The [fundamentally] incompetence of an intellectual

Eli 2022-10-25 17:28:15

The original title here should be the [fundamental] incompetence of the [P-deceiver]. After thinking about it, it seems that [intellectuals] are more black than [P-deceivers] in certain contexts, or more appropriate, so You know...

The "fundamental" incompetence mentioned here probably means that Abel fundamentally lacks self-control and lacks the ability to empathize with others. Although he talks about Kant's philosophy and existentialism all day, he tells Gill that he doesn't know if he is making up. The relationship of life and death that came out and the affectionate past in the sea (it is estimated that I have also told many P friends), but when you peep into his psychological activities, in general he is just like a walking philosophy book, Or to put it this way: I understand the rationale, but I still can't live my life well. That's probably how it is.

How to express a person who is extremely lacking in self-control in the ultimate way? Alcoholism, drunk driving, and self-destruction are all too common and not enough, so I prefer one of the core ideas of this drama: an unreasonable person, for an irrelevant person, killing an innocent person (law He was not convicted), just to realize the value of his own existence. You may not even be able to make up this kind of story, Mr. Luo Xiang, but what is even more powerful is that Abel has regained his glory, oh! It turns out that knowledge, writing, philosophy, in this intellectual's world, are actually no match for the original stimulation of sex and killing. So, does intellectuals mean high moral standards? Does it mean psychological detachment?

As for the ability to empathize, I have a deep understanding of it myself. This year, it is popular to say involution, lying flat, and low desire. Although it has a very deep reality, it also teaches people to be full of vigilance and to be wary of excessive ego, which will wear down people's ability to empathize. I think the ability to empathize is a per capita talent. It is said that everyone has a heart of compassion, but as we continue to curl up psychologically, we seem to only focus on our inner needs, just create an intracranial orgasm of ourselves, and there is no contact. , both physically and emotionally. Closer to home, talk about Abel, sometimes you will find that when others are talking to him, in his world, there is often only his own inner monologue. He can find others to listen to his loneliness, but he can't listen to others. Appeal, self-satisfaction has become his only need, and physical needs may be just a matter of time for him. When he is in a good mood, he will send it when he is in a good mood. Kind of, I don't know if it's pathetic or pathetic.

And the biggest incompetence, and also the darkest humor, is that Abel is "obviously so ordinary, but so confident". First of all, let's not be influenced by the protagonist's halo, let alone be confused by the character of his old lover. After all, he is just a college teacher who is full of mid-life crisis but is confident and has cognitive impairments to himself. That's it. He still naively thought that a female student or a female teacher who had slept with him a few times would be punished by him. The ex-boyfriend hooked up and came back, so I still underestimate Cha Bichi. Or, he mistakenly thinks that his perfect murder plan is so seamless that no one knows; the funniest thing is that he seems to regard himself as a professional killer, admiring his murderous talent, and whoever expects the murder to fail will be killed. ... Worthy of being the best actor in the Oscars, I really think of myself as having the halo of the protagonist.

Generally speaking, it's just so-so, neither easy nor humorous, without Woody Allen's meanness, he's always not so satisfied, and he still has to let him act in order to show the essence. PS: But Jesse Eisenberg does have a little shadow.

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Irrational Man quotes

  • [first lines]

    Abe: [narrating] Kant said human reason is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, but also cannot answer. Okay, so, what are we talking about here? Morality? Choice? The randomness of life? Aesthetics? Murder?

    Jill: I think Abe was crazy from the beginning. Was it from stress? Was it anger? Was he disgusted by what he saw as life's never-ending suffering? Or was he simply bored by the meaninglessness of day-to-day existence? He was so damn interesting. And different. And a good talker. And he could always cloud the issue with words.

    Abe: Where to begin? You know, the existentialists feel nothing happens until you hit absolute rock bottom. Well, let's say that when I went to teach at Braylin College, emotionally, I was at Zabriskie Point. Of course, my reputation, or should I say a reputation, preceded me.

  • Abe Lucas: Jill had been right in her appraisal of me. I was teetering on the brink of some kind of breakdown, unable to deal with my feelings of anger, frustration, futility. They say that drowning is a painless way to go.