When I was young, I didn’t like the Terminator because I didn’t like foreigners (there weren’t many foreigners on TV at that time, so I didn’t like to watch them), I didn’t like the dubbing of dubbing films (always felt weird), and Just watching this movie with a faint sense of horror. I'm not like Kangkang, I'm a person who hardly watch horror movies. Sometimes I watch a little thriller (such as "Blue Velvet") to a limited extent because of the superiority of the film. Futuristic sci-fi violence. It is said that the fear of human beings is because of the unknown. People are always afraid of things that cannot be known and grasped. For a child, they are afraid of those strange imaginations and terrifying shapes of the world. I was sitting with my uncle, staring at him from time to time, he was calm and focused, and I was full of fear, and I wanted to ask him if that was true. I didn't ask, but the horror that filled my heart after watching that movie will come back to me a lot in the future.
At present, human abilities are still very limited, and far from revealing the hidden mysteries of this world and this planet. Because of my lack of scientific knowledge since I was a child, I have never experienced the psychological feeling of some classic theories being questioned or even overturned. In fact, when I think about it, this is very low-level, which also explains why every development on the road of science requires blood. The price of it (I seem to have made it up, but the meaning is so, welcome to correct me), a very simple example is that the Italian grandpa Bruno was burned alive in a long time because he proposed a heliocentric theory that is completely wrong at present. Death, of course he violated the dominant ideology of the church, but when he thought about it deeply, it was actually because he touched the rules in the hearts of the people of the time. The reason why those rules cannot be changed is not because they are completely correct, but because people have chosen to believe in it. It's been too long, and it's a convention that a concept has been polished for countless days. If you shake them, you will shake your life, and this shaking will bring huge panic. This kind of panic has nothing to do with the progress of the times and technology, because it is determined by human nature (as mentioned above, people will be afraid of the unknown and uncontrollable), so it exists not only in ancient times, but also in modern times. Reflecting on me, I have been living with Yan Zi at my brother's house recently. Since my brother is an excellent Ph.D. in physical electronics, and talking about his professional things, his eyes are bright (only these times are bright), and I I have always maintained curiosity about the unknowns of various disciplines, so I chatted with him about some interesting common sense. In this chat, I asked him to use very simple words to illustrate what the theory of relativity is. He said that you take a watch to travel in the universe and come back , you will find that the time of this watch is slow, because the constant of time is relative, when the speed is large enough, the time will change (don't find fault with the accuracy of my explanation, I don't understand), although this scene is already weird enough, But because of Einstein's authoritative status, I still accepted it steadfastly. The key is that brother told me another theory at this time, that is quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics has overturned the theory of relativity to some extent. Einstein believed that the result of everything that happens is predictable and measurable. For example, if you throw something out, you can measure where it falls, but quantum Mechanics believes that everything is unmeasurable and random. I was stunned and said that it did not overturn the theory of relativity. Which one is right? Brother said that at present, quantum mechanics has been proved to be correct. I was stunned again, Yan Zi pointed his fingers to and fro, to put it simply, if you were thrown out, you might end up here, there, or there.
And just like that, I instantly felt a sense of panic, which came from the emptiness of the world we couldn't grasp, what we've understood for so many years can be overturned so easily, and it's unfeeling (how do I know to throw me Going out is unpredictable), and what we believe can collapse and disintegrate in an instant (like Einstein, who maybe almost every liberal arts student thinks he is irrefutable). I was slumped on the sofa, and suddenly realized that the stubbornness of people in the Middle Ages was justified, so I told Ms. Hagi, who was painting murals after graduation from CAFA, that science is really a scary thing. I also remembered that during my trip to Yunnan, I chatted with Sister Xu, who studies genetics. She told her friend who studies the laws of human development and said that the various means and technologies currently used in human research to promote development are actually accelerating the extinction of human beings. process. When human civilization was extremely developed, it also came to the brink of collapse of the human system. And this reactionary, as if unpublished theory, is believing for them. No matter who it is, when I hear it, I can only use the day I won't live to soothe the panic that I have instantly generated.
Even if I have never been a person who dislikes science, because it always makes people feel tense, preoccupied, and lacking in beauty, I can't deny that the basic structure of this world is built by science, and we experience the development of science. Survival is convenient, but the principle that extremes turn against things can only be regulated by the superstructure, and it has not been successful. People make machines crazily, worship high-tech, and reverse the priority between people and things. The consequences shown in those films have yet to appear. On the other hand, the neurotic Hollywood screenwriters and directors can derive future stories, inadvertently completing the wake-up call to mankind.
By the way, there is nothing novel about this Terminator routine. It is about the struggle between man and machine. Skynet gains consciousness and tries to control humans. In the end, humans achieve a temporary stage victory. The fact of watching proves that the fears of childhood are gone, replaced by the panic and emptiness described for that futuristic feeling. The performance is that I asked Yan Zi several times, will technology develop to this level one day?
Hollywood likes to make this kind of movie, and countless directors and editors are questioning where the magical technology will extend in this era of infinite acceleration of technology development. They like to tell about the future encounter of the earth, and like to tell about the infinite expansion of human ambition and greed will cause extreme development and extreme destruction at the same time, from the absurdity of Kubrick's "2001 Wandering the Earth", to the great George Lucas and The countless Star Wars fans around the world he created, as well as the philosophical imagination about the explosive development of the Internet told by the Matrix, all belong to this kind of motif. I joked that this is because the United States is the most technologically advanced place in the world. In addition to the well-known technological means that are developing rapidly, there are also secret institutions or organizations scattered in many corners of the country that are currently not known to the world. mysterious technology. Americans were the first to witness technology completely changing the world, as if, therefore, their extra-sensitive technology would completely destroy the world. They are smart people, because as long as you think carefully (even someone as illogical as me), there will be doubts about the development of this era. What exactly is called developed? How can it be developed? The developed will only be more developed, and then what? One of the paradoxes that has been told countless times in the movies is that humans create extremely advanced machines, but the machines are advanced enough to control people.
Although we do not know how many resources are left, we know that all kinds of things are rapidly decreasing; we can know for sure that there are many, the air is getting worse and worse, the indifference between people, the industrialization of cities (That's why the name of the stone forest is so popular), although we have learned to look at problems with dialectics, the only explanation we can give is that excessive development brings disaster, even if today's developed countries have replaced development The model, no longer taking suicidal development, has yet to remedy the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution era and the holes that a large number of developing countries are still poking at.
Just like the philosophies that the movies tell endlessly with long story reincarnations, "Terminator 2018" does not repeat itself at the end, people are always people, they can't be nervous system machines implanted with chips, people's Power comes from the mind, not technology. Such a reasoning is so powerful that it touches people's hearts, comforting people that machines cannot defeat people. But human beings will not stop the accelerated development of technology because no one can know what speed is reasonable, and this is an era where speed wins. It seems that the paradox exists not only between machines and humans, but also between development and destruction, which is the source of panic that cannot be cut off. Materialist philosophers are willing to believe in the subjective initiative of human beings. But just not knowing is enough to make people panic. More than that, when the movie ended and the lights started to come on, I wanted to ask impulsive, are we still safe in 2018?
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