Wu Zongxian and the vertical limit

Hosea 2022-03-23 09:02:15

Xiao s often jokes about "I Guess" in "Kangxi Is Coming", especially the so-called local KING of Taiwanese entertainment ─ Wu Zongxian, Brother Xian has been possessed by spirits in recent years. , as a result, the fleeting years are not good, and even the house is about to be sold. When Jay Chou went to Kangxi, Xiao S immediately asked him, "If Brother Xian is homeless, can he live in your J building?" Ha, finally, Wu Tianwang himself Came to Kangxi, as if to gain popularity for a crappy tour he did, and the guests laughed at each other. Someone asked Brother Xian,
"Do you know why you can't do semiconductors?" ─ ─ It's not that you can't, but Think about it, you are the "local king" in entertainment programs. No one has any opinion on this. The question is if you are engaged in semiconductors and become the king, what will you do with those who only engage in semiconductors?
Please pay attention to the word "only" - "What about people who are engaged in semiconductors?", this is interesting, although it is nonsense based on the rhetoric unique to entertainment programs, but I think this "egg" is extraordinary. Egg.
"Vertical Limit 3", usually after watching a few episodes of discovery, you will be mad and inspirational to climb a mountain. I recommend this film from 2000. After watching the food, it is the suppression, and after watching the outbreak, it is the trial. Because the film is basically designed to eliminate "the ability of ordinary people to take things for granted and think good things" from the very beginning. The main plot of the film probably develops when a billionaire organizes a mountaineering team to climb K2 (Qiaogri Peak, the second in the world, with n and a half turns in the air, the climbing difficulty factor exceeds Mount Everest, K2 climbing Mortality, official statistics are 1x/100, there are more than private data, the world's first, much higher than 2/100 of Mount Everest), the journey of this rich man can be summed up in 12 words: deep in despair, almost saved, and finally died .
Many people found it very cool. On the one hand, it was because the wealthy suffered and the bed photos were exposed. It is a new entertainment project in recent years. On the other hand, there seems to be something damning about him in the plot. But I don't think the screenwriter is trying to talk about a simple cycle of justice. Now I'm haphazardly (so it's chaotic, because I can't tell the difference between the old and the new when I watch "Kangxi", I just click on an episode to watch it, it's just entertainment) to see Brother Xian being ridiculed like this, I feel even more necessary to watch the movie at that time. OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS Speak:

