I have always believed that there are two worlds in this world.
A world is safe, harmonious, and people yearn for freedom and abundance.
The other world is real and equally dangerous, and anything can happen.
They are incompatible with each other, and their distinction is both artificial and human.
Twelve years as a slave shows a vision.
Look at the illiterate world with knowledgeable people, look at cruel reality with people who understand art, look at cruelty with morality, and look at the present with history.
The importance of experience far outweighs his abstract meaning, this is what my heart tells me.
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Also, from my personal experience, most people ostensibly strive for freedom, but what they actually do is to make more people their slaves.
Our instincts also follow a certain cruel principle of nature. For human beings, there are very few real ideas, and more are constantly forgetting and repeating, and their essence, for me, is a kind of elimination. means.
I think the biggest role of knowledge should be to let people learn to think and gain real psychological freedom.
If our knowledge is a constant effort to repeat the words of others, rather than independent thinking, then for us knowledge becomes a cruel tool for ruling and being ruled by others.
Don't think that slavery has disappeared, it's just that the development of science has driven slaves from fields to factories, and driven humans from the need for food to the need for housing.
Independent thinking is what everyone is afraid of, like a slave who can read. When one person's heart is deeply despised by another person, I think this is the most difficult thing to accept.
Perhaps because most people are too vulgar, and we are all equal in vulgarity, our hearts are weak and there is no belief, and we can only lie when we question others.
But no matter how cruel the heart is, I think that knowledge should not be used, and thinking should be free, but today, this is indeed something that is becoming more and more rare. Are we not the slaves of the new era?
With regard to the phenomenon of slavery, it is so widespread that it cannot be easily resisted by anyone.
I'm still thinking about its roots, and many sides of the film characterize it.
Another point, I found that if a person just produces his own food with his bare hands, he can easily survive for only one month of the year, but in such a society, we spend several times as long as making food. Garbage, hurt each other, even hire each other (slavery), treat dignity as a tissue paper, and use faith as a plaything, this is really something I don't understand.
I have read Walden Pond and the book talks about this phenomenon.
Maybe I need to read the Road to Serfdom, or other economics books to explain the necessity of slavery, if anyone knows why slavery is necessary, please recommend books to me.
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