Find the light in the dark

Aaron's existence is like holding up a mirror to us. Because in a country like tc, when your freedom and your thoughts are limited and imprisoned, from birth, you may not realize the part of yourself you were born with. And by the time you realize it, you've been taught by the system that you don't know how to resist or that it makes any sense. Because you are used to this world. My friend asked me what you can see when you go over the wall, but it is not very used. But the point is not the outcome of the event, but the event itself. It's like having a door that's probably locked, and what's worth it to me isn't how many times I've come in and out after it's unlocked, it's that I can make sure that it's always open and that I can get unhindered at all times. This is what freedom means. What Aaron is after is to give everyone some kind of freedom, from those who are in control. Maybe he is extreme or reckless, then he is just too eager to change the world. One thing, he saw, he couldn't pretend not to exist. When we were kids we all thought we could change the world, but growing up we saw that as a joke and it was our excuse for not doing it. Without action, the world remains in the hands of those with power. They just want you to shut up and stay in the circle they've given you. Sadly, we did just that.
While watching the video I kept wondering how Aaron would feel if he saw the Celestial Dynasty. In comparison, the United States is a much more free and open country. So Aaron can download the terms of the decree, can impact the promulgation of the decree, and can fight against the powerful people standing opposite him. This is unimaginable in China. In the film he mentioned a country like Iran (can't remember), but in fact the celestial dynasty is the same. Up to now, we have not been able to establish some kind of government resource that is truly open to the public, and it is as difficult and terrifying to declare personal demands to the government as it was in ancient times. Even this country is reluctant to face up to some of its history. We still live in a world that is still dark, and we still don't know how long this darkness will last. But if there is no struggle, there will be no bright day. I think Aaron's message to us is that if you realize imperfection, please change the world. more or less.


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There are some very thought-provoking words from the film, which are excerpted here:

I feel very strongly that it's not enough to just live in the world as it is, it's just kind of take what you're given, and you know follow the things that adults told you to do, and parents told you to do, and that the society tells you to do. I think you should always be questioning. I take this very scientific attitude, that everything you've learned is just provisional, it's always open to recentation orrefutation or questioning, and I think the same applies to society. Once I realize there were real problems, fundamental problems that I could do something to address, I didn't see a way to foget that, I didn't see a way not to it .

We are standing in the middle of a time when great injustice is not touched.

Chang does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, it comes through continuous struggle.

Aaron believed that you literally ought to be asking yourself all of a time, "what is the most important thing I could be working on in the world right now?" And if you are not working on that , why aren't you?

Because you never know,right? This truth of the universe is not only something that policymakers use to figure out,you know, what the speed limit should be.It's where the thing that's gonna keep your kid from dying of pancreatic cancer comes from, and without access, the person who might come up with the thing that's got your number on it, may never find that answer.

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