The greatest tragedy of human beings is that they want to build heaven on earth, but they often end up in hell.
The eldest son of a count's family, who supports democracy and freedom and has a sense of justice, but has a treacherous younger brother who repeatedly slanders him in order to compete for the family property, provoking his relationship with the count's father, and finally causing him to break with his father and leave home in anger. Entering the Bohemian forest as a thief and being chosen as the leader, he is not Robin Hood, his name is Karl, and he is the protagonist of the German writer Schiller's famous work "The Bandit".
Portrait of Schiller
But after watching "The Bandit", Carl's story I suddenly felt familiar, yes, the main body of the story of the anime "Rebel Luluxiu", the core of the values preached, and this work written in 1780 have bad similarities, I can't help but feel ah, human society seems to be moving forward, but the core, after all, is still these. With their own personal understanding, with the determination to create a better world to change the world, in the end, the world fell into a crisis of destruction.
The Robber book
In the book "The Robber", the judgment of the right and wrong, good and bad, of anyone and anything seems to be determined by the robbers, and the judgment of the robbers is also very simple, the rich people, the people who can rob, most of them are not good people, not good people, I can kill the rich and the poor, I can be jealous of evil, I can not have any psychological burden, because I am doing the way for Skywalker. As the introduction to The Robber says, "If the medicine is not good, it must be treated with iron, and those who are not cured by iron must be treated with fire." ”
Bronze statues of Goethe and Schiller
But if you think about it, do those who were killed by the robbers and exterminated really deserve it? Must be killed after the infamy, the family of relatives and friends must also be killed together, together to bear the burden? For the farmers, I think of the bosses in the company who scold employees, the hooligans who forge laws and policies, and those who sell unlicensed products and sell health care products to the elderly, just imagine, suddenly a team of people, rushed into these people's homes, robbed the house, and then killed their entire family, and then burned their homes, is not too much.
The robbers of that era
Just like the Lulu Xiu in "Rebellious LuLu Xiu", when a person gains great power, loses himself in the power, puts himself in the position of God, and sets the rules of the world by his own likes and dislikes, is such a person a god or a demon?
Lulu Xiu, who wants to change the world
The most difficult to read in "The Robber" is nothing more than the cruelty of the robbers, Carl is a thief and a man, but in the chaos, not every one of his men has received a good education as he did, even if he is a bandit, he can maintain self-discipline. One of his men, while raiding the house, saw a small child hiding under a table, frightened, helpless, trembling. The man laughed, asked if the child was cold, and then threw the child into the burning fire alive.
He wanted to build heaven, but he set a fire on earth
And even Karl, in the process of resistance, used the strategy of turning the tiger away from the mountain to set fire to the city, which led to the loss of more than 80 innocent lives, even these lives, they shouted for help. In the eyes of many people, these are the sacrifices that have to be made in order to achieve great things. So a very simple question, is it okay to sacrifice your parents? Is it okay to sacrifice your lover? Is it okay to sacrifice your child? Finally, is it okay to sacrifice you and erase everything about you?
Li's point of view
Li Shi had a passage about "crying from afar", personally deeply believed, some people always pondered how to change the world, make the world a better place, and then calculate the sacrifice of this, sacrifice which, but often such people, not only did not transform the world, but ignited the world's fire.
People, selfish, be an ordinary person, do their own thing, don't think about those great causes, don't think about how to harm others, do their own things, let yourself live happily, isn't it good?
Change yourself and then something else
At the end of Schiller's "The Robber", the protagonist Carl realizes his mistake and returns home to find that his father was tortured to death, his brother also committed suicide due to guilt, and he was forced by his former robber accomplices to finally turn himself in. In "Rebellious Lulu xiu", Lu Lu xiu also chose to commit suicide, all at the expense of himself. But will their ideal world really be built? I thought that I was afraid that there would still be strife in the world, and people would still be at peace.
Inadvertently, it has affected the world's plum ziqi
I thought that we should still do ourselves well, do every little thing around us, accumulate small kindnesses, celebrate more than enough, if everyone is like this, the world will be beautiful long ago. I like to watch Li Ziqi's videos, let people calm their mood, enjoy a moment of tranquility, what she does, is not to change herself? But inadvertently, it affected the world.
Goethe and Schiller
When I was younger, I dreamed of changing the world;
When I matured, I decided to change only my country;
As I entered my twilight years, my last wish was simply to change my family
I was lying in bed now, about to die, when I suddenly realized:
If at the beginning
I'm just going to change myself.
Then, I may change my family;
With the help and encouragement of my family, I may be able to do something for the country;
And then, who knows. I might change the world.