I Hate Common Sense Tristan Tzara Summary

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According to what Tristan Tzara mentioned at the beginning of the 1918 Dada Manifesto, he wrote: “ I hate common sense”, which led him go against the conventional values and action in the society. Tzara is entirely nihilistic. He thinks logics and science restrain the nature and makes people become the slaves of nature. “The dialectic is an amusing mechanism which guides us in a banal kind of way to the opinions we had in the first place”, Tzara considers our intuition and senses were imprisoned by logic, following those universal scientific rules would destroy our individualities, he regards that as an organic disease. Science is composed with universal accepted rules, but in fact we have no ways to proof its absolute existence and accuracy. …show more content…

Everything is meaningless with clear consciousness. We should be driven by our unconsciousness to find our actual self and it is meaningless for us to chase the “meanings” behind everything. Tzara states his opposition against “meanings” in this manifesto. Dada should be presented unconsciously. It could be interpreted as everything; each individual is welcome to hold different views towards what it is. Dada could be the hobbyhorse, could be a mournful cry, as well as random meaningless sound. “Every product of digest capable of becoming a negation of the family is Dada”, Tzara mentioned in his …show more content…

We do not have to keep ourselves on rails all he time in order to be “unified” to the society, however, diversity and independence is what makes us outstanding. From reading this manifesto, I could see the how the war desperate Tzara, and his desire to pursue the purity of life, which without contemplation on everything. By understanding his proposal I have learnt that from the most primitive form of life we could found our originality, we have rights to choose our paths and the way we shape our lives. The eternal pursue of freedom is ultimate goal of human

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