On "The Uselessness of Reading"

Deontae 2022-04-21 09:01:10

Never doubt that a few bright, honest and persevering young people can change the world.
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When I was a child watching TV, I was always moved by such a plot: a diligent and hard-working poor scholar was bullied by the bully son of the landlord's house next door, and in the end even his girlfriend was taken away, so he had to be sad and angry on a rainy day The earth cries to heaven about the injustice of fate. When I grow up, I finally understand a little, silly child, it's not that fate is unfair, it's just that you are not smart enough. Look at Scarlett after her awakening. Not only did she easily deal with the underworld that bullied her a few minutes ago, but she also read all the papers written by Professor Fu over the past 20 years and discussed theoretical issues with others. Discuss, chat and laugh!
So, don't tell me "the theory that reading is useless" again, and make it clear that it is not that reading is useless, but that people who read are useless. Those who are illiterate and unskilled just didn't have the opportunity to study when they were young (Shi Le and Temujin). With their intelligence, if you give them the opportunity to study, they can still stand out. And those pedantic scholars with wooden fish heads, even if they don't read, they are still useless.
When I was young, I always wondered, what is true intelligence? Literally speaking, being smart means having good ears and eyes, seeing what you hear, remembering, understanding, and making inferences. Corresponding to our lucy, it refers to her powerful information collection and processing capabilities. I have always been very satisfied with this setting in the movie, that is, we have seen and heard too much information in our lives, such as the warnings of our parents when we were children, the hawkers floating out of the window when we were studying, and passing by small shops every day after school. The shop window, the teacher erased and wrote the formula on the blackboard. So much is stored in our neurons, it's just that we forget our way to the depths of our memory for so long. In the film, the goddess said to her mother with tears, I still remember the warm little paws of the kitten at home, her mother said, how is it possible, you were only one year old at that time! Maybe that's the truth. What you think you have forgotten lies quietly in the deepest part of your memory, but you have forgotten the way there.
As for the description in the movie where the brain develops more than 20% and can control molecules, other people, and even everything, it's a bit beyond my imagination. When Scarlett's brain development reaches 100% performance, she is simply omnipotent! Isn't that God! The problem is, there can only be one omniscient and omnipotent God, but there are 7 billion people on the earth... If your brain is developed to 100%, and others can reach this level, there will be no two omniscient and omnipotent in the same time and space. Lord... From this point of view, the screenwriter of "Never Ending" is much more reliable.
Perhaps, with the further improvement of the level of brain development, people will become smarter, see more, hear more, remember more, understand more, and use these knowledge and skills to improve their own situation, to create a better future. This may be the essence of the continuous advancement of human society.

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Lucy quotes

  • Lucy: [suddenly pinning Jang's hands to the chair with knives] Learning is always a painful process. Like when you're little, and your bones are growing, and you ache all over.

  • Pierre Del Rio: [threading the car through rush hour traffic] Do you always drive like that?

    Lucy: I've never driven before.