Let's go back to the plot of "Vertical Limit" first. The rich man is not the only one who died in the film. Many people do not come back because of distress or rescue, but there is one sentence that is very important. It reveals a pure "professional mountaineer" Different from the true meaning of life of an "entrepreneur + mountaineer", this is what Wei Mengge said. He said: "The mountain owns him".
Therefore, the essence of "professional" seems not to be "outstanding talent + outstanding achievements", but "to settle down" - not "you have it", but "if it has you, it becomes your destination" , do you think it is acceptable? "
So, the real climber is of course the one who knows the most and expects the most safety, but if they fall into a corner and hang their lives on the rope (power rope), they will cut off what is holding them together - even the people below him. The ropes of their lives. The reason why they do this is because the rope cannot bear a certain weight, otherwise all the "grasshoppers" on a rope will be implicated; the deeper reason is because of human free will The moral quality of the so-called "time is poor, and every one of them is in the spotlight", the reason of human beings has conquered the gains and losses at that time and place, and the power is unbearable. Animals are absolutely unable to do this, only human beings— That is Kant's categorical imperative, which shows the sublime part of human nature that is submissive and sublime because of reverence. However, I think if it is not elevated to such a metaphysical level, we can also view it from the perspective of its entire life history Looking at these real "people who are owned by the mountain", that is: these accidents that make us ordinary people "time poor" may not be an accident for them, they have a calm mood, because they have been owned by the mountain for a long time, although It's not to go to the "valley shrouded in the shadow of death", but when the time comes, why not be stern?
Let's talk about Wu Tianwang and Monopoly: Although there are differences between reality and fiction, there are many similarities between the two. For example, the two of them are generally worthy of the decoration of "witness, understanding, and struggle". They are both lucky winners of fame and fortune, and they have a lot of fans... However, the biggest thing they have in common is this: they are unwilling to Owned by only one thing - both have "two fields", they are busy on the left and right, and even if the harvest on the left is not good, they will go to the right, and if the right is not good, they will come back to the left. Semiconductors are not good, but entertainment can be brought back; entertainment is not good. , and then bring back semiconductors, a new version of the so-called "war to support war"?
Being unable to stay safe is a characteristic of modern people, because modern people always have hope. Even "The Redemption of Xiao Shengke" said: "hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing in the world", Friedman used his The unique deep and magnetic voice really said this sentence, Fang Buddha is the truth of human beings since ancient times, and at least it is a motto that can be relied on for a lifetime, and those who have accepted the enlightenment of modern civilization have no grievances. However, look at the origin of Western civilization and you are surprised to find that "hope" is there to be alarming. The ancient poets were not ignorant or in need of beauty, but they warned that hope is dangerous. I don't intend to talk about the ethics behind hope here, but in a metaphorical way: once hope comes to the world, it will live, and it will evolve when it is alive. The driving force for its evolution is the unique sense of time possessed by a small life like human beings, so the end point of the evolution of hope must be-the hope of immortality, this kind of "hopeless hope" from birth is itself a paradox- ─ Among them is the transgression of the fundamental rules of nature, which the predecessors saw, and therefore said that hope is dangerous.
As a result, enlightenment along with the vigorous development of science and technology erased this danger. Today, "danger" is mostly used in the field of "metaphysical", and "danger" has mainly become the opposite of "safe production, safe driving, and safe sex". Enlightenment has become a new kind of superstition and veil - we are immortal, death no longer has us, and the simple, unsublimated hope of immortality has been resurrected through science and technology and modern civilization. On the surface, people do not believe in immortality, but they have never really confirmed that they will eventually die, and even facing the death of others has become vague. Human nature begins with funerals, "Festivals are rituals", but now even funerals are not designed for "festivals". The opening of "The Piano of Steel" is such a farce. So the "immortality" of people in this era is not because of transcendence, but because of ignorance and being deceived, so they get two pieces of land and count as a ball? ! We are not possessed by anything, and in turn, we possess everything - arrogance has finally become the main theme of life, and alternative has become a place of reassurance. There is no desperation, there is still flexibility, there is always room ─ ─ becoming the greatest hope.
I'm not worried that people really can't face misfortune. When the left and right, when all the fields are finally put on the "death" sign, people may slowly and painfully accept this "no" There is more hope". However, what has really been hurt is actually the entire life that is about to end! then what should we do? Cramp it for a while! Anyway, we also have this tradition, so the superficial interpretation of the Buddha's "everything is empty" has captured many lives on the sickbed. Volunteers in hospice often find that the person who recites Buddha and God in the end is not quiet and cannot compare to Wei Meng. Brother, a man who doesn't necessarily believe in God. Because the lives of these people are contradictory, this sudden conversion actually makes the life before and after become contradictory - this is not what you think about when you are busy with each other! Temporary cramming of Buddhism has become cramming, the so-called end of life.

What to do then? I'm not Wei Mengge!
The final conclusion depends on answering this specific question, namely:
Is it really not possible to do real estate while climbing? Do you really want to go bankrupt while doing entertainment while doing semiconductors? Who is Jiacheng Gates?
My intention is not to bind. Because this generation is already here, it has its reasons and benefits. It gives us penicillin, it gives us mp3s. It also teaches us culturally, makes us indebted to it to varying degrees, and then asks us to live as we are taught, wants us to have more experience in our limited lives, tells us that there is no ultimate truth, only objectivity In fact... when the classical era was really hidden and freedom became a universal principle, I think a statement by Isaiah Berlin deserves our attention, and this is also the difference from Xiange to Mungo:
Berlin said that we have two kind of freedom: free to do (freedom to have) and free from (freedom to be free from). Does the progress of the times let us see too much about free to? Brother Xian knows it well; but Brother Meng told us historically - it is "free from" that makes people become themselves, truthfully own life.
In this regard, Haruki Murakami said in "1Q84" that the most important thing that history shows people is that people often didn't know at that time, and Murakami was a neutral unknowable. And what I want to say is: "In fact, there is no accident", it is a neutral knowable.

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Vertical Limit quotes

  • Skip: What the hell are you doing?

    Malcolm Bench: I'm trying to kiss my ass goodbye.

  • Cyril Bench: Come on darling. Give us a smile, eh. It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.