Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 94 Gossip

"This is still feudal thinking, a heroic view of history." Jing Hongtu criticized: "The will of those big figures is not the factor that determines history. It is people who really determine history. Ordinary people, if they live a good life, they will Who would want to go to war? But not everyone can live well, can they? If there are social conflicts, there will be dissatisfaction. If there are many people who are not living well, this dissatisfaction will accumulate stand up."

"Some ambitious people may be able to manipulate this kind of 'dissatisfaction' to trigger wars and achieve their own personal or interest group goals. However, he cannot create such dissatisfaction out of thin air. Only economic growth is sluggish, and people can hardly imagine the 'beautiful s future'."

"The country is safe and the people are happy, so who wants to fight? But as long as the economic growth is sluggish, there are fewer job opportunities, and there are fewer opportunities for advancement, it is difficult for the people to imagine a 'beautiful future'-they will feel dissatisfied , will be angry."

"At this time, careerists will tell the people that it is the neighbor who ate an extra bite, so you will eat less. If you kill your neighbor, you can eat an extra bite. Either they have vested interests, so they want to create The need for 'war' to help oneself steal benefits. This is how xenophobia and conservatism deceive the people."

"At the same time, revolutionaries will point out that it is a matter of distribution. The real enemy is not the 'neighbor who eats more,' but the 'boss who takes away the fruits of your labor'—a boss who may live in a neighbor's house, but does not It doesn't mean your neighbor is your enemy. You need to readjust the distribution of benefits."

When Jing Hongtu said this, he took another sip of fruit juice to moisten his throat: "We still have to explain the truth."

Xiang Shan nodded: "History textbooks seem to say so. Is the 'Draenor New Deal' the latter?"

Delano, the No.30 second-term president of the United States, is also the longest re-elected one.His series of policies to readjust domestic wealth distribution before World War II dragged the United States out of the abyss of the Great Crisis and saved the United States from communism.

"The Third Reich at that time belonged to the former." Jing Hongtu nodded.

Xiang Shan sighed: "Tsk tsk, in the final analysis, it is indeed easier for human beings to imagine that 'if my neighbor eats more, I will eat less' than imagining the prosperity of Datong."

Jing Hongtu was slightly surprised: "Tsk tsk, have you thought about this truth?"

"That's not true." Xiang Shan shook his head: "Mr. Liu has an interdisciplinary project under his name, and occasionally chats with some people who study neuroscience. They told me that we Homo sapiens have experienced at least tens of thousands of years of primitive life , but only experienced decades of modern life. Our brains have been adaptively evolved for primitive social life, and it is not easy to feel happy in modern society.”

"This statement is a bit interesting." Jing Hongtu nodded: "It also has something in common with what I thought before."

"Those brothers even gave me an example." Xiang Shan gestured with both hands: "Didn't there be a pandemic when I was studying? At those times, some potential patients did not stay at home, but did everything possible to escape from the epidemic area." ’, which objectively contributed to the further spread of the plague.”

"Why? Because this is in line with the instinct of primitive people. In primitive times, the population density was very low. If someone in a tribe had an epidemic, as long as the people in the tribe fled in all directions, each of them fled to an area where there were no people. The sick die naturally, and others are naturally safe. Primitive people used this method to resist disease, and those who survived successfully by this method became the ancestors of modern people, so modern people still have this instinct, wanting to escape Danger."

Jing Hongtu nodded, with a bit of sarcasm in his tone: "I think this method has a history of tens of thousands of years, and it is called 'the law of the ancestors is indestructible'."

Xiang Shan sighed: "Actually, I often think that if we can develop a way to insert chips into the human brain, maybe it will be able to make all human beings go one step further and achieve a 'superhuman change'."

"Hey, great ambition. This is to turn science fiction into reality." Jing Hongtu nodded: "That's why you applied for Professor Liu's graduate student?"

Xiang Shan nodded: "But having said that, it's not easy to do interdisciplinary projects. The teacher told me to do the easy ones first. When I think about it carefully, it is also a contribution to the community..."

"Industrial foundation?" Jing Hongtu became interested: "Professor Liu, I remember, is researching hardware, right? The industrial foundation is..."

Xiang Shan wiped his mouth: "I study the hardware and numerical control of cutting-edge 3D printers."

"3D printing... I remember this was an old topic 15 years ago, right?" Jing Hongtu asked strangely, "Professor Liu is throwing you on the bench?"

