeological sanctuary, Dr. Kloba studied the text of history and wanted to unravel the secrets of 100 years of blankness. But Dr. Klopa was wiped out along with the people of O'Hara.
Taking this incident as a starting point, everything in the blank 100 years was covered up by the world government.
Why the world government should hide the gap for 100 years. People who know this secret don't even mention it now. "
It can be said that in the whole anime, the process of pirates pursuing ONE PIECE is a process of finding the historical text and unlocking the blank 100 years. This is the driving force behind the entire anime. ONE PIECE is just an appearance.
There are shadows of "1984" everywhere in One Piece. Traces of 1984 can be found in the Sky Island ruled by Anilu, the Dressrosa Kingdom ruled by Doflamingo, and the Wano Kingdom ruled by the Black Coal Orochi.
But "One Piece" has completely inherited the historical view of "1984".
George Orwell wrote in "1984": History is not a mirror, but a mark on a blackboard, which can be erased and filled at any time. What is even more frightening is that once it has been altered, you cannot find evidence to prove that it is an act of tampering with history.
Some time ago, I read a book called "Rebels Who Don't Do Something", which also mentioned two similar points.
One, blank, no, but also historical data.
"Like the obscured, the vanished, the forgotten, the invisible.
For example, the disappearing Poyang Lake without water, the unicorns that do not exist in the physical world, the ponds that no longer grow fish due to excessive pollution, the city of Beijing where streets and buildings cannot be seen under the thick smog, and the famous In the oil paintings, Zhu De's "Jinggangshan Meeting with Teachers" was erased, and Liu Shaoqi, Gao Gang and other important figures' "Founding Ceremony" were erased, and so on. "
Second, history is a competition of oblivion.
"What is discussed here is active forgetting, which is forgetting that actively and consciously cut off the connection with the past for a certain purpose. Burning books, writing prisons, deleting posts, blocking sensitive words or banning speech is to cause a An active forgetting, a forced forgetting."
The slaughtering order in "One Piece" is this mandatory oblivion. Hundreds of warships wiped an island from the earth in an instant. Blank.
There is a novel "We Have Nothing" (highly recommended), which also writes the absurdity of this forced oblivion. In the 1930s, an incompetent portrait painter was assigned by the Soviet authorities to remove dissent from official photographs and works of art, so he painted his brother's face in every image he censored middle.
"The existing historical narrative is full of myths and pitfalls, because history is spoken and made. We need to know that the more single, pure, and clear history is, the more dangerous it is to be hidden, rewritten, and forgotten. the more.”
"It turns out that the historical facts that we can understand are just fragments that have survived and have been screened by various forces. In addition, the huge historical facts have been shielded and excluded from our memory bank. What we cannot understand Of those, quite a few are things that predecessors did not think should or deserve to be known by future generations."
Originally thought, in order to alter and forget, the slaughtering order is very cruel. As a result, the recently updated Wano country chapter refreshed my cognition again. For the first time, because of an anime, I experienced a shock of scalp tingling.
Under the high-pressure rule of Kaido and Orochi, the villagers of Wano country are suffering from hardship and lack of food. They can only survive by picking up the garbage shipped by the ruling class.
In Ebisu Village in Huadu, people cry every day for death. Orochi got bored, and mixed the failed artificial devil fruit SMILE into the things shipped from Huadu.
A side effect of SMILE is that people who take it lose their sad and angry expressions. In addition to the smile, other expressions will be taken away.
After a few times, everyone knew, but the villagers of Ebisu Village were still defeated by hunger.
Everyone laughed, and the cheerful village, Ebisu Village, was formed.
This is a very happy village at first glance, but it is a tragic village where you can't feel sadness even when your parents die.
The serpent makes people miserable and keeps them from grief.
There is actually a kind of forgetting, which is to delete sadness and only smile.
It turns out that there is still a kind of misfortune, called only happiness.
Luckily it's just an anime.
Serialized for 23 years, nearly 1,000 episodes, and still being updated "One Piece", I recommend it to you.
Oh, forgot, it has been renamed "One Piece".
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