German film "The University Student in Prague"
Around the 1920s.
When a university student attends a party in a small café on the outskirts of Prague, in a nearby hunting ground, where the city's nobles hunt and party.
One of the figures is manipulating the event, and this man is the devil. The devil seduced an aristocratic woman who attended the event and made her fall in love with the university student at first sight, but eventually the woman abandoned the college student because she was rich.
After returning to his cabin with only a few books and a dressing mirror, the college students repeatedly experienced this strange experience. At this time, the devil appeared and demanded that a pile of gold be exchanged for the university student's mirror image.
Soul trading always comes at a cost
After the deal, the devil, with a smirk, peeled off the mirror image, put it in a bag and disappeared.
With money, college students were successful in high society, and one success after another followed. But he always avoids the mirror in life, because he has no mirror image.
One day, however, in real life, he saw an image he had exchanged for the devil, and the image had been awakened by the devil as a replica of him. This replica was in and out of the same social situations as he was, accompanying him everywhere, closely following him to cause him trouble.
Once he avoids the social circle, his replicas perform his activities in a dignified manner, distorting and deforming the activities until they commit crimes. Once, college students had to duel with people. The college student who was involved in the duel originally wanted to apologize to the opponent to resolve the crisis, but the replica who came first killed the opponent, and the college student had to hide.
In revenge for the betrayal, the image hunted him down everywhere. College students can see images everywhere, and for college students, there is no social life, there is no possibility of existence. In desperation, he single-mindedly planned to kill it.
The image ends up in his room, and during the fight between the two, the image finds itself re-passing through the mirror from which it came out, and in extreme anger, the college student shoots at the mirror. The mirror shattered, and the replica returned to its original illusion and disappeared.
At this time, the college student also fell, and in the scattered fragments of mirrors, he found that he could see himself again. But the image has already replaced him as a real being, and while he kills the image, it is he who kills himself.
Copperplate engraving "Broken Mirror"
"Things are neither animals nor plants, but they give the feeling of thriving and tropical jungle. Modern new savages find it difficult to find the shadow of civilization in it. This kind of animal and plant produced by people, like scenes in hateful science fiction, in turn surrounds people and traps people. — Baudrillard, The Consumer Society
Studies have shown that when the per capita income of a society is between 1,000 and 3,000 US dollars, the society is in a transition period from traditional society to modern society, and one of the basic characteristics of this transition period is the "fragmentation" of society: the traditional social relations, market structure and the integrity of social concepts - from the spiritual home to the credit system, from the mode of discourse to the consumption pattern - disintegrate, replaced by the differentiated demands of a interest group and the "cultural tribe" and the fragmentation of social components.
Fragmented reading with fragmented people
People find happiness in consumption and excitement in possession. Replace reading with pictures, replace thinking with sounds, replace brains with eyes, replace self with images, and willingly allow "media violence" to impose its own non-existent ways.
What follows is a label on the general public, such a label is integrated through the analysis of big data, and then accurately presented to everyone in the way of pushing its interest.
A few days ago, a classmate complained in a group chat, saying why the ads pushed to him by social platforms are always older and unmarried heterosexual dating platforms, and after joking, we can see that the data cloud's demand for him is a rigorous analysis...
Show you what you need, create what you think of, feel more and more, our time is getting closer and closer to the Matrix code-style thinking hypnosis mode, in such an invisible, infinite network connection, everyone will eventually become a trivial node.