If one day, we must choose

Rigoberto 2021-12-06 19:20:55

Watching this movie is the same as watching "Guling Street Juvenile Murder", which makes people think. Haha, I didn't have time to write, but I was confused.

In fact, sometimes I wonder if I did a lot of Chinese reading when I was in elementary school, and I always wisely guessed the central idea and the purpose of writing from every detail. And those hints, metaphors and projections may be self-deception out of nothing, purely because the person who wrote the topic is fed up and thinks too much.

A writer (seemingly Wang Meng) was sentenced to fail when he did a reading question from his own article, so he criticized Chinese teaching and questioned whether this way of obscuring the author’s intention could improve the so-called reading comprehension level, because according to this According to the standard, the educators who know their own ideas best are not even the subject, but the educators who save others by themselves and intend to use their own templates to calm the world.


Now it seems that this method is wrong and it is wrong to unify the standard answer and use it to determine the level of students. However, under the premise of allowing students to think divergently, the questions are not wrong in themselves-do not stay in the superficial meaning, seek the deep spirituality The spirit of exploration is beyond reproach. Even if the standard answer is not in line with the wishes of the author, it is not the correct answer in line with the author's intention, and it is also a spiritual adventure about the construction of the reader's own meaning.

What does the creator want to express? Assume that the unique theme is of little significance. Even sometimes the creator does not want to give a definite point of view. The interconnection of things is ever-changing. As soon as the work comes out, there is a soul independent of the author, and the interpretation of others enriches its meaning. Its greater task is not to give answers but to raise questions, not to teach something one-way, but to act as a fuse to detonate ideas. It doesn't matter whether the answer is right or wrong, what matters is the joy of thinking. From this point of view, the reading questions we do in elementary school still have some advantages. If we can choose not to explore based on our interests, if we really think about the question instead of memorizing the answer template.

Because many things really need to be explained, not everything in life can be clarified with a single sentence "you think too much". So that kind of effort to understand is similar to a detective to some extent-think about the theme song of the young Bao Qingtian "Some inattentive words make me puzzle out; an inexplicable impulse makes me continue to pursue "; On the other hand, it is similar to the restoration of the free association technique and defense mechanism of psychoanalysis.

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film, we see that aliens do not trust people on earth, and they set the only contact on earth to be pastors, not scientists or government officials. why is that? I think this is worth pondering.

At the beginning, the scene stopped in Egypt, the sky was full of yellow sand, the natural and simple African children, the camel as a primitive means of transportation, the pyramid with strange symbols-the director seemed to try to show us the ancient and mysterious oriental aesthetics.

Compared with modern Western technological civilization, the role of pastor appears ignorant and superstitious. Under the principle of scientific empirical observation, the pastor, the astrologer’s theory, lacks falsification, is falsified and cannot be verified, and should be rejected by the times.

However, the aliens did not choose the richest, most powerful, or smartest person. They chose the pastor.

It can be seen in the film that the intelligence of the people on Earth in XXXX has evolved quite high, and the intelligence of the people on the "Friendly Neighbor" planet is many times higher (with XX million DNA). Such highly intelligent creatures have chosen people whom we regard as backward to undertake the task of saving the world.

Is it because the higher your intelligence, the less you care about intelligence? And whether people's pursuit of thinking ability is out of a kind of compensation psychology for their own low intelligence. Really smart people know that there are more important things than being smart. Standing on a certain commanding height, from a macro perspective, aliens may be dismissive of small differences in human intelligence.

Intelligence does not serve as a link for interstellar communication. Because intelligence is endless when you want to be serious. There are people outside of you, there are people outside of heaven and heaven, you have high intelligence, and there are countless creatures that have higher intelligence than you. Just like you are developed, there are countless planets more developed than you.

Matter exists objectively, and is the object that science likes to study. Reflected in the spirit is intelligence. Putting them together is because they are all things that can be empirically investigated under technological means.

These quantifiable things have no attraction to aliens. For them, only "the prevailing language of the ancient universe" is essential. It is like a common spiritual pillar. Based on it, different creatures can sense and communicate with each other.

Faye Wong once sang: "Every ant has eyes and nose. What is the difference. Whether there is a slight difference or not, what does it matter." And Gu Cheng said, "Man can be born like an ant and beautiful as a god." From the perspective of physical reality, there is no essential difference between man and man, man and ant or machine, nor identifiable. What determines the "beauty as a god" of man must be an immeasurable thing. Five elements.

