Chapter 45 sea ​​of ​​people alone

Cornel Wilde made a movie in 1966 about a lonely American in Africa, called "The Naked Man". The protagonist of the story is hunting in Africa with his companions from the metropolis. Everyone gathers together and brags about their bravery, but at this moment, they encounter the indigenous people.Because of poor communication, the aborigines arrested them and executed them one by one. Some beheaded, some were paste mud and put them on the fire for barbecue. Behind them is a group of natives who never give up hunting. Although its theme is still to show the bravery and resourcefulness of the protagonist, such as his wilderness survival skills and his fearlessness, the keynote is still a tribute to the American spirit, but when the protagonist is running naked on the wasteland, I still feel Feel extremely panic.The helplessness of that moment was real, and the fear of that moment was real too.At such a time and place, as long as an order is placed, as long as communication fails, as long as his original social identity is stripped away, everyone who seems to be invulnerable will be banished to the wilderness, become a lonely person in a sea of ​​​​people, or even become a person who is hunted. Object.

This world is huge and complex, but the weight of a person is always as light as a feather, so everyone needs to be branded in various ways before they can be identified, classified, placed, and have weight.We are not us, but the vassals of a bunch of numbers, certificates, and files, anchored in a certain position by them.Our attributes are not possessed naturally, but are endowed by the outside world. Once we leave the environment that can provide us with these identities, once we are alone, we immediately become naked people on the wasteland. If a Wall Street financial decision-maker drifts to a desert island infested by cannibal tribes, he is just a dinner for them, and no matter how much financial tactics he masters, it will not help.If my domineering boss breaks away from the team and loses his passport while traveling in Europe, he's just a black man who doesn't speak the language, peeling garlic in a country restaurant and washing dishes in the back of the restaurant for a long time.If I encounter a thief in a train station and lose all my documents and money, I will be just "the boy picking up soda bottles in the train station square" until relatives and friends come to help.

The blow can come at any time, anywhere, and the protection provided by "identity" can be cracked at any time: being sent to the hospital, becoming a victim of medical malpractice; being run over by a car on the street, and there is no one to help In an instant, the wilderness immediately appeared beside him.And when a celebrity is suddenly confronted with violence on a glamorous stage, one of the most to-the-point comments says: "She's all alone, too." So everyone has to stretch out their tentacles, which are more than octopuses, and strive to have as many connections with the world as possible, so that "all the relationships that can happen must happen."Everyone should firmly grasp everything that can be grasped as their own coordinates, fulcrum, and marker, and beware of losing it.

At the end of "Naked Killing Thousands of Miles", the protagonist returns to the small castle built by the Americans, and the natives chasing after him watch him being rescued with resentful expressions.But even if he returns to his world, there is still a chance that he will, at some point, be alone.