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I have heard about “The Outsider” for a long time, and bought the electronic version on Kindle, but haven’t finished it. I had nothing to do last night. I found the physical book in the book bar and finished it by the way.
Throughout the whole book is an indifferent sense of detachment. From the perspective of the first person, the author writes a completely indifferent attitude towards life. He is not cynical, but looks at his own life indifferently. Sooner or later, the process is not important.
I have experienced a similar sense of detachment, but not completely into nothingness. I still have a very deep relationship with the world, and that is my parents. They love me dearly, and I love them too. So I understand this sentence very well: “When parents are alive, life still has a place to come; when parents go, life only has a way back.”
Domestication and relationship building
The intimate relationship between the protagonist and Mary reminds me of the little boy and the little fox in “The Little Prince”. Mary is not unique to “me” and could be another woman with the same intimacy. And the essence of “domestication” is to build a relationship, in which each other is unique to each other, instead of being one among all living beings.
social relationship
Marx said: The essence of human beings is the sum of social relations. However, the current commodity society has created independent individuals, and the communication between people is increasingly simplified to economic communication. The logic of the market has invaded our lives more and more deeply, and penetrated into the various relationships we are in. . Human beings are more and more showing the attributes of commodities, but what relationship can be accommodated between commodities other than equivalent exchange? As a result, more and more social relationships are simplified into economic relationships. After stripping off social relationships, do people really have the so-called “self-worth”? If anything, “self-worth” should become more and more clear and prominent, making the self more and more clear, not more and more nothingness. However, in essence, what I feel is that people are becoming more and more reduced to the chain of capital proliferation. The more people are separated from various relationships, the less human they are.
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