Since the absolute authority of theocracy gradually disintegrated, the Western literary and art circles have secretly rebuilt the "absolute authority" in the twentieth century. However, this reconstruction is not a reiteration of history, but a change from absolute obedience to external authority to absolute adherence to a certain inner emotion or inner self-reflection of the individual. This dwarfed persistence does not have a clear goal, nor does it pursue universality, but still endows people with deep spiritual power - such as Old Tower's "religious emotion", Wiseman and "direct film". In the past, different results symbolized different meanings, and people chased specific results because of specific meanings, so they had specific goals. Now, the meaning is ambiguous, and the goal is therefore dispensable. The meaning has disappeared, but the footsteps of mankind's pursuit of "truth" cannot be stopped. Thus, Fitzcarrador, "the lover of meaningless things," plunged into action with unparalleled zeal, his perseverance making the trek sacred, and the sanctity returning to make him more persevering. What reason do we have to think of him as paranoid or arrogant? Perhaps we should all be as zealously devoted to ourselves as he was, for the forces of nature will take care of the rest.
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