Queen Elizabeth II's last corgi, Willow, was euthanized at Windsor Castle on the 15th, the Daily Mail reported last year. Elizabeth has raised more than 30 corgis from the age of 7 to the present for more than 80 years. The Queen said that she will not keep corgis in the future. The main reason is that she is too old to accompany them. Let them go through the grief of losing their owner. The Queen is 92 years old this year, and Prince Charles is 70 years old. Whether Prince Charles, who is the first in line, can become the King of England, seems to be a question. In my memory, Queen Elizabeth II seemed to have passed away a few years ago, and I kept thinking about whether Charles became King of England. Until one time when I was talking to a friend, he told me that Queen Elizabeth II was still alive, the Queen of England.
I always feel that my memory is often a little confusing. Is there someone who has the same memory as me? Until I heard about the so-called "Mandela effect", I didn't seem to understand something. Maybe someone has the same memory as me. confusion. People's memory seems to be unreliable, after the news of Mandela's death in 2013, many people around the world found their memory of Mandela in confusion, many people remember that Mandela died in prison a long time ago In fact, Mandela not only did not die in prison, but later became the president of South Africa. What causes this mass memory confusion? Neither is there a particularly plausible explanation from current science. Many people attribute this phenomenon to "parallel cosmology". The so-called mass memory confusion may be caused by the collision of multiple parallel universes. Perhaps in another world of parallel universes, Mandela did die in prison. Nor did he become president of South Africa, and people wrote biographies and made movies in memory of him.
It is said that it is difficult for humans to preserve memory before the age of 3, but it does not seem to be so absolute. I am sure that I have a lot of memories before the age of 3. I remember many details very clearly. I am sure that they are real, but sometimes I am in a trance. Did those memories really exist? I haven't read Wang Shuo's novel "Ferocious Animals" seriously, I just watched Jiang Wen's film "Sunny Days" adapted from the novel "Ferocious Animals". Many plots in the movie are composed of fragments of many memories, and many plots in it seem to be unreal, imagined by the hero Ma Xiaojun, and Ma Xiaojun is not sure that many plots actually happened. Many of the things that he and the heroine Milan brag about are also added to himself from other people's affairs, just to show himself to Milan. By the end, many of his own memories were not sure to be true. Gao Xiaosong talked about it when he was interviewed by Lu Yu. When he grew up and chatted with his childhood friends, he realized that many of his memories were completely inconsistent with the descriptions of his childhood friends, so Gao Xiaosong wrote about his memories in his own book, so he had to write it as a novel, because he couldn't determine the difference between reality and memory.
Sometimes I think, in fact, a lot of human memory is just a fictional appearance. Compared with "Three Kingdoms" and "Three Kingdoms", people are willing to believe the historical plot of "Three Kingdoms". Shi Hang, the famous screenwriter who wrote the TV series "Ji Xiaolan with Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth", said in an episode of Wonderful Work that he mentioned that Ji Xiaolan in history was not that great, just a very wretched big white fat man who likes women's lust, and loves no meat. Heshen and Qianlong have never spoofed each other like in the TV series. The history is actually completely different, and of course we can't know the truest history. A few days ago, I watched Gao Xiaosong interview the famous Japanese film director Shunji Iwai in his show "Xiaoshuo". Shunji Iwai said that no one wrote the history of civilians in Japan 400 years ago. of. 400 years ago, commoners had no chance to read and write, and cultural matters were only concentrated in the hands of a few nobles in Japan. These nobles wrote the history of Japan. They did not understand the life of commoners at all, even when it came to commoner life. The plot is also invented by the nobles themselves.
In 2003, John Woo's Hollywood film "Cracked Memory" told us about an engineer who had to delete a short-term memory of himself in order to complete a research project. This is a film based on the short story of the same name by the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. The story is the type that Dick writes more often, amnesia. This is what my conscience will invent after inventing bad things. Things are broken again, and everyone is alive and well in a happy ending. However, there are still some special places. According to the small objects sent to you, you will gradually uncover the mystery. In fact, many movies like Hollywood have made many things that science has not yet realized. In fact, they have been practiced countless times in movies and literature. , maybe the future of mankind can really delete memories, or even implant memories.
Just imagine, what would happen if human memory could be implanted? The 2005 American film "Escape from the Clone Island" and the 2018 American film "The Clones" both explored the question, if you are cloned, and your memory is the same as the clone's memory, what the hell is going on? who is the real you.
On the one hand, movies and literature reflect the future, but in fact, from a certain perspective, they are also allegories of reality. In fact, in real life, the future is the present, just like the science fiction writer William Gibson said, "The future has arrived, but it is not very evenly distributed." Humans understand the world and imitate each other through social media. Wearing the same brand of clothes and watching the same news, human consumption tends to be more and more homogenized, we are in an era of collective cloning, our memories are uploaded to the Internet by ourselves all the time, our memories have been shared, we pass All kinds of media share our own life memories, and there are more and more common memories between people. When we spend a lot of time reading various information on our mobile phones, whether we are still ourselves, this is something worth thinking about. Are we becoming "one-dimensional people".
The One-Dimensional Man is the representative work of Marcuse, a philosopher of the Frankfurt School. The so-called "one-dimensional person" refers to the public who have lost their thoughts and judgments about the world, especially in the field of life, where people's way of life is assimilated by money and consumption; in the field of culture, "commercialization", "Pan-entertainment" is rampant, culture and art are inevitably vulgarized, and ideals are no longer glorious; in the field of discourse, closed language prevails... We are immersed in the joy of entertainment, infiltrated with some uncertain real memories, Loss of reason, freedom, beauty and joy of life, leaving only the inflated material desires and empty hearts under the commodity economy. From Marcuse's assertion, both our individual memory disturbances and collective memory disturbances are normal, and may not have anything to do with parallel universes. The prosperity of culture will inevitably bring a lot of infiltration and collision with each other. I am not so pessimistic yet, maybe I have already been deeply involved in it.
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