It's normal to develop some black technology in the future, right?

Chapter 387 The End of History

With the rapid economic development, the confidence of the older Chinese is increasing year by year. The proposal of the view that the East is rising and the West is declining marks the peak of the confidence of the older Chinese in the past.

Although there have been some "small" twists and turns in the middle, major technological advances in a series of industries in recent years and the easing of America's attitude have made more and more Chinese believe that China will win in the end.

They even stopped talking about becoming the next America after America stepped down from the throne, but instead wanted to forge their own path, avoid the mistakes of England and America in the past as much as possible on the throne of royal power, and pursue the eternal rule of royal power.

The winning party no longer mentions the phrase "the East rises and the West declines". What is the East rises and the West declines? Is there a West?
The older Chinese are full of confidence. Originally, there was a coexistence of individual pessimism and overall optimism. But after the social experiment of distributing money to all people in Yudu was carried out, the older Chinese are now optimistic as a whole and individually.

As one of the founders of light armor aerospace, Lin Jia had no reason to be pessimistic, unless America suddenly mastered some Zenith technology.

The technological development and industrial chain upgrading of Laos and China have been ongoing, and Laos and China are also constantly trying to redistribute the cake, giving more concessions to the bottom to achieve a balance. The existence of aerospace planes, new submarines and room-temperature superconducting electromagnetic launches has prevented opponents from starting a hot war.

A cartoon from Deutsche Spiegel has been trending on Twitter recently:
“There is a large platform with bald eagles, lions, roosters, grizzly bears and other animals standing on it, and then there are other animals on the flat ground below, like cheetahs, eagles, camels and so on.

The clothes on these animals are the national flags of the countries they represent. Obviously, those on the platform are developed countries, while those standing below are the vast Asian, African and Latin American countries.

There is a ladder leading from the ground to the platform. A panda, which is larger than all the animals on the platform, stands on the ladder. It holds the ladder with one hand and holds a Gatling gun in the other hand, pointing at the animals on the platform. Its eyes are so fierce that it seems as if it wants to tear the animals on the platform to pieces.

The animals on the platform were holding weapons but were afraid to attack, and they didn’t want to let the panda come up. The animals’ expressions gave the readers a very intuitive feeling: the animals were furious.”

Der Spiegel has always liked to use satirical cartoons on its cover, and this time is no exception. It used such a cartoon to vividly describe the current international situation. The title they gave it was: "The helplessness of developed countries."

This cartoon is very popular on Twitter, and foreigners think it is very vivid.

Competitors can only watch as China continues to eat away at their cake. Even America has to compromise with the University of East Asia in many areas and has to allow China's high-tech products and services to enter their market.

Li Xinyin couldn't understand Lin Jia's sudden pessimism at all.

"Pessimistic? Why should we be pessimistic? Our mentality is now similar to Fukuyama's. Is there any room for pessimism?" Li Xiyin was very puzzled.

Lin Jia obviously knew who Fushan was, but Zhou Yaqi didn't. She asked, "Who is Fushan?"

Who is Fukuyama? During the period when American scholars were about to win the Cold War and after the victory, their sense of identity with the mountain country reached its peak.

At this point in time, American scholar Francis Fukuyama wrote a book called "The End of History".

In this book, he elaborated in detail a view called the end of history theory, that America is the best country, everything in America is the best of everything, and that America is "the end point of human ideological development" and "the last form of human rule."

Yes, that’s how confident you are!
As an American of Japanese descent, Fukuyama admired Americans even more than his teacher Huntington at the time.

Huntington was not so confident when he wrote "The Clash of Civilizations" in 93. Huntington's view is that wars in the 21st century will not occur between countries, but between civilizations.

The result is that the existence of the University of Tokyo made Fukuyama slap himself in the face.

He first wrote a book called "Political Order and Its Decline" in 2014. At that time, he was still stubborn and said that he was just making minor adjustments to his past views.

In 2015, he participated in writing a book called "We Misjudged the University of Tokyo", in which he admitted that the University of Tokyo had refreshed some of his views, but he still insisted that it was only part of his views.

After 2020, Fukuyama finally stopped being stubborn and began to admit that the American model he had advocated in the past was essentially dead.

Zhou Yaqi nodded after listening: "Everyone's mentality now is indeed similar to Fukuyama in 1991."

