I still remember listening to the conversation of two aunts, one lamented that the state allocated him a bigger house, but he didn't enjoy it, and lived in a place much smaller than the aunt's own house all his life. Another responded, looking at others, he has sacrificed his personal life for the sake of the country all his life, he is really a great person.
Of course, the above remarks have been simplified and paraphrased by me. Their dialogues are more lengthy and mixed with the Northeastern dialect, and although they accurately convey the main theme, their style is not so close to the style of the news network.
I think it is difficult for them and most people to understand that for a scientist, work is not a painful ordeal, but the greatest joy in life. Forcing people to "enjoy life" is precisely depriving scientists of the greatest enjoyment of life. And a house is nothing but a space for short rest. In any energetic state, scientists will want to leave this space as soon as possible to reach another working space. If this place is as huge as a palace, in addition to unreasonably lengthening scientists There are few positive effects other than the time spent walking from the front door to one's own bed.
And this red and purple American drama, dressed in the cloak of elites, conveys the same understanding of science and scientific elites as the two aunts who will always remain in my memory, vulgar and indistinguishable.
A genius chemist like White, a leader in crystal chemistry, with such a deep love and understanding of the world of chemistry, how could he give up scientific research for anything?
Well, let's admit that he may be confused for a while. It was just normal at first, and he didn't realize how deep his love for chemistry was. Then, when he returned to the world of chemistry from the road of making drugs, he did some work. what? What he focuses on is only raw materials, sales, competitors, these are the issues that any uncle who sells eggs and cakes will also think about. Excluding those little tactics involving chemical knowledge, what is the essential difference between this story and the story of a high-IQ drug dealer or a KFC uncle who started a business at the age of 50?
Instead of comparing the genius scientists in the fictional world, let's take a look at what a genius scientist in real life looks like.
John Von Neumann, who was able to mentally divide 8 digits at the age of 6, took a long time to realize that this was not a normal ability for everyone around him. Also at the age of 6, he could converse with his father fluently in ancient Greek. At the age of 23, he received a doctorate in mathematics. Five years later, he joined the most fantastic scientific institution in the world at that time - the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. One of his colleagues was Albert Einstein. Over the next 10 years, he pioneered the new field of game theory, designed the logical structure of modern computers, and was a core researcher on the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Diagnosed with bone cancer during the development of the atomic bomb. After World War II, he was almost half a century ahead of his time and began to study the use of computers to simulate complex systems. He died in 1957 and completed these genius studies in a short life of 53 years.
If our White can also be called a scientific genius, then he will be irresistibly attracted to the world of science. Even if he started from making drugs, the story should be that he became fascinated with making drugs with higher and higher purity, and even risked it and trapped his collaborators in a dangerous state. When he raised the purity of the drug to an outrageous level, he began to develop new drugs, which he first tested with his own family, and even caused major harm to the family, but He still did not stop his research, and in the end, the drugs he developed even conquered Hank, who was an anti-narcotics detective, and Hank became his protector and partner in drug production. His former partner was jealous of his achievements, so he used his financial resources and contacts to try to defeat him, but in the end he aroused the love of science in the hearts of his former partners, and made this big company a base for his own scientific research...
This The story is equally engaging. But compared to the enthusiasm for science, the screenwriters are more willing to let this scientific genius earn education funds for his son, buy a sports car to show off his wealth, and worry about the drug production work that he can complete by applying basic chemical knowledge. replaced by others. Stripped of all the science coats, it's just a gangster version of the American Dream driven by vulgar money values that can no longer be vulgar.
Vulgarity itself is not obnoxious. And the vulgar hoarse want to prove that everything is vulgar, like a clown who wants to trample a giant under his feet, will make people disgusted.
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