Woodstock is a myth. We have not experienced the Vietnam War, but for those of us who have never experienced it, at that time the young people finally got rid of the constraints of society, and finally they could do nothing without worrying, and finally they could leave collectively. After leaving home, he can finally take drugs legally collectively, and can finally be unrestrained under the cover of a certain slogan. This is definitely a fabulous moment. It has realized what young people have been thinking about since the formation of human society, but have not been successful. The dream at this moment is condensed at the moment when the protagonist and the people "roam" in the sea, and we shed tears with excitement together with the protagonist.
Taking the protagonist as an aspect, Director An told us that Woodstock is a process of self-liberation for most young people, just as the protagonist has clarified his aptitude and what kind of life he wants. This vigorous movement has successfully achieved (how difficult it is to succeed) the spiritual liberation of young people. This is also the main reason for its great influence, including the subsequent sexual liberation and the legalization of drugs, plus the previous Beats mainly told the world: everything is possible. So after that, everything becomes possible.
But I always feel that the value of Woodstock lies in this: liberation of the mind. The slogan of love and peace is nothing but a slogan. Under this slogan, everyone has sex and does not fight, which means that you don’t have to bear any responsibility if you make other people’s stomachs bigger. Anyway, this is the pursuit of peace. I remember reading a book of self-reported liberators, which recorded how many women got pregnant in confusion after these waves, how many underage parents and unsupervised children, how many people were addicted to drugs and couldn’t help themselves. , In short, after pursuing your dreams, you have to clean up the remaining rotten beaches bit by bit. I understand this in particular. The gorgeous dream is followed by a dog-like life. At this time, everyone will look uncool at all, not loving and peaceful at all. Unless you no longer live with humans, unless you escape to Mars, you will spend a lot of your life doing what you least want to do before.
The slogan of love and peace does not apply to human beings. Just like anarchism, study it carefully before you pursue it. Anarchism means that your things are other people’s things, and your daughter-in-law also sleeps. Can you do all of these? Even if you do, can you guarantee that all humans on the planet can do it? Even if anarchism is realized in which country, there are governments around it. How many years can it exist? I'm afraid it was bombarded by others within a few years. Human beings are originally incompletely evolved species. Selfishness, jealousy, extremes, no matter how much they are, are part of human nature. With these things, what kind of love and peace are there, and what is anarchy? According to my observations, there is a characteristic of being led and governed in human beings, and there is an unchangeable dependence on laws and principles, even if we pursue multiple values. In other words, anarchy and the pursuit of value pluralism are inherently contradictory, and anarchy is not also a proposition. If you pursue value pluralism, why do you require those totalitarians to obey your proposition? Are you also a kind of power? This is also the main place where anarchism is questioned in academia.
Janis Joplin said: "Extreme freedom means you have nothing to lose." Those who have experienced the Woodstock wave know better than us, all this is meaningless. Love and peace are like the freedom we pursue in adolescence, and it is also like the anarchism promoted by the punk group of Sex Pistol in Britain, but it is just a slogan. We are always very easy to pursue things that we don't understand ourselves. How many nasty things are there under the banner of Love and Peace, and how many of these anarchists are extremely radical totalitarians, homosexual discriminators, and racists? These are unimaginable, and we don't want to think so, because this is everyone's dream.
Woodstock told us nearly half a century later: Love and peace are beautiful, but they are just shit.
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