"Destroy, tired", and then?

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Survival or destruction?

At present, this sentence can be removed almost. Destruction has become an answer to a certain kind of golden oil, especially in the face of all kinds of magical reality, full of pickled and impermanence, which is generally unable to feel weak and numb.

If the doomsday prophecy in 1999 is still a bit panic, and then talk about the end of the world and destruction, it will almost become a faint desire for our hearts. Of course, it is not to call on specific suffering, but a kind of expectation: after sweeping all instantaneous destruction, it can be relieved.

"Another Earth"

Destruction, become a psychological consensus in some kind of subconscious at the moment of the epidemic. But back to history, human beings have always had an inexplicable preferences and delusions in doomsday. From the forecast of destruction at the end of the Mayians, to the world destruction and rebirth of the world created by science fiction creators.

Why is humans so enthusiastic about doomsday? Maybe we can discuss a recently published novel to conceive the "Finding and Loss" by the science fiction godmother Eurala Lodan, known for all kinds of social experiments. Many of the science fiction novels included in this collection are very close to the state of the world's doomsday, trying to show some kind of dilemma of human beings and those in the predicament.

Today, we will start talking about the topic of the end of the world. See what the doomsday is like. If facing the end of the day, can we wait for its arrival easily and pleasantly as imagined?

Perhaps in the end you will find that the more we imagine the doomsday, the more we can harvest comfort and redemption.

*This article is reproduced from "seeing ideals"

01.

Doomsday aesthetics, making people intoxicating

Why do we like Doomsday so much? Let's start with the beauty of the doomsses that are loved by everyone.

In 2015, a movie was shocking, "Crazy Max 4: Rage Road". Compared with the end of the world that rely on floods, asteroids to hit the earth, or alien invasion, the visual performance and worldview setting of Max 4 is undoubtedly shining: Max 4's visual performance and world view settings are undoubtedly brighter:

The male and female protagonists who shaved their heads were all oil stains and dried blood stains. They drove rusty trucks to rush in the boundless yellow sand and all storms. Behind them is a modified motorcycle with a reflection of the dead metal fire, as well as the exposed pipeline and the crushing mechanical aesthetics. They shake the flags, chasing, hunting, killing in a broken and open ending world.

"Crazy Max 4: Rage Road"

Everything is violent and restless, making the adrenaline spray. This is the ultimate display of the wasteland world on the big screen. Later human survival map.

Two years later, another sci -fi movie, which is also quite aesthetic in terms of aesthetics, is released in "Silver Wing Killer 2049". 30 years later. The whole world is terrible, and people and humans are struggling to survive.

We followed the duplicate K, from the fog to the mottled neon light, in the continuous loss and wandering, in the abandoned buildings of Huangsha ruins, reinforced rust, and losing music gardens, trying to find the meaning of our existence.

"Silver Wing Killer 2049"

Survival is still destroyed (or not to be). It has always been a classic mother of human cultural history. Whether it is belief, religion or science, people always have a long -lasting discussion desire.

In many past religious legends, the doomsday exists as an enlightenment. It is mostly a vague and distant picture, which is intended to use proverbs and metaphorical alerts. By now, various art forms such as images and literature have been continuously exploring this issue.

Science fiction especially likes to depict the doomsday. In "Max 4" and "2049", the deadline near the end itself becomes a aesthetic. Everything returns and is primitive, where should we go? Is it disgusting or empty, or is it empty or empty?

Of course, in science fiction, the imagination of the doomsday is far more than just waste soil. In other science fiction specific depictions and imaginations, the end of the world seems to be a fabrication of the wind and the vitality, but the fear and destruction are hidden.

In the world of another topic science fiction movie "Oblieve", there is an unknown area shrouded in flashing, and people who enter. The scientists who went in to find out found that the blue sky and white clouds were rippling here, and there were occasional deer walking through the forest. It seemed that everything made people feel refreshed.

"Obliability"

Just watch it carefully, you will find that flowers grow on the antlers, and the trees have grown into human shapes. The natural evolution here has found variants, animals and plants, humans and non -human beings, bacteria and buildings, almost all order and order and building The boundaries were broken, showing a strange but indifferent beauty, making people feel that they couldn't help immelining it.

