There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, but Liu Cixin's evaluation is undoubtedly the most weighty one. Let's see what Liu says.
Liu Cixin:
I didn't want to make readers like this person. This is not the person that readers will like.
She is actually selfish, but this kind of selfishness is different from ordinary selfishness, because she is unaware of it. People who follow morality are actually selfish, because they care nothing but morality and conscience. Cheng Xin is just such a person. She will think that she is noble, that she is not selfish, and that her values and moral standards are universal and correct. As for the consequences of following it, she only considers whether her conscience can be at peace.
such people have the spirit of sacrifice, and they can sacrifice their lives for their own values and moral standards, but this does not change their selfish nature.
In the novel, the person who truly loves others without being selfish will consider the whole human being, because it is the most difficult thing to sacrifice one's conscience, which is much harder than sacrificing one's life.
the first feeling after reading it is: it's really Liu! Not the kui is the author!
Many people hate Cheng Xin, but it's hard to tell why they hate it, or the analysis is shallow. Liu's analysis is to hit the nail on the head and go straight to Huanglong! It is pointed out that it is Cheng Xin's "universal and correct" values that have brought disastrous consequences to human civilization. What she thinks is "selfless" is actually a kind of "selfishness".
"Great love is merciless"!
this word used by Liu is too memorable. Generally speaking, when we say great love, we mean "great love is selfless" and "great love is boundless", but here it is "great love is heartless"
a benevolent person loves others; Why do you say "big love is heartless"?
I couldn't help thinking of Lao Tzu's famous saying: "Heaven and earth are heartless, and everything is a straw dog; The saints are heartless and regard the people as pigs. "
Kindness is what we advocate in our normal life. However, when human civilization is facing life and death in Three-body, it may be a better choice to "take the people as straw dogs". Vader's "heartlessness" is not inferior to Cheng Xin's "benevolence", but a higher realm.
Because at this time, "benevolence" has become the poison of human beings. Cheng Xin's "woman's kindness" just sent this poison into the mouth of terminally ill human civilization.
Lao Tzu advocates freedom and inaction; Vader advocates centralization. Their views and practices are not the same, but the same thing is that they both broke through the shackles of the value of "benevolence", took the world by storm and reached a higher level of "great love without mercy".
What is most similar to Vader's point of view is the character in a new cartoon: Ghost Dragon Courtyard-Chop the Maiden.
The background of the story is also the time of human life and death, and in the first episode, Shu Yue proudly expressed her famous lines-"Terror is freedom, King's Landing is liberation, and contradiction is truth!"
"Terror is freedom" and "King's Landing is liberation", which is also a true portrayal of Thomas Wade in "Three-body".
I was writing about Cheng Xin, but I turned to Vader. Sure enough, Vader's charm still wins my heart more. What about you, dear friends?