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How do people interact with the objective world? Or how does the outside world observe us? For example, when we are skeptical about what a message expresses, is the metaphor itself also looking at you? So as to explore the strokes and strokes imprinted on our souls as human beings. Whether this species can keenly capture what is contained in it when beauty is presented, and feel the joy of deja vu. This uses the way of nature to lead us to find ourselves, to dig out something that has already existed in our hearts and is heart-pounding.
On a lucky weekend, I came across two films, "Shrinking Life" and "Traveling" one after another. The choices made in the dark, the neat confrontation in the concept when appreciating, when the eyes focus on the plot, the mind suddenly realizes that it seems that there is not only me in the room, there is a feeling of being watched, something is floating in the air, but when I look around, there is nothing. , but there is something, to talk to it, to pass it on eagerly, the determination in it is unquestionable. Prompting must resort to words to be able to sort out clearly.
What kind of movies did you see?
"Shrinking Life" tells that in the future, biotechnology innovation will be at the cellular level, and the singularity technology that will shrink a 1.8-meter adult man to 12.9 centimeters without damage. The huge economic and environmental value contained in this invention is quickly integrated with the industrialization of powerful economic entities. The public only needs to evaluate and price their actual net assets and exchange them for a commercial organization called "leisureland". With professional downsizing services, you can start your life anew in a dreamlike "sanatorium" as beautiful as the "Splendid China" miniature scenic spot. Because of the shrinking of the individual, the occupied resources will also shrink geometrically, and in terms of asset exchange, the ratio will increase exponentially - 100:1, which is really a hundredfold increase! Matt Damon's protagonist's $140,000 worth of assets instantly turned into $14 million, a palace-like mansion, an inexhaustible wealth of wealth that can be enjoyed in a lifetime, and there is only leisure left in this life...
This setting is surprisingly bold, but also sharply contradictory, for you to choose: just overcome your inner anxiety a little bit and take the initiative to change yourself, are you willing to fall into this picturesque "leisure" and forget the worldly Worrying about enjoying poetry and countryside for the rest of your life?
Matt Damon is playing the role that needs to be saved:
A calm, dull and hopeless career;
A calm, exhausted family life;
Calm down, the financial situation of the eyes is high and the hands are low.
Seemingly casual and mature, but in fact indifferent and numb behavior, it is difficult to find a sincere smile in life...
There are two flowers, one on each side. In contrast, introduce the science fiction film "Crossing" in the guise of a pseudo-documentary: an unexplainable space wormhole appears at close range near the earth, and through the hole, you can vaguely see that there is a planet with an atmospheric structure inside. , like the existence of the earth. At the same time, the abnormal phenomenon of spherical strange clouds appeared in the sky around the world. Through unremitting efforts, the British Space Agency did not hesitate to organize human volunteers with extremely high moral risks to synchronize the brains of robot warriors, and sent spacecraft to wormholes to contact foreign civilizations. . It is determined that this is the alien race that is friendly to human beings, and finally coexists in harmony with it, and greatly promotes the development of human's own technology.
Two films, two hypotheses, two perspectives. "Shrink" eloquently tells how ordinary individuals deal with their relationship with the outside world from the perspective of the public, and "Wear" stands in the elite perspective on behalf of human beings dealing with unknown forces. After watching it before and after, I came to the conclusion that in a society where all people are created equal, even if one embraces humanism, it has become unequal because they see two completely different worlds.
First of all, it is necessary to affirm that human beings are a combination of spiritual concepts and material entities. Both are indispensable. A joker is a thing that is not a thing, but with spiritual power reflecting consciousness, it becomes a human being. "The prince and princess live happily ever after..." Why does it only appear at the end of the fairy tale and not at the beginning. It's because people are not a species that can eat and drink enough. For example, in the drama "Shrink", the protagonist wants to move to "Splendid China" in order to escape from the predicament of life. But the leisure and abundance of life brings him happiness? ?
no!
He wants to get back the familiar daily relationship, but all he brings is disappointment;
Doing nothing brings boredom;
Enthusiasm for the human continuation of the Norwegian colony shows that he lacks a sense of belonging.
why?
Schopenhauer said, "Life is a mass of desires. If desires are not satisfied, they will suffer. If desires are satisfied, they will be boring." This logic circuit written into genes is exactly the fate of man.
The fun is here. How to deal with the hardships in life?
Some people choose not to think about it and go with the flow, such as Matt Damon's wife in "Shrink", when the husband and wife pass by to visit a "nursing home", sit and listen to a "recommendation meeting", visit a "model room" and a "property consultant" pair After a detailed consultation, I carefully chose to shrink my life and began to worry about the second half of my life. Unexpectedly, before his wife was reduced, she couldn't bear to shave all her hair and chose to quit temporarily. Matt Damon woke up and became smaller, and suddenly received The giant's wife called: "I don't want to live like this, I have to live for myself, quit!" The phone call was no less than a bolt from the blue. Poor me, I have entered a "leisure state" and successfully "inherited" the middle-aged "legacy" of depression in normal life.
Back then, when the document was signed, the staff repeatedly confirmed that the husband smiled and said, "It's good that my wife is happy", which won the appreciation of others. Obviously, the wife is the first, and the wife is respected, but obviously this wife has not thought about it at all! Although the film made a lot of scenes with a sense of ritual as a foreshadowing, I feel that this family is actually at a loss as to what they want, and the character played by Ma Ma has an indifferent attitude from beginning to end-the future husband and wife are in The most important thing is to be happy together, let's go with the flow.
On the other hand, in the face of the unknown instinctual fear, the characters in "Wear", the rational thinking and fine calculation decisions made to overcome the fear...
A willing sacrifice for the sake of choice...
