Chapter 51 bears are not teddy bears

Herzog's documentary, The Grizzly Man, follows the last five years of wildlife conservationist Timothy Treadwell. Timothy Treadwell has been working on grizzly conservation since seeing a grizzly bear in Alaska in 1989.He lived undefended in the animal sanctuary, wrote books, took pictures, filmed documentaries, and established the "Bearman Association". In October 2003, the remains of him and his girlfriend were found at a campsite near the reserve—there were indications at the scene that they had been attacked by a grizzly bear, the first incident of grizzly bear cannibalism in the area.

In "Grizzly Man", there is even a sound clip of him being eaten by a bear.And at the end of the film, Herzog said something to the effect: "In every bear face that Treadwell has photographed, I don't see any recognition of intimacy, I don't see any understanding, I don't see any Any mercy. I only see the overwhelming cruelty of nature. There is no mysterious world of so-called grizzly bears out there. These empty stares represent only its interest in its prey. But to Treadwell, these bears are friends, A savior." Did he understand bears?do not understand.At most he knows about teddy bears.This person who has been plagued by alcoholism and depression for a long time is just wishful thinking to give his beautiful imagination to the grizzly world.To him, it was a kind, gentle, alive world.Humans and animals have established a certain kind of intimacy across species in the long-term relationship.Everything that he can't get in the city and in the relationship between people seems to be compensated and redeemed there.But that's not the case: nature remains overridingly cruel, bears, not teddy bears.

Bears are not teddy bears, wolves are not big bad wolves, and constellations are nothing more than lines we forcibly draw between planets.A series of disasters a few years ago also made us realize: the mountains are not our magnificent mountains and rivers, and the snow is not the snowflakes we added with beautiful suffixes. All affectionate decorations are imposed by human beings.Human beings are ruthless and ruthless towards nature on the one hand, but also have "love paranoia" on the other.People with this psychosis often think that someone laughs, looks back, and blogs for them; and we often think that birds are singing, dolphins are dancing, wolves are a The lonely prince, with the addition of anthropomorphic techniques, makes everything soft and easy to understand.Until it hits the south wall.

We know neither bears nor nature nor the planet above.Even, we don't understand the person, the idol, the system, or the so-called belief that makes us cry.We just anthropomorphize the bear into a teddy bear, and then try to understand it, endow the system with a kind aura, and force ourselves to put ourselves in their shoes. We are just wishful thinking and moved by our own feelings.We are used to showing favor to everyone and everything we don't understand, regardless of those "overriding cruelties". And the real world is concealed behind this sentimental curtain.