All the world's great civilizations have followed the same path: from bondage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy back to bondage.
If we're to be the exception to history, then we must break the cycle, for those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
All the great civilizations of the world have traveled the same path: from imprisonment to freedom, from freedom to wealth, from wealth to contentment, from contentment to indifference, and finally from indifference to imprisonment.
If we don't want to repeat the same mistakes, we must break the cycle, because if we don't know how to learn from history, we are bound to repeat such a tragedy.
This is what Molly said in class at the beginning of the film. Molly and her father, Bud, have made some changes in what should have been a journey from indifference to imprisonment, into a journey of freedom, or a better one, that people hope for.
The voting doesn't count for a goddamn thing...It doesn't matter who you vote for, won't change the fact.
Bud was indifferent to voting at first: "Voting has no effect at all... It doesn't matter who you vote for, the facts can't be changed." Looking at China today, we don't know and don't care where the policy comes from, it's none of our business Hanging high, when we encounter a major decision involving ourselves, after being miraculously represented, there are only complaints about the lowest level of firewood, rice, oil and salt. We didn't know what democracy was, and we didn't think about what it could bring us. Our property is always better than the owner, and the debtor is better than the borrower... This has nothing to do with democracy and voting, but it has to do with indifference. Indifference is absolute connivance. We, who are pessimistic and nihilistic, do not actively imagine or look forward to the future of this country, or even realize what I deserve in where I am now. The basic rights of our citizens include the right to vote and the right to be elected, but our indifference and indifference make such basic rights completely absent. I still remember that when the town where I was born had to vote at a meeting, there was a sentence at the bottom of every notification column: "People who attend the meeting will subsidize 10 yuan." A moment when one can exercise one's own power, a decision about one's own, encounters a situation where subsidy can barely gather the number of people.
Without wealth and contentment, it has reached indifference. What we are facing, we do not know.
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