Never underestimate the power of the stupid man speaking the crowds.
No matter how many people or individuals are smart, they follow the law of the crowd in the crowd. The law of the crowd nullifies everything, meaning, sense, purpose, leads to the abyss. What is patriotism if it excludes the power of judgment if it overwhelms our mind with something that we are not?
Whether it is fascism, democracy or communism, the fascinated leaders who are pushing us towards each other, because of some higher goal, are a complex lunatic. It has been scientifically proven that all the leaders of this type, in essence, had some bizarre reasons that go into the collective and personally unconscious, as such manipulated by interest groups, and gained great power to manipulate the masses. Every time we hear such a speech where we begin to feel hypnotized, it is not good, it needs to shake it from itself and from the head.
The best way to defend from growing fascism is to preserve individuality, self-awareness, human values, and at no cost accept any of these ideas of false patriotism and various other explanations that we are not able to understand something. Whenever we hear such a thing, we should put beyond this our universal meaning of life that we received at our birth. That sense will tell us what is true and what lies.
The two lines in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” which together use symbolism to indicate that death is approaching are:
B) There was light and now there is darkness.
E) staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness.
Tolstoy gives his remark on the materialistic nature of people in the society. Throughout the novel, the characters are seen jumbled up in the web of materialism as it provides status and pleasure to them. At the end of the novella “The Death of Ivan IIyich,” written by Leo Tolstoy speaks about the materialist nature of the physical world. At the time of his death, Ivan says “ Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!” This line gives an insight into his perspective about life and death. It shows that Ivan continues to fight for his life and gives the plot an open ending. For Ivan death has caused an end of his life in this physical world but this has rewarded him a path towards spiritual world. His death not just gives an end to the story but also a beginning of a new life and story of Ivan.
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