Chapter 497: Heroes Have Dreams
There is a Pathé cinema in Chinatown, which is a very old building. After the fire that burned for four days in 1666, the reconstruction of London focused on the western suburbs that were still farmland at that time. The owner of the land at the time, Lord Gerrard, allowed people displaced by the fire to rebuild on his estate. Gerald Street was built in 1685, and soon more and more people came to settle here. The former farmland became a bustling downtown, and the West End of London came into being.
Later, as Chinatown moved in, people gave Gerald Street a Chinese name, Juelu Street.
In the second half of the 19th century, more and more immigrant groups came to settle here. First the Italians, then the Jews and the Maltese. In the hustle and bustle of the 1920s, nightclub queen Kate Merrick's famous bar "Club 43" was located at No. 43 Jereux Street; later, the legendary jazz musician Lonnie Scott also founded his No. The first jazz club. In this era, Soho, centered on Juelu Street in Chinatown, can be said to be a cultural sanctuary for the entire London, and EMI Building was built at that time.
There is a rooster at the main entrance of that building, because EMI's logo is a rooster singing with its head high, and this rooster just happens to be very similar to the current map of China.
In addition to showing Hollywood blockbusters, this cinema also has a first-floor theater dedicated to Chinese-language movies. There is also a museum that tells the history of Chinese film.
Love is the only thing we can take with us after death, because it can make death easy, and the Chinese people's love for the motherland makes those soldiers die calmly. Zhang Tao should love his country very much. He sticks to many things and looks at the world at the same time. It's just that a person like him may not be able to get ahead in China.
The Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. What Qu Yuan said when he was alive did not attract the attention of the king. After his death, people discovered that what he said was right. Many historical celebrities are like this.
If a person is too far ahead of the times, he will not be tolerated by the world. One step beyond is a genius. Only after his death and the progress of the times can people understand or keep up with his thoughts. Nietzsche is such a person, and Van Gogh and Bach, there are very few people who can be accepted and understood in contemporary times, even Severus is understood after death, not to mention that the country should be very flashy, from those who go abroad see.
People who are severely brainwashed by consumerism will spread this "disease" to others.
Material temptations also exist for Westerners, and religious beliefs are used to resist material temptations. In the Middle Ages, people practiced penance and gave their wealth to the church. The church used the money to build churches and buy land, but it was useless for medical treatment anyway.
After the arrival of the Little Ice Age, rodents came to cities from the wild to find living space due to lack of food, and the Black Death broke out. In some cities, there were not as many living people as dead people, and the streets were full of corpses. The scene was like hell on earth. , People can't help but think about the meaning and value of life.
Dumbledore told her not to pity the dead, but to pity those who are alive but have no love in their hearts. It is meaningless to condemn and moralize them. The world needs tolerance. Allowing others to have shortcomings is a kind of forgiveness for everyone.
In the world of consumerism, consumers are produced people with consumption desire and passion. Through a large number of experiments, behaviorists analyze a behavior pattern to control and manipulate "consumers" to achieve the purpose of promoting consumption. .
In their free time, they can read books or enjoy life and be with their families, but in fact they often spend their time pursuing more wealth, even if he doesn't need that much at all.
According to the Matthew Effect, the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. The bottom-level citizens are busy with their lives all day long, and they have no time to rest and think quietly, and their health is getting worse and worse.
Consumer culture brings false culture. A woman buying Chanel does not mean she has become a woman in the new era. A man buying a car does not mean he is a successful person. Wearing Chanel to work and you are still a working class, buying a car You still have to repay the loan, and you still have to work for the capitalist in the end. What they instill is the idea that you will be happier if you buy it, and that you will change your class if you buy it. Changing jobs is just changing to work for a capitalist, and he still wants to squeeze you. time and energy to earn money for him.
Students, especially female students, are the most likely victims of consumerism. The vast majority of men will not teach young women correct values and discernment skills. Instead, they will use women's ignorance and easy material temptations in exchange for physical relationships.
In Martina’s human nature experiment, her clothes were originally good, and men cut them with scissors. If you ask them individually, they will definitely not admit that they have such thoughts, but their nature is hard to change. Platonic love is It is unrealistic, everyone has a dark side in their hearts, and in the case of absolute freedom, most people will fall in the dark direction.