What Lin Jia is worried about is that the progress of artificial intelligence is far beyond her imagination. Maybe she will see the future of the Terminator in her lifetime, where artificial intelligence replaces humans and humans are marginalized as a whole.

Even if Chen Yuanguang guaranteed that he had mastered the core code of artificial intelligence, he could ensure that artificial intelligence would not get out of control.

But aren’t there countless similar prophecies in human nature and science fiction works?
Can Chen Yuanguang really control Alpha? Lin Jia is skeptical.

"It's nothing, just a little sad." Lin Jia shook his head.

Li Xiyin and Zhou Yaqi looked at each other. Everyone knew that Lin Jia had something to say, but no one could force Lin Jia to say what she didn't want to say.

The first test flight of the Changkong space plane undoubtedly caused a huge sensation, and nine of the top ten hot searches on Weibo were related content.

As for the lucky ones who are able to board the Changkong plane, the content they post often receives hundreds of thousands of likes.

"I am very lucky to be able to take the Changkong. I can only tell you that the experience is very good. It is much more comfortable than I expected. It cannot be compared with business class, but considering the speed, I feel that this comfort level is already satisfactory to me."

Female passengers are concerned about comfort, and the pictures they share are all selfies of themselves.

Male passengers had a slightly different focus:
"Because you will experience weightlessness when riding on the space plane, passengers will be firmly fixed in their seats during the entire flight. There is no way to take pictures with mobile phones, and the windows are also a bit narrow. I thought I would have the opportunity to overlook the earth from a higher altitude, but I never had this opportunity, which makes me feel a little regretful."

The male passenger also had photos, but only one was a selfie of him standing next to the space plane before takeoff.

Of course, some passengers also posted photos of themselves with Lin Jia.

"I feel like I've used up all my luck this year. First, I won a ticket for the Changkong test flight, and then I was lucky enough to meet Ms. Lin from Guangjia Aerospace in the terminal. Ms. Lin is so beautiful and patient. She took a photo with me patiently [Keep it up.jpg]"

The passenger was very patient. He not only photoshopped his own photo, but also photoshopped Lin Jia's photo. However, the photo looked a little white and distorted.

The comments below were initially filled with envy from her little sisters.

"I envy Sister Chen for the real-name system."

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck, I'm so jealous that I can ride on the space plane and take a photo with President Lin"

“This is so cool. It’s a perfect weekend.”

"Invite me to dinner next week! I'll die of jealousy if you don't."

After the Weibo post was posted on the square and was seen by the public, some people began to ask questions.

“Did Lin Jia also take the Changkong train?” The blogger replied: “Yes, this was taken in the waiting room.”

So some netizens began to question: "Did Lin Jia win the ticket in a lottery or did he get it directly from COMAC?"

"What are you thinking? It's obvious that the ticket was bought directly from COMAC. How could it be possible to draw a lot of money?"

“Isn’t this just privilege?”

After Vic edited the interview video overnight, the comments in the video also went through a similar process, from discussing the video itself to questioning the source of Lin Jia's air ticket.

"Vic is getting better now, and he can even interview Mr. Lin."

"Where is my God of Light? Why isn't my God of Light here?"

"What is the God of Light doing here? Sitting in a plane waiting to be bombed?"

"If you can interview Lin Jia in real life, it would be great, but this is TikTok, so I can only say that I need to go back and practice more."

"Although Lin Jia is definitely a beauty, I always feel that she is not good enough to match the God of Light."

"This answer is too much like chicken soup. Why do these people in power always like to give us chicken soup?"

It was also not until later that people began to question whether Lin Jia got the plane ticket through privilege, including noticing Li Xiyin sitting next to Lin Jia.

This matter gradually fermented in the public opinion field.

Netizens began to question why Lin Jia was able to enjoy special privileges.

"I can understand that the God of Light can enjoy this treatment, but why does Lin Jia deserve it?"

"If it was for the sake of a partner, COMAC could have provided Lin Jia with flight opportunities during the first two test flights, instead of providing such privileges specifically during the public test flight. This gives people a very bad feeling."

