Man's destiny is composed of many large and small choices, which means that everyone is his own creator, no matter the smoothness of the path of life, people can change the direction of life through active choice.
In addition, fate also has its passive side, that is, the social environment will greatly affect the fate of individuals. In short, when you were born, where you were born, what kind of family background you have, and so many objective factors constitute the background of fate.
How social class and the environment determine people's fate can be found in the characters of Mr. Lu Xun.
In the short story "Hometown", Leap Earth changes from a lively teenager with a silver ring to a middle-aged man with a twilight breath, and all the possibilities in Leap Earth's life are flattened out in the years of war. In the context of the era of national destruction and family destruction, as a representative of the weak class, the leap earth can let people witness the spiritual bondage and material scarcity of the little people in the face of the turbulent social reality.
In turn, it was the social status quo and social class at that time that shaped the character of Leap Earth.
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When people deal with their relationship with fate, they need to go back and trace and reflect on their original class, and finally reach a reconciliation. That is, how a person faces his past, including the relationship with relatives and friends around him, the relationship with the environment in which he grew up, and the relationship with the social class in which he or she lives.
The famous French contemporary philosopher Didier Elipon reflected on his past background and intimate relationship through his book "Return to His Hometown".
In the book, he describes his hometown, which he has not returned to for many years: a place from which I have tried to escape, a social space that I have deliberately alienated, a spiritual space that has served as a negative teaching material in my growth, and a hometown that still constitutes my spiritual core no matter how much I resist.
For Eripon, who has achieved fame, his hometown represents the social class in which he used to live, and at the same time shapes his current self.
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Born into a working-class family, His father was a grumpy worker and his mother earned a meager income as a cleaner, barely supporting His education.
It was his mother's insistence that gave Yerepong the opportunity to study philosophy at university, and eventually his academic qualifications and knowledge allowed him to achieve his goal over the years: to get rid of the social class in which he was originally located and jump to a higher social class. For The young Yerepong, it was a joy to escape from fate.
The opportunity to reflect on this class defection was the death of his father. For Eripong, his father is the epitome of various negative social images in the original class, everything that Eripon wants to get rid of and abandon.
Until the death of his father, Yerepón returned to his homeland, where he had been gone for decades, because of the difference in social status and values, Yerepon faced his relatives who had not seen him for many years, and a sense of withdrawal suddenly appeared - Yeripong and his hometown created a huge distance and estrangement. At the same time, it is this observation from a certain distance that makes Eripon gradually understand the dilemma that his father faces in the living environment.
People in a certain social order will be dominated by the inherent social rules without knowing it, and the people and values around them will become a social inertia, making it difficult for people in it to perceive and escape.
The sociologist Durkheim once pointed out that society can exert some coercive power on individuals, but people are often ignorant of this and think that all actions are the result of their own choices. This dilemma, like the ineffable ice of summer worms, when people cannot break through the boundaries of the class in which they live, and cannot observe their own situation from a higher dimension, it is difficult to change their established destiny.
Faced with the constraints of the native class, Eripon's expertise represents a special power, a power that allows him to escape from his hometown, to escape obscurity, and to leap to another higher class.
In his hometown, where he worked and lived day after day, he could only succumb to the single way of life in front of him, and all his actions and thoughts were imposed on him by the surrounding living environment; the ignorance and narrowness of his father, and the limited scope of his vision, were shaped by the exploited working class at this moment.
In this way, people can often project a sense of powerlessness in front of the controlling forces of social order.
When this is understood, people have the opportunity to reconcile with their past. As Nietzsche said, the deepest purpose of life is to accept and embrace the destiny of the self. Behind the stalemate between man and the original class, the defection and return, is the process of a person facing up to himself and accepting himself.
Through the book "Return to The Hometown", Eripon looks back on his own growth process, and it is also a criticism of the people at the bottom who suffer from class limitations.
This also provides a new perspective—from the perspective of social class, to help us re-gaze at the people and things that we once hated and alienated from, and to look at our fate at a higher level.
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