Life is like a play. Some people think of sad tragedies, while others may think of legends.
I used to find it hard to understand why celebrities always have their own private diaries that can be used publicly after their deaths, and after reading them, I always feel that they are all prepared texts for others to see.
After blogging became popular, I suddenly realized that people in the past only chose diaries because they didn't have a platform like blogs. So you can rest assured that if you die and someone is interested in you, they can at least read your blog, even if you don't have a diary. Of course, the crux of the problem is whether the current blog operators can live longer than you, it's hard to tell.
Social experience tells us that we need the attention of others, while social value tells us that we need to be respected by others, and the process of social survival teaches us that we need to seek wealth, fame, or anything that an individual considers valuable. Simply put, possession and enjoy.
So people need to realize value and capital. We call the social aggregation above capitalism capitalism, and the social aggregation above value we call socialism (please don't confuse it with the current administrative system of the celestial dynasty). As an individual, without the latter, you can only live humble; and without the former, you can only die humble; only if you have both at the same time, you can be called a great person. There are some words for this. What you prepared: great people, historical celebrities, legends, legendary figures...Of course, more people have never achieved any of the two from life to death, so you and I are just living and walking corpses. , We are nobody!
However, no one wants to be nobody, everyone wants to do great things and great people.
At this level, the big drug lord Frank and the little agent Richie are doing the same thing, pursuing individual value and capital.
However, value and capital are a pair of interesting games. Sometimes value defines capital, and sometimes capital defines value. It is like in the movie that Frank uses capital to realize the values he recognizes: protecting love, caring for his family, and pitying the poor; and Richie's values deny that having a million in the trunk is more meaningful than turning in.
Therefore, although the sum of individual values determines the composition of social values to a certain extent, there is never a way for the two to be consistent. No one can represent the complete social value, he will always care about one and lose the other. For example, an upright and charismatic agent like Richie has a family, a wife and children, but he is in love with a defense lawyer. We call it an affair if it is hard to hear, and adultery if it is more profound. If unfortunately it is in Iraq, then this A handsome agent and a beautiful lawyer must be convicted of stoning to death.
There is no way to believe in the value of society or believe in the value of the individual to make you live better, or die more decently. Therefore, the director is also contradictory, and he cannot explain the relationship between the meaning of value and the meaning of capital. Law and morality are the means to maintain social order, just like the older generation of gangsters and Frank said in the movie, order is more important than life.
After I watched it, I was thinking that Frank could be accepted by the audience regardless of whether the result was a few years, because the director did not turn him into a heinous villain (in fact, the real heinous people are only in the movie), you can give sympathy Points, and how much the sympathy points, you have no spectrum.
But the point is, if we compare it, what about other people who are heavily sentenced, such as 3/4 of the police involved in the case. If the director arranges an emotional scene for one of them, even if it only protects a weak person who is being bullied, would you care if his ending will get better?
Therefore, your feelings will mislead your ethics, and your ethics will influence your values.
Don't take these vain things too seriously. There is nothing great for you to do, and there is nothing you can do to be great.
It may be more valuable to care about whether you are getting enough sleep, whether smoking affects the loved ones around you, and so on.
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