By this chapter 2005 Quality critic "a great victory for the modern era of rational discourse is the emotion of exile, our era is a sensible (Sense) overwhelming emotion (Sensibility) of" the phrase inspired.
I like the bustling and quiet city of stars in the film, and I love the loneliness of people in the night of LA. But is this specific to that era? It is a portrayal of an era of popularization of technology, globalization, and commerce after 2000 and before the bubble economy? At that time, feelings gave way to more successful reason.
It's 2020, and the world has all kinds of social media, the rise of nationalism, and the deglobalization. People who can't do anything about reality vent their sense of justice and emotion to strangers on the Internet, and point fingers at irrelevant people and things. "Do you know any Rwandans? Tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered but your eyebrows will not be raised" accusations are no longer tenable; the ripples of anger and dissatisfaction have expanded and strengthened with the Internet. It is even more handy than witnessing the unfairness of colleagues and friends and being infected online to support or condemn strangers. Similarly, now it seems that manipulating hatred can achieve goals better than rational thinking. It has become the norm to attack dissidents and create public opinion to achieve political or profit goals (but this may have always been the case, but it is now more nakedly displayed in front of the public). People seem to have lost the entanglement trying to distinguish right from wrong-value judgment has become so cheap...
Everyone is not alone. Everyone takes the world as his responsibility. And the power of emotion is better than reason.
But still—— "Someday my dream will come? One night you will wake up and discover it never happened. It's all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn't happen, and it never will, because you were never going to do it anyway. You'll push it into memory and then zone out in your barco lounger, being hypnotized by daytime TV for the rest of your life."
Maybe we're all pretending. We're still hollow inside.
Stop pretending, stay rational, and do things that are truly meaningful to you.
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