In the afternoon, after watching "Breaking Bad", I felt a sense of deceit.
The spiritual picture of the show, its vulgar pleasure is enough to confuse many people. In this play, a popular psychology of this era is shown: a person who hates mediocrity and underappreciates his talents, that is, a person who is frustrated by reality, can only realize himself by controlling reality. In my opinion, the way to realize oneself is not to master the rules of reality like Walter. This is not the way to rebel against reality. This is another form of compromise by poor cowards.
The show also shows us a compromise gesture of spiritual suicide. In this show, the protagonist Walter presents us with a peaceful, humble attitude as a drug dealer after winning over the big drug lord Gus. This nascent drug-trafficking team displayed a contradictory and humble drug-trafficking posture hovering between "do" and "don't do".
This attitude makes me feel sick. Because it tries to compromise between morality and violence, family and career, while choosing a middle stance for double pleasure. Even at the end of the play, this gesture remains profound. This incomplete, twisted nausea persists. This is like a person stepping on two boats, like a person who wants both a wife and a lover. How disgusting this is.
They did a lot of great things in the underworld sense. But they still looked like they were inferior in spirit, timid, and they didn't look like the people who defeated Gus. They should start their own gang, recruit troops, and do big things. This is the behavior of a man, a positive behavior. What a disappointing drug lord. And they don't want to be good. It's embarrassing to be caught in the middle. They neither face up to their evil ambitions nor face up to their lack of goodness, and continue to do so until the end of the play.
It must be said that the screenwriters deal with them in this way, which is an expression of instinct, a manifestation of the modern spirit and the spirit of the times. Walter finally chose to run away, and implement revenge. That psychological motive, based on simple desires, always dominates the characters. After Jesse quit the team, he fell down and became a slave of Todd. They show us the scene of "desire is endless". It's disgusting from both the evil's point of view and the good's point of view.
Why can't they be good drug lords? Be himself like bin Laden.
Why aren't they being radically good? Can not escape desire, life is controlled by desire.
This kind of nausea is usually interpreted as Bushido spirit in Japanese culture, and is usually interpreted as Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in Chinese culture. Of course, this is in terms of Japan and China in the classical sense. Through a sublime dissolution and cleansing that transcends life and death, the disgust disappears and the characters are sublimated.
From the perspective of classical Chinese, Walter had to commit suicide in order to atone for his sins. Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground, that's fine. And her wife should also be punished. The most suitable way for her is to convert to religion and abstain from sex. And because Jesse himself has been on the edge of morality for a long time, the possibility of him quitting the drug trafficking team exists, which is to reflect and think about it for a lifetime. He should perhaps be a philosopher to clarify the loss and fate of his life.
This is also what I see as a possible solution to our psychological crisis, including the invisible opposition between self and society. The lower level is to return to the basics.
The spirit of Chinese culture (classical) will pave the way to heaven for people like them, and the so-called modern spirit they accept can only send them to hell. Looking at the East and the West from this point of view, the Eastern culture's handling of the predicament of human nature is more sophisticated.
Therefore, the life and death, morality and sinking of people presented by this mental model (that is, our current mental model), which is squeezed by limited morality and unlimited desires, shows that life can only be morbid and disgusting , even obscene images.
This attitude of spiritual suicide expresses a sluggish life attitude. At the same time, it receives a steady stream of unholy pleasures (those permeated with impenetrable morality), which make people fall into this spiritual suicide, apathetic, unable to look directly at themselves and take on their own destiny in life.
And this drama is so profoundly conveying this "pleasure synthesis" and tempting us to become more and more familiar with the atmosphere of this era of spiritual suicide, and then be brainwashed.
Judging from the popularity of this drama, this is an era of spiritual suicide.
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