That brave first step! One by one, I felt a lot of emotion.
I can't help but think of "this is the best era, and it's also the worst era." Yes, people don't have to worry about their lives being precarious, they don't have to worry about their relatives being sold as slaves, and they don't have to worry about the safety of private property. In this technology, productivity has soared and personal freedom is unprecedented. Now that there is a guarantee, the utility of materials continues to decrease downwards, while various abstract concepts continue to superimpose upwards, so that spiritual concepts and vision almost play a decisive role in the individual human being. The wheels of the times are rolling forward, and the evolution of technologies and concepts and the changes of traditions will certainly bring benefits to human society, and will also block a huge gap between people.
In this modern civilized society with freedom of expression, I live in my spring, and you live in your sea of stars, okay?
I think it should be - good! But what is "good" is not up to you.
Yuval Harari predicted in "A Brief History of Humanity" that in the future of extremely developed materials, the status of population as a productive resource will gradually disappear. The masses will gradually evolve into a "useless class," meaningless militarily, inefficient in production, and a burden economically.
A social pyramid ruled by a small number of human elites with the help of artificial intelligence is bound to emerge. In order to ensure long-term stability and reduce internal friction. Correspondingly, a series of targeted systems or measures aimed at consuming energy, including: low-level videos, soft pornography, competitive sports events, social gossip all over the city, and dazzling video games. Addiction projects that will continue to compete for people's time and energy.
In short, as a creature with subjective initiative, man will gradually be differentiated by his own kind into a donkey that revolves around a mill. The metaphor is not very appropriate, it is better than vivid and clear. Oh my gosh, I'm going to be an animal again. There is something about the art of control in the blue smoke. Following this line of thought, Mr. Harari must have been euphemistically reserved as if he was holding a lute in his arms. If there are basic social judgments, such stereotypes that shape society already exist, such as taxes, fiat currency inflation, high housing prices, selective social medical and pension insurance systems, and intentionally solidified social classes. The conclusions drawn in "The Old System and the Great Revolution" confirm the reality of Hong Kong and Singapore. In the future, people will be artificially excluded from the production sequence because of the great abundance of productive forces, and will be forced to enter a situation where they seem to have no worries about a solar eclipse, but in fact they have nothing.
The above two stories show the difference: people in the general public are artificially indoctrinated with various concepts, consciously position themselves on the opposite side of the natural environment and human development, take the initiative to shrink individuals, reduce resource consumption, and evade responsibility Don't ask about the world. On the other hand, the leaders of the social elite are always in a tense and aggressive state of mind and work, and sacrifice their own lives (in the secular sense) for the survival of mankind. However, the axiom of "there is no free lunch in the world" is still valid, there are gains and losses, and the public can enjoy themselves, be guaranteed, and be well cared for. In exchange for something intangible as a person, there must be order, because the most important feature of the pyramid is stability. As a group, the public is regulated under the control of consciousness and the guidance of public opinion by the elites at the top of the food chain. Starting from the control of information, because the information is hierarchical, in each social stratum, the information exposed to it at one point in time is not equal, such as the attention bombing of "Nipple Music" above, which in turn, Are the facts we recognize as the truth? In other words: what am I seeing in the real world?
In "Wear", there are wormholes and abnormal phenomena in various places, and the first consideration of the management is to block the news. Blindly appease the public, cover up and interpret the news like all kinds of information overload. The space agency that grasps the truth will reveal the truth only when necessary coordination with relevant departments is carried out. It was only after the Ministry of National Defense intervened in the situation that the audience learned that National Defense Technology had secretly developed a human-brain-controlled mechanical warrior. The existence of this black technology is not without irony. When the situation cannot be covered up, the management authorities mobilize resources to fully promote the propaganda campaign of the preset position, and guide the public's thinking into the preset position and situation through the guidance of public opinion. The whole society is in a state of artificial setting, don't you fear it when you think about it?
Look at life is so difficult, #Why are people embarrassed#People...
Speaking of this, I think that people are people of society. From the perspective of the overall social structure, the existence of the system is reasonable for the maximum efficiency of unity, coordination and mobilization. Running for a long time also shows that it meets the needs of resource allocation. If you are horrified to see this, please forgive me for piercing this layer of window paper.
Should we wait and die?
It is good to realize that human beings are animals. It is the nature of animals to like indolence and dislike labor, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. We all don't have to feel sorry for our own laziness and other bad things, accept them...but you and I are human and walk in this world. Why not actively pursue a little bit of human attributes higher than animals? Look at the pigs in the farmhouse, there's always something to eat in the trough. When you turn on the TV, there is no shortage of ready-made opinions. Whether you agree or not, do you know the logic behind this? Do we know that we should also be a little skeptical?
Humans began to think, and God began to smile bitterly. This is the greatness of being a human being. Humans not only consume material things, but in fact, all human beings do are seeking meaning through actions, creating meaning, and interpreting meaning from their own perspective. Meaning gives people a spiritual driving force, and in the realm of spiritual meaning, you Don't you think, you are free.
In a nutshell, the return of life to its essence is to seize the opportunity to live. This is a genetic trait that predates the decision. Live! Under this premise, thinking can be superimposed freely without stereotypes. In other words, as a variable in the objective world, people should always insist on the attribute that people are variables. People are constantly changing, and the past, present and future will change and iterate between visible and invisible. People themselves have the property of anti-fragility, just like fitness experts, the more they practice, the stronger their muscles, and the more they experience, the more relaxed they are. It is gratifying to know this, because the variable's eyes will never stay in the present, even if it is at a low ebb, even if there are difficulties and dangers ahead, it will look far away... Perseverance, unyielding, and upward, this is the unique charm of human nature Where, will lead you unconsciously, what is that?
--hope
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