Fortunately, it was revealed that it was not only Lin Jia and Li Xiyin who gave away the tickets, but also other Guangjia Aerospace employees. There were seven other passengers on the entire flight who were also from Guangjia Aerospace. It was confirmed that the tickets were provided by COMAC to Guangjia Aerospace.

The comments now shifted to why Lin Jia was able to share the test flight tickets provided to Guangjia Aerospace with her best friend. As Zhou Yaqi's identity was revealed, the old Chinese netizens became even more angry.

The tickets clearly provided to Guangjia Aerospace were occupied by unrelated personnel.

However, the discussion in the public opinion field almost came to an abrupt end, and a mysterious force directly made the relevant discussions in the public opinion field disappear without a trace.

All discussions on this matter are unsuccessful.

After losing the opportunity for open discussion, most netizens also lost interest. Only a small group of netizens who have always disliked Lin Jia are left expressing their dissatisfaction in various obscure ways.

Instead, it was Lin Jia himself who explained at the Guangjia Aerospace internal executive meeting:
"Everyone, public opinion has been quite intense recently. There have been all kinds of speculations about COMAC's space plane ticket test flight. In order to avoid causing some dissatisfaction internally and to avoid people thinking that I have usurped the benefits that should have belonged to the employees, I think I need to explain to the senior management.

There is no need to send an email about my personal affairs. If I send an email, someone will take a photo and post it on Weibo, causing a big uproar. So when the time comes, I will need you to help me explain it to the employees below. "

Lin Jia went on to say: "COMAC gave us a total of five test flight tickets, and then Yuanguang approached their chairman to get three tickets for me.

The other party thought that since you wanted it, why not just round it up and give us ten tickets together. Because I promised my best friend in advance, I didn’t give the extra two tickets away, but added them to the prizes for the raffle within Guangjia Aerospace.

This is how the number 7 came about. I understand the online discussions very well. After all, Guangjia Aerospace is one of the most famous companies in China, and all our internal affairs will be magnified.

Just like Tencent and Alibaba during the heyday of the Internet, their annual meetings were not annual meetings for the companies themselves, but annual meetings for the entire Internet population. Now Guangjia Aerospace is also following this trend.

I don’t need to respond to public opinion on the Internet, but I need to respond to our employees and appease their emotions.”

On the other hand, Mark won a plane ticket. There were five flights in total, with 250 tickets, and 200 of them were given to everyone to draw. Among them, 13 foreigners won the prize, and Mark was one of the lucky ones.

However, because Lin Jia and his team were on the first flight, there was no foreigner this time. Mark was on the second flight, which was the next day.

He tweeted the moment he won the prize: "Amazing!"

The accompanying picture is a screenshot of the winning. Among the foreign netizens below, one is very jealous, while the other one asks him to shoot more videos to record it.

After the black gold ticket arrived, Mark took a photo and posted it on Twitter: "This is the most beautiful ticket I have ever seen! The only regret is that the slogan on the back is only in Chinese and not in English. After translating it, I realized that it means "Let us witness the stars and the sea together."

"In China, space is not a service exclusively for the rich, but a common service that ordinary families also have the opportunity to experience. This is also in line with the way America and China treat ordinary people."

Chinese people who have been observing English Twitter for many years will find a very interesting phenomenon, that is, foreigners are becoming more and more fond of reflection, especially comparing themselves with Chinese people.

In the past, this was the specialty of the Indians. The Indians loved to compare with China in everything. How can we catch up with China? We are developing very fast but there is still a gap between us and China in many things. What do we need to do to reduce this gap?

This type of comments can only be seen on Asan’s Twitter and under the YouTube videos shot by Asan bloggers.

And now this kind of content has begun to appear more and more in the white online world.

This situation has even seriously affected the up-loaders of Bilibili who repost videos of Lafite.

There are some up-loaders on Bilibili who specialize in reposting videos from YouTube of foreign bloggers praising China's achievements. Many older Chinese people love this.

Originally, there were very few videos of this type, and the Chinese people loved to watch them out of novelty and a sense of national honor. Now, this type of video has become rampant, and ordinary reposts can no longer attract clicks from the Chinese people.

It needs to be accompanied by translation and have actual content output. It is not enough for foreigners to praise China-related things simply on an emotional level. The threshold of the Chinese has been raised, and the praise must be based on reasons.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for these up-loaders to find suitable materials.

(End of this chapter)