Japan, a country with a long and narrow land on earthquake and volcanic belts, has a history of various natural disasters. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis make the people of the Japanese archipelago feel at risk all the time. Over the course of thousands of years, Japanese people have become sensitive to the culture of "mourning" such as death and withering, and thus gave birth to Japan's unique aesthetic of mourning. At the same time, this environment brought a great sense of national crisis to the Japanese, forming a martial and collectivist Japanese culture.
(The Japanese film Ah! Navy")
After the Meiji Restoration, the rise of Japanese capitalism, the market must be expansionary, the expansive nature of the market, the tradition of Japanese culture and martial arts, and the sense of national crisis, finally forged an aggressive and brutal empire on this group of islands in eastern Asia, which finally went to extremes in the economic crisis of the 20th century and 30s, became one of the sources of world war, and committed heinous crimes in the war.
Let's pull our perspective to the distant Arabian Peninsula. The climate is harsh and agriculture is scarce (how can you farm without water?). ）。 Business is booming. The Arabian Peninsula, located at the junction of East and West, was inherently the best transit point. It welcomes a rich culture.
The Qur'an and Islam were born here. As the core work of Islam, the Qur'an expounds the intention of the religion like the Bible. If we open the Qur'an, we will find something like this: "You eat, you drink, you give alms, you wear, as long as you do not waste and do not show off." The pursuit of legitimate welfare is the main destiny after the Lord's destiny. "Loving creatures, Allah of love."
How is such an inclusive and peace-advocating content related to today's feudal reactionary and murderous behavior of Islamic extremist forces?
Let's go back to today. Today, the Arab world is facing an international situation far more exaggerated than Japan.
(In 2003, the U.S. military invaded Iraq under the pretext of "Iraq researching chemical weapons.") The picture shows the Iraqi city at war)
In the second half of the last century, Arabia became an arena for US-Soviet hegemony. Wars are frequent here, economic development is particularly difficult, especially the Arab people are suffering from imperialist hegemony. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States continued to wage war after war against countries in the Arab world in order to maintain regional hegemony, accompanied by economic blockades.
It's a breathless place. The Arab world's voice is almost no longer in their own hands. It is being marginalized here. Beautiful Arabia, which is "disappearing" from the world.
Desperate to take back everything they have, they raise their butcher knives to do so. In the Middle East desert, where the great powers have been crushed one after another, the dark wave of terrorism has finally been raised.
"Since the great powers of the 'civilized world' have taken away my 'Allah', my rights, then I may as well be an enemy of the civilized world..."
What a familiar line...
("You are but the will to power, and nothing else!") ”）
The bloody, ruthless, and ruthless competition finally made people lose their human appearance and become murderous "ghosts".
Of course, such a so-called "resistance", just as the Japanese fascists tried to "100 million jade pieces" to attack the United States, return to the barbaric colonial era of the past, and realize Japan's domination of the world.
But isn't it ironic when the so-called "civilized world" creates such barbaric forces in constant competition and strife?
In 1884, the famous "Sea Cannibal Case" occurred in Britain. The four of them were at sea in extremely harsh conditions, with nothing to rely on and no food. Eventually, the other three had to eat the sick teenager to survive. In a harsh environment, human nature is finally distorted.
And this ocean is our "civilized world".
The difference is that there are still people who believe that humanity will awaken, will smash the chains of capitalism, and will one day escape from the sea.