As a man, he is irrational. Since he does not rebel against the Romans, he should not take in the fanatics who rebelled against the Romans, leaving behind a curse, causing his family to be destroyed and his wife separated.
As a prince of a country, his duty is not to defeat the enemy country in the arena, but to defeat the enemy country in the battlefield. Victory in competition brings spiritual uplifting, but it cannot save the nation and country in peril. While the Romans lost a game, they won at the national level. As the Roman commanders said, they needed blood, they were already Romans.
Europeans have always admired glory. If glory cannot be transformed into combat power, it is only a mental narcotic.
The Falklands War, Britain defeated Argentina. Argentina defeated England in the 1998 World Cup, but the luck of a country does not depend on the victory or defeat of a competition. This is the real Ben-Hur. The victory of a football game cannot bring strength to Argentina, but what makes a nation strong is not these empty spirits, but simple efforts and forbearance wisdom.
Chinese people rarely mention the word "glory", and I have never understood it. Isn't glory the most stimulating of the national spirit? But throughout the thousands of years of national history, what supports this nation is not so-called glory, but forbearance.
Forbearance is a kind of sturdiness, it is the sturdiness of choosing to live in the face of adversity, life is not as good as death.
Forbearance is a kind of tenacity, a toughness that can bend and stretch in the face of a strong enemy.
Forbearance is a kind of wisdom, it is the wisdom of living hard, enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens, and looking far ahead.
Forbearance is not Ben Hur's kind of reluctance to forget the hatred of the family and the country, not the benevolence of women, not the anesthesia of the spirit.
What did Ben Hur win? Can what is won and what is lost be evened out? Win a momentary pleasure, lose the whole nation and country, lose the family, the wife and the brother.
If the soul of a country is so numb, it is the misfortune of the country; if the soul of a country is so short-sighted, it is the misfortune of the country; if the soul of a country is so easily anesthetized by empty glory, it is a great tragedy for the country Unlucky. Ben-Hur is a typical negative teaching material.
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