Seventeen years ago, there were not so many routines in the entertainment industry. According to the standards at that time, "American Gods" was a very imaginative novel. And apart from the cumbersome names of the old gods in the book, in fact, he has a very good appetite for the Chinese. Because we have always liked fantasy stories like "Guan Gong and Qin Qiong". The protagonist Shadow has just been released from prison when he learns that his beloved wife died in a car accident while doing unspeakable things with his best friend. Then he was involved in the war between the old gods of the mythological age and the new gods of modern society. After a series of adventures across America, Shadow discovers that he is a descendant of a god... American Gods has many storylines, most of which are flashbacks, through which Interlude, the author constructs the basic worldview of the book for us. Although he is writing a story of God, the subject that the author always revolves around is faith, not religion. Even the gods of the most popular religions do not appear in the story at all. Because religion has developed to a certain stage, it no longer relies on faith, but relies on discipline and class like a political party. The so-called gods are produced by the beliefs of human beings. Gods exist by faith and gain power by sacrifice. Once people stop offering sacrifices, the gods lose most of their power and become as vulnerable as ordinary people. And once people lose or change their beliefs, God ceases to exist. In the world of "American Gods", due to the development of society, the number of believers in the old gods has gradually decreased, resulting in the power of the old gods is not as strong as before, and even some old gods have been reduced to drunkards, liars, prostitutes, temporary workers, etc. bottom group. With the rise of new things, people's belief objects have become emerging products such as technology, television, and automobiles, which has led to the emergence of new gods. People's beliefs have changed from belief to material. The old gods in the book represent the strange and even ignorant thoughts of the past. The new gods represent the fetishism of today's people. If this book comes out ten years later, I believe that the high-tech kid representing the Internet will be the big boss of the new god. The god of iPhone and the god of SONY are estimated to have high combat power. The old gods in the book are cunning and full of wisdom, but the new gods are very graphic. The final battle between the old gods and the new gods is also a conspiracy to sacrifice himself by the most cunning old gods. Therefore, the biggest enemy of the old gods is not the new gods at all, but the spiritual world that humans keep collapsing after material enrichment.
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