How do people lose morality step by step?This may be an unsolved mystery of modern society, and no one can tell anyone exactly when moral decay began, but we can feel that moral decay has slowly bred into the corners of society. Of course, no one realizes that this is a kind of degradation, but we are more and more aware that this society is gradually becoming colder, or for everyone, the balance of society is beginning to tilt more and more.
The film "The End of the World" recommended to you today is about the beginning of this moral decline, because from this time on, the state as a unit has become irresponsible, and this kind of national irresponsibility is specific to everyone, we can see a new kind of people gathering more and more, what kind of people?Refined egoist.
The End of the World tells the story of the transformation of the friendship between two children, and the two children who look at the changing world with their own eyes. The general environment of this film focuses on Reagan** before he came to power, a child from a white family originally attended a public school, he was pinned on by his parents, but there is no way to continue this hope well, the child does not want to become a tool for his parents to realize their dreams, but he cannot get a certain right to be heard in the family. The only person who understands himself is his grandfather, but he can't stay with him all the time.
A black child in the class and a white child quickly formed a friendship, and this friendship between the children was unscrupulous, but the parents of the white children had a natural rejection of such a friendship that crossed classes, and soon, this rejection had a valid reason, and the two children tried it at school. As a result, the white child was forced to change schools, and his friendship with the black child was also distant.
In the new aristocratic school, the white child saw that although his classmates were polite on the surface, they actually divided the people into three, six, nine, etc., they looked down on the people at the bottom, and rejected the black people even more, in such an atmosphere, although the white child longed to connect with his friends in his heart, but in reality he could not stand up with confidence, but the child is a child after all, and when he realized what was right and what was wrong, he finally became brave once.
"The End of the World" seems to tell us the story of a child, but in fact it still explains the above theme for us, how people lose morality step by step. Here I have to mention Reagan**, the main reason why this little-known ** in American history left a "reputation" is because of a series of policies he implemented after coming to power, which were later summarized as neoliberalism. At the heart of "neoliberalism" is the abandonment of the Bretton Woods agreement reached by the United States to decouple the dollar from the United States. After that, the United States can print unlimited dollars to harvest the world's leeks, which is the moral degradation of the country.
And the morality of the country has been degraded, what about the people?It is natural for people to carry this loss into their daily lives. So, what do we see of this American family expecting their children?This expectation itself is based on a self-serving value that does not care whether the child should have a good moral foundation and use it to play a role in growing up. They are more concerned about whether the child can become an excellent person defined by society in the process of growing up. And to become such a good person, you must have a value, what are these values?The aristocratic school where the white children later went on has been mentioned by many characters. We are not ordinary people, so we have to work hard for ourselves and maintain our image through our own efforts.
The refined egoist believes that all the rules and constraints or morals in this world should be compromised for themselves, and if they can't make concessions for themselves, then these frameworks should be broken, as for what to do after they are broken?It doesn't matter, what there is is is is to be broken. The refined egoist does not think that the existence of morality is an improvement of oneself, but that morality is also a constraint. Although they look glamorous on the surface, in fact, they are the essence of the gold.
There is a detail comparison in the film, in a public school, when two children smoked **, the father of the white child punched and kicked his child, but after stealing the computer ** in a private school, the father of the white child did not have any punishment. Because the computer theft incident has clearly shown the essence of the education that white children are receiving now is to cultivate what kind of people, through human relationships, through various channels to achieve a convenient thing for themselves. This is the ideal state of life that parents of white children expect, and in this state, the future fate of white children is already predestined.
However, at the end, we still see some power of change, perhaps this is the creator's dissatisfaction with the delicate egoist, or perhaps it is a longing for the creator to call for the re-establishment of morality. We see that as the hopes of Reagan's election grew, the white kid finally rushed out of school, and perhaps before the "end of the world," he could find his place.
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