[Ray] The unsolved problems of human society

Angelita 2022-12-12 07:53:38

From the beginning, it gradually developed into madness. As the characters of the two protagonists were revealed, the atmosphere of unease became more and more intense, until it broke out at the end of the film. Fortunately, the director was very kind and made the family end happily.

This is an adaptation of a true story. In 1933, the hostess of a wealthy family had a conflict with the maid. Because the hostess herself was a bit hysterical, the contradictions between the employer and the employer continued to accumulate on weekdays, and the conflict broke out. The maid dug out the hostess eyes, and attacked frantically for two hours with hammers and knives

Many times things are unsolvable, and various factors are mixed to create inevitability. Of course, we can blame one party, but this is helpless to solve the problem.

The composition of society is that people serve each other, I help you clean and cook, you give me money, and I pay people to help me, for example, a factory makes goods is also a service

But while serving each other, people are also dissatisfied with each other. For example, when a person is bossing a waiter in a restaurant, the customer may also be angry with the boss when he goes to work, so each of us in this society hopes to get rid of this "mutual" The circle of service", to achieve the so-called freedom, obtain higher rights, let everyone serve themselves, and they only need to pay money and the least physical strength to avoid emotional abuse

So people try to accumulate money, improve their status, build their own castles, and accumulate their own grain (deposits), and after the money is stored by these people, the government must start printing money to supply market transactions, and the value of money will depreciate. , the depreciated money makes the latecomers have to increase their efforts to obtain rights, so the competition is more intense, the society is conflicted and divided, the government strengthens control in order to stabilize the society, and gradually forms a totalitarian society

If a nation is smart enough, they can reduce internal competition from external investment, but even if external investment reduces some pressure, after all, external investors will only strengthen their fortresses and will not help save food (money). ) to give back to the society, this kind of foreign investment is globalization, and the final result is to expand the pressure of a single society to more regions and change the structure of its society. If those "beneficiary" countries are smart, they will do the same. However, countries that are not smart enough will fall into debt traps. People continue to work and cannot get out of poverty, but they are more greedy because of the input of foreign civilizations. In a society where ability and desire are not proportional, more conflicts erupt.

For example, backward regions like Africa have exchanged resources for the "weapons" of a progressive and civilized world. The result is that the minority oppresses the majority, forming a tyranny of the minority, and warlords are divided. Civilization is not a luxury that every nation can afford.

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La Cérémonie quotes

  • Georges Lelievre: [referring, respectively, to Sophie the illiterate maid and Jeanne the nosy postal clerk] What a pair: one can't read at all, and the other reads our mail.

  • Man at Melinda's birthday party: Speaking of quotes, I have one that's less famous, but quite troubling. "There are aspects of good people I find loathsome, least of all the evil within them."

    Woman at Melinda's birthday party: My God... Who said that?

    Georges Lelievre: Nietzsche.