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Chapter 1771 The Queen of Hell (42)

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

During the expedition to Egypt, even though the Gauls were known for their 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 do not understand this.

Caesar and Cicero, as well as the eloquent Roman nobles, did not deal with it either. The civil officials thought the generals were too barbaric, and the generals thought the civil servants were too pedantic. Everyone had different values.

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

In fact, the courteous scholars of the Bourbon royal family and many nobles have done it, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the artists in Madame Du Barry's salon, but this feeling is different.

Just as Napoleon treated the Bourbon nobles with courtesy, they also swore allegiance, but in private they still secretly found the bodies of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI in the mass grave, and went to the tower where they were once held to mourn.

Napoleon thought that by marrying Mary Louise, he would be able to exchange for the ally of the Holy Roman Empire. In fact, after his death, his family members were officially accepted and became the royal family and nobles of Europe.

Commoners may not be able to understand the thoughts of these nobles.

Both Camus and Sartre discussed how people can survive in an absurd world. The modern history of the West is the continuous rationalization and organization of human life. In this rational production order, each individual is an assembly line. With replaceable screws, the irreplaceability and non-repeatability of individuals are eliminated.

If the Middle Ages emphasized theocracy, and doing good deeds was part of God's plan, ignoring human value, needs, and dignity, then modern times used the "assembly line" method to ignore human value, needs, and dignity. Classes and ordinary people belong together, and they must be oppressed by those nobles, and now they have also become the ruling class, oppressing the proletarians together with those nobles.

They don’t need so many people to think. For example, a coffee waiter, he only needs a little bit of reflection ability according to what Sartre said, and he will become very anxious. Do I have to do this all my life?I was born to serve plates in cafes?
They'll tell that waiter, don't think too much, just focus and work hard, save enough money, and open a cafe of your own.Although he has changed from a waiter to a coffee shop owner, he still serves the dishes. Can't he think like those literati who sit and drink coffee in cafes?

As long as you completely give up reflection, act according to other people's arrangements, completely treat yourself as a part of the social machine, and become "existing for others", you can obtain "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, who pushes a stone to the top of the mountain in vain, and then the stone falls to the place where it started, so Sartre does not think that anxiety is Not good, he thinks this is an experience that people have when they are awakened.Uninformed tourists smell the cheap perfume at the Champs Elysees station and think Paris is an elegant city, but the people living in this city feel disgusted by the subway passengers who smell the perfume that covers up the smell of dead rats every day, Because she has recognized what is behind this absurd world full of perfume.

At this time, Camus and Sartre's theories diverged. Camus felt that although Sisyphus's behavior was absurd, he still had to push that damned stone with passion.Dreamers may think that they can change the world, no, that is impossible, as Talleyrand said, those nobles remember everything and have learned nothing, the first thing they do when they take power is to eliminate dissidents, Napoleon's officers were removed and replaced by noble officers.Then the "Medusa's Raft 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 eat their own kind.

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 confused by those false grand goals and hopes, and they can fully exhaust today and live in the present.The waiters can chat with the female tourists who come to the cafe, and maybe there will be a romantic encounter. As for work, love, and family, it is just like the mantra of Meursault in "The Outsider" that "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 free choice. You can not push stones like Sisyphus. As for what you will do in the future, where you may be lost.The sky will send a great responsibility to the people, and what this "great responsibility" is is also ambiguous, but this is the beginning of your awakening, the beginning of your action, and maybe a happy society will be born in your hands.

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

This is why Camus and Sartre were good at first and then broke up.

It is not so easy to make people change. European nobles are rarely willing to marry the noble and the humble. This is a very stubborn feudal remnant. The Ross family on the Titanic has declined. Her mother asked her to marry Karl for money. But she would rather choose Artist Jack.

Artists are a very special group. As long as you declare yourself as an artist, you can use this identity to show up in the upper class freely and be easily accepted.

This is the European courtesy to the artist group since the Renaissance. In Italian, the Renaissance itself means resurrection from the dead.

This group of people is usually in a city full of flowers, or in a "pastoral", and has never been to a place as difficult as a desert. They are just like the philosopher and boatman who encountered big waves on a boat. Before the big waves, he can sympathize with the boatman. After a big wave it was the boatman's turn to ask him if he could swim.

Before the issue of life and death, many entangled troubles in the past can be put aside, and some things can be viewed again. During the riots in Cairo, scholars also raised their guns and aimed at civilians like soldiers. Once the incited people broke through the defense line, in their eyes As long as there are Frenchmen in the village, there is no distinction between scholars and soldiers, and they will all be killed.

