Far from the Tree


The experience of reading the book ‘Far from the Tree’ is profound.

The search for the self-identity is forever the ultimate goal of an alive human being. I indeed discussed about some related issues with my friend on similar topics, e.g., if being gay is an illness or not, if color blindness is a deficiency or are we ‘normal people’ seeing ‘too much’ than we ought to see. Actually it is a quite pleasant and interesting topic when discussing some unique features not that serious in nowadays and especially when they are not occurring to you. I once wondered that if color blindness is due to the deficiency of the eyes or the deficiency of the brain and it turned out that science proves the correctness of the former explanation. However, as we know color blindness is a kind of heritable gene differences from the rest of us, how we argue a ‘correct sample’ out of all different kinds of gene mutations. Correctness is hard to define, yet we are trying to form a standardized reference out of the the great majority. We say that it is the ‘right’ one when most people possess this feature - an obvious double standard when saying that truth always rests in the hands of a few people.

Far from the Tree
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意义


前段时间看了姜文的《一步之遥》,作为一个观影不多的观众至少也从中看出了姜文享受在其中的形象,我想这就是一部好电影。所以说做一件自己想做的或者说自己喜欢做享受在其中的事情是可以排在第一位的,外在的评论和事后的结果相对都可以排在之后。举个不恰当的例子,这就好像鲍尔默买手机,贝佐斯做手机一样(笑),既然自己喜欢,多花点时间多花点钱开心就好,不在乎别人多说几句。

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