A breathtaking Movie - “The last Mohegan”

I Just watched “The last Mohegan”, a movie full of bloody and breathtaking scenes. You certainly feel that how pale our philosophy is: you can argue endlessly how one culture or one science theory is equally plausible as another. But when there is a struggle, specially a military one, it is not the issue of right or wrong any more. It is the issue:

 To live or to die.

 
You can watch the End Scene from YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9rRKaD_lqM

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SoeDAPj6gg&feature=related

This is definitely not a movie to describe how Indians are slaughtered by the white. It is the killing and slaughtering to each other. The most bloody version of “Tooth for tooth, eye for eyes”. All the most cruel activities such as killing both women and children, ripping the heart from a human being, burning people alive, forcing people to drop from abyss… which definitely give a vivid replica of bloody time of the early America colony. Lying deeper is the despair of less developed civilization. As the Last Mohegan said, this world will belong to his son and his son’s woman. It will belong to him no more. At the end of the day, there will be no frontier any more. All can be remembered is just a piece of history.

 

Peaceful co-existence of two polar systems?

Could two totally different type of civilization be co-existed in peace? Could people can solve their different political or economical issues in a peaceful way? The problem is that there must be some hierarchy in the society. Who will be in the higher rank? Who will be in the lower? There are no clear-defined boundaries. Nobody is willingly staying below if they can reach higher. A process of changing this hierarchy is the reason for the political and economical struggles.

This is a really dilemma. We want to progress, we like to introduce some revolutionary elements in our society. Then the society can really go forward. However, if this kind of change is not well-defined, it will lead to unavoidable conflicts. No body at the top is willing to give away their privileges and let others to enjoy, while the lower parts are desperately seeking the higher one  by all his means.
 

“Brave new world” solution

If we only want the stability, we can use what “Brave new world” said, to predetermine  that everybody will like their roles in the society and do nothing to challenge them. Then everybody is satisfied in the white-washed pale happiness and the whole society will change no more.

However, the payment is really too large that we would lose all our passion and yearning for something which is really worthwhile: such as  our curiosity of questing the nature, our spending time on anything rather than our social duties.

Life is too short to lose all these beautiful parts.

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