Fire and phoenix

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As long as people can still think, they will never give up their imagination of the future, some people think farther, a hundred years and a thousand years, and some people think closer, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. It is natural for people www.biquge.info to have different opinions, but here and there, as soon as the so-called collective consciousness gathers, there is really a picture scroll about the future hanging vaguely not far away, as if it will come true one day.

Taking the past as a mirror is the wisdom that has been passed down since the ancestors, so what the future will look like does not actually exist in anyone's imagination, but is sandwiched in the pages of history.

The dogs of the Tang Dynasty and the dogs of the Song Dynasty are roughly the same, the same eating, drinking, and lazing, the same rolling and biting lice; However, the people of the Tang Dynasty and the people of the Song Dynasty could never be the same, from their living habits to their inner pursuits, and even their physical appearance and appearance have changed significantly. In the same way, today's dogs are probably the same as the dogs of the future, but today's people will not remain like this until the future.

Too many people arrange a group of today's images to the future, so that they can't get out of those molds back and forth, in fact, the protagonists of the future are not us now, but them later. The reason why the future is the future is not because of the mecha battleship, not because of the superbrain, not because of any strange overhead technology, but because of the group of people who are "there". After the four great inventions, feudalism is still feudal, assets are still assets after the industrial revolution, and history has made everything clear enough.

Impetuousness, self-interest, and money worship are spreading everywhere like a flu virus, and it is hard to imagine that the ethnic group that once paid the most attention to itself in "self-cultivation and self-denial" has now been criticized for focusing too much on external things, but this just shows that the change of people is the basis for dividing the intervals of the times.

Nowadays, there are many works about the future, some of which are quite popular, while others have won several awards, but if you look carefully and check carefully, you can find that there are only such works since the collision of Eastern and Western cultures in the late Qing Dynasty, such as Liang Qichao's "New ******** Notes", Xu Nianci's "New Conch Mr. Tan" and so on, which did not seem to have existed before. Is there really not, there are indeed no novels, but there are many other forms, and they are also very early, "Tui Bei Tu" and "Luo Shu" are typical representatives.

When I read "1984" and "We", I didn't even read it, but I heard people talk about it, and there are many people who have a feeling of "not knowing it", and to be honest, I am one of them. Unfortunately, many powerful things are useless, and the Han culture does not consider the development of the world to be linear, and these imaginations or reflections are placed in this environment, and they become self-seeking troubles or moaning without disease.

Our end is at the beginning, and the beginning is at the end.

Tomorrow will be different from today, and the day after tomorrow will be different from today, but the day after tomorrow or there will always be a day when it will be the same as today, and this is the established trajectory of human beings called destiny. All prophecies and calculations are built on this track. We never stand on our own at a certain point in the long river of time, we stand in the past, in the present, and in the future, and even time is never a river.

There is a kind of eternal bird in this world, people who have seen it always love to spread the appearance of it resolutely and resolutely pounced on the flames, and then reborn in the ashes, **** people call it a phoenix, and Europeans call it an immortal bird. The endless life represented by the phoenix is the ultimate pursuit of human beings. Life is eternal, you can smash the shackles imposed by time, and look at everything from the perspective of human history, there is no problem with linear development, but if you magnify this cycle infinitely, and look at it from the perspective of a phoenix, all this has lost its meaning.

I have to mention sexology here, a senior sister I met a few years ago, a doctoral student at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Nanjing University at the time, who simply taught some basic knowledge while studying French. It may not be easy to understand the spontaneous symmetry break, but it might as well be simpler, yang to yin, life to death, coming and going, existence to non-existence, the transformation of sex is reincarnation, it is the original truth, and human beings are in such reincarnation everywhere.

When you realize that you are in the cage of samsara, you will naturally pursue ways to break the cage, just like a phoenix that longs to be reborn and seeks the fire that will make it nirvana. This time, I hope to write something different, to write about two groups of people on two paths, a group of people who pursue them, hoping to break this cycle and obtain divinity, and eager to break through the limitations of life; The other group guards their lives in order to complete this cycle and preserve their humanity, believing in the perfection of life itself.

Life and fire, man and phoenix.

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