Economic base and superstructure

Preston 2022-03-15 09:01:03

The military stimulates the human brain to stimulate the potential of the human body, and plans to guide it to cultivate a new generation of human beings and to lead Japan to a bright road. It has to be said that this is the most direct and thorough policy to strengthen the country. Lu Xun once criticized the inferiority of Chinese people and pointed out that reforming the quality of Chinese people is the only way out. The difference is that in reality, the operability is almost 0, but it is completely achievable in film and television dramas. However, when these are realized, everything becomes uncontrollable and predictable......

Science and technology are indeed the primary productive forces, but productivity still belongs to the economic foundation.

Due to a series of comprehensive factors such as the climate and environment in which people live, Chinese society has produced a unique cultural heritage, which has been unified and stable for a long time. Stability has created us to advocate the art of governing the Tao, and the art of governing the Tao belongs to the superstructure. Throughout the history of China, we entered the feudal society very early and produced a very stable economic foundation. However, once the superstructure is not suitable for the economic foundation, we will choose a seemingly simple and effective method - war. War destroys the economic base, and then what? The superstructure can be happily combined with the economic base again, and we can live in peace again.

And what about friends who have been in unstable regions? Their instability causes their economic base to be destroyed more frequently, so they are more committed to transforming nature in order to create a better economic base. Similar to genetic mutation, there will be good methods and techniques under separate governance, and then communicate and learn together, and society will progress. Therefore, after the rise of navigation in the West, the power of science was gradually revealed, and the development of the economic base quickly surpassed ours.

However, let's calm down and think for a moment. Without the pursuit of advanced science, human beings can still survive; however, without management and restraint, society will be chaotic, and human survival will have problems. The military blindly relies on high technology to cultivate new human beings, but ignores the importance of social management. The new human beings they cultivate still come from old human beings. So, when everyone becomes a superman, the existence of the earth is a problem.

So Akira's appearance brings not survival, but destruction. Isn't Tetsuo's character problem a common one among the countless problems in this society? Isn't corruption at the top of the government enough for the people and the military to ponder? Isn't the military's attempt to use high technology to create absolute order under absolute power worthy of opposition?

The technology in this film is used to stimulate human potential, and in reality, the biggest use of technology is to develop productivity. However, no matter how good the economic foundation is, it also needs a suitable superstructure. Otherwise, the end of technology is not light, but darkness...............

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  • Antonio 2022-01-26 08:13:53

    It is generally regarded as the pinnacle of Otomo Katsuyo (the film itself has a huge impact and has won many awards in the United States, and next year the United States will remake the live-action version). But this is not my favorite Otomo animation. The second half is super unfolded, and there are a lot of nauseating images. In addition, Junko (Kaori) is the poorest main character in this film, not one of them.

  • Dagmar 2022-03-23 09:01:40

    omg! This is the prototype of the K9999! ! ! ! Looking forward to the movie version

Akira quotes

  • Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): He went to find Akira?

    Kay: That's what the strange one said.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): You, and Roy, and the Army keep talking about this guy called Akira, and now you're chasing Tetsuo. It has something to do with his power, right? But who the hell's this Akira?

    Kay: All I know is what Roy said. He said Akira has achieved pure energy.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Pure energy?

    Kay: A human being, you know, achieves a whole lot of things in a lifetime, right? Like discovering things and making things like houses and motorbikes, and bridges and towns, rockets. Where does that tremendous knowledge and energy all come from?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): [shrugs with an "I don't know" grunt]

    Kay: After all, humans are descended from monkeys, right? And before that, insects and then fish, and long before that, plankton and one-celled amoeba. When you think about it, each life form must have its own energy.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Well, I... Uh... That's evolution, right?

    Kay: I'm talking about the life force that exists, even perhaps in water and atmosphere, perhaps even in space dust. If they evolved, they must hold some memory locked inside. If it could reach back, even before the beginning of time...

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Hey, hold it. What's the matter with you? Are you all right? Maybe you hit your head back there, huh?

    Kay: Perhaps all things in existence have that memory, but what if the order of things were disturbed, if through experimentation, an amoeba were transfused with the power of a human being?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): What? Is that what Akira is?

    Kay: Amoebas don't make motorcycles and atomic bombs! They only eat up anything that happens into their way.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): You mean Tetsuo? You're saying he has *that* kind of power?

    Kay: Before, there were those men who tried to harness such energy at the request of the executive council. They failed and the destruction of Tokyo was inevitable.

    Kiyoko: [who has been speaking through Kei] But this time, that energy will be ours.

    Kay: [upon being released] Ah!

    [the door to the cell unlocks]

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): What?

    Kay: The door's open.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Huh?

    [after they leave the cell]

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): This smells, could be a trap.

    Kay: Then let's get back.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): No! This may be our only chance to get outta this nut house!

    [as they're going towards the exit]

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): By the way, what's the story between you and that Roy guy?

    Kay: What's it to you, anyway?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Well, I mean, like you're always together.

    Kay: None of your business.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): It *is* my business. I mean, does he know about us?

    Kay: About us? Wait a minute! What about us?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Well...

  • Yuji Takeyama: Look, I'm tellin' ya that the government, or at least the army was after that little guy.

    Yamagata: Well, maybe they were, but so what?

    Kai: You're missing the main point. Why don't they tell us where they took Tetsuo?

    Kay: What? What'd he say?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Oh, nothing. Say, why don't you and me get lost and have a few laughs?

    Kay: Haha.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Okay, maybe we could sit down and talk about, you know, the revolution and all that stuff.

    Kay: Hm. Well, that's a new way to pick up a girl. What do you delinquents know about politics, anyway?

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Hey, come on! Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, huh?

    Cop: Okay, you bums, sit quietly and I...

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Hey, I'm not givin' you a line. Just tell me about it and maybe me and my friends can help. I mean, we could ride out like the cavalry, huh?

    Kay: Well, thanks, anyway. I gotta go. Thanks a lot, um... Uh...

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Kaneda.

    Kay: Yeah. Well, thanks, Kaneda.

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Huh? Wait. Do you have to go so soon? Hey, that's not fair. Whoa! Wait a sec! Hey, that's the last time I stick my neck out for you! Hey!

    [gets cut off by a train while chasing her]

    Kaneda (1988 Streamline Pictures dub): Well, the least you could do is tell me your name!