I don't know what it means, looking forward to change, hoping to be in a great era, blindly worshipping, self-righteous...
Every time I read a novel, I often find that honest people are getting worse and worse in various "changes", maybe the actual point is not change. stronger than anything.
The most absurd things happen
in turbulent times because the institutions in turbulent times are not perfect, the capable and the mediocre are crowded together, and the opportunity for promotion is like a flower ball and immediately falls on one of them. It makes it easier for the mediocre to hold important positions.
Maybe the plot progresses to the back, and the emotional trend of one man, two women, one woman and two attracts more attention, but the composition I remember deeply is Lenin's red poster (brand?), and the "people" lying piled up at the train station. The lines I remember are the conversations of the "grass-level cadres" of the party branch that the male protagonist met when he returned home.
Maybe people like Victor, in ordinary society, we can't do anything, we can only feel comfortable when there is no one in front of him after he has retired. Maybe half of such people (of course, it is a matter of chance) It is possible to survive and climb in troubled times. Maybe everyone has a worse life and is more likely to fall down because of bad luck. I don’t know.
What am I expecting?
I hope that the sense of powerlessness can be swept away, and I hope that my children will not encounter the fussing things that I have encountered, or at least less.
But maybe history is a spinning wheel, and even if it gets better for a while, it will fall back.
Maybe there is no need to pursue historical progress at all, because revolutions always kill people. Wouldn't the people who have died to pursue the so-called golden future become the most guarded people in Lu Xun's writings?
But I always envy the right to speak in the UK and the US, the right to freedom of speech, and I want to go crazy with envy. Envy to think, you must know, their freedom of speech is also obtained by countless generations of bloodshed, if we want to simply get it? no way!
Maybe I was driven by the progressive view of history, and I always wanted to try it, maybe it would be better?
Literary and artistic works should focus on "minority groups", "vulnerable groups" and "incompetent and innocent civilians in war". This is the basic principle.
Those who want to reform need to keep these cases in mind and move forward with a burden on their backs.
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