"No, no, that's why you don't understand." Xiang Shan looked a little annoyed: "When the academic circle throws out a concept, capital comes in to make this concept popular. Originally, scientists thought they were here to send funding, but those capitals are Frying scientific research projects as stocks is nothing but hot money. When the technology is not yet mature, it is thrown high. The seedlings are encouraged. When the concept is heated up and they make money in the wind, they don’t care about anything. 3D The technology of printing is not mature today, but more than ten years ago... it seems that its potential has been exhausted, and it seems to be on the verge of dying."

"Mature 3D printing technology can change the industrial landscape to a certain extent."

Jing Hongtu nodded: "You are the expert in this field, I, the old man, don't understand."

"It's okay, I don't understand what you said." Xiang Shan smiled and bit off half of the chicken leg, and said vaguely: "Everyone is only an expert in their own field."

Jing Hongtu nodded.

"If I let the existing cutting-edge 3D printing technology go to factories at all levels, it will definitely trigger a new round of industrial upgrading." Xiang Shan continued: "According to the history you just mentioned, maybe it will be in line with the information industry revolution. The same, how many years of peace can be continued for mankind."

"Ambition." Jing Hongtu nodded, "But what about after that?"

"One generation does what one generation does." Xiang Shan was quite optimistic: "As a person of this generation, I will develop new technologies, promote industrial upgrading, and bring peace to mankind for a few more years. The next generation will do the same thing .As long as the industry upgrades fast enough, the economic crisis will not catch up with us.”

"Too optimistic. Only one of the previous crises was overcome by industrial upgrading - the speed of the economic crisis is much faster than the industrial revolution." Jing Hongtu shook his head: "Now the problem of human beings has long been not 'production' but It's in 'distribution'. The backward production relations are no longer compatible with the advanced productivity. If you don't solve this fundamental problem, no matter how you develop it, it will only treat the symptoms..."

Xiang Shan spread his hands: "Who made my career 'cure the symptoms'? If I can 'cure the symptoms' for human beings, I will be exhausted, right? Who can blame me?"

"That's right." Professor Jing shook his head: "You're right. I'm far inferior to you in this regard—I'm old and poor, and I don't even have a cure for the symptoms."

Just now, Professor Jing and Xiang Shan chatted speculatively, but it touched Professor Jing's mind.

Xiang Shan said anxiously: "Mr. Jing, this...Although the industrial revolution cannot catch up with the economic crisis, didn't you say that? The landing of Aogong means that the peace of mankind has been extended for a period of time."

"The reason why there are constant wars in the world is because it is much easier to imagine that 'the neighbor eats more and I eat less' than imagining the prosperity of Datong. The former happens constantly in stories, while the latter only exists in the ideals of philosophers. Middle." The members of the academic department looked out the window: "However, the landing of the 'Alien Voyager' will make it easier for human beings to imagine the community with a shared future of 'all mankind'. Presumably this will make the public psychologically more biased. 'Reform'."

Xiang Shan nodded: "The sky is full of human beings, that's a good thing."

Jing Hongtu nodded: "It's a good thing, but the name is not very auspicious."

"Huh?" Xiang Shan asked suspiciously, "Is there a problem with the name Aogong?"

"Ogun, the god, was originally a god believed by the Yoruba people in Nigeria, Africa. Later, with the Black Triangle trade, a large number of African aborigines were plundered to America. This belief was also brought over, and after some changes Later, it became Voodoo." Jing Hongtu explained: "The god 'Ogun' is not just a symbol of 'male' and 'masculine'. He is also the god of metal and smelting, bringing fire and steel to mankind."

"It's just that, do you know what is the divinity that often goes with 'metal'?" Jing Hongtu looked at Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan shook his head.

"War." Jing Hongtu spat out the word: "The god of 'metal' or 'Venus' is often closely related to 'war'. Ogun is also the god of war."

Xiang Shan breathed a sigh of relief: "Mr. Jing, I have to say something. What's called "color head" and "mouth color" are all methods of ignoring the objective laws of the development of affairs and forcibly linking two things together-you just said Well, this thing can allow mankind to develop peacefully for a period of time."

"That's right, I'm a liberal arts student, and I love romantic fantasies." Jing Hongtu also smiled.

While the two were chatting, Xiang Shan had already devoured the contents of his dinner plate.Jing Hongtu was probably old, so he didn't eat very fast.Xiang Shan ate the last bit of food on the plate in two bites, picked up the plate and said, "Mr. Jing, chatting with you is very insightful, we will talk again when we have a chance."

Jing Hongtu nodded.

Thinking about it day and night, Xiang Shan had a dream that night—a dream about his hard research, deciphering the secret of 'Ogun', developing extraordinary technology, and ultimately promoting the evolution of all human beings.

"艸." The next day, Xiang Shanding was brushing his teeth outside with the chicken nest on the top of the mountain, and he was still thinking: "Dreams really have everything."

(End of this chapter)