The beauty of the beauty of the beauty, the beauty of the civilization, the beauty of the unknown creatures in different doomsday ... In the pen of Eukala Lodan, it shows more vividly.

The first novel "Finding and Lost" includes the scenes depicted by the bland and light text depicted in the first novel "Big and Slower", which makes people feel an indescribable impact:

Endless silence. Only the sound of the branches and leaves when the wind is rising. The warm air is full of pollen and spores, blowing the sweet dark green dust fog through the lush grassland, the bush of the bushes, and the flowers without flowers, where there is no human beings, and never have a curious look. Such a warm and sad world, sad and quiet.

There is a plant -like purple water dragon bone fern plant on the sunny wild field. The exploors stroll around, like an outing, walking on the one hand, and talking softly. They knew that their voice broke the hundreds of billions of years of silence, wind and leaves, leaves and wind, blowing and breath, interest and blowing.

—— "The wider than the empire, and slower"

In this novel, the protagonist and his team came to strange planets in order to perform the task of colonial exploration. It seems quiet here, plants are lush, without any animals and microorganisms. But the people in it are in the fear of being unable to find and pervasive.

It turned out that all plants covering the entire planet were like the underground root system of trees. They were staggered as a whole. Their rejection reactions could connect all human senses and wrap all outsiders.

"Sneak"

Reading "Extinction" and "Vigorously Lycling than the Empire, and Slowly", such works often produce slow and long stamina. Because they do not rely on the ups and downs of the plot to impact directly, but use a distant alienation to break out of the inherent thinking of human society, and even describe the long way of right, wrong, evil, and evil. Everything seems trivial, but firmly grasped people through the sense of progress and appropriate atmosphere of emotion, making people immerse in it.

The imaginative things are full of unknown but want to let the restricted area that find out, and give many unspeakable emotions to carry space. This is their most charming feature, and the end of the world in science fiction can always form a beauty s reason.

In the face of such a huge, extreme, destruction, or even nothingness, it can make us shorten the shackles of reality and relieve the soul and brain from anxiety and emptiness, which can bring a shock and tranquility. As an emotional exit, fantasies finally formed a certain spiritual liberation and purification.

02.

What happens before the end of the day?

Regarding the imagination of the doomsday, in addition to the construction of aesthetics, another eternal topic is: what if the doomsday comes, what will be human? What to do?

If we are really in it, we will definitely not be as simple as appreciating a beautiful landscape painting, all fear, shuddering, unknown and death oppression will really exist. Psychological depiction of psychology like Lodan:

Looking at the local plants like grass but not grass swaying in the dark sky. With a little sweet fragrance of pollen and the endless sound of the absence of pollen, there was no sound. Until the night was shrouded in the original wild, the stars reflected the earth.

... she was lying quietly on the bed, listening to the flow of blood in the body, listening to the breathing of her teammates, listening to the sound of the wind, the night rushing, the dream floating, the noise of the distant stars gradually gathered, the universe slowly returned to silence, and the death of death. The sound is constantly swimming.

—— "The wider than the empire, and slower"

Compared with other science fiction, in addition to depicting the environmental details of the world, Lodan also focuses on tapping human mentality in the face of doomsday.

In another novel "The Lost Music Park" included in "Finding and Lost", the earth has become polluted, frequent war, and sore. So some humans ride a spacecraft to prepare to fly to a planet that is suitable for human beings. The flight process is very long, spanning for hundreds of years, and after several generations.

On this ship, it is naturally the human body. To some extent, it is also plants, soil and water in hydroponic boxes, and bacterial population. The reason for these is only to some extent because they are so closely controlled by technicians, even more than human body.

Nature on native planets means not being controlled by humans. ... No matter how you educate it, your body always remains a little wild, brutal or natural. It must maintain its animal function, otherwise it will die. It can never be completely tamed and completely controlled. Even plants are the same.

