Chapter 1771 Queen of Hell (42)

Napoleon was an Italian. Although he studied in France after the age of 13, he received a Latin education since he was a child.

During the expedition to Egypt, even though the Gauls were famous for their strong physical strength, everyone was tired after trekking in the desert for so long. Why did they let the donkeys be ridden by scholars? Many people did not understand this.

Caesar and Cicero, as well as the Roman nobles who were good at eloquence, did not deal with them either. The civil servants thought the military generals were too barbaric, and the military generals thought the civil servants were too pedantic. Everyone had different values.

However, Napoleon Bonaparte integrated the relationship between scholars and soldiers through his expedition to Egypt. Monge also married his daughter to a soldier who was injured and disabled due to the Great Patriotic War.

In fact, courtesy scholars have been given to the Bourbon royal family and many nobles, including Jean Jacques Rousseau and the artists in Madame Du Barry's salon, but this feeling is different.

Just as Napoleon paid courtesy to the Bourbon nobles, they also swore allegiance, but privately they still secretly found the bodies of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI in the mass graves, and went to the tower where they were imprisoned to mourn.

Napoleon thought that by marrying Marie Louise, he would be able to gain the Holy Roman Empire as an ally. In fact, it was not until his death that his family was officially accepted and became the European royal family and nobility.

Common people may not understand the thoughts of these nobles.

Both Camus and Sartre discussed how people can survive in an absurd world. Modern Western history has been constantly rationalizing and organizing human life. In this reasonable production order, every individual is a member of the assembly line at any time. The screws can be replaced, and the irreplaceability and non-repeatability of individuals are eliminated.

If the Middle Ages emphasized divine right and the good deeds done by people were part of God's plan and ignored human value, needs and dignity, then in modern times, they used an "assembly line" approach to ignore human value, needs and dignity, except that the previous assets The class and ordinary people are in the same group, and they are all oppressed by the aristocrats. Now they have also become the ruling class, oppressing the proletarians together with the aristocrats.

They don’t need so many people to think. For example, a coffee waiter. He only needs to use his reflective ability a little bit as Sartre said, and he will become very anxious. Do I have to do this all my life? I was born to serve in coffee shops. The person carrying the plate?

They will tell the waiter, don’t think so much, you have to focus on working hard, save enough money, and then open a coffee shop of your own. Although he changed from a waiter to a coffee shop owner, he still The waiter, can't he think like the literati sitting in the cafe drinking coffee?

As long as you completely give up reflection, act completely according to the arrangements of others, completely regard yourself as a component in the social machine, and become "existing for others", you can achieve "happiness" and become the middle class as they define it.

However, the cafe will close down at any time due to various reasons, and the boss will become a waiter again, just like Sisyphus, pushing a stone to the top of the mountain in vain, and then the stone will fall back to where it started, so Sartre does not think anxiety is It’s not good. He thinks this is an experience that people have when they are awakening. Unknown tourists smell the cheap perfume from the Champs Elysées station and think that Paris is an elegant city, but people living in this city are... A subway passenger who smells perfume that masks the smell of dead mice feels sick because she has realized what is behind this absurd world filled with perfume.

At this time, Camus and Sartre had differences in their theories. Camus felt that although Sisyphus's behavior was absurd, he still pushed the damn stone with passion. Dreamers may feel that they can change the world, but not

, that is impossible, as Talleyrand said, those nobles remembered everything and learned nothing. When they came to power, the first thing they did was to eliminate dissidents, remove Napoleon's officers and replace them with nobles

Officer. Then the "Raft of Medusa Incident" happened. After the warship hit the rocks, the nobles ran away first, leaving the civilian soldiers on the raft to fend for themselves. In order to survive, they would cannibalize themselves.

This is also one of the realities that Camus needs people to face. When people realize that there is no hope and no future, they will no longer be deceived by those false and grand goals and hopes, and can fully exhaust today and live in the present. Waiter

You can chat with the female tourists who come to the cafe, and maybe you will have a romantic encounter. As for work, love, and family, just like the mantra of Meursault in "The Stranger", "it doesn't matter."

This is the existential trend of thought after World War II. In comparison, Sartre is more positive. Life is meaningless, but you can create the future through your own actions. You have the freedom to choose. You don’t need to push the stone like Sisyphus.

As for what you will do in the future, you may get lost somewhere. Heaven will give you a great responsibility. What this "big responsibility" is is also unclear, but this is the beginning of your awakening and the beginning of your action. Maybe you will be happy.

A society will be born in your hands.

Camus would retort, you want us to fight for that distant, mirage-like vision and accept huge sacrifices. I can't do it, I can't accept it.

This is why Camus and Sartre were very good at first, but later broke up.

It is not easy to change people. European aristocrats are rarely willing to marry between high and low. This is a very stubborn residual feudal idea. The Ross family of Titanic has declined. Her mother asked her to marry Karl for money.

But she would rather choose the artist Jack.

Artists are a very special group. As long as they declare themselves to be artists, they can use this status to freely appear in the upper class society and be easily accepted.

This is the courtesy that Europe has given to artists as a group since the Renaissance. In Italian, Renaissance itself means resurrection from the dead.

This group of people usually lives in a flowery city or "in the countryside" and has never been to a harsh place like the desert. They are just like the philosopher and boatman who encountered a big wave in a boat. Before the big wave, he could pity the boatman.

After the big wave, it was the boatman's turn to ask him if he knew how to swim.

When it comes to issues of life and death, many of the troubles that have been entangled in the past can be put down, and some things can be looked at again. During the Cairo riots, scholars also raised their guns and pointed them at civilians like soldiers. Once the incited people broke through the defense line, in front of their eyes

As long as there are French people here, there will be no distinction between scholars and soldiers, they will all be killed.

