At the beginning of man, nature is good, sex is close, habits are far away...
In our impression, human nature is good, after all, many of us think that when people are just born, they are like a blank piece of paper, and what kind of pattern will appear on this white paper depends on what the person holding the pen writes upwards.
And some people get bad because they are affected by the environment.
As early as the period of the Hundred Schools of Thought, Confucian representatives Confucius and Mencius were supporters of this view.
However, at the end of the Warring States period, Confucianism produced another powerful person, Xunzi, who believed that human nature was inherently evil, and this view was also inherited and carried forward by Han Fei, the master of legal thought.
Is human nature inherently good or human nature inherently evil? No one has been able to say the answer to these two views.
However, these two views are not absolutely opposed, the theory of sexual evil believes that human nature has evil, emphasizing the necessity of acquired moral education, while the theory of sexual goodness believes that human nature is good, and pays more attention to the consciousness of moral cultivation.
The education we are advocating now is to attach importance to the consciousness of moral cultivation and emphasize the necessity of moral education in the day after tomorrow, and only when the two are combined with each other can we promote a better person's talent.
In fact, the question of the good and evil of human nature has plagued human beings all over the world, and there are also some people abroad who are thinking about this problem, and in order to figure out this answer, some people have done some experiments.
For example, a Serbian named Marina Abramovich, in order to verify this problem, once anesthetized the body for 6 hours in a house next to the street, during which time she was disposed of by passers-by.
Unexpectedly, the beauty she expected did not appear, but it turned out to be a carnival feast for the mob, so what was the process of this experiment?
Let's take a look.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > maverick performance artist</h1>
Born in serbia's capital, Marina's maternal grandfather was the head father of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and her parents joined the Yugoslav National Liberation Army during World War II, and after the war, her parents became national heroes and later held important positions in the Yugoslav government.
Before the age of six, Marina hardly knew the taste of fatherly and maternal love, and had been following her grandparents, and only after the birth of Marina's brother did she live with her parents, her mother was very strict with her, and in her mother's view, educating her children should be like training soldiers.
Perhaps it was because of such a long period of repressed sexual education that Marina later embarked on an artistic path that was unbelievable to everyone, not only wild and bold, but also crazy free.
Marina was not exposed to art in her early years, but she had a talent for art, and like many children, she liked to scribble and draw, and as she grew up, Marina had an unspeakable obsession with art.
In order to pursue art, but also to pursue freedom, Marina has been living in a fixed place for a long time, and has gone to Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, Brazil and other countries.
After Marina's footprints reached a country, and her performance art was also brought to this country, so people at that time called her the mother of performance art.
And because of the scale of her practice in performance art, she was once hailed as one of the greatest performance artists of the 20th century.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" > body is the basic material for performance art</h1>
Marina's performance art explores three main aspects: the limits of the flesh, the possibility of thinking, and the connection between the performer and the audience.
Through these experiments, you can find answers to your doubts.
Of Marina's many experiments in performance art, her body is the most basic experimental "material", and in her more than four decades of career, she has used her body to bring many memorable and unimaginable works of art to the public.
At that time, Marina's performance art had become a legend.
When Marina was 27 years old, she officially began a solo performance, which is called the Russian game, that is, 20 different short knives are prepared in advance, and they are stabbed from between each finger in order and quickly, trying not to stab the finger, and once the finger is stabbed, it is necessary to change to another knife and repeat the previous action.
When Marina performed, her finger was stabbed many times because she was not very skilled, and after her finger bled, she did not stop experimenting until after 20 knife wounds.
So in this experiment, Marina's blood was splashed and discolored, but this was only the most lightweight beginning of Marina's artistic concept.
The performance was called "Rhythm 10" by Marina.
After that, Marina performed "Rhythm 5" and "Rhythm 2" successively, and the scale of the performance was more and more than once, and the process was more thrilling than ever, until the appearance of "Rhythm 0".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > anesthetize yourself for 6 hours, during which time the audience is at his disposal</h1>
In 1974, Marina performed Prosody 0 in Naples, Italy, in an open-plan house off the street.
Marina prepared 72 items in the house, including mild and beautiful things such as lipstick, roses, and honey, as well as dangerous things such as scissors, daggers, and crossbows.
In addition, Marina prepared a pistol with bullets.
Marina then posted a notice allowing the viewer to pick out the items she wanted to use from 72 items at will, and then use those items to make compulsive contact with her body, which meant that the audience could use these items to do whatever she wanted on her body.
To encourage viewers to follow her thoughts, Marina also made a statement in advance that she would not pursue it afterwards no matter what they did with the stuff on their bodies.
In order to let the audience release their nature, Marina also anesthetized her body and then sat still to reduce the body's instinctive reaction and "destroy" the process of the experiment.
At first, no one participated in the experiment, Marina looked at the passers-by quietly, and the passers-by just looked at Marina quietly, because they didn't believe that anyone dared to play like this, but since Marina volunteered, someone took the lipstick and began to paint on her body.
When the surrounding passers-by saw that Marina did not resist this, these people also began to be bold, some people took scissors and directly cut Marina's clothes, some people took pictures of Marina, some even took daggers and cut wounds on Marina's body...
Another passerby, directly took the pistol on the table and put it in Marina's mouth, and just as he was about to shoot, he was fortunately stopped by other passers-by, otherwise Marina would really dedicate herself to art.
Marina looked at the madness of passers-by, she did not expect that her experiment would become a carnival feast for the mob, and her eyes unconsciously shed tears, the fear in her heart became more and more intense, but her body could not react in any way.
After the anesthesia was over, Marina stood up, her body scarred, and she condemned the passers-by with tears in her eyes, and the passers-by left, afraid that Marina would hold them accountable.
Of course, Marina didn't pursue it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="65" > summary:</h1>
In Marina's view, it must be the inherent evil of human nature, and when she anesthetized herself, instead of getting pity from passers-by, she turned these passers-by into thugs who did whatever they wanted.
Later, Marina summed up the experiment by saying:
This experience made me realize that if you leave the whole decision to the public, then you are not far from death.
I once read such a sentence in the book and thought it made a lot of sense:
There are two things in the world that cannot be looked at directly, one is the sun and the other is human nature...
Presumably Marina must have been deeply touched by this sentence.
References: Marina Abramovi's Madness and Freedom, etc.
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