Chapter 63 become a myth

Unexpectedly, "The Queen" starring Helen Mirren is a movie that can serve as a footnote for "The Crowd", "The Fanatics", and "The Clan of the Mob". In the movie, Queen Elizabeth is low-key and reserved by nature. Unfortunately, her daughter-in-law is Diana, who is portrayed as a mythical figure by the masses and the media.After Diana died in a car accident, Elizabeth did not intend to attend the funeral, nor did she intend to express otherwise.She believes that this is her family business, and she has the right to keep it low-key in her own way and in accordance with her feelings.What's more, Diana is no longer a member of the royal family, although she also knows that people now prefer to see those who "give passionate speeches on TV".As a result, what she encountered was a series of denunciations in the newspapers and a decline in approval ratings, and even a quarter of the people wanted to depose her.As a result, Queen Elizabeth had to appear at Diana's funeral and gave a speech on TV.

Prime Minister Blair in "The Queen" understands Queen Elizabeth's situation. He said: "They think that the masses will see what they see." But the masses need legends and myths more. They don't believe it themselves.Driven by this need, they only see what they want to see.They are only willing to enshrine a myth, and no one wants to destroy or take it away. That's how myths are made: time, distance, and the need for myths.And desire is an indispensable element to create a myth. Those famous anecdotes in history, it is under the combined effect of these elements that they become myths.Those men and women who want to go up and down like us are probably filtered and shaped by time into fairies on Mount Gushe in this way.They just saw some clues and showed a little real body in the few words left by chance, such as the entanglement between the Zhou brothers, the war of words between Bing Xin and Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman, Xu Beihong and Jiang Biwei, etc.If their stories happened around us, they would probably be the jealousy and fights among the female colleagues in the office, or the lace news of "the little tailor's affair leads to a bloody case" in the newspaper.We were even daring, reflected by them, and had doubts about other myths, as if someone suspected that Mr. Ping refused to let go of Qiong Yao at the beginning, probably because her book saved his publishing house.

But unfortunately, the works of artists are works of art, and the anecdotes of famous people are mostly myths.Not too.We need myths.Not too.As long as there is enough time, distance and enough desire, whoever and what will be filtered and precipitated into a myth. The same is probably true of the myths a little earlier.The Zhenfei Well in the Qing Palace, the Peach Blossom Fan on the Qinhuai River, Li Taibai in Chang'an City, and the Seven Hermits in the Bamboo Forest are all myths.Although someone told us that in those days, there was no toilet paper and shampoo, and the hygienic situation was terrible.But the myth is like a sturdy life, which needs no explanation.

Unfortunately, we live in a world accumulated by thousands of years of myths. Myths are like dust, falling thickly around us, making it difficult for us to breathe.Our outlook on love, our outlook on life, and our outlook on the world, consciously or unconsciously, refer to these dubious myths and ignore them completely.The same thing is done by us, but it is the one that makes people laugh the most in the local news.