Pomona wants her students to have this kind of discernment more than grades. Tonks saw that the werewolf Lupin was good, and he didn't mind that he was poor and a werewolf and married him. Everything about Lupine was suitable except that he was a werewolf. The problem was that he was a werewolf.
Being a civilized and rational being is a smart choice, everyone wants to stay that way, but when there is a shortage of food, hunger makes it hard to maintain a sense of normalcy.
The United States is the largest food exporting country, and the area where the farms are distributed happens to be within the range of the Yellowstone volcanic eruption. It doesn’t matter when there is no emergency, and once it happens, you can’t buy it even with money.
There was also a food crisis during the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. At that time, the Kuomintang restricted the transport of food into the Soviet area and carried out a large-scale sweep. The Eighth Route Army reclaimed Nanniwan to rely on itself to ensure food supply.
The developed agriculture and eating habits of Americans have caused a lot of food waste. It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. If you don’t have enough food, how can you sell it to others.
The Hans robbed the Huns of their cattle and sheep, and the Huns were about to starve to death. The whites did not leave any food for the Inuit, so that they would starve to death. The act of giving humanitarian aid under such circumstances is extremely noble.
It was not for nothing that the Turkic people respected Li Shimin as the Heavenly Khan. Later Turkic people only recognized the Li family as the orthodox emperors, and some even died for others.
Zhang Tao told her that he didn't want those things in the British Museum, including the animal heads in the Old Summer Palace and the Dunhuang murals. What he really wanted was the stone sculpture of the Six Horses of Tang Zhaoling stored in the New York Museum.
Because of the war, it was resold abroad in order to raise military expenses, and now he wants to redeem it.
The outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion was also due to the problem of military expenditures. The dignitaries in Chang'an City lived extravagantly and did not give them the military pay that should be given to the border soldiers.
After the fall of Chang'an, An Lushan emptied the treasury, and Tang Suzong allowed them to rob Luoyang in order to pay the Uyghur mercenaries for military expenses.
When he said this, he covered his face and cried, and said something in words she couldn't understand. It was very moving to see a vicissitudes old man cry.
Nietzsche said that a spirit with load capacity must carry all the heaviest things, just like a camel full of loads rushing to the wilderness. It is in this way that the spirit rushes into the wilderness. However, a second transformation occurred in the lonely wilderness: the spirit became a lion, which wanted to win freedom for itself and be the master of its own desert.
China also has transfiguration, but it’s different from Hogwarts’ transfiguration. It is to fold the thing to be transformed with paper. In addition to window grilles, the Chinese also know how to origami. If you fold a frog, it will really become a frog. up.
"If a craftsman is very focused on an object, he will infuse it with aura, and it will be almost like a Horcrux." After regaining his composure, when the frog was jumping on the mat, Zhang Tao said lightly, "That is not a human being." The soul is not the same as Voldemort attaching his own soul to the utensils."
"What's the difference?" Pomona asked.
"The soul of man is born of heaven and earth, and the soul of things is created by man. We have become the creator." He said in a somewhat proud tone, "We are not like you. In your mythology, there is only worship of gods. Ours There is a spirit of resistance in mythology, Jingwei fills the sea, Houyi shoots the sun, we have been working hard for our own survival, generation after generation will never admit defeat, and it is endless fun to fight against the sky."
The Chinese have a "rebellious" spirit, and it is this spirit that they can never tame.
The Manchuria really ruined a lot of things of the Han people, especially in the north. Although the northerners are said to be bloody, didn’t the Guangzhou Uprising and the Nanchang Uprising all happen in the south? Ip Man and Huang Feihong are also from the south.
She was admiring the posters in the exhibition hall, and she was full of emotions. The more she understood the Chinese world, the more fascinated she was.
"I don't obey God's will, even if I lose my qualifications to go to heaven." She muttered to herself as if suddenly inspired.
The pet was kicked out of the house representing the Garden of Eden by "God" because of disobedience once, and it had to repent at the door in order to go back again. It looked so pitiful.
To be a god's pet, or to be a wild animal that lives according to its own will.
She chose the latter, so her years could not be peaceful, and they were destined to be full of turmoil and restlessness. Who called her a witch?
