最新电影《奥德赛》，真的有多邪恶吗？

*The New Movie *The Odyssey*: How Evil Is It Really?*

古典叙事中的英雄（如奥德修斯）或历史上的伟人，往往有超越常人的意志，还有着承担正义，以及付出代价的勇气。

*Heroes in classical stories, such as Odysseus, or great people in history often had extraordinary willpower. They also had the courage to stand for justice and pay the price.*

但在如今的影视叙事中，英雄往往被剥离了神圣性，其动机，被心理学化、政治正确化，甚至被塑造成为，历史罪恶的载体。

*But in many movies and TV stories today, heroes are often stripped of their sacred meaning. Their motives are explained mainly through psychology or political correctness, and they may even be presented as symbols of historical wrongdoing.*

现代文明的和平与繁荣，很大程度上建立在过去一些“必要且正义的战争”之成果上的。（例如击败法西斯、捍卫自由秩序，击败了某某主义，保证的经济繁荣）。

*The peace and prosperity of modern civilization were built, to a large degree, on the results of some wars in the past that were seen as necessary and just. For example, fascism was defeated, the free order was defended, certain ideologies were defeated, and economic prosperity was protected.*

但是，在如今的影视叙事的误导之下，很容易让人产生一种幻觉：所有战争都是罪恶的。会形成这样的局面，其实有个大的背景：

*But under the influence of many modern movie and TV stories, people can easily get the impression that all wars are evil. There is a larger background behind this situation:*

我们都知道，现代社会享有的个体尊严、人权概念、甚至“道德自省”本身，本质上都深刻植根于基督教传统（如上帝面前人人平等，自省与忏悔，等等）。

*We know that ideas such as individual dignity, human rights, and even moral self-examination in modern society are deeply rooted in the Christian tradition, such as equality before God, self-examination, repentance, and more.*

基督教，成了现代文明的底座。欧美最先接触到了基督教，所以，欧美人，也是如今世界的秩序、法治、科学、人权与光明的带来者。

*Christianity became a foundation of modern civilization. Europe and America encountered Christianity early, and Western peoples became major contributors to today's ideas of order, rule of law, science, human rights, and enlightenment.*

可是，这些欧美人的后人，他们的后代，现在的白人，他们只留下了“自省与忏悔”，却早已脱离了基督教信仰的这个锚点，从而演变成了激进的“自我否定与有罪论”，也认自己的祖上也只是“殖民、掠夺与文化消灭”。

*But many descendants of these Western peoples have kept the habit of “self-examination and repentance” while leaving the Christian faith that once anchored it. This can develop into radical self-denial and collective guilt, seeing their ancestors mainly through “colonization, plunder, and cultural destruction.”*

当这种错误的集体性的认知，失去了对文明本体的肯定，自然很快就会导致文明主体性的瓦解。很明显，当今世界上，在其它地方还没有这种真正文明的兴起，所以，当这一天真的到来时，世界真的要黑暗了。

*When this mistaken collective view loses confidence in its own civilization, it can quickly weaken that civilization's sense of identity. In this view, no other part of today's world has yet produced the same kind of civilization, so if that collapse truly comes, the world could enter a much darker time.*

互联网、算法，短视频，好莱坞，大众媒体，都在为这种错误认知，在推波助澜。

*The internet, algorithms, short videos, Hollywood, and mass media are all helping to spread and strengthen this mistaken way of thinking.*

最新版的电影奥德赛，有多邪恶？ 其实也没多邪恶，只是和这二三十年的，其它的一些影视作品，差不多的邪恶。

*So, how evil is the newest movie version of *The Odyssey*? It is not uniquely evil. It is simply about as evil as some other movies and TV works from the past twenty or thirty years.*