On the Revolution and the Poor

Alexane 2022-09-24 23:34:53

Revolutionary legitimacy breeds justice. But both do not originate from the revolution itself. As long as the object of the revolution is evil, this legitimacy and justice will arise spontaneously. If the object is not evil enough or is not evil in itself, then the object of the revolution can be conceptualized like the concept of "nation" and then evilized. In this context, revolution is like a natural human right, and opponents are naturally against the trend of history, and they are naturally damned.

The poor two Lala and the rich family in the movie are very different in terms of status and moral level. The selfishness and self-reliance of the poor, the viciousness of the contemptible and the lack of enterprising spirit, and the politeness and courtesy of the rich towards the poor, being proud but not arrogant, proves that the evil of human nature has nothing to do with wealth, but is indeed closely related to the level of education. . This kind of education is all-round, not only cultural, so to a large extent, it is fortunate and predestined to be exposed to this kind of education. From this point of view, it can even be extremely thought that the evil of a type of people in a certain class (if the word must be used) is naturally formed.

Class is also a product of construction. Its purpose is often a self-comforting and self-justifying motive that arises when efforts by the lower classes to move to the upper classes are ineffective. In most cases, this kind of comfort and justification cannot become the driving force of the next effort, but will become the glue and even the final catalyst in the process of sinister accumulation. Revolution is a game in which the poor are put into Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace to become a nine-turn revival pill for the rich to enjoy. The result of the poor can only be slag, but bear the infamy of revolutionaries. The vision and pattern of the poor can only turn themselves into locusts and plagues. Wherever they go, they will either turn everyone into their own kind, or they will burn all the jade and die together.

Revolutions create new worlds, new rules of the game. In this process, there may be a very small number of poor people who will be reborn and become the ruling class, but it does not prove that the vision and pattern of the poor can achieve the purpose of changing the world. The truth is that some of the lucky ones who have been reborn are fortunate or destined to choose to adhere to the "essential attributes of being the rule maker of the game", and the price they pay is to trample most of the same people under their feet, which is harder than in the previous world. .

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La Cérémonie quotes

  • Georges Lelievre: [referring, respectively, to Sophie the illiterate maid and Jeanne the nosy postal clerk] What a pair: one can't read at all, and the other reads our mail.

  • Man at Melinda's birthday party: Speaking of quotes, I have one that's less famous, but quite troubling. "There are aspects of good people I find loathsome, least of all the evil within them."

    Woman at Melinda's birthday party: My God... Who said that?

    Georges Lelievre: Nietzsche.