Morning evil

Kameron 2022-11-20 12:57:41

Everyone says that "Morning News" is very good and bursting. Indeed, indeed, if you think about other literary works, we will find that the entry point of "Morning News" is special. It makes people see a lot of workplace bullying. The true face of the prey: the hunter does not blatantly use force, he just stands on the peak of power and casts a net triumphantly around, waiting for the wisher to get the bait; the prey may not be the perfect victim, maybe with some selfishness, maybe there is All kinds of weakness and innocence; there are bosses who only care about performance, management who sacrifices the weak in order to calm things down, colleagues who occupy the moral high ground but never comment from behind and push their prey to the corner; and those who fight in the boys club "Outstanding" women who have made a bloody road know how to use the gender dividend to avoid harm to gain benefits. They do not even realize the problem, and instead become the defenders of the system.

The predators we are familiar with are like Weinstein, who commit crimes shamelessly, and then rely on their own power to cover up their sins. But as the protagonist Mitch said, the men accused by the metoo movement are divided into two types. The first wave is heinous bastards; the second wave is "innocent" people like him-if the prey rises up to resist, he will not Will start. Everyone who has been ups and downs in the human community knows that the so-called sexual bullying occurs more often in the second situation. No matter what the reason is, the predators are not too difficult for them. Once the incident occurs, people feel that this is the case. Charismatic, but unfortunately so unfortunate now; the prey is sent to the door without resistance, and finally torn to pieces, doesn’t it deserve it? Accusers, you overcorrected!

"Morning News" spread the ecology layer by layer like peeling an onion, allowing us to see the faces of everyone, and the spotlight finally hit the elephant in the room. It is not a single individual who is doing evil, but the entire deformed power structure. This system has distorted everyone in its field of force. In an avalanche, no snowflake is innocent. It's not that no previous works have talked about sexual bullying, but in most works, "bad guys" and "good guys" are too clear and straightforward. This reminds me of Hannah Arendt’s "Eichmann in Jerusalem". The subtitle of this book is "Reports on the Evil of Mediocrity". Arendt’s insights don’t need to be preached here, but there is At that time I will think again, really? People have to wait until 1963 to discover that no one is innocent?

It was the ending that was praised as "burst" that made Gegewu's disagreement with me. Ge Gewu said depressedly, how come one person has died and the others are all enlightened? People held hands, stood up, and resisted the perpetrators; even the perpetrators themselves seemed to have begun to reflect; the badass bosses seemed to have been punished; the innocent people who died did not seem to have died in vain... Is that true? Must we squeeze a bright and magnificent like this for the end? I think it’s okay, isn’t this the end of a classic cool movie? Life is so cruel, why should I face it on the screen? Isn’t it the optimistic spirit of the American dream to be able to win at the end? Only Europeans will carry the mourning to the end, and Americans should sing with open arms in front of the downpour when the dust settles like Shawshank’s salvation.

Moreover, as a person who has lived in the West for almost 20 years, I am still a Chinese in my bones. I can only analyze and understand the thoughts and actions of Westerners from a rational point of view. For example, when a person died, everyone would give initiation, probably because the value of individual lives in the West is extremely high. The loss of a life is shocking, it is a major event that shakes everyone's soul and can trigger their reflection. The lives of Chinese people are like grass and mustards. They disappear in various forms every day, and the waves that arouse in the hearts of others are fleeting, "relatives or grief, others have already sang." Although I think this ending is a bit a bit. It's too dramatic, but when I try to substitute myself into the values ​​of Westerners in my mind, I feel that the logic is still self-consistent.

Gegewu was stunned when he heard me talk such a straightforward nonsense. He said: You have discredited your country again.

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