Torn Doom is a world like the one we show, locked in time after a fictitious world nuclear war. After the catastrophe of mankind, in order to seek to prevent mankind from being destroyed by itself, the government began to implement a strange idea. Inject everyone with a drug that numbs the emotional nerves so that people no longer have feelings...
The world described in "Tear Doomsday" led me to an article I once read on the Internet, which described a "perfectly rational society": a society in which the government arranges All human beings, life and even thinking, the government assigns everyone to a "suitable" position to work, and everyone is a component of this society. In that society, art, music, etc. are not allowed, because it makes people emotional, which affects work. Because there is no relationship, there is naturally no love between men and women. Therefore, men and women must get rid of their sexual desires and only retain their reproductive functions. The children born are raised by the government, so couples after giving birth do not have to worry about raising children. Such a world removes sensibility, and thus has no emotion. However, people who pursue such a society said to me in the article: "Elimination of sensibility is the only way to keep human beings free from war. Sensual things will make people lose their minds and only increase their selfish desires. Only complete rationality can It's the truth. In history, isn't despotism produced by the ruler's personal desires? Personal desires completely ignore the feelings of others, and it is not uncommon for men to abuse women because of personal desires. However, all this is in' It can't happen in a perfectly rational society'. In a perfectly rational world, everyone is equal and dictatorship, war, etc. will be a thing of the past. With desire removed, women will no longer be sexually assaulted, and neither will men I will be tortured by sexual desire, women and men are finally the same, and the genders are finally equal!" They tried their best to describe such a wonderful world to me in their articles, but I still didn't feel good in my heart. Yes, perhaps gender equality is achieved in the society they describe, but that society is not the gender equality world I aspire to. , is to respect the individual differences between people, but the world they talk about is actually no different from the patriarchal culture opposed by gender equality. The stereotype of "weak women" has always plagued the world, and the gender role model in a "perfectly rational society" is more rigid than that of a patriarchal culture, because in a patriarchal culture, at least people still retain their emotions, while in a fully rational society. In society, men and women only differ in their physical characteristics, and everything else is the same, and they are all parts that serve this "great society" one by one. They told me again: "Perhaps the world of diversity and gender equality you are talking about cannot be achieved, but there is no war and no dictatorship in that world, which is worthy of affirmation, right? ? "There may be no more wars in such a world, because everyone in this world lives like a corpse, except for one person, that person exists like a "god", like the one of truth in "Tear Doomsday". Like the father, he is the creator and owner of the entire "perfectly rational society". Everyone is a machine for him, and he is the master of all these machines! Is there no autocracy in such a society? Maybe all autocratic societies in history have Born from the feelings of the rulers, but the despotism in a "perfectly rational society" is more terrifying than the previous "perceptual despotism society". In a "perfectly rational society", except for "God", all people have been removed from their feelings and completely reduced to For the machine called "Completely Rational Society", I don't know how to resist, and what's even more frightening is that even "God" himself is integrated into this machine, becoming the thinking terminal of this machine, only knowing that there is no emotion in control , if this is the case, the history of mankind is just a clock that keeps running, and it keeps going on in cycles. In the autocratic society of emotions, human beings have not lost their souls, and their inner thoughts have not been invaded in the end, so if there is a chance , people may overthrow the autocratic rule at any time; and in a completely rational autocratic society, the human beings who have eliminated their emotions have forgotten how to resist, they only know that the cycle is running again and again, life completely loses its meaning, and the whole society becomes a constant Just a clock in motion.
Jealousy, hatred, etc. are human emotions, and love and care are also human emotions. Human emotions are divided into negative emotions and positive emotions, but whether they are negative or positive, these are human emotions. If despotism is caused by negative human emotions, then we use love to change it. To create a good atmosphere, in this atmosphere, people tolerate each other, love has been greatly carried forward, and occasionally the hatred generated by hatred is also resolved or vented through reasonable methods. I want to achieve such an atmosphere through "democracy". Democracy is a way of thinking, a universal value, and a way of dealing with people. I know how to get used to people in this world with different values from my own, I know how to tolerate people in this world who have a different way of life from my own, and I know how to put aside problems at the negotiating table and let everyone express their own ideas. Let people understand their own minds, seek common ground while reserving differences, and add understanding. I believe that through the road of democracy, we human beings will eventually embark on a world of true freedom, equality and fraternity, although I know all this is difficult, although I understand that I will not see it in my lifetime, although I know it will take generations, A beautiful world can only be realized with the efforts of ten or even hundreds of generations, but I will still work hard. Because I want to feel, as Mary O'Brien said, "I live to feel." I want to feel the people and things that go through democracy in a free, egalitarian, fraternity world.
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