The priest does not try to manipulate people as machines, does not interpret human behavior as stimulus responses, and does not reduce the world to matter particles. In the pastor's view, the world is the world, and people are people, and they are all complete. Therefore, for nature, for life, there is a kind of original piety. He would say: "Time is not important, but life is important."

Modern society regards time as precious, working day and night like a machine, racing against the clock on the production line, in order to use time as production capital to transform it into maximum Money benefits. But when all struggles are aimed at material things, life itself is forgotten. Time is the material that composes life, and just like the emphasis on all things that can be materialized, only time is emphasized. Time is not composed of life. It will be a kind of rigid, losing fluidity.

Although it is not mentioned in the film, we can guess that when people leave the ignorant and dark age of the Middle Ages, people such as priests are at the bottom of the social structure and must have equal love for all living beings. All kinds of craziness, such as war and destruction on the earth, are caused by competition and desire. They cannot be stopped even after satisfying the needs of survival. Technology provides more attractive prizes and more advanced tools, and intelligence encourages better methods and more advanced tools. Big ambition. How can this not be another age of ignorance and darkness? Even if science and technology are in charge, we cannot pretend that the roots of human wisdom have been opened. The use of technology and intelligence can only be dangerous goods without human support. Human cognitive ability is limited, and that kind of self-righteousness is terrible. If human nature is not enlightened, there is no way to talk about the progress of race. So human nature is important. It allows us to direct our power to protection rather than destruction. Humanity is the difference between living and non-living things. Liang Shuming referred to human nature as rationality to distinguish it from "reason". This division is also similar to the division of "heart" and "brain". Einstein also emphasized the importance of conscience and imagination. However, the human nature here should not refer to ethical and moral dogma, but based on a kind of care that is the first and ultimate life of life.

Another interesting detail in the film is that the alien woman, a perfect god-man, fell into the car of an ordinary earth man. This man is just a taxi driver who has been discharged from the army and fired for multiple violations. He is not particularly extraordinary, he is just more like a person than a ruthless officer and a merciless soldier. He is kind-he would rather risk being punished to save others; humor-a lot of words show that he is an interesting person; he has a soft heart and a strong body-excellent training results show his excellent physical quality and adaptive skills ; He has tenacious vitality-as a mission survivor, he needs tenacious will and survivability, and perhaps a love for life, confidence in the world and hope for the future. Here I particularly emphasize the body. In some places, it is said that the expansion of intelligence leads to atrophy of the body to a certain extent. I still see intelligence as a cropped thing, while the body is a living thing like the mind. It may not be appropriate for me to divide it this way, but I am happy to divide it this way. The interaction between the body and the consciousness is certain. Descartes’ "Mind-Body Parallelism" has already been proposed. I believe that the assumption that determines whether the body and consciousness are opposite or unified depends on the direction of the two forces. If the body and mind both serve life itself as the purpose, then the theory of body and mind is established. The same is oriented as a foreign object, but to a certain extent, one trades each other. The body is matter and it is completely matter. You are an individual, and it is a part of the person, united with consciousness; you are a thing, and it is a part of the thing, opposed to consciousness. The male protagonist is ordinary, but in the materialized crowd, he is a real person. He did not lose the basic characteristics of being a human being, and thus became an exceptionally beautiful and real existence. What he is like is what he excels.

Human nature, religion, art, and philosophy are all unfalsifiable and therefore unprovable. The question is not whether it is worthy or deserved, but whether it is believed and loved. However, they should not be mocked by an extreme scientific view, because we need truth as well as goodness and beauty. If you only ask for the truth without asking for the beauty, big problems will arise. We know that the occurrence of love is a series of chemical elements at work, but love itself surpasses dopamine. Although some things are unclear, they can make us happy.

If one day, we have to face one of two choices, would you choose science or humanity? Will you choose money or body? Will you choose violence or gentleness? Will you choose power or love?

As a random event with extremely small probability, our lives are so accidental and precious. We came to the universe to be human. Perhaps, we don’t need to be too rich, too powerful, and too intelligent. There is only one life. We only need to cherish this only opportunity and do a good job. That’s enough. Life is like this, so what can the husband do.





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The Fifth Element quotes

  • Priest Vito Cornelius: Korben, I realize you that must be pretty mad at me, but I want you to know that I am fighting for a noble cause.

    Korben Dallas: Yes, you're trying to save the world, I remember. Right now, I'm trying to save Leeloo, father.

    Priest Vito Cornelius: Leeloo's in trouble?

    Korben Dallas: When is Leeloo not in trouble?

  • Priest Vito Cornelius: I'm really sorry to have to resort to these methods, Mr. Wallace!

    Korben Dallas: Dallas.