The friendship between people is sometimes not only due to interests, but also because of shared experiences.

Even if there are people in the same room, the joys and sorrows are not always connected. When you peek at the bottom of the well, you will find that the earth is not a continuous continent, but an isolated island, and everyone is the owner of an isolated island.

This loneliness makes us long to get in touch with others. People in the Renaissance believed that the small universe in the human body is in harmony with the large universe created by God. One is the whole, and the whole is one. The figure of the human body embodies the ideas of Renaissance architects.

ideal.

According to Vitruvius's "Ten Books on Architecture", the root of "coordination" and "proportion" lies in the column system. Architects regard columns as the source of beauty and worship them as gods. There are even columns in the image of goddesses.

Amenhotep III was the son of Thutmose IV of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, the grandson of Amenhotep II, and the great-grandson of Thutmose III. Starting from Thutmose III, the pharaohs had

There is no contact with the Hermes family.

Before Amenhotep III, the New Kingdom had abolished some of the etiquette and celebrations of the Old Kingdom. When Amenhotep III came to the throne for the thirtieth anniversary, he planned to celebrate it grandly, so he completely followed the etiquette of the Old Kingdom.

A ceremony was held.

At that time, the king of Babylon hoped to form an alliance through marriage, but Amenhotep III married a wealthy merchant's daughter named Tai, who was chosen as queen because of her beauty.

The King of Babylon hopes that Egypt can marry a princess, even if it is not the pharaoh's biological daughter, it can be an adopted daughter. This is the diplomatic method started by Amenhotep II, but it has always been the countries in West Asia that donated beautiful women to the pharaoh.

These foreign beauties got localized names when they arrived in the Egyptian palace, such as "cat-like women" and "beauties with clouds of pursuers." In short, Amenhotep III was lustful and often asked for beauties from other countries.

He did not agree to the proposal of the King of Babylon, but instead gave the King of Babylon a set of furniture as a gift for the new palace.

The King of Babylon built a palace, but it was for the new princess to live in. The King of Babylon did not go to the 30th anniversary ceremony held by Amenhotep III, but this did not affect it. At that time, many people rushed to curry favor with the Pharaoh and said, "My Lord."

, my king, my god, my sun, I am your servant, the dust under your feet, I want to send my daughter to you."

Those vying to give beautiful women were not only foreign kings, but also princes and vassals. Amenhotep III said to one of them, "I can give you anything. As long as you find a beautiful woman who comes to the palace to pour wine, you must find one with no faults."

Yes, try to make this great king say to you, ‘This is really, really good’.”

Queen Tai's brother was the high priest and was responsible for the "movement of the sky". He invented a new invention, a dripping clock. The sundial, which could only be used during the day, could also be used at night.

A part of the resurrection ceremony of the kings in the ancient kingdom must be held at dawn. They would use ropes to erect a pillar of virtue upward to represent the resurrection of Osiris.

The pillars are not obelisks, but are made of stones piled up one by one. Even the temple pillars erected under the blue sky of Greece are the same. What's more, the Jiede Pillar itself represents the spine, which is made up of bones.

, it does not need to be erected diagonally like an obelisk, it can be erected vertically.

It will be a sleepless night. During the process of erecting the pillars, the priestesses will also sing and dance "Come, Golden Goddess". Queen Taiyi and the princesses will not dance all night, they will dance at the beginning of the ceremony.

Dressing up beautifully, pretending to be Hathor, and shaking the fork bell symbolically is over. The heavy physical work still has to be done by the dancers in the palace. They and the pharaoh get up at dawn and shake the bell again.

Just send the bells all night long and that's it.

At this time, the pharaoh will be reborn and transformed into the god Ra. Amenhotep III is no longer the son of the god Ra, but the sun god himself, enjoying the same worship as the god.

In those years, the Nile River flood was at an ideal level, so this new "God-King" also served as the Nile God Hapi. Although to modern people, he is an obnoxiously fat old man. But from the look of his face, he is a bit...

Like women, the pharaoh now combined the power of both male gods and goddesses into one body.

The high priest said that this divine power must be replenished and renewed regularly. Later, Amenhotep III held another meeting three years later, but still did not invite the King of Babylon.

The third time it happened, but this time it was deliberately kept low-key, because the fifty-year-old Pharaoh was dying, and at this time Egypt's territory in Asia showed signs of loosening.

The satraps and kings of vassal states in Asia wrote to the new pharaoh Amenhotep IV, complaining that they were often rebuked or deceived without reason. In the early years of his reign, Amenhotep IV had conflicts with Mitan, a major country in Asia.

The king of Mitanni had a serious conflict. He therefore formed an alliance with the Hittites, and these terrible warriors, under the leadership of their great leader Suppiluliuma I, were attacking Mitanni in an attempt to establish their own hegemony.

Many small Asian princes who submitted to Egypt were also threatened by the Hittites. They could only ask for help from the pharaoh himself in Africa, but Amenhotep IV ignored them.

So what is the use of Amenhotep III expanding his territory? His descendants would not be able to hold it anyway.

It was still business to implement the religious reform of Aten worship. In the first year after he ascended the throne, he began to promote the sun god who had replaced all previous gods in the exalted status.

Although the spine can be bent, the Jie De pillars supporting the roof cannot.

Not everyone can bend this waist. Those flattering voices sound better than criticism, but don’t you feel disgusted if you hear them too much?

It is a good thing to hear criticism. It proves that this person still has hope. What else can he say if he is not saved?
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