The relationship between people is sometimes not only because of interests, but also because of some things they have experienced together.

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

This kind of loneliness makes us eager to get in touch with others. People in the Renaissance believed that the small universe in the human body was in harmony with the large universe created by God. ideal.

According to Vitruvius' "Ten Books on Architecture", the root of "coordination" and "proportion" lies in the column system. Architects regard the column as the source of beauty, worship it as a god, and even a column with the image of a goddess appeared.

Amenhotep III is the son of Thutmose IV, the No.18 dynasty of Egypt, the grandson of Amenhotep II, and the great-grandson of Thutmose III. Since Thutmose III, the pharaoh has been with Ya The Hermes family is out of touch.

Before Amenhotep III, the New Kingdom had abolished some of the etiquette and celebrations of the Old Kingdom. When Amenhotep III ascended the throne on the [-]th 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 the daughter of a wealthy merchant named Taiyi, who was chosen as queen because of her beauty.

The king of Babylon hoped that Egypt could marry a princess, even if it was not the pharaoh's own daughter, the daughter he adopted would do.This is the diplomatic method started by Amenhotep II, but it has always been the countries in West Asia that presented beauties to the Pharaoh. These foreign beauties have localized names in the Egyptian palace, such as "cat-like woman", " A stunner with a lot of suitors."In short, Amenhotep III was lustful and often asked for beauties from various countries. He did not agree to the marriage 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 [-]th anniversary ceremony held by Amenhotep III, but this did not affect it. , my king, my god, my sun, I am your servant, the dust of your feet, I will send my daughter to you."

Not only foreign kings but also vassals and vassals were competing to send beautiful women. Amenhotep III said to one of them, "I can give you anything, as long as you find beautiful women to serve wine in the palace, you must find them without any shortcomings." Yes, try to get me to say to you 'this is really good'."

Queen Tye's elder brother is the high priest, responsible for "the movement of the sky". He invented a new invention, which is not only a drip clock, but also a sundial that can only be used during the day and can be used at night.

A part of the ritual of the resurrection of the kings of the Old Kingdom must be held at dawn, and they will use a rope to erect the Jiede column upwards, representing the resurrection of Osiris.

The pillars are not obelisks, they are piled up one by one, even the pillars of the temples erected under the blue sky in Greece, not to mention the Jiede column itself represents the spine, which is made up of bones , it does not need to be erected obliquely like an obelisk, but can be erected vertically.

It will be a sleepless night, during the process of setting up the pillars, the priestesses will sing "Come, Golden Goddess" carol and dance, Queen Tay and the princesses will not dance all night, they will be at the beginning of the ceremony Dressed up beautifully, pretending to be Hathor, the symbolic ringing of the fork bell is over, and the heavy physical work is still done by the dancers in the court. They and the pharaoh get up at dawn and shake the bell again. All night fork bell delivery and it's done.

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

In those years, the flood of the Nile River was at an ideal water level, so this newborn "God-King One" even served as the Nile God Harpi, although he is an obnoxiously fat old man in the eyes of modern people.But judging from his appearance, he looks a bit like a woman. Now the pharaoh has combined the power of a male god and a goddess.

The high priest said that this divine power must be replenished and renewed on a regular basis. Later, Amenhotep III held it again three years later, but still did not invite the king of Babylon.

The third time was still not there, but this time it was deliberately low-key, because the 50-year-old pharaoh was dying, and at this time Egypt's territory in Asia showed signs of loosening.

Viceroys and kings of vassal states in Asia wrote to the new pharaoh Amenhotep IV, complaining of being constantly reprimanded or deceived for no reason.Early in his reign, Amenhotep IV had serious conflicts with the king of Mitanni, a major Asian country.He thus allied himself with the Hittites, and these fearsome warriors, led by their great leader Supiro Uma I, were attacking Mitanni to establish their own supremacy.

Many small Asian princes who surrendered 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 all.

So what is the use of Amenhotep III's expansion of the territory?Anyway, his descendants can't keep it.

It is still a serious matter to promote the religious reform of Aten worship. In the first year of his ascension to the throne, he began to promote this sun god who replaced the noble status of all previous gods.

Although the spine can be bent, the Jiede column supporting the roof cannot be bent.

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

It is a good thing to be able to hear criticism, but it proves that this person still has hope, what can he say if he cannot be saved?
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