- "Lost Music Garden"

People living on the spacecraft gradually differentiated different ecological attitudes. Because many people are born on the spacecraft, they have no memory and feelings for the earth, and they are even more conceptual to the planets. They hope to live forever in a spacecraft, live in a sterile and orderly environment, and reach the joy. This has gradually developed into a religion. Although some people do not believe in this religion, they are also reluctant to change their current stable life.

In the end, some people stayed on the new earth and began a difficult but real life. The spacecraft carried the Bluster Church, repeating the order and unchanged life, and flew to the empty universe that would never end.

Lodan describes different human nature in the doomsday, but it seems to provide a mirror. She not only forced us to face the fantasy world corresponding to reality, but also let us face ourselves in the mirror.

When an unfamiliar world suddenly fell temporarily, we all found our own position. Those options that may be disappeared before, and now they have to face up.

"Sneak"

In this process of choice and struggle, maybe you will find that the most difficulty in the end is often not a harsh environment, but that people must face self -doubts and self -abandonment. For example, if you want to resist the reality, but the final result will not be as idealized as the initial conception, and you must compromise. But in many forces, do you realize that when you have passed a critical point, you are already to help the abuse? In the nearly real ending environment and human nature, we must face this torture from time to time, and this is the most torture.

This is the significance of Legon's imagination of these different doomsday and dilemma. As a science fiction godmother, she has always been good at conceiving social experiments, such as the human society that does not have a fixed gender in "Dark Left Hand".

But if you read the sci -fi novels of Le Gun, we will also find that in fact, these experiments can not be considered extremely extreme. Perhaps it is just a small parameter (such as gender) for the existing society, but in the end everything will be big. Same.

We can see general human nature from these experiments and find our own position in a strange world. Of course, Lodan does not directly advocate which attitude we use to face the end, she just tells us what kind of situation may be done in what situation people can do, she describes these details in a relatively peaceful manner. , And do not give a direct critical attitude.

This is also a kind of reflection and reminder. Are all the laws, norms, and even common sense of the existing society's operation? Can they be changed and challenged, and what kind of factor is they created the end of the day?

Therefore, Lodan is not the kind of science fiction blockbuster. She is not intoxicated with the turbulence of killing, war, and thrilling, not just what happened to an empire and a planet. But her construction is also very magnificent, and she is another wide -hailing and long -distance and long -distance, as described by her confession:

I am tired of writing adventure stories, unless the role of the character shows its inner activities, or its actions reflect the appearance of the person itself. In fact, the more movements in the story, the less what happens. And I am obviously more enthusiastic about describing the changes in people's hearts, and the vast world planted in our hearts. Everyone has a forest in their hearts. Every night, each of us will be lost in this forest and patrols alone.

—— "The wider than the empire, and slower"

03.

When everything is strong, the smoke disappears

Dai Jinhua has commented that the most charming thing about Leukin's novels is that there is such a plump and soft life and imagination. It allows us to break through the real world of physical and physiological to explore life and people even in the real world.

In addition to novel creators, Lodan is more like a cosmic anthropology observer.

In her novels, she established one after another with sand table models, watching the villain inside walking around, struggling in different destiny. Of course, she will also have sympathy and softness, but more often, she still does not observe so much.

As a creator, in the face of the end of the world, she may be a little sighing, but she will not try to stop it.

"Another Earth"

This may also be the reason why Lodan's work is enduring and impressed so many people. Her creative perspective always makes people feel just right. She consciously observe and create, and constantly reflects on the perspective of herself as the upper observers.

The perspective of Lodan is always just right, cautious and self -sustaining, not too close, so as to be inciting emotions; it will not be too far away, completely stripping his creator perspective, pretending to be an objective God as if it is an objective God. Essence In the final analysis, such a distance needs to be sincere, sincere presenting these pains, struggles, and reaching tolerance and understanding from the heart.

For example, the film master Takovsky's confession in "Sculpting Time" is that the artist's responsibility is that he does not hide the truth he experienced -even if this truth will be unsatisfactory. Of course, the artist will also get lost, but if he is sincere enough, it is still worthy of deep attention because it shows his embarrassment and struggle in the real environment. Who can master the ultimate truth?

Therefore, in the novel of Lodan, the depiction of the doomsday is always refreshing, showing many different social forms and unexpected trends. On the other hand, these ideas can always cross the times and often form a text with the current life.

This may also be related to the era of Lodan. The peak period of her creation was located in the second half of the 20th century. At that time, humans experienced economic depression, US -Soviet Cold War, nuclear war threats, space competitions, biological experiments, environmental environment Control of pollution and other shadows.

In the past, the scientific and technological progress hallucinations of science fiction golden era have gradually been broken. As the representative of the science fiction new wave of science fiction, Lodan began to rethink the development of scientific and technological development and the future of human beings that did not necessarily be bright.

During the Cold War, the sense of disillusionment generally lingered in people's minds, the world failed, and all the sturdy in the past began to disappear, but we had to live in its ruins. How can I resolve and resettle it?

Therefore, although many stories in "Finding and Lost" occur in space, it is not the narrative of the Star Wars of Star Wars, but more like a Star -ar Oral History or New Continent Inspection Notes, exuding a strong back of the Cold War atmosphere. Essence

In these worlds, it seems that there have been some great construction, and now it has collapsed and disappeared. People who seeks in the ruins constantly recall the world that the world is still young, and repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly described everything we can understand, and constantly questioned the contradictions and ambiguousness, so as to confirm the small group of human beings in the vast universe. Coordinates, as well as the current position and significance.

This expression has even escaped from many specific science fiction settings and social ideas, all about stories and existence itself. Because when reading one after another, we also entered different worlds, relying on different narratives to confirm our existence, and constantly overthrow and rebuild our world:

What you choose to tell stories is everything. You are used to build your own world, that local, understandable, rational, and coherent world is everything. Lodan said in "The Son of the ancestors".

Lodan does not hide, nor does it shy to describe the darkness of human nature, impermanence of the world, destruction and loss. She is not very optimistic to arrange a bright and complete finale, so that the end of the world seems to be easily unveiled in people's work.

Lodgen, who is deeply influenced by Taoist thoughts (she is one of the translators of the English version of "The Tao Te Ching"), always implies a kind of thought without darkness -maybe it seems dark at the moment, but the light is bright. Contains it. The world has lost its balance, but we can still correct it, and of course we may collapse quickly.

Darkness is the left hand of light, and the light is the right hand of darkness. Compared with the details of the last Japanese body, Le Gurion is more concerned about the human nature that people may expose when facing a dilemma that almost cannot be overcome.

Of course, different human nature does not mean that Lodan has no tendency. Even in the face of disputes, bleeding and turmoil, the characters in Lodan often think about what to do. Among their choices, forgiveness and reconciliation have always occupied a great weight.

Literary theorist Harold Bloom not only includes the novels of Lodan in "Western Code", he also highly commented that her restrained compassion can always be emotional, and sometimes even sublimated to a lofty kind of emotion.

The love and desire of a pair of men and women, compared to the history of the two planets, compared to the great changes we have experienced, compared to hope, compared to the endless cruelty of our ethnic group? Nothing is insignificant. However, compared to a door, the key is also very small. But if you lose the key, you will never open the door.

Whether it is losing or opening freedom, whether it is accepting or ending slavery, it happens in our body. Therefore, I wrote this book to my friends. We will live freely together and die freely.

—— "The Liberation of a Woman"

Before the end, when everything is sturdy collapsed, the moment when the death and impermanence will come at any time. We may only face it, understand our triviality. But people can only do what they can do. Besides, it is difficult to say which little move will become the key to leverage the door?

"Another Earth"

Ligen once said in the interview that I am not a traveler or exploring person in the truth. I didn't think there would be an answer in my heart, so I never went to find it. My motivation is not pursuing, but fun. I like to try all kinds of ideas, lifestyles, and religious cognitions. I am just not suitable for conversion.

Therefore, when everything is sturdy disappeared, maybe we can enter the story after another, it does not destroy all energy and does not provide a certain answer, but it will make us understand. It doesn't matter. Life probably keeps constantly constantly constantly Finding and loss.

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Figure: "Silver Wing Killer 2049"

Written article: Su Xiaoqi

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