There are a few questions that must be asked. First, would you embarrass your father for the sake of someone you don’t know each other? The reason is that this stranger died because of sewage from your father’s factory. Second, what should you do when your so-called righteous revenge slowly becomes a revolution? Third, what is a true revolutionary? Fourth, how do people compromise with the world.
If you have read "Lust Caution", you should know the fate of the angry youth and the nature of the revolution in the eyes of a student. "East" and "Lust Caution" are surprisingly similar to a certain extent. Everyone is a ticket to play at the beginning. Of course, this kind of ticket to play has a certain sentiment, but playing with it makes people dead, so, The feelings of the students began to be reflected in the fear of facing death and the emotion of suffering from gains and losses. What is certain is that under the envelope of this kind of emotion, someone will definitely withdraw, so the students start to reflect. Once the students start to reflect, the time for the entire organization to disintegrate is not far away. Looking back at the whole process, the students’ starting point is good and simple. However, this kind of gentle and humanistic starting point can only ensure that they can do it quickly within a limited range. When things get a phased victory, they When the scale began to expand because of victory without hesitation, the so-called justice began to develop into the revolution.
Revolution, the consequences of this kind of thing are unpredictable by the students, it is the pain they cannot bear, because their starting point is only to hope that the society will pay attention to some things, and then hope that the society will change these things. This is a typical mild manifestation of reformers. Once the tactics are ignored by society, these reformers will often turn into blind radicals, and such radicals are far from true revolutionaries. The true revolutionaries always hold the word "thoroughly" from the beginning. They will not discuss that if they fail, they will be sentenced to several years. These people have a very firm stand and a very tough personality. Among others, there is no The weakness of the elite intellectuals, because they know that if we want to change completely, I must obtain the highest power. This means that if we want to achieve the happiness of the revolution, we must first endure the cruelty of the revolution.
The revolution is like this. It is either extreme right or extreme left. In the end it will inevitably fail, but the result of the failure is very intriguing. The rationality of Western system construction makes this failure seem very helpless. And this logic is always trapped in the so-called "benefit of the majority". The system kidnapped the majority of people and made a few people fall victim to the waste of the system. The academic reformers are determined to punish the CEOs of monopolistic companies. In their words, "this society has collapsed", and the reason they explained was that an apple that had only been bitten in was found in the trash can. . . . . . These people find that their society is becoming insensitive, but what they have done seems helpless. What is the use of forcing their father to jump into the sinkhole of carcinogens? He is just a pawn in the process of system construction, but if we ignore those who are mutilated by sewage, do we still have humanity? "The East" actually highlights a fear of people facing the rationality of social mechanization. The organizations that drift outside use some extreme methods to restore people’s simple lifestyles. They want to escape and escape that terrible system, but the system will not let go. Passing them is like the famous phrase "When you cannot escape from a place, that place is the real prison."
Nowadays, the revolution in the West is actually the self-salvation of people facing the collapse of rationality. A reasonable society finally It is impossible to tolerate people's inherent sensibility. Therefore, when we face such a society, whether it is the extreme left or the extreme right, we will reluctantly compromise. This is a problem that Westerners need to face. As Orientals, we cannot realize that Westerners face reasonable fears, because our system is still reasonable at that level. In our opinion, it is reasonable to sacrifice one or two for the benefit of all of us. This kind of reasonable establishment In the East, where sovereignty is greater than human rights, that is to say, our country’s interests are greater than everything, and we should give up our family to protect everyone; while in the West, to kill one's relatives for a stranger, this kind of righteous extermination of relatives is that human rights are greater than sovereignty. That is to say, in the West, people are first, and in the East, most people are first. This "majority" does not generally refer to people with life, it is an abstract concept. This concept is interpreted by us as a series of organizations such as the state, the collective, and so on. Ge You said it well in "See You or Leave": Chinese people put the last name before the name to show respect for the family, and the Americans put the first name. In front of the last name, show respect for yourself.
Therefore, the fundamental reason why we cannot understand the West lies in the essential difference between us and them in thought. Therefore, the story of "The East" can only happen in the West.
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