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In view of the "pain" caused by the epidemic, how do we think about the relationship between humans and nature?

author:Wang Hanqing

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Today, I would like to share with you a classic film of man and nature, "The Story of the Bear", which is based on the true story between man and the bear that happened in the Rocky Mountains of the United States in 1885 and was released in 1988. In the film, the French director Jean-Jacques. Arnold endowed the bear man with affection. Their every move seems to carry a human shadow. See bears, catch frogs and chase butterflies, roll among the flowers, and finally wave goodbye to humans. You will find that it is like a child who has not been involved in the world, smart and naughty, cute and sensible.

For a moment, I even thought that they might be the other side of human beings, but they didn't have the complex desires of human beings! When the bears who have lost their mothers find the big male bears after a helpless search, the way they establish feelings or friendships is so simple and straightforward. You lick my wounds for me. I offer you shelter, isn't that the most essential thing about friendship and affection? Perhaps without the complex utilitarianism of human beings, friendship can be so pure. And humans as higher animals. Is it because nature is complex, or because we have become complicated under the influence of this society? In nature, almost all animals have to follow the laws of nature, except for humans, it seems that human beings have been detached from nature, out of the animistic world, and when I said this, I suddenly remembered a sentence. Nature has always been natural, and what is unnatural is only us humans.

Animals are hunted and killed indiscriminately, plants are cut down indiscriminately; as a result, there are fewer and fewer animals, grass and trees are becoming more and more sparse, and all living things are afraid of human beings. We often advertise that humans are the masters of the planet. Actually? On the macro level, we know very little about the universe, and on the micro level, various viruses are also spying on us all the time. We can eliminate the virus through advanced medical means and drugs to maintain the normal operation of our human life function and keep our body from being destroyed by the virus! But let's think in another way, why is human being not a viral parasite for the earth? The bear's experiences and encounters in the film are like those of us humans today, and the hunter's mentality and violence are like today's new coronavirus. Floods, earthquakes and other disasters that we humans consider to be a threat, is not the earth's defense against human beings? It is no exaggeration to say that the virus that attacks our human body is not the drug used by the earth to kill poison? Therefore, it is not human beings who dominate the earth, but nature!

Watching this film, let us rethink an ancient and often new philosophical question: What is